Green Parlor
RoomDCC 103 · p.15
Open source p.15Area 2-9 – Green Parlor
This broad, crescent-shaped balcony with a stone balustrade overlooks the conservatory. Above, you can see a reinforced iron framework supporting a domed lattice containing glass panels.
This balcony was used for entertaining in the manor’s heyday. There are comfortable chairs and low tables staged near the wrought iron railing. The door leads into the burned part of the manor, a scorched gallery with a collapsed floor. Investigating the northern reach of the parlor reveals a wooden hatch in the floor (ladder to area 2-3).
AREA 3: THE CELLAR
When the PCs enter the cellar area, it becomes clear that this manor is built on much more ancient foundations. Frescoes and mosaics depict a nine-armed goddess and her worshipers. The scenes celebrate the cycle of life—birth, growth, death, decay, and rebirth—with illustrations of fecund fields of ripened corn, raucous festivals, ritual sacrifices, etc.
Areas 3-1, 3-2, and 3-3 show no signs of the trans-dimensional incursion of the Demon Seed, because of the goddess’s residual powers imbued in the foundations of this ancient temple. Area 3-4, however, was built later, and is not thus protected. Zatharides likely depended on Narafaltha’s weakened influence to contain the Demon Seed’s power until their pact could be completed.