Brass Neck

WARNING: Brass Neck is a terrifying and relentless death-trap in the Ramtops. Failure to follow the path or walking off the square will make you fall to your death. Npcs are known to fall off and if you are pursuing them you will fall too.

Situation

To the south of Brass Neck is Mad Stoat. The Ramtops Mountains begin to the north.

Language and currency

The language in Brass Neck is Morporkian (with an Lancrastian accent). The local currency is Lancre money.

Politics

Currently no player council governs Brass Neck.

Transportation

Brass Neck is served by the following transports: Lancre Kingdom carriage, Mountain carriage, and the mail carriage.

Property

All property in the Ramtops is handled from the real estate stall in the Lancre Town square.

Player housing

One player house is available, just to the west of the market square.

Player shops

There is one player shop in Brass Neck, in the following location:

• 3 Brass Neck Marketplace (South from SE corner of market square)

Features of Brass Neck

The following can be found in Brass Neck:

• Mail services are found in the post office in the Cutangle Inn, just to the south of the main entrance.

• A Frog bulletin board is located in the Cutangle Inn bar.

• Smithies and repair locations include:
  • Blacksmith - smithy for fixing metal things (including jewellery) is just north of the market square

• A chess board can be found in the Cutangle Inn bar.

• A private room can be rented at the Cutangle Inn.

Shops

Custom Shops

• Maurice Trimbleworthy in the Cutangle Inn makes custom cloaks.
• Virgo Vango paints portraits on the east side of the market square.

Other Shops

• Granville's Family Store (NPC: Granville) is a general store.
• The brightly colored stall (NPC: Fern Golly) in the southwest corner of the market square has toys and dolls for sale.
• The unremarkable stall (NPC: Sad Ernest) in the northeast corner of the market square sells various sundry items.

Eateries

• The Cutangle Inn features a bar with many alcoholic offerings, as well as a restaurant for a fine dining experience.
• The Laughing Gnome Inn is a local establishment for the local drinkin' folk.

NPCs

Wandering Unique NPCs

• Annie Spindlewits (at her cottage - may be inside)

General NPCs

• Children
• Farmer
• Shepherd
• Villager

Guilds

Witches

• Witches can make use of Annie Spindlewits' cottage

A Very Important Note

Stepping off of the path (i.e., trying to move in a direction which is not an obvious exit in some rooms) in Brass Neck can result in falling off a cliff. This is nearly always fatal, and Finneblaugh's Thaumic Float does not protect against it. However, a quick thinking witch can use her broom mid-fall to potentially escape a meeting with HE WHO TALKS LIKE THIS, though pets such as moon dragons (confirmed) and bats (?) may not be as lucky.

Cliff exits include:

• all unmarked exits from "A precarious pass through the mountains [s,ne]."
• all unmarked exits from "A trail through Leaping Mountain [n,sw]."
• all unmarked exits besides north and northeast from "A trail around the mountain [e,nw]."
• south or southwest from "A narrow trail along the mountain [w,se]."
• all unmarked exits besides north and northeast from "A sloping path around Leaping Mountain [e,nw]."
• northeast, east, southeast, or south from "A road [n,sw]."
• east or southeast from "A winding road [s,ne]."
• south or southeast from "A road outside of Brass Neck [e,sw]."
• southwest, south, or southeast from "A road [n,e,w]."

Shown below is the terrain immediately around Brass Neck. Grey lines between rooms represent climbing exits, and the numbers next to the lines are the slopes; black lines between rooms represent normal flat exits.

People wandering off cliffs seem to end up in one of the three moorland rooms.

Getting to the moorland room immediately to the south of Brass Neck is easy, only requiring going east from the southwest road. Getting to the moorland rooms to the east or west requires some climbing, and you should start from the road leading northeast out of Brass Neck to avoid the steepest slopes. From the road, climb south for the east moorland room, or climb west twice, then south for the west moorland room. Look before you climb, as there may be aggressive npcs in these terrains (evil trolls and sometimes moose in the moorland or mountains, and yetis, lynxes, or brigands in the mountains).