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To natives of Blackmoor, the City of the Gods is a strange place indeed. They see the commonplace wonders of technology on every side as a new form of magic. The very structure of the place is intimidating. Beagle is constructed of prefab 60-foot wide by 180-foot long by 60-foot high modules manufactured from exotic substances that can't be damaged by any nonmagical means at the
PCs disposal. Some modules are linked to form large areas; others are partitioned into much smaller areas. Each area formed by the modules is called apod and is sealed by an internal lock consisting of a single pressure door. Linking these modular areas is a system of circular tubes designed for use by air cars (which the sand folk call steel dragons).
The atmosphere inside the vast, cavernous ship is one of emptiness and desolation, hut (except in green-lined areas) not one of ruin or disuse. There is also a feeling of indefinable menace as the PCs encounter the fearsome steel dragons and hear ghostly, voices over the intercom speaking in an odd tongue
(Galactica). This sense of something .mysterious and dangerous behind the echoing emptiness
is heightened now and again by sudden terror as the PCs encounter some fearsome monster confined in an envia-pod, or meet cyborgs, robots, or crewmen
The corridor pattern is a system of circular tubes (each 60 feet in diameter, but normally kept dilated to only a 20-foot diameter). Special cars much like capsules (but 20 feet long and 10 feet in diameter) fly down these tubes on a cushion of air. A car is programmed via a numeric keypad beside its circular, 10-foot diameter entry hatch. These cars work only inside the City.
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