40. Duke's Bedroom

This room is obviously a bedroom. It is simply furnished and neat, but the furnishings are all of very high quality. A large bed is centered on the north wall, with a large chest at the foot. An armoire stands in each of the western corners. A washstand occupies the southeast corner. The room is illuminated by two fancy lanterns hanging from hooks in the ceiling, one over the bed and the other over the washstand. The armoires contain the Duke's clothing, with his fancier garb in the northwest armoire and everyday clothing in the northeast armoire. The chest contains additional bedclothes; it has a false bottom, detected as a secret door, under which is a shortsword +1 and a pouch containing 50 pp. The lanterns are illuminated by continual light spells. Secret Exit: On the east wall near the north end is a secret door 3 feet wide and 6 feet high, well hidden and thus hard to detect from either side. This thick door is secured with bars that retract when it is unlocked. Pressing a well-hidden two-inch square section of wall to the left of it will cause the locking bars to retract, and then the door will open easily. Thus, unless magic is used, or the door is broken down (a difficult and noisy proposition), this secret door requires two separate rolls before it can be opened: one to find the door, and another to discover the latch mechanism. The secret door that opens into the main hall is just as well hidden from the outside (eastern face), but there is an obvious switch on the