The Sites - Steam (TIP)

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The Quasi elemental Plane of Steam is nothing but a big cloud. Except for the fact that there's more to it than that. It's not just a big cloud. There are important sites. Xanxost knows.
==Adrift==
Adrift is a city in the plane of Steam, created by people from other places. So the city's population is about half nonnatives (humans, genasi, bariaur, tieflings, elves, and other things) and half mephits. Are there such things as halfmephits? Xanxost does not know. The two groups get along surprisingly well-better than the two types of mephits get along with each other. Thus, the nonnatives in Adrift keep the peace among the mephits. They might even keep the mephits in pieces. That is a joke, mortal!
This city, shaped like a great ring with a diameter of a mile, spins endlessly. Most visitors can find needed food, supplies, and information here.
At the center of the city's ring are the Floating Statues. These huge stone sculptures of human men and women once apparently stood at least 1,000 feet tall. Now they float in pieces, but their parts remain in a vague semblance of their original arrangement. A few are relatively intact, with only a broken arm or head floating nearby. Others float in many fragments, all covered with feggis.
Xanxost has two-no, one-last thing to say about Adrift. For some reason, slaadi are not too welcome there. Xanxost didn't eat that many mephits.
==The Straits of Varrigon==
Amid the clouds and banks of mist and steam, there is a valley of clear air called the Straits of Varrigon. Varrigon is a funny name, especially because Xanxost first thought the valley was full of varrangoin (Abyssal bats, which our narrator also no doubt finds very tasty-the Editor). This clear path stretches for miles and miles and has become an important area to control, at least for those nonnatives whose visibility is limited by the steam. It serves as a wonderful place to sail steamships very fast, or fly in a more conventional means (swimming in this open area is impossible).
So this commonly used passage provides the setting for occasional enemies that want to prevent others from using it, or for pirates and brigands to waylay travelers.
==The Tower of Ice==
What Xanxost has heard is that this mysterious structure has existed for longer than even the quasielementals can remember. It stands near the border with the Positive Energy Plane, but at the same time near the region called Hoarfrost.
The tower is made entirely of ice. Xanxost knew that from the name! Those who can gain entry (there's a trick, and no one will tell Xanxost what it is) find that creation of certain substances, like potions and poisons, becomes much easier in the arcane laboratories within.