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In the side of Merman’s Bluff beneath White Crag Fortress there is a small entrance into the rocky crag with a worked stone wharf leading into the dark choppy waters. This postern gate to White Crag Fortress is intended to be well guarded, although the original door has been removed after it got stuck too often from rusting hinges and lock as well as swollen oak from the constant battering from the sea. In time it should be replaced by a properly oiled and tarred door, but for the time being the gateway remains open.
Beneath White Crag Fortress
The main level of the structures wind up under the structures of the Bailey Fort leading eventually to a trap door opening into the fort proper. These structures are used as storage, guard rooms, and an escape route in case of emergency.
There is also a passage that leads up under the Spire, however it lacks an accessway into that structure (at one point there was such an access point, but a team of mechanical assassins used it to gain access to the spire and it was blocked off afterwards). This section contains a secret chamber that in turn has a trap door down to the lower chambers which are used as a secret dungeon for prisoners as well as an underwater escape route for those with the access and the means to travel underwater.
The tunnel leading underwater from these lowest passages proceeds 130 feet further from Merman’s Bluff and into a small cave 20 feet under water.
Awesome. I love the two-part post!
How do you scan your maps? Do you edit them digitally after you scan them?
I wrote a full article on my methods and specifics (linked to in the Help and Tutorials page) which goes into the digital processing involved: https://rpgcharacters.wordpress.com/2014/07/27/on-the-drawing-of-maps/
Thanks! I’ll definitely check it out!
I am having trouble figuring out how the lower and upper levels connect. There seems to be a circle with a “c” on the upper part and a plain c in one of the caverns below. I assume these are both sides of a trap door. However there are also a circle with a “j” and a circle with something indecipherable (perhaps “e”) as well. I think “j” may lead to the fortress above, but if so why is it not a plain “j” to indicate a trap door in the ceiling?
P.S. Of course if I am running the adventure the map connects where I say it connects. However, I would like to know how you intended it to work.
The circled c is a trap door in the ceiling, the circled f is a trap door in the floor.
On the level without the caves, the trap door on the left leads up into the fortress, and the one on the right leads down into the lower level. The trap door indicated on the lower level is where the access from the upper level occurs.
I understand s=secret door, c=concealed door, u=up, d=down. What does f stand for (as in “White Crag Fortress/Beneath”)? Will you add/update the icon chart?
[f] is trapdoor in floor. It’s in the icon list already. What’s not on the list is [c] for trap door in ceiling.