Thistletop tilt

[Mr. Grogg]

**Minor spoiler alert**

A question occurred to me as I was reviewing Thistletop Dungeon Level Two in preparation for running it in two weeks.

How can level two be sloped if level one isn't? I was assuming that level one was excavated in the centuries after the event that tilted level two. But if somebody in level one dug down and discovered the preexistng level two, then the stairs would be further from the edge of the map, one would think, and would probably come through a ceiling instead of a hallway at the proper floor level.

The entryway really indicates that level one must have already been there when the tilting event happened, and it's all one rock. So why is level one level?

[The Usual Suspect]

IF the floors were build separate from each other, and the second floor experienced subsidence the first floor might remain suspended for enough time that groundwater seepage would intrude into the space between. This allows for limestone deposit into the intervening space. This requires the structure to have been built into the hollowed out head of the statue in such a way that each floor is its own structure, and whatever attaches that floor to the hollowed out head is independent for each floor of the building.

And 15 minutes can save you 15% at Geico; but probably not.

[The Usual Suspect]

You are right though that the stairs should be off kilter if that happened, so describe them as damaged, and have some debris at the bottom of the stairs, or signs that debris was removed and the entry cut open and expanded from rough limestone rock.