Arc 9 Mountain Lair

Map drawn by Haley (in-universe: drawn by Ginger Sprite) and published on the Patreon post for Episode 6

### Episodes

Arc 9 Episode 6

The mountain lair is a location and mini-dungeon for Arc 9. It is located in the mountain that is close to the town of Maatte in the Feywild.

## Location

The lair is located inside of a mountain that is close to and visible from the town of Maatte, a small town in the Feywild. The mountain itself is tall and jagged. It is split in the middle, with the two sides leaning away from each other, and the areas that were revealed in the split look sick and gnarly, as if the mountain did not want to split in this way.

Right next to the mountain is a lake that can be crossed with a boat.

## Description

### Entry

The entry into the lair is hidden behind some stones, but not closed off by a door or similar. The opening leads towards an 8 feet tall tunnel-like hallway with an upright mirror inside it, which takes up nearly the entirety of the tunnel. There is only a small space to the left, right, and top of the mirror allowing people to squeeze past it.

### Main Room 1

The main room is separated into two sections through two walls that don't meet, but form an opening right across from the entry tunnel. The first section is a rectangular space with a red rug on the floor and a chest pushed off against the separating wall on the right hand side of the opening. The room is illuminated by lanterns, and the ceiling is about 15 feet high.

There are various paintings up on the walls which all depict the same two people in various regal poses, with stoic expressions on their faces. These people are a man and a woman with similar facial structures. The man is pale and angular, with shoulder length dark hair, the woman has platinum white hair that is pulled out of her face. Both of them have brownish red eyes.

### Main Room 2

The second section of the main room is much larger, and in the shape of two upright rectangles that align in the middle.

The upper right part of the room contains a piano that is built into the corner and has a curved keyboard. On the wall to the right of the piano, there are restraints hanging off of the wall. The lower left part of the room is taken up by a large dining room table. It is long and thin, and surrounded by six high-backed leather chairs. There is no visible kitchen or food serving in or accessible from the room. Around the walls, there are more paintings of the same two people, as well as some landscape paintings. This room is also lit up by lanterns.

To the left of the piano, there is a big staircase, which on the map is marked with the words "Don't!!! Bad!!" in red and caps, as well as a big X. To the left of the dining table, there is a wall made of stone bricks, and hidden behind this wall is a smaller staircase that on the map is marked with "This way" and an arrow. In the wall, there is one stone that can be pressed in. It functions as a button, and then the wall slides up to reveal the staircase. The wall does not close on its own again.

### "This Way" Staircase

The hidden staircase is not illuminated, and further down, the nice dark stone brick along the walls gets replaced by raw stone and earth. The ceiling is 8 feet high, and after the last step of the staircase, there is only a few inches of solid ground, and then a pit going directly down.

The pit is 50 feet deep, and has a 10 by 20 foot base. The base is made of raw earth, which is disturbed after Lee's legs are buried there, and on the sides of the pit there are two gleaming smooth black coffins.