GLAUGUST 2025 - Wells of the mythic underworld

My second post for Glaugust, the prompt for this one is a selection of interesting wells, wishing or non-wishing

 

Wells of the mythic underworld 

To randomly create a well for a dungeon start by rolling on state of the well followed by what is in the well, there is a 50% chance you get to roll on something extra 

If the resulting well would be useful to some of the inhabitants of the dungeon there is an 80% chance they make use of it, otherwise something is stopping them from using it.  

 

State of the well 

1 broken, you would need a carpenter to fix it
2 intact but missing its rope and bucket
3 missing a bucket but has a rope
4 has a bucket and a rope

What is in the well

1 just water thankfully
2 water and fish, roll for what type
        1 blind cave piranhas, always hungry
        2 sad looking bloated fish, they are poisonous to surface dwellers but delicious to denizens of the underworld, random encounters become more likely in their presence
        3 you might call it a fish but all the tubes and goat like eyes make you question this, if you stare too long into its eyes it will psychically command you to aid them
3 blood, always fresh somehow
4 darkness, somehow you can hold it in a bucket, if you "splash" it you cover a whole room in darkness for around an hour, good lighting will cause the darkness to "dry up" in around 10 minutes
5 chicken noodle soup, concerningly tastes exactly like how your grandmother use to make it
6 green slime

Something extra

1 the well is giant sized, being at least 5x bigger than normal, you probably can't operate it
2 at the bottom of the well is a mini dungeon, whatever is in the well is waist high throughout it, if you don't have a dungeon to put here just make 1d4+2 rooms 
3 a Naiad presides over this well and will not let you take anything from it without an offering, her personality will be influenced by whatever is in the well
4 halfway down the well is a door which opens up into a room on the next floor of the dungeon
5 a sign on it says "toss in a coin and make a wish", the first time any particular creature tosses in a coin (any coin) and makes a wish it will come true, but only roughly 1% of it, if the wisher asks for money it will eject two coins instead of 1% of the money they asked for
6 ridiculously deep, takes 10 minutes to lower and raise a bucket

 

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