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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Celebrim" data-source="post: 9800102" data-attributes="member: 4937">Starting from the main floor, you have 5 stairs down and 7 stairs up.Although the PC's don't know it, they probably want to find Strahd's main crypt on Map 12, which means they need to go down.How to accomplish that is far from obvious.  Getting up is easy.  But the paths down are constructed so as to get the player's lost.  Of the five stairs down, K20 and K23 aren't readily accessible from the main floor.  PC's theoretically could, but it involves deliberately looking for side entrances or using magic, and even if they do that only gets you as far as the Larder's of Ill Omen.  K18's passage down is blocked by a wall of rubble.  K64 is behind a secret door and again only gets you as far as the Larder.  That leaves just K31, which has a first landing with a trapped corridor and an elevator trap but does get you to the crypt but only in the flooded sub level.  It's still by far the best route other than removing the wall in K18 but it's not obvious.From the Larder, you have only two ways down, K23 but again trapped by the elevator trap and the secret door hiding K79.K70 is a choke point for any entrance except K18, and it's trapped and if you arrive here planning to go down, all the stairs go up.  The right path is trapped at K80-K82, which takes you (or more likely part of the party!) back to the flooded sublevel.  The only other good way down is from K83 on map 4.I don't see how a flat map simplifies this.</blockquote>

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