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ot air balloons or magically floating platforms to gaze upon him or watched from the balconies of fanghill the variegated company flush from their recent exploits viewed the giant whale s arrival from one such airship sister you ve met jack before isn t that right garvin asked yes twenty years ago sister said a slightly wistful look entering her several eyes i spoke with him actually really miri seemed suprirsed i thought only the navigators had that privilege i was close with one of them adam quell he ll look older now folk of this plane age so rapidly so we are agreed then armand asked we will sell the items acquired at delirium castle in one of the auction houses in jackburg is it true the city s actually inside him comet asked inside and outside sister explained outer jackburg can be sealed when he submerges the inner city is made up of flotsam and jetsam cobbled together into a makeshift town the more who ve come to dwell in jack the more he grows fed on their faith so they worship him like a god comet continued glancing at the elder trees he worshipped the living tree in ambery and the dead trees in the boil stumpridge and suckletown he is a god or as good as one his navigators channel his power as surely as i channel that of the mother of spiders their minds are trained from birth to make contact with his his mind can be overwhelming alien he is ancient inhuman but kind impossibly kind conversation dwindled as a vast murmur spread throughout the city turning to excited cheers as jack at last came into view his approach was slow and gentle so as not to drown the city in a tidal wave but even so the riverbanks and bridges were buffeted by spray as he surfaced and a great cheer went up as he appeared first a rising shadow and then a breaching enormity a thing bigger than the mind should hold though the friendliness and benevolence and tremendous care of genial jack was central to his mythic identity and vital to his interaction with his many ports of call there was still terror mixed in with the awe delight and wonder his bulk inspired were he to have plowed into hex to beach upon the city he would l have leveled most of it in an instant killing countless thousands fortunately jack s beneficence was legendary he was like something scaled differently than the rest of the world a mountain of flesh clad in a second skin of gleaming metal and stone the submersible city he carried on his back eyes the size of cathedral domes gazed out at the stupefied onlookers to either side a great burst of spray erupted from his blowhole touching off more cheers and applause then his great jaws opened water rushing in and a fleet of ships rushed out flags flying in the wind ships of every type and nation flying alongside the cetacean flag of jackburg galleons and triremes and whirring submarines corpseships from erubescence dolphin drawn chariots puffing steamships hovercraft from verdigris living boat things from teratopolis amorphous amoeba vessels from beyond the entropic wastes chitin barqentines from across the blushing sea behind them in the great beast s mouth and through into his stomach the lights of jackburg twinkled the party descended and made for the swelter hiring one of the numerous ferries ready to take eager hexians to jackburg the boat drew close to the vast beast the company decided to begin their visit to jackburg in melonward hoping to speak with sister s navigator friend adam quell on their way they saw some of the whaleguard vessels carefully watching over the first ships to enter jack s maw some were not boats but watchturtles gigantic sea turtles upon which had been constructed whaleguard outposts complete with periscopes harpoons and cannons the religious district melonward was centred around the cathedral of genial jack a temple built atop its god where the navigators communed with their vessel and deity the party docked along jack s flank and took a winding series of walkways up to the top of his head the people who walked the streets of melonward were generally uniformed either in the stylized captain s garb complete with tricorn hats that marked the navigators or in the sea green military uniforms of the whaleguard the party made their way to the cathedral entering a long hall lined with statues former high navigators and others fallen in defending jackburg sister s breath caught as she passed one of these statues the stone semblance of a tall powerfully built man in navigator s robes a naval sabre in one hand and a flintlock pistol in the other the man stood atop a heap of bodies while a swarm of gelatinous creatures like humanoid jellyfish were sculpted assailing him at the statue s base was an inscription adam quell 1723 1780 died defending jackburg against the gelatinous empire in the battle of the gilded sea sister stood for a moment in quiet contemplation the party respectfully silent then a voice broke the silence sister is that you a young olive skinned