As you approach, the remains of what was once a two story tower sit atop a gentle hill, with only fragments of the first and second floors still standing.
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The tower’s ancient iron front door remains in place, but all the rubble blocking it from the other side prevents anyone from using it, and Festus had previously determined that attempting to clear the door could potentially distress the remaining foundation even further and would likely cause more harm than good. With no other way into the tower, the rocky ramp used previously, which leads up to the tower’s now exposed second floor, is the only way to gain entrance. With only Ingroc lacking prior experience ascending the makeshift stone ramp, reaching the second is accomplished without issue. Open to the sky above, this exposed upper floor contains some smashed furniture and a sprinkling of rubble in addition to the solid wooden beam and the still opened trap door which is set in the floor against the northwest wall.
As previously determined, the trap door leads to the first level of the tower, which has mostly collapsed under the rubble leaving only shattered wooden furniture scattered around the floor and some random piles of rubble. Additionally, a second, still opened trap door is set in the floor directly beneath the one you're peering through, which leads directly to the tower's basement.
The distance from ceiling-to-floor for each level appears to be approximately 15-feet, and these distance estimates are confirmed when one of the 30-foot rope ladders provided by the Baroness, once secured to the top floor, reaches the basement once lowered.
The dry-rotted frames of five simple beds lie against the north and south walls. To the southwest, the room broadens into a larger chamber. The previous examined iron maiden sits in an alcove in the north wall, between the two wings of the room itself, its rotted contents spilled out onto the floor beneath it. In the wall to the south is the still open iron door which splits off to the east and west. Ciar and Festus previously explored to the west, while a majority of the party's activities, including the slime encounter, were off to the east.
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Okay, the scene has been set. The group does not necessarily need to be the basement yet, but with the ladder set, and since the area has been previously explored, movement between levels can be accomplished easily and without risk.
In addition to knowing where Sparrow is going to store the extra gear that he's not going to personally carry, I'll need to know what the group plans to do first now that they're back inside the tower.
