Daily Excerpt Post - November 1st

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She passed beneath a giant stone archway that seemed to touch the sky, the construction there to signify moving from one section of the Hive to another. Buildings of the northeast quarter rose before her, the tri-domed bar of the Dustmen faction and the open-air monument to those that had died over the years being important landmarks, but this quarter was dominated by the Mausoleum. Its entrance, too, was a dome, but it was easily ten times as big as the Gathering Dust Bar, and it was circled by a fence wrought of iron and stone. The stink of embalming fluids and rotting flesh was largely confined to just outside the Mausoleum, but there was no doubt that the scents wafted throughout the quarter and mingled with the bodily odors of peasants and merchants creating a unique, if unpleasant, sensory experience.