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Message: <blockquote data-quote="gorice" data-source="post: 9035727" data-attributes="member: 7032863">Whooo, another month finished! The next level is something very different: a forest.22: Green Door<ul> <li data-xf-list-type="ul">Door of solid green granite, in the likeness of a smiling infant face.</li> <li data-xf-list-type="ul">(!) Door has two locks, one in each eye, which must be turned simultaneously. Otherwise, the floor splits in two, dropping anyone standing over cloaca: pit trap, 10’ down onto the bed of nails.</li> </ul>23: Green Room<ul> <li data-xf-list-type="ul">Lit by high, dirty windows. A large room of green stone, ruined furniture heaped against one wall.</li> <li data-xf-list-type="ul">(?) One door leads to a lift that runs up to the gardens. The lift is a metal cage with a brass control lever.</li> </ul>24: Disarming Hall<ul> <li data-xf-list-type="ul">Long dark hall with scattered nails, broken weapons, and old helmets piled against one side. Lit by cool lamps.</li> <li data-xf-list-type="ul">(!) There is a pressure plate in the middle of the room that activates the powerful magnets in the wall and rings the great alarm bell in the sorcerer’s turret, once.</li> <li data-xf-list-type="ul">(!) The magnets will pin any iron against the wall, including people wearing iron armour. They deactivate after 10 minutes.</li> <li data-xf-list-type="ul">(??) A the flagstones in the centre of the room seem slightly lower than the rest.</li> </ul>25: Hideous Shrine<ul> <li data-xf-list-type="ul">A great hall with ruined tables and chairs piled against every wall. In the centre, a blasphemous sculpture of bone and skin, rising 3 metres into the air, seared with runes and radiating disquiet, in the shape of a bizarre insect.</li> <li data-xf-list-type="ul">A blackened brazier on a tripod stands before it.</li> <li data-xf-list-type="ul">(!) The shrine is inert – for now – but sentient and malevolent. It hungers for human hearts. This room is a potent site for rituals.</li> </ul>26: Courtroom<ul> <li data-xf-list-type="ul">Vast and echoing cone, narrowing toward the top, some 300’ above. Dappled light falls from high scattered windows onto dead trees. On a raised dais in the centre of the floor: the executioner’s block, blackened with ancient bloodstains, holding a giant beheading axe.</li> <li data-xf-list-type="ul">Viewing balconies scattered high across the cone. These connect via doors to higher levels. The imperial box stands highest, weather in marble flowers and held up by cyclopean goddesses.</li> <li data-xf-list-type="ul">(!) The shrike demon brood lairs in the viewing balconies.</li> </ul>27: Hall of Nails<ul> <li data-xf-list-type="ul">A featureless corridor, with long iron nails scattered across the floor.</li> <li data-xf-list-type="ul">(!) Dart traps that continuously shoot darts while they are activated by pressing down the panels in the centre of the floor. The darts shoot from both ends of the hall.</li> <li data-xf-list-type="ul">(??) Central section of flagstones (~20’) is slightly depressed.</li> </ul>28: Library Tower<ul> <li data-xf-list-type="ul">(!) Lair of the sorcerer. A deathless scribe from before the fall who fancies herself an uebermensch.<ul> <li data-xf-list-type="ul">insect magic: dissolves, swarms, feasts. Staff of swarming.</li> <li data-xf-list-type="ul">wants: occult secrets, especially from higher in the tower.</li> <li data-xf-list-type="ul">needs: flesh for the ghouls and the shrine.</li> <li data-xf-list-type="ul">fears: the sentinels and demons that guard the other levels. Has explored a little, but turned back.</li> </ul></li> <li data-xf-list-type="ul">Lit by high narrow windows. Books are simply heaped on the ground, on broken furniture, spilling every which way.</li> <li data-xf-list-type="ul">(?) The sorcerer’s bed, a great four-poster with billowy gauze curtains stained with bloody hand prints.</li> <li data-xf-list-type="ul">(??) Books of all kinds, mostly in poor condition. You might find the book you need. Or half of it.</li> <li data-xf-list-type="ul">(??) The sorcerer’s stash, a locked chest under a pile of books. Contains her actual spellbook and a fistful of silver.</li> </ul>29: Bell Tower<ul> <li data-xf-list-type="ul">Deserted ruin, empty aside from the bell that hangs from the 30’ high ceiling: 10’ wide, solid brass, covered in snarling faces.</li> <li data-xf-list-type="ul">(?) Mechanical hammers are poised to strike.</li> <li data-xf-list-type="ul">(?) The bell can be heard throughout the city.</li> </ul>30: Wall of Faces<ul> <li data-xf-list-type="ul">Wall carved with grotesque faces in expressions of pain, rage, and fear.</li> <li data-xf-list-type="ul">(??) A very fine seam in the wall, the size and shape of a door.</li> <li data-xf-list-type="ul">(??) One face has a twist handle in its gaping mouth. Opens the secret door in the wall.</li> </ul>31: Control Room<ul> <li data-xf-list-type="ul">Various levers, marked with ancient runes.</li> <li data-xf-list-type="ul">(?) Two control the sluice gates that release water from the gardens to the city. One rings the bell.</li> </ul></blockquote>

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