One Million Room Mega-Dungeon – 003

The well, previously noted, is located in the exact center of the site and immediately to the southwest of the well is the main staircase that goes down into the first level of the dungeon. The total distance from the surface of the cap to the base of the stairway is about 40 feet. The stair way has treads about 20 feet in width leading downward and the stairway is composed of granite and marble. At the base of the stair way is a large room (L-001, R-00001) that is 50 wide and 80 feet long. This room was partially filled with debris with was cleaned out by the PCs. There were various stands and benches in the room as well as a fountain. Nothing of any real value is present in the room and there are eight door ways leading out of it, two in each of the four directions, equally spaced along the walls. The marble floor, walls and ceilings are covered in designed formed by inlaid stones depicting scenes from battles and other momentous occasions. All of the doorways had very heavy oaken doors with steel reinforcing and were found in an unlocked condition but were very difficult to open. All of the doors opened into the stairway room.

Perhaps I should clarify, there are about 40 stairways from the 1st level running up to the surface, these are covered by the cap that was installed long after the dungeon was built and the original builders were gone, the dungeon was used for thousands of years before the cap was installed and someone, as noted above, knows how to breach the cap and restore it. There are other openings that lead from the dungeon out to the outside world on the sides of the hill, those are currently undiscovered, well hidden on the outside and sealed. I am presenting this dungeon as it was for the first few months after the players arrived.

So what I am going to do is present the dungeon as it was in a certain period of time and occasionally give you glimpses of what happened later in one reality. One of those snippets is to let you know that about 3 months in all of the stairways were revealed and open and that caused the players some problems and anxious moments.