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The sahuagin have renovated the fortress to conform DECORATIVE TILES
with their plans. The two lower levels of the fortress The walls and floors of rooms occupied by sahuagin of
have been completed. with work on the uppermost level higher rank are tiled in various colors (see the individual
still in process. A further lowering of the seabed and a room descriptions). The tiles are made from polished
final internal reorganization will complete the prepara- stone and colored with plant dyes and octopus ink.
tions. Twenty or thirty days after the adventure takes
place, the sahuagin plan to mount their first offensive- CORRIDORS AND ROOMS
and Saltmarsh is indeed their target. All corridors are 10 feet wide and 15 feet high. All the
If the characters enter the fortress through area 1 rooms arc 20 feet high except for areas 37, 41, and 42
(and if they deal with the guards in areas 1 and 2 with- (30 feet high), area 53 (about 60 feet high), and area 60
out drawing attention), they find most of the upper level (45 feet high in the cave proper. 30 feet high over the
empty and bare. Construction is still going on in area area at the lop of the steps). All walls separating adja-
19. and the noise of that work echoes through some of cent areas are 3 feet thick. Unless otherwise noted, con-
the level. Anywhere between area 19 and the points struction consists of plain dressed stone.
marked with at symbol in the corridors on the map, the
DOORS
characters can hear faint chinking, banging, and tapping
All doors are 4-inch-thick double doors made of dressed
noises if they stop to listen, and these noises become
stone, 5 feet wide and 10 feet tall. Except where oth-
progressively louder as the listeners approach area 19.
erwise noted, each door has a handle consisting of a
The other two levels of the fortress are underwater. To
horizontal bronze bar set into the stone on each side of
achieve their objectives, the adventurers must use magi-
the door, about 4 feet above the floor. All doors open into
cal means to navigate these areas.
the areas they border on metal casters that move along
GENERAL FEATURES grooves cut into the stone floor.
The work carried out by the sahuagin and their slaves GATES AND PILLARS
on the fortress interior shows expert craftsmanship. All gates consist of bronze construction and are 10
The rock is clean and dressed; all surfaces are smooth, feet wide by 10 feet high, except for the gate in the cave
all corners are near-perfect right angles, and all floors mouth of area 60, which is 20 feet wide by 20 feet high.
are level (except in the cave portion of cave 60, which All pillars are made of smooth dressed stone, 3 feet in
has been left natural. and parts of area 19). The upper- diameter. supporting the roof above. All archways are 10
most dry level has an eerie. clinical air. feet wide and 1 0 feet high.

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