Editing Beneath Castle Everglory: LEVEL 5: The Palace (section)

=2.  Theater=
This 10 yard by 20 yard room seems to be a theater.  Rows of engraved pinewood seats, padded with moldy red velvet, are arranged before a raised stage, hung with moldy velvet curtains of red and blue.  Spider-webs hang from curtain to stage, wall to wall, making it impossible to mount the stage without either walking through them or making a hole in them.  There is a large and throne-like wooden chair on the stage, gaudily painted to look like engraved ivory set with bright jewels.  The heavily molded backdrop curtain shows a palatial sunlit courtyard, complete with fountains and flowering trees.  On a successful Perception roll or upon a careful examination, it will be seen that the extensive mold on the upper right corner of the painting obscures a small group of human figures standing in the far corner of the courtyard and gesturing in the direction of the stage.  Unfortunately, the damage is so extensive that little more remains than vague human outlines.  Similarly, a successful Perception roll or careful examination will reveal that the mold on the bottom right of the backdrop hides a small painted plant, growing from a crack in the otherwise perfect paving.  The plant resembles a miniature black tree, with a tiny human skull at the end of every branch.

There is a small bare 2 yard by 2 yard room leading off the stage to the left.  Piles of costumes are stacked in the corner, including clothing appropriate for nobility, clergy, peasantry and soldiers.  A variety of painted wooden weapons hang from pegs on the wall and there are simple shelves containing rotted makeup, cobwebbed wings and funny rubber noses.  Standing in one corner is a dusty marble statue of a robed old man, bald at the crown but with long hair at the sides and back and a long beard.  The old man’s face is grave and he is pointing directly forwards, but someone has wrapped a pink feather boa around his raised arm.  If the PCs follow the pointing of his finger, they will find that it points at the rubber noses (irrelevantly).