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Message: <blockquote data-quote="covaithe" data-source="post: 4374977" data-attributes="member: 46559">By this time, you are becoming used to travel in these fens.  The smell of rotting vegetation and stagnant water has become a dim background nuisance rather than the overpowering stench it was yesterday morning.  Your sense of direction is better, and the swamps seem less unrelentingly random than they did yesterday.  Apikotoa's pace is still grueling, and the mud squishing between your toes is still entirely too slimy, but you can begin to imagine how people could live in a place like this.  Especially people with waterproof skin.  Apikotoa leads you in a generally northeasterly direction for most of the day.  In early afternoon, the water starts to become deeper.  Apikotoa waves to the east and says, "Reever close now.  Need boat to go farther that way.  Or sweem," he adds, with a slightly dismissive glance.  He turns northward, and the water depth recedes again.  After a few more hours, you can see a larger green spot between the trees ahead, and soon you arrive at the next hill.  It is immediately apparent that this is a better prospect than the first hill.  It rises some hundred feet above the water level, and its sides are mostly covered in trees and underbrush.  Pushing cautiously through, you climb perhaps a quarter of a mile, and after circumnavigating a particularly thorny thicket, you are rewarded with the sight of a large, dilapidated manor house!  There is a thirty foot area between the house and the nearest trees on any side, providing a clear view all around.  The main part of the house is two stories high, with several one-story extensions to the back and sides.  The front of the house, as evidenced by the stone portico with worn columns framing large metal-bound double doors, faces east, and you can see that it must have once commanded an excellent view over the river.  All around the upper story are a series of boarded-up windows.  On the southeastern corner of the house, one of the boarded up windows has been broken, and you can see a few crows flying in and out of the hole.  In addition to the main entrance, there is another stone porch, with a roof held up by stone pillars, on the north side of the house, with two boarded-up doors leading into the building.  [sblock=ooc]Here's where I start trying to use a different kind of map; hopefully it doesn't become too much of a pain.  The map shows the exterior of the house.  The blue area is a single floor, and is fifteen feet tall.  The red area is where there is a second floor.  Hopefully the open air stone-floored areas and the doors will be clear enough.  The squares are five feet.  [/sblock]</blockquote>

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