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Title: Questions
Post by: EUOL on February 18, 2005, 04:30:47 AM

I thought a thread for quick, fact-type questions might be good.  People have a lot of different information, and we might be able to get answers to each other's little quandaries here.

I'll start.  Anyone know what the name of an 'unofficial' exit from a city?  I can't remember for the life of me.  Passwall?  Something like that.  Essentially, these are little criminal enterprises that were run in walled cities.  The crooks would dig a tunnel out of the city, or sometimes even drill through the wall, then set up a false shop as a front and shuttle people in and out.

Anyone know what this is called?

Title: Re: Questions
Post by: Peter Ahlstrom on February 18, 2005, 11:41:58 AM

Not sure I ever heard of a specific term.