the black keep makes no sense

[wordelo]

between areas C3, C7, C12, and C16 there are stairs leading up if the outside picture is to be believed. so area C7 is higher than C3. C3 has a door that leads to C6, which has a door that leads to C8, which has a door that leads back to C7. are areas C6 and C8 slanted to be on level with area C7?

looking at it harder it is not as bad as I thought. area C4 and C5 are on the ground not connected to C7. C9/C10 is on level with C7 as no other doors lead to any area lower or higher. C13, 14, 15 are on level with C12 for the same reasons.

All this would go away if we just deleted that door between C6 and C8... aaaaand it's gone.

[tbug]

I had trouble lining up the windows on the exterior picture with the map. This only matters because my PCs were considering entering via flight rather than the front door. (They ended up going through the sally port though, so it worked out.)

[Klokk]

I just used the windows as illusions, the castle is alive after all.. if it can shift rooms around, it can certainly shift about walls to appear to be windows or let them into look out into fantastic views of the various planes, and cities where the riders been from the inside.

[wordelo]

LOL I saw that. I edited the photo to make the window disappear.

[King of Vrock]

I think the spiral stairs on the map are not what the writer was envisioning and were added by the cartographer as say a metal spiral staircase (opposite mistake as the Hanging Manse stairs to Berkanin's lab from the bedroom which should have been a spiral) rather than stone stairs built against the wall of the tower ascending counter clockwise. If they start at the South end and climb Eastward they would line up to the door to C8 correctly.

--Vrocky Mountain High

[William Sinclair]

Glad to see I wasn't the only one having issues with the map. I'm going with "the keep is alive and can shift as it wants" path of thought. I'm also going with each change of level is 10 ft in height, even though this would mean some serious steep stairs inside. Meh. It's a demi-plane and magic! Works for me.