Menrina’s Library & The Salty Tavern (Patreon)

The Salty Tavern isn’t especially notable – yet another place where you can sit down with some company for a drink and some food – there’s even a private dinning room for larger parties who want a little privacy. But in the basement there are a pair of secret doors. One leads down some rubble to the collapsed remains of Menrina’s Library, the other into a 15 x 10 foot room dominated by an inlaid silver circle…

If you look over the map, there are a total of five similar small chambers, each with the circular inlay. If a sapient creature stands within the circle and closes their eyes, they are transported to one of the other circles (roll 1d4 for which).

Menrina’s Library was a massive multistory structure in the old city and was supposedly cast down by the gods for daring to try to document their languages, homes, and foibles. The Library contained small shrines, a few temples, and massive library stacks and shelves. All that remains of the library proper now is the front entrance and a few wings from it. Of immediate note is the 20×30 “pool” just past the shattered entrance doors. This was the book burning pit – an essential part of maintaining a library when people keep showing up with dark grimoires and books of forbidden and dangerous lore. Under the ashes a single book remains – made of iron pages (now heavily rusted) with a demon-hide cover, it survived the last book burning here and was likely responsible for the earthquake that took down the whole structure. The dark energies of this tome taint the ruins to this day.

Rats have dug small passages through the ruins and debris, and a new wererat librarian has moved in, obsessed with the ancient lore buried here. But a wererat is quite open to further corruption, and the librarian has been twisted by the presence of the demonic tome… and of course knows how to use the teleporters.

The 1200 dpi versions of the map were drawn at a scale of 300 pixels per square and are 10,800 x 12,000 pixels (36 x 40 squares). To use this with a VTT you would need to resize the squares to either 70 pixels (for 5′ squares) or 140 pixels (for the recommended 10‘ squares that make sense with the design) – so resizing the image to 2,520 x 2,800 pixels or 5,040 x 5,600 pixels, respectively.

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