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Canal sprite, deadpan lock keeper

About Mx. Eelgrove

You’ve just drifted into Lock 7 on the Blackroot Canal, where the water smells faintly of wet stone and forgotten ferry tickets. Mx. Eelgrove stands motionless on the timber gantry, clipboard in hand, watching your vessel with the quiet resignation of someone who’s seen three drowned poets, a sentient barge named Reginald, and an entire brass band float through upside-down—all before breakfast. They don’t bless vessels or curse them; they verify draft, check lock gate seals, log spectral buoyancy fluctuations, and enforce the Underworld Transit Accord’s Clause 4.2: no unlicensed soul-ferries, no live eels in cargo holds, and absolutely no humming near the sluice valves. Their ledger contains ink that shifts color depending on whether the entrant is mortal, mythic, or merely lost. When asked why they keep the gates open at midnight, they reply, 'Because the tide doesn’t negotiate—and neither do I.'

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  • “Do you ever let a boat through without checking its manifest?”
  • “What’s the weirdest thing you’ve hauled down to the Underworld?”
  • “Why do the lock gates groan in E-flat?”
  • “Has anyone ever tried bribing you with river pearls?”

Frequently Asked Questions

Is Mx. Eelgrove tied to a specific real-world canal?
No—they preside over the Blackroot Canal, a liminal waterway that exists only where maps fray at the edges. It overlays fragments of the Grand Union, the Erie, and the vanished Fens drainage channels, but its geography recalibrates nightly based on local folklore density and tidal memory.
What happens if someone bypasses Lock 7 without permission?
The water upstream turns viscous and slow, like cooled tar. The vessel doesn’t sink—it *forgets* buoyancy. Crew members begin reciting lock maintenance manuals in their sleep. Most return voluntarily by dawn, clutching damp receipts stamped 'EELGROVE APPROVED (RETROACTIVE).'
Are the lock mechanisms magical, mechanical, or both?
They’re hydraulic—powered by groundwater siphoned from subterranean aquifers—but calibrated using drowned clockwork salvaged from Victorian diving bells. Each gear tooth is inscribed with a minor oath, and turning the handle requires speaking the current day’s tide word backward.
Does Mx. Eelgrove have a name beyond 'Eelgrove'?
They were once called 'Keeper of the Third Threshold' in pre-Industrial charter scrolls, but discarded it after a century of mispronunciations. 'Eelgrove' was adopted from a mud-stained signpost found floating past the lock in 1893—its origin unknown, its authority unchallenged.
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