Lost & Buried
Corcoran's Roost
beneath the towers · est. before 1900
What is true
The Irish shantytown ruled from a hut on the bluff by Paddy Corcoran of the Rag Gang — built over, and said to be memorialized in Gothic stone beneath the city.
What it became
It is still down there, gaslit and salt-damp, frozen at 1900, and it is awake. The dead are the foundation.
The roost below the cobbles
Below the cobbles of Tudor City lies Corcoran's Roost — the buried shantytown, gaslit and frozen at 1900. The dead are the foundation here. Walk Wren to the far stair. Don't step on the skulls — the dead don't like to be woken.
Hold ◀ ▶ to walk. Skulls that rattle and glow are waking — wait for them to settle.
Corcoran's Roost · the shantytown beneath the cobbles
The Roost
Below the Cobbles
Walk Wren to the far stair. Some cobbles are the skulls of the buried dead — when one rattles and glows it is waking; step on it then and a phantom takes her. Wait for it to settle, then pass.
the stair is found
You reached the stair.
The memorial breathes out. Wren sets a hand on the cold iron rail. "They only wanted to be remembered, not woken. Step lightly — and they'll let you up."