Rodger sat on the edge of the docks staring into the water. Its rainbow shine created by the mixture of petroleum and chemical waste. Hypodermic needles, garbage bags, browned styrofoam and empty beer cans sloshed together directly below him. Oils had stained the wooden pillars black and coated them with thick layers. Of course the smell of all of these wastes mixed together was something that was beyond description. But night after night he sat here staring off into nothingness and enjoying his only peace he was allowed.
Here he has seen ships that are beyond imagination slowly sail into the harbor. At a distance they appear as great monstrosities, twisted and evil. As they come closer through the hanging smog they become more tangible, more normal. The Spikes along the sides seem to fade away, along with the bodies hanging from thier sides. The crew doesn't shamble along hunchbacked they start walking normal and move like everybody else. The colors shift from blotted reds and greens to the typical greys and blues.
They look normal to everyone else but he knows the truth of what they really look like. He told a few people and was laughed at. Then a couple cops started asking him questions about it so he clamed up with a quickness to avoid that kind of attention. No one else will come out here with him and watch and no one will believe what he says. So he just keeps watching, and with pencil and hand writes down everything he sees in ragged notebook he carries with him. One day he will find someone who will believe him and they will come and see for themselves. See the dark ships from the other side.
The importance of waterways in our society is overwhelming. We could not function properly as a trade based civilization without them. Peoples entire lives revolve around them, the business they create, the maintanence needed to keep them usable and the events that occur there. Therefore it seems only plausable that a network of cannals, small lakes and docks would exist in Metropolis. These waterways would connect various sections of the great city to each other, with massive bridges, tunnels that run for miles, dark watergoing vessels that belch black smog and a host of new creatures to haunt the lengths of them.
Although I understand that many people do not like the idea of having such things in Metropolis some do. Therefore if you do not agree with this information presented, don't use it, don't email me saying I need to take it down.
In this section will be details of some of the more important areas of the waterways that are located in various places in Metropolis, such as the Falls. Also it will contain expansion material for some of the area already existing and how they use them to thier advantage. A section with ideas for adventure seeds that take place on the waterways and ways that one could accidently find themselves in Metropolis on them.