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Beneath the Black Cairn
🕑 Added 2025-01-10 16:08:22 +0000 UTC“The Black Cairn” is the name the locals give the ruins of Bormomble Bastion, razed and forgotten generations ago leaving only some stonework remnants, a few walls, and an ancient doorway into the haunted depths below.
More recently, another entrance has been made, as portions of the underground structure collapse, producing what appears to be a sinkhole amid the ruins that leads deeper into the dungeons. The dungeons themselves provide few hints as to their original purpose – they are multi-tiered and have a number of strange rooms that are quite frankly difficult to explain. A circular chamber with a two-foot-deep lower tier in the centre; a chamber with massive statuary heads on each side leading to the doorway; another with four small columns and a three-foot-deep, one-foot-wide “trench” through the middle of it; and a set of alcoves that feel like they would be tombs, but which have stone tables in them.
There is also a secret passage that connects to three points in the structure, and a small room. This is where the belief that the ruins are haunted comes from – a solitary sorcerer lives within the secret area currently as they prepare to mount a second expedition into the lost depths below. Their first expedition ended in disaster and they are the only survivor. Now they wait for a new team of help to arrive in response to their sendings and guard the area jealously.
The corridor that leads to the Lost Depths is secured by a heavy iron door with a large rusty lock built into it. The lock shows signs of recently being used, and the sorcerer in the secret chamber guards the large brass key jealously.
The 1200 dpi versions of the map were drawn at a scale of 300 pixels per square and are 7,200 x 10,800 pixels (24 x 36 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 10‘ squares) – so resizing the image to 1,680 x 2,520 pixels or 3,360 x 5,040 pixels, respectively.
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Comments
Dyson Logos
I don't think so... just another dungeon.
Piscivorous
Is this going to be the first in a new series of maps?
Mark CMG Clover
Thank you!
