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Not bad.  One setting in particular I was thinking of for a story would be a coastal city in Chalcedony famous for having a water level that changes by the hour.  Dry streets would become canals, bridges between houses becoming piers, and so on.  There characters would all be gathering in response to a request for aid for an expedition into the lower levels of the city, and there they'd find all sorts of adventures and things.

Perhaps you'd like to think of such a pulp adventure?
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Ooooo, I like that setting. The tide leaves and the bodies of the unfortunate litter the streets in it's wake, of which there have been more and more. The near constant black sky and frequent appearance of the Ankou sowing seeds of hysteria. Then the whirlpool forms, dragging a whole building into the hidden depths below the city. There are no escapees or survivors. Then another, bigger. Whatever is the cause of all this, it lies down below, and the protagonists must find the answers while there is still a city left to save.