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New Ambience: Drow Slave Camp

Added 2025-05-28 16:33:53 +0000 UTC

Greetings Patrons,

The Drow are the worst. Everyone seems to hate them. I know there was that one guy, but he seemed to be an outlier. On the other hand, are they kind of awesome in a love-to-hate-them kind of way? Sure, let's go with that.

When the blindfolds come off, you find yourself underground. The place reeks of sulfur, and suffering. A cruel looking blue man hands you a pickaxe and points to a pile of rocks. "Make those smaller" he says, and kicks you in the back as you turn to walk away.

Drow Slave Camp is an awful place. Bamboo cages are full of various beings too weak or broken to work. The rest carry heavy loads, push carts full of rocks or just stack barrels from one side of the camp to the other. For every 10 wretched slaves there is an overseer - a Drow with a whip, or a club. They show very little restraint.

Musically, I wanted this to feel oppressive. Large drums seemed appropriate for the backbone. Strings, brass, basso profundo choir and pitched-down dulcimer complete the orchestration.

As this is in Patreon sneak-peek mode, I've included the mixed version of the track (live on the site next week), as well as music-only and ambience-only versions here. Additionally, I created 2 'empty' versions which remove the Drow and the slaves leaving just the environment. This might be useful for returning to the camp after your heroics (or...?)

Thank you all, as always, for your continuing support.

Best,

Tim

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