Hookerhill Keep Fortress
This place has many tiers and is solidly built to withstand attack. The lowest level consists of a 15’ high front section. The round flanking towers are 60’ high, while the main building is 30’ high. All sections have battlements. The door is solid iron, In-side are a great hall, an armory for the cavalry, and several side chambers for small dinners or meetings. The cellars below have vast stores of provisions, quarters for a score of servants, a cistern, and a dungeon area with four stout cells.
The Castellan’ lives in area 27., but he and his assistants will be in the lower part of the building during the day, tending to business and holding audience. There will always be eight guardsmen in plate with crossbows and swords on duty on the wall, and the same number with plate & shield and swords stationed inside. The whole place is well decorated, and the furniture is heavy and upholstered.
Second Floor: There are rooms here for up to 36 cavalrymen, plus two chambers for special guests. There are 12 heavy cavalrymen with plate &shield and sword and dagger. There are also 18 medium cavalrymen in chain, each with crossbow and axe, quartered here. Their rooms are sparsely furnished with only a cot, chair, and armoire* for each. Two couriers, men-at-arms with leather armor and swords, are currently quartered in one side chamber.
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