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Under Eastmeadow Manor
🕑 Added 2025-04-10 19:31:03 +0000 UTCTwo months ago we explored Eastmeadow Manor – a three-story stone manor house outside of town. The manor is home to the Lindwyne family and their three servants.
There are three levels of basements beneath the manor- centred on the structure of the stone tower as the three upper levels of the manor are.
The first basement spans the entire footprint of Eastmeadow Manor. It serves as a general-purpose area for the household’s operations. A spacious central chamber (with a low ceiling making it still feel oddly claustrophobic) is surrounded by smaller rooms that house supplies, tools, and provisions. Stairs lead down into the lower levels of the tower, and a back room has a secret stairwell to lower chambers that Master Reginald has refitted for his own use.
The second level of the basements diverge – with the secret chambers underneath the main structure of the house, and the tower extending further downwards. The secret chamber at the bottom of the stairs is marked by strange, glowing sigils etched into the floor. These arcane symbols are in the ancient magical tongue of the Serpent Lands, and radiate a mild transformation magical aura. The tower’s basement serves a more practical function – housing carefully organized goods of some age (much forgotten down here) and the manor’s wine cellar on the north side.
On the third level, the separation of the secret chambers and the tower is more pronounced, with no accessway between them. The lowest level of the tower contains old musty boxes and shelves covered in spider webs and containing goods that were moved down here in preparation for other events at the manor and forgotten. The secret chambers were once a shrine but have been repurposed by Master Reginald for his studies and research. One chamber has six statues of ancient serpent folk magi that Master Reginald uses with magics to get hints and ideas from the long-dead sorcerers.
The 1200 dpi versions of the map were drawn at a scale of 300 pixels per square and are 7,800 x 11,100 pixels (26 x 37 squares). To use this with a VTT you would need to resize the squares to either 70 pixels (for 5′ squares) or 140 pixels (for the recommended 10‘ squares that make sense with the furniture scale) – so resizing the image to 1,820 x 2,590 pixels or 3,640 x 5,180 pixels, respectively.
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Comments
Roland
Would be appropriate for a scenario based on Robert E. Howard. He did a lot of Lovecraftian stories with Serpent Men. Clark Ashton Smith, too -- Master Reginald's story could have a similar conclusion to "The Double Shadow"!
