Doyles Citadel (Storyteller Section)

## Introduction

Doyles Citadel, also known as "The Citadel" is an apartment complex the size of an entire block, solely inhabitated by Howard Doyle. He is a rich doktor, landlord, serial killer and necromancer.

## The Citadel

### Overview

* Officially a hotel that is still under construction so only selected guests can enter early
* Three Floors
* Owner switched construction company several times that modernised the old block
* Several apartments, mansion like
* Almost all inner rooms are insulated with metal plates to retain sound and heat inside them
* Lowest floor has a barber shop and a drug store aswell as other small shops owned by Doyle
* Several pressure plates are spread across the house connected to wires that can alarm Doyle in his office
* Has a dumbwaiter that connects all floors with the basement, large enough to fit a person in there
* Still "under construction", alot of doors/stairs lead into a brick wall or dead ends
* Alot of Rooms without windows, illumated by cold gas lights or candles
* Next to the larger baths, bedrooms and kitchens there are very small rooms used for "storage"
* Most rooms not commonly used by visitors can only be opened from the outside, it is quite easy to lock oneself in them

### Second Floor

* Doyles Office (always locked): Contants switches to controll the heating and gaslights for every room in the house; lesser necromantic tomes and documents containing information about his insurance frauds and each victim killed in the house; has a locked cabinet with the dried-up hand of every victim he killed; connected to a small room that, through a ladder, leads to the secret passages between the lower floors
* Two Bathrooms
* A small study with a large collection of books, mostly medical, aswell as a fireplace and a collection of human and animal skulls from his anatomic studies
* Storage room filled with expensive whiskeys

### First Floor

* Several bedrooms and secluded apartments
* Several bathrooms
* A large kitchen and a pantry
* Secret passages that connect each room with peepholes and secret entrances that allow Doyle to spie on the inhabitants
* "Room of Six Doors" that connect various rooms or lead to dead ends
* Very large locked room that is complelty soundproof and conntected to the dumbwaiter
* Three small and airthight rooms designed for suffocating victims inside; all connected to the dumbwaiter

### Ground Floor

* Large antechamber with no windows
* Luxorious dining room
* Several smaller kitchens
* Overgrown Inner Yard that is only accessable through secret passages; the window of his office is the only one not covered by ivy; used as a meeting place with the Resurrection Men
* Chamber with a central trapdoor that leads into the basement
* Chemical lab located in the backroom of the drugstore accessable through the main room where he produces medicine, tinctures and dangerous drugs

### Basement

* Mainroom that can only be opened from the outside, leads to several other doors; opening and entering one will quickly send one down into a tiny coffin-like room in which the victim will suffocate; once Doyle is certain the victim inside is dead the floor can be opened to drag the corpse into the dissection room
* Very large dissection room, often used by Resurrection men and medical studens; spreads the stink of rot across the entire basement; contrains alot of corpses of humans and animals aswell as Doyles tools
* Connected to the disscetion room are several cool storages in which he tests ways to preserve flesh through gases or other procedures; several meathooks attached to the ceiling
* Large storage connected to all rooms that contains more dangerous chemical substances and a secret passage outside where packed "goods" of the Resurrection Men are prepared for sale
* Large crematorium to dispose of corpses and trash
* Escape tunnel that leads to a friends apartment in an adjacent block

### Other

* The Spirit of *Eva Fitzroy,* a young lady Doyle murdered, has turned into a Spectre through her cruel death and the defilement of her remains. Her powers over the citadel are slowly growing, however she is only in the Second State of Spectredom, being able to watch her killer but not act against him.

## Howard Doyle

### Appereance

* Thin man with a relativly tall, upright posture
* Black hair, a slight boldness on the top of his head
* Black british mustache
* Soft blue eyes
* Feminine linemants with wide cheeks
* Dresses in typical gentleman with a black suit and top hat

### Backstory

* Suffered traumatic childhood from humble means
* Alcoholic father with extremly violent tendencies
* Pious christian mother that was unaccepting of other "sinful" women and was overly protective of her son
* Managed to study medicine and anatomy
* As a doctor he was often payed by gangs or vengeful relatives to let operations "fail"
* Got rich exploiting insurance claims/gathering them for families but never paying them out
* He was a founding member of the Resurrection Men through his medical contacts, partially supplying them with dead from his "murder citadel"
* Had contact with the supernatural and the Afflicted he supplies although he is mostly oblivious to their existence/true role in the world
* Studies necromancy through his contacts with the university, although in a very esoteric and inefficent fashion

### Personality

* Haunted by childhood memories/trauma; suffers an obsessive-compulsive disorder
* Christian, believes to be guided by the devil
* Morbid fascination of the dead, to the extend of necrophilia
* Seeks necromantic knowledge, believes it to be an infernal art and sees Afflicted as Demons
* Developed an overly sophisticated way of talking so that people of lesser education deem him intelligent

### Other

* Usually he young married women (often travelers) into his citadel to spend the night there; allured by his gentleman esthetic and natural charm
* He drugs his visitors and locks all rooms but those leading into the basement when they leave their bedroom to seek water or a toilet
* Kills his victims and sells their bodyparts