Editing Warrens (section)

== Description ==
It has been described as "where the foulest mud of humanity settles into puddles".<ref>If the Abyss is where the physical goes to be ground down into grim scraps, the Ruins where immaterial ghosts and incarnate things are 
reduced back down to spirit-stuff, the Warrens where the foulest mud of 
humanity settles into puddles, and the Courts where dreams go to die, 
then the Paths exist as the shores of all these realms, where Oblivion, 
not water, lap at the banks. - [https://palewebserial.wordpress.com/2020/06/18 Spell Notes #2]</ref> Smelly and dangerous.<ref name=":0">There were ways to use practice to go places.  Trips into the Spirit World, emerging elsewhere in the world, if one’s spirit was strong enough to make the trip swift.  Trips through the Warrens, if one could hold their nose and endure the danger. - [https://palewebserial.wordpress.com/2020/08/15 excerpt] from [[Out on a Limb 3.z]]</ref> As the name suggests, they seem to be mostly tunnels.<ref name=":1">Gashwad slipped through the fence on the other side, and he was moving kind of like Avery did, like every time Lucy looked away and looked back, he’d found ways to skip ahead.<br><br>[...]<br><br>Gashwad kept skipping ahead.  He was lying in wait now.<br><br>

“How’s he moving like that!?” Lucy called out.<br><br>"There’s little paths and tunnels, if you’re tuned into the Warrens,”
 Avery said.  “The place goblins come from.  Snowdrop showed me some.  
Gash- gash seems to know most of them!” - [https://palewebserial.wordpress.com/2020/08/08 excerpt] from [[Out on a Limb 3.8]]</ref><ref>They were tugged along.  Into a darkness beneath a tree, framed by the roadside trash.

The ground was wet, smelled like the occupants of this hole had used 
it as a washroom and it had mixed with the mud, and the dirt smudged in 
around them.
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“My nice top, too,” Lucy complained.
<br><br>
“I dressed for messier work,” Verona said.<br><br>

“Great for you.”

Avery remained silent.  A lot of her stuff was grass-stained anyway.

The tunnel was claustrophobic.  Water dripped from above, even though it wasn’t raining before.

Snowdrop tugged them through the winding confines, where some of the 
tunnels were so narrow that Avery had to slide down feet first and pray 
she wouldn’t get stuck.

They seemed to follow the drips, which got more frequent.  Lucy flipped up her hood.

They emerged into darkness.  Into rain. - [https://palewebserial.wordpress.com/2020/08/11/out-on-a-limb-3-9/ excerpt] from [[Out on a Limb 3.9]]
</ref> There are some larger caves where goblins live in ramshackle towns, filled with shacks and piles of trash, some of it on fire for lighting.<ref>She led him down a corridor that had a bit less of the cardboard, more rock, moist with algae and mucus-like slime.  They had to duck low to get through an area and reach a new spot.  Shacks and piles of trash that might have been living spots were clustered in the cave interior, lit by burning piles of filth.  Goblins of nearly every conceivable shape and size were standing, fighting, eating, sleeping, and fucking just about everywhere.  They ranged from the human-sized like Deedee to mouse-sized, some with human-like features, some with beaks, muzzles, or masks.  All, Ben decided, looked like they had a story.

[...]

Deedee indicated a gate in the alley, then led him through it and out onto what looked like an outdoor patio.  In another circumstance, it might have looked like someone with a concrete backyard behind their trailer had laid out some furniture to have a communal smoking spot.  Here, in the goblin underground, it seemed almost like a nice place.  The denizens, at least, seemed to be treating it as such.<br>
A bar that looked like it was made of driftwood, several pieces of disparate furniture and picnic tables strewn about, bounded on three sides by larger buildings or rock faces, the fourth side a chain link fence that overlooked a steep drop to a chasm.

- [https://docs.google.com/document/d/1bPsZs1iPqHAcsJr4N7UgW-W7Ne4OCTtUjfvcxIoBmdI/edit#heading=h.7onrtmkk8mas (Third) Poke]
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It's one of those realms that can overlap with or mirror the material world to an extent.<ref>“It was Kennet, just… stepping in a direction that mortal feet cannot usually step.  Adjacent.”

“How many places are adjacent to Kennet?” Lucy asked.  “Or types of places?”

Maricica smiled.  “A good number.  Some are adjacent in a way that 
would put them outside Kennet, such as the Abyss or the Courts, and some
 are far, far away, like the Paths.  That said, the spirit world, the 
ruins, the basest parts of the warrens are adjacent in…”

“In a way that would put them technically inside Kennet?” Lucy asked. 

“Yes.”

- [https://palewebserial.wordpress.com/2020/06/16/stolen-away-2-3/ excerpt] from [[Stolen Away 2.3]]
</ref> Like many realms, some parts of the mundane world are closer to them than others, and there are places where they overlap or have portals into other realms.<ref>“Ye can get anywhere, walkin’ on foot.  Even tha Paths, if ye walk 
long enough.  Some places are closer to tha Warrens, tha Abyss, or tha 
spirit.  Tha toll isn’t so heavy expensive if tha way’s shorter.  
Elsewise, ye pay the toll direct.  Use a wee bit of spirit to open up 
the spirit ways.” 

[...]

“If ye need to go ta tha Warrens where the goblins deal with other 
goblins, ye’ll want to come this way [in the [[Spirit World]]] an’ turn left, go tha’ way.  I’m 
not sure why ye would want ta, especially without a guide, but I’m 
telling ye now.”

There was a bit of collapsed structure, and it looked like part of the collapse was over a murky stairwell.

- [https://palewebserial.wordpress.com/2020/06/27/stolen-away-2-6/ excerpt] from [[Stolen Away 2.6]]

- [https://palewebserial.wordpress.com/2020/06/27/stolen-away-2-6/ excerpt] from [[Stolen Away 2.6]]
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Small, hidden portals into the Warrens can be found wherever there are goblins if you know how.<ref name=":2">“It’s fast,” she said.  “You can go down anywhere there’s enough goblins for there to be a warren-hole, get down deep enough you get a little abyss-y and time and distance don’t make any fuckin’ sense, head back on up.  Fucking bam, crossed half the continent.” - [https://docs.google.com/document/d/1bPsZs1iPqHAcsJr4N7UgW-W7Ne4OCTtUjfvcxIoBmdI/edit#heading=h.7onrtmkk8mas (Third) Poke] </ref> Warren holes can spread throughout a neglected area and "reach critical mass" if the local [[goblin]] population goes unchecked.<ref>If I got kicked 
out, no high school education or anything, then I’d probably end up a 
goblin exterminator. [...] It’s part of the corking up of the warren holes.  They pop up, 
spread through the nearby area, usually in the worst parts of town, then
 after they reach critical mass, they start spreading out.  If you wait 
until they start spreading out, it’s almost too late.  You’ll end up 
having to seal a building perimeter, burn it down with the goblins still
 inside, then seal it again.  - [https://palewebserial.wordpress.com/2020/09/05/leaving-a-mark-4-6/ excerpt] from [[Leaving a Mark 4.6]]</ref>