Lakeview Token Underground

## Architect

* Acey
* Jack Firebane

## Most Expensive Item

 Fortune III enchanted book (x150 tokens)

## Accessible Via

Behind false wall in the Haunted House

The **Lakeview Token Underground** was a token shop located beneath Lakeview Village during Dragonhollow's First Era.

The Underground sold items that Acey felt her subjects found tedious or otherwise difficult to acquire which could be obtained by trading tokens.

# Description

The Lakeview Underground was accessible through a secret passage hidden behind a painting in the Haunted House. A winding oak stair cut through the basement and down into a subterranean cobblestone cavern lit by redstone torches.

The shop itself rested on a spruce platform suspended above foul water infested with rats. Items were purchased in small alcoves, sorted by type. In the center was a lava pool.

On the far wall, residents could combine and break down denominations using a token exchange, though getting there required them to jump over the dangerous sewage below.

# Items

This is a list of the items sold in the shop, their cost in tokens, and the most efficient denomination used to purchase them. Note that the x25, x50, and x200 tokens did not exist at the time.

# History

Acey desired to reward the few among her people that had earned her favor, who thrived in the perilous and unforgiving harshness of her beloved Dragonhollow. To that end, she reintroduced an ancient currency known as the token and began quietly working with a mortal magician known as Jack Firebane on a project beneath Lakeview Village.

On 1E:37, a shadowy stranger was seen entering the Haunted House but when locals investigated further the abandoned shack was empty, suggesting he had somehow disappeared into thin air.

AJ, Smitten, and Tox began searching the premises for any clues. After several fruitless minutes, AJ discovered a secret passage that led to the house's basement. The trio explored a dimly lit warren of tunnels until they discovered the Lakeview Token Underground.

Effective immediately, Jack announced that the parkours and mazes would have tokens as their rewards rather than gold and diamond. Smitten bought the first item, a cake that cost one token.

The identity of the shadowy stranger who disappeared in the Haunted House was never conclusively proven, but historians believe it was Jack Firebane himself in disguise, guiding those clever enough to gain entrance to the Token Underground.

Though tokens never completely replaced more valuable items as a trading commodity, many residents used the Underground to accumulate materials that would otherwise require them to brave the wilderness beyond Lakeview Village. Some refused to shop there due to what they considered to be exorbitant prices.

The existence of the Underground was mentioned in the *Survival Guide* but its location remained a mystery to newcomers, forcing them to either find it through exploration or ask wiser residents for help.

On 1E:50, the entrance to the Dragon Temple became accessible on the Underground's lower level.

Like the rest of the Lakelands, the Lakeview Token Underground fell into ruin after the cataclysmic First Bloodmoon devastated the land on 1E:68. However, a new Token Underground was eventually constructed by Eris in Swampwater during the Second Era.

# Gallery

False wall entrance behind paintingThe secret entranceCAUTION Rat InfestationDescending staircaseHaunted House cellarEntering Token UndergroundFood alcoveXP alcoveThe UndergroundSewer grateRat-infested waterSource of infestationEntrance to the Dragon Temple