Hell's Chimney

At regular intervals, white steam billows from the earth. In calm weather, the cloud piles higher and higher in a towering column.

As you approach, the forest turns oppressively humid, shrouded in a sweltering fog, before the ground gives way to a sudden drop and a massive sink hole, hundreds of feet wide and of uncertain depth.

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I like the idea that there are known places that connect the surface world to the place below.

But I also like places like those to be more than just a simple cave. (Like, if it is just a cave, I'd like to be a pretty dang cool one at least.)

I imagine this particular place leads to an underground, boiling lake, and I imagine a party making their way down with dedicated climbing equipment, absolutely soaked to the bone in sweat, unable to see how much farther they have to travel. What they find next is, of course, up to you and your own personal iteration on the underworld.

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