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The Lower Pipe Tunnels
Image prompt:

Do not depict: Child Abuse, Suicide, Explicit sexual content or nudity, Extreme graphic violence or gore, Deeply nihilistic or hopeless themes, Drug/alcohol use. Generate an illustration for a choose-your-own-adventure story. Style: Digital illustration, vivid colours, suitable for a web story. Do not include any text or lettering in the image. A child with a small lantern crouching inside a vast underground tunnel filled with enormous rusted steam pipes, dark dripping walls, and branching shadows stretching into the distance. in Steampunk style, Neon / Glowing

The Lower Pipe Tunnels


You squeeze through the iron hatch and drop into the tunnel network beneath Cogsworth City. The air is thick and damp, smelling of rust and old steam. Without the pipes hissing, the silence feels wrong — like holding your breath for too long.

Your emergency lantern throws weak orange light across dripping walls and a maze of enormous pipes stretching in every direction. Somewhere ahead, a faint scrape… scrape… scrape echoes through the dark.


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