Civic Pit

The Civic Pit was easily the largest of the Cult of the God/Goddess, D'rek - the Worm of Autumn - Execution Pits which were centrally located in Kartool City on Kartool Island. These circular Pits varied in size and capacity, from the smallest - which were big enough for only a single person - to the Civic Pit which was "a circular depression a good four chains across". Tall walls of stone surrounded the Civic Pit which were surmounted by "steep amphitheatre seating" which overlooked its floor. The Civic Pit could seat a significantly large number of people and had separate seating sections - one devoted to the common folk and one permanently set aside for the priests and priestesses of D'rek. Although condemned transgressors could be punished in a number of different ways - by stoning, for example - the usual method was being eaten alive by "flesh-eating insects" and other creepy-crawlies: scorpions; roaches; beetles; centipedes; tiny silverfish; grubs; maggots - all voraciously hungry for living flesh. Depending on what people were judged to be guilty of, body parts or the entire body would be exposed to be eaten.Deadhouse Landing, Chapter 2, US TPB p.29-33
==In Deadhouse Landing==
One example of someone being exposed to being eaten alive in the Civic Pit was Messinath of Purge, a Priestess of the Queen of Dreams, who was in Kartool trying to make converts to the worship of the Enchantress - which was forbidden by the Cultists of D'rek.Deadhouse Landing, Chapter 2, US TPB p.30-33
==Notes and references==
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