{"name":"The Serpants headquarters","item_type":"Adventuring Gear","rarity":"Varies","price":"","weight":"","properties":"","description":"[h2][u]1st Floor:[\/u][\/h2]\r\nPurpose: A cover operation, appearing as an ordinary, run-down business.\r\nMain Room: A poorly lit area with worn furniture and a perpetually damp atmosphere.\r\nA bar or counter manned by a low-ranking operative pretending to be the owner.\r\nA small group of regulars (other Veil Serpent members or paid actors) loiter around.\r\nStorage Closet: A mundane-looking storage space with cleaning supplies. Conceals a secret door to the basement.\r\nTrapdoor: Located in a backroom, leading down to the basement. Well-hidden under a rug or crates.\r\nSecurity Measures:\r\nTwo guards posing as drunken patrons monitor the main room.\r\nA poison needle trap.\r\n\r\n[h2][u]2nd Floor:[\/u][\/h2]\r\nPurpose: Where mid-level members handle daily operations and logistics for the organization.\r\nOperations Room:\r\nA central table strewn with maps, schedules, and coded messages.\r\nA wall with a large map of the city showing key smuggling routes and rival gang territories.\r\nStorage Rooms:\r\nOne filled with mundane supplies like tools, disguises, and basic weapons.\r\nAnother holding records of low-priority transactions and minor smuggling deals.\r\nSleeping Quarters: Shared bunks for mid-level operatives.\r\nEach bunk has a small footlocker with personal items and a few silver pieces.\r\nSecurity Measures:\r\nA trapped chest containing false documents\u2014opening it releases a cloud of sleeping gas.\r\nGuards patrol the floor, including two stationed at the stairs.\r\n\r\n[u][h2]3rd Floor:[\/h2]\r\n[\/u]\r\nPurpose: The personal living and working space of the Veil Serpent.\r\nKarnis\u2019s Office:\r\nA large wooden desk piled with documents, some coded and others listing debts and blackmail targets.\r\nA hidden safe built into the wall containing:\r\n40gp, 120sp, 280cp, and the Veil Ledger.\r\nSecurity Measures:\r\nA magical alarm alerts Karnis if someone tampers with his desk or safe.\r\n\r\n[u][h2]Basement:[\/h2]\r\n[\/u]\r\nPurpose: The hidden and secure nerve center of the Veil Serpents' operations.\r\nContraband Vault:\r\nCrates and barrels of stolen goods (exotic spices, fine fabrics).\r\nA locked iron chest containing the following loot:\r\nA Bag filled with stolen goods.\r\n5 gp worth of gems.\r\nPrison Cells:\r\nTwo reinforced iron-barred cells used to hold hostages or disobedient gang members.\r\nOne cell currently contains a captured city guard who knows about the operation.\r\nSmuggling Tunnels:\r\nA narrow tunnel leading out to the nearby sewer system.\r\nUsed to discreetly transport goods or as an escape route during raids.\r\nSecurity Measures:\r\nTwo elite guards stationed at the vault.\r\nThe escape tunnel is rigged with a collapsing trap.","armor_class":"","strength_requirement":"","weapon_subtype":"None","weapon_damage":"","weapon_secondary_damage":"","weapon_damage_type":"None","weapon_range":"","attunement":"","source":"","image_gallery_id":"","tags":"","isShared":"on","templateId":"2999","blockId":"1496015","world":"62c01055-1dfd-47f6-9aa7-8043ccfca771","folder":"33768"}