11. Office of the Warden

This large room, though spartan, is the first of the prison chambers to have any measure of comfort and grandeur whatsoever. The floor is stone, but consists of slabs of pink and black quartz instead of the gray fieldstone used throughout the prison.

The Warden, Kaltek Werm, is within the office (25%) or the apartment (25%) half the time, and gone on some errand or dalliance the rest of the time.

A huge brown bearskin, once the pride of some monstrous cave bear, now spreads across the floor within the doorway. Its glass eyes and gleaming array of teeth, locked in a permanent snarl, greet all who enter.

Both the desk and the table in the room are huge, with surfaces of gleaming black wood. The chairs in the room are practical, bare wood, but nonetheless shine with the quality of their workmanship.

The desk contains a drawer with writing equipment, a large leather-bound roster of the prisoners, and a bottle of gin with three glasses. Careful examination (find secret doors roll) might reveal the secret compartment behind it.

It is locked and protected with a poison needle trap. The warden has the only key. Additionally , the desk is so solid that it can only be broken with a successful bend bars roll (though a successful roll will alert everyone in rooms 7, 8, 12, 13, 14, and 15).

If the drawer is opened, a searcher will discover 11 platinum plates, a large bloodstone worth 120 gp, and a ring of invisibility.

Kaltek Werm, Warden of the Citadel Prison: AC 3; MV 12; F9; hp 73; THAC0 12; #AT 3/2; Dmg 1d10 +6 (two-handed sword + 3 and Str 18/55)

Kaltek Werm is a handsome, well dressed man who might be dismissed as a dandy, except for a certain hardness in his eyes.

An accomplished huntsman, Kaltek Werm views his job as a troublesome detail that interferes with his true life's pursuit of outdoor sports and gambling at one of the nicer establishments in the High Quarter.

He enjoys wooing the young ladies he meets, and he maintains a discreet apartment in the Garden Quarter for his frequent rendezvous. He never brings women to his apartment in the prison.

His high standard of living is a product of opportunism, for he profits handsomely whenever a bribe is transacted within the prison walls. This includes such bribes as are levied to allow certain prisoners-those with well-heeled friends-to escape.