As the main character in Avowed, you're called the "Godlike" which means two things: First, since you've been created in the incontestable image of the gods, naturally you have a bunch of shrooms growing out of your face. For my character creation, I chose chicken-of-the-woods. Second, and less cool, is that people keep hiring you for genocide. And they're not paying much. But you'll do it anyway because those are the quests.
Here at the site of the Sulphur Mines, you learn that sulphur is super important to the defense of the desert capitol of Thirdborn. Oh yeah, there's a war going on because of racism, basically. The most boring reason for war ever. And to accomplish the goal of killing other people, you're being paid less than minimum wage. How enticing! Your job is to eliminate an entire ecosystem of large spiders already in residence within the mines. Listen, war is very very important. Otherwise, we can't have peace!
Also in the mines is a dude named Darle who is trying to destroy the whole place so nobody can use the sulphur. Nowhere in this entire quest does anyone pause and say, "Leave the spiders alone and this place remains off-limits to everyone." That's not an option. You can either kill Darle, or explode the mines. Choose your adventure, hero!
Anyway, in between the genocides I did find this shitter, which has been set up in this manner because these people do not belong in the desert and don't know how to survive here. They just set up a rickety little shelter at the edge of a waterfall with a handful of buckets, and you're supposed to do your business in there and then chuck it over the edge. This is true mining town logic and I have little doubt these folks will be petitioning the Geneva Centre for Human Rights Advancement and Global Dialogue for acknowledgement of their very human approach to creating problems.
