Hommlet Keep
This fortress is the home of Burne, a wizard, and Rufus, a fighter, as well as Rufus' wife Camilla. Both Burne and Rufus are well respected and powerful adventurers who settled down in this area about fifteen years ago and decided to make it their home. Burne and Rufus don’t get involved in adventures anymore. PCs who come to their door asking for help—or worse, demanding it—are sent to Elmo and the town militia (forcibly, if necessary).
In general, Rufus is forthright but a little crass at times. Burne is a careful thinker and a long-term planner who is sometimes quick to anger. Neither suffers fools.
These two essentially run the town. When the old village elder passed away, leadership unofficially passed to them by default. They rule very casually—without asking about the keep, a visitor could stay for days in town without knowing that they exist.
Architecture
Wall and Towers
The curtain walls are 15 feet high and 5 feet thick. The tower walls are 3 feet thick. The towers have two levels and are 20 feet high. They are fitted with arrow slits that provide nine-tenths cover.Gatehouse
This barbican is built like a tower but is much larger. The gates themselves are made of strong wood; one set sits at either end of a passage through the barbican, filled with arrow slits and murder holes that give the defenders ninetenths cover. In the middle of this passage, the defenders can drop a wooden portcullis.Main Tower
This is the oldest structure in the keep, built long before the rest. Once the home of Rufus and Burne, this now houses Burne’s Badgers. It has three main levels, a parapet with two light catapults, and a top turret with two ballistae. These engines of war are well placed, being situated atop the highest point in the keep—and for miles around, for that matter. A cellar beneath the tower contains a secret cave with a natural spring, which provides the entire keep with water.Inner Keep
An inner wall identical to the curtain wall surrounds this main structure. It has towers with a single gate (same as those in the barbican), creating an inner bailey surrounding a keep, called the donjon. The donjon has four levels with a grand hall, a feast hall, a huge kitchen, many storerooms, an apartment for Rufus and Burne, a vast library, and guest chambers.
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