Family Treasure

 Before you is a dimly lit 50 foot corridor. It is filled with stale air and old but up-kept portraits that hang on either wall spaced out evenly. All the men in these photographs seem vaguely similar to one another, but they are clearly distinct people. The portraits' frames are glowing slightly (causing the light in the room) almost as if to allow viewers to properly enjoy their content. Below each photograph is a indent in the wall housing a stone coffin. When you reach to end of the hall you find yourself in a dark circular room with the sound of rustling water.  The center of the room has six pillars forming a hexagon in which the two middle pillars have unlit torches hanging from them.

Upon lighting the torches the players will notice a small man made stream that connects with all the pillars forming a circular formation in the floor. On the opposite side of the room (from the hallway) there is a raised stone slab and from either side of the slab there is water exiting the wall, feeding the stream. This water flows on either side of the slab and connects with the stream. The stream is carved into the stone floor. It is two inches deep and two inches wide.

 This room is a underground family crypt that can easily be added to the basement of any rich family's home or can be inserted into an ancient tomb or where ever you so fit really. I had this room connected to a large house via secret passage in my campaign.


resting on the stone slab of the circular room will be the family treasure available for your players. In my case I had them solve a puzzle to obtain it.

I will have the puzzle in the next post!