woman with a confidence and poise greater than her years suggested stood in a frock coat so long and ornate it was closer to a robe perched on her head was the lovechild of a priestly mitre and a tricorne hat scars that look like claw marks were visible on one cheek do we know one another sister said parthenia quell the woman said extending a gloved hand i remember you a little from when i was young and my father told me so many stories about you she nodded towards his statue i m sorry to hear of his passing sister said he died nobly parthenia said and his memory lives forever in jack s mind she smiled you know what that means of course better than most if my father is to be believed you re one of the few outsiders with a mind capable of communing with jack it was only a brief contact but quite an experience parethenia nodded well i am glad to see you again in fact there might be something you could do to help us but we can speak of that later is there anything you wish to see on your visit here to jackburg we re trying to set up an auction comet interjected we have some stuff to sell an auction i d recommend the queen of lost souls in queen s corner the best gallery in jackburg in fact i might be interested in attending with my father s passing i ve inherited his position as one of the high navigators we re always on the lookout for useful artefacts and hex s treasures are legendary thanks for the advice sister said i hope to see more of you during our visit certainly send along an invitation once the auction is arranged she nodded i m afraid i must leave you now i m on my way to a meeting with the captains conclave sister nodded in return as parthenia departed they lingered for a time in the cathedral sister lit a votive candle for adam and prayed at the shrine of jack as she knelt before his altar she felt a glimmer of his mind reaching out to glance against hers and a surge of divine power filled her the god whale recognizing a former friend of his servant respects paid the party descended to jack s huge still open mouth his huge eye rolled in its socket to glance at them and sister once again felt a flicker of familiarity the bizarre mansions of mawtown dangled from chains suspended from the roof of genial jack s massive mouth glittering like lanterns against the darkness of his gullet accessible only via private elevators lowered from the foyers of these luxurious palaces these mansions were partially sheltered from water by joe s huge baleen but like the outer town they were built to be watertight sealed against flooding mawtown s real estate was considered especially valuable and only the richest men women and other entities in jackburg had enough wealth to afford homes in the mouth of the whale a tram led from mawtown down jack s trachea and into the forestomach along the sides of jack s cheeks were a series of docks boathouses and warehouses the lower half of mawtown where submersibles and ships in the vast jackburg fleet were stored when jack was on the move these docks made for a colourful scene on a wharf near the warehouses two women with cutlasses were fighting one another before a gathered crowd busily taking bets while an official whaleguard judge carefully adjudicated the legal duel meanwhile several guides advertised their services on a pier where vessels from hex were docking these included a calico furred ratfolk woman a chitinous karkinoi missing one of his pincers with a map of the city carved into his carapace a handsome selkie man with a thickly braided beard and intricate glyph tattoos and a red haired human woman with a peg leg and a two headed parrot on her shoulder a ratfolk moneychanger exchanged hexian talents and guineas for the gold dubloons and pieces of eight used by jackburg after swapping their change the party made for the guides approaching the crusty karkinoi ah you want guide the crab man asked phorcys will guide you i know every twist and turn outside and in just five dubloons a day not a bad idea to get a guide miri said i ve heard inner jackburg can be confusing you re hired my good crab armand declared so where should we visit next miri asked looking around should we go straight to queen s corner or let me try something sister said she reached out a hand and touched the inside of jack s cheek then muttered a brief incantation pointing to each of her companions in turn instantly each felt a tiny flash of pain as gills opened on their necks thanks jack sister said now we can breathe underwater if we want to explore the grooves the grooves eh garvin said i ve heard tell some of jackburg s ah less savoury individuals can be found there you ve heard right my friend phorcys said the grooves re home for us karkinoi and other water dwellers too but there are some rough types around a working crab s district the grooves i show you come come the karkinoi dived legs wriggling armand quckly wove a spell to keep the party s clothes dry and the group submerged following phorcys underwater