Sloobludop

**Sloobludop** is a kuo-toa village on the eastern shore of the Darklake in the Northdark. The village looks like a massive tangle of algae and kelp lit up by phosphorescent spots. The village has a number of rickety towers, lashed together with rope and plank bridges set in haphazard patterns. In 1487, the a religious power struggle between the cults of the Sea Mother and Deep Father led to an event known as *The Deep Father's Rise*, which possibly destroyed the village.

## Geography & Description

Sloobludop spreads out along the rocky shore of the Darklake, with high fences of oven netting to the north and south of the village boundaries. The entire village is dimly lit by spots of phosphorescent fungi, corals, and bioluminescent fish glands that have been hung about. The entire village was built to match to aquatic sensibilities of the kuo-toa, and thus it looks like an underwater settlement.

The entire village is crisscrossed with bridges and platforms, connecting a majority of the structures to one another. These could be traversed without difficulty, though their construction was feeble and unreliable.

## Government

Sloobludop, like most small kuo-toa settlements, is a heavily religious settlement where a religious leader is at the top of the hierarchy. The Archpriest makes every important decision in Sloobludop, his monitors enforce his rulings, and his whips (more often than not the children of the Archpriest) would ensure that the monitors did everything they were told correctly.

In the ending months of 1486 DR, Sloobludop fell into a sectarian conflict, causing two rival archpriests to claim the village as their own. This began when the daughter and whip of the Archpriest Ploopploopeen, named Bloppblippodd, heard the call of a deity she called the Deep Father, and began attempting to convert the residents of the settlement away from the worship of the Deep Father. She succeeded in turning many to the worship of her new god, starting a civil war that brought the settlement's trade with neighboring cities to an sudden end. Sloobludop also stopped exporting slaves, as all soon found themselves at the altar of the Deep Father.

After the *The Rise of the Deep Father*, it has become unclear who rules Sloobludop, or even if the settlement still exists at all.

## Trade

The primary service in Sloobludop has always been providing ferry and navigation services to the other races in the Underdark. Although duergar in nearby Gracklstugh provided a similar service, kuo-toa from Sloobludop provided it at a more reasonable rate, often knew how to navigate the Darklake far better than anyone else. In addition to these travel services, Sloobludop has traded slaves and fish in far off Menzoberranzan, who do not have easy access to the waters of the Darklake.

In the year 1487 DR, the religious crisis became so dire that Sloobludop was only exporting fish and simple goods, as it was no longer safe for anyone to visit the village.

## History

The kuo-toa of Sloobludop have no written history indicating how long they have been at the eastern shore of the Darklake, but the aquatic race has always gravitated to the region, and Sloobludop is only well known for being on the shoreline where others could visit it. Although often hostile to anyone the residents thought they could enslave easily, Sloobludop's history is a somewhat peaceful one- as the village has never waged war on any of its surrounding settlements.

In 1486 DR, the daughter of the Archpriest, Bloppblippodd, heard the call of the Demogorgon, Prince of Demons. Interpreting his whispers in her mind as that of a deep god, she took the streets of Sloobludop spreading the word of Leemooggoogoon. She became an archpriest herself through her own belief, forming a cult that would cause a religious civil war among her people. During this 'war', all the slaves in Sloobludop were killed in the name of the Deep Father, and most of the trade within and outside came to an end, as the Deep Father's worshipers made the village dangerous for outsiders.

In 1487 DR, the event known as *The Deep Father's Rise* occurred, just shortly after the arrival of a group of escaped slaves from the drow outpost of Velkynvelve. After capturing two arms smugglers from Gracklstugh, the followers of the Deep Father planned a great sacrifice, only for this sacrifice to be interrupted by the joint effort of the Velkynvelve survivors and the followers of the Sea Mother. They came as false converts and tributes to the Deep Father, but soon began their own attack. During this struggle, Bloppblippodd slew her father Ploopploopeen, only for her to then be slain by the aasimar warlock Arius. Upon her death, all the kuo-toa present at the sacrifice began to frantically chant the name 'Leemooggoogoon', until the Deep Father himself, Demogorgon, rose from the Darklake and began making his way to the village.

The heroes who'd attempted to stop the sacrifice were forced to flee, losing two companions of their own and but gaining two others in the form of the arms smugglers. As they left they witnessed Demogorgon destroying Sloobludop and its inhabitants, making it incredibly unclear what the current status of the kuo-toa village is.

## Notable Locations

* **Altar of the Deep Father**, where the followers of the Deep Father gather to make their sacrifices to Leemooggoogoon.
* **Altar of the Sea Mother**, where followers of the Sea Mother gather to make offerings of scavenged food to Blibdoolpoolp.
* **Sloobludop Docks**, which held the ferries and ships of the kuo-toa before the docks were destroyed by Demogorgon.

## Notable Inhabitants

* **Bloppblippodd**, the Archpriest in charge of the Cult of Leemooggoogoon. She was slain by the warlock Arius, bringing about *the Deep Father's Rise*.
* **Glooglugogg**, Ploopploopeen's son and one of his whips. He was slain by his sister Bloppblippodd in the lead up to *the Deep Father's Rise*.
* **Klibdoloogut**, Bloppblippodd's son and one of her whips. He was slain by Demogorgon during *the Deep Father's Rise*.
* **Ploopploopeen**, the Archpriest in charge of the Cult of Blibdoolpoolp. He was slain by his daughter Bloppblippodd during the sacrifice that caused *the Deep Father's Rise*.
* **Shuushar the Awakened**, a former monitor of Ploopploopeen who was later exiled after adopting an ideology of pacifism. He returned to Sloobludop when he and a group of other escaped slaves left Velkynvelve, and he died trying to convince Demogorgon to stop attacking his home.