those of jackburg who prefered the open sea to the inner town but who lacked the funds to dwell in melonward or blowhole row generally opted for the grooves a series of narrow folds along jack s underside the structures here unlike the sealed watertight buildings atop the whale were open to the sea only in conditions of war or extreme pressure would the denizens of this district evacuate to a sealed location due to its aqueous almost constantly submerged nature all of the folk here were of the merfolk races karkinoi polypoids down on their luck octopoids and otherwise houseless undines phorcys led the party to an underwater tavern the sea slug where merfolk drank from specially engineered conch shells equipped with intricate straws and played games with cards of wood and metal the party caroused briefly enjoying the novelty of the underwater setting garvin listened in on a few conversations surreptitiously snag wants that product moved fast he heard one karkinoi saying to a polypoid a being like a humanoid coral the creature nodded we have contacts with this group here called the crowsbeak guild pay big money for ambergris you d better move fast i m sure the mischief and the cuttlethieves are trying to shore up their own bargains intrigued garvin made his retreat before he was noticed their exploration of the grooves completed the party decided to enter inner jackburg they returned to mawtown and took the tram down jack s throat passing briefly through the forestomach and the district of flotsamville although not the oldest part of jackburg that honour lay with the ancient ruins in jack s intestines flotsamville was the first settlement in the modern iteration of the town a rickety mass of swaying rope bridges and buildings designed to oscillate gently to the peristaltic pressures of the forestomach largely vertical in nature flotsamville was formed out of the wreckage of ships refashioned into homes and shops circling the walls of the forestomach a criss crossed web of bridges between steps and elevators leading up and down flags from a thousand countries hung like banners or tapestries from posts while the figureheads of countless ships decorated every building worshipped as minor household gods still jackburg s densest residential district flotsamville also had numerous fish markets along with warehouses full of supplies for long journeys down below gleaming in the dark the party could see the lights of the coils glittering amongst the pale bones of the dead sea serpent that gives that sultry district its name what s down there comet asked phorcys oh those re the coils the karkinoi replied see this one time jack accidentally swallowed this sea serpent it was a whole thing came thrashing into the forestomach we had to kill it huge battle down here gave jack terrible indigestion but we slew the beast and then you know built a bunch of casinos the party resolved to experience these chance houses at a later time but for now passed to bellyborough in the main stomach the craftsman s district of bellyborough included guildhalls workshops and factories furnishing jackburg with all of the artisan goods it needed apart from the smiths of bezoar crook and the ship builders of barnaclebank in the outer town all of jackburg s craftsmen congregated here dedicating streets horizontal and vertical to their individual pursuits brewing butchering joining locksmithing tailoring haberdashery weaving ropemaking tanning potting parchment making and every other craft imaginable while many finished goods were sold in borborygmus bazaar some artisans sold their goods directly to the public the party noted a huge crowd filling a cramped square between several large breweries they appeared to be feasting upon a corpse that of an urchin headed humanoid being served by other urchin headed humanoids who doled out pieces of quivering tender flesh raw and lightly seasoned with sea salt what in the name of the magistra garvin asked miri watched with curiosity ah an urchin funeral phorcys explained the urchins see they don t like to work beg for food for coins but when you give it to them jack is happy you get a little blessing from the god in exchange and the urchins they keep track of who gives dunno how they just know when one of em dies everyone who gave money or food gets a piece of the urchin i ate one once delicious the best thing i ever ate it s an honour to be invited intrigued the party pressed on now descending into the sprawling hub of the inner town borborygmus bazaar the market fills the centre of jack s main stomach bordering bellyborough queen s corner and the gutgardens one of the world s most famous marketplaces it was a colourful confusion of tents stalls and market halls selling everything imaginable and many things quite beyond imagination whirring clockwork devices manufactured by the artificers of verdigris spices and hieroglyphic scrolls from new ulthar ancient texts scavenged from the library undercity of hex reanimated thralls d...