The north-western corridor from FEB 2 leads to this area. This hexagonal room is 10 yards from one end to its opposite. The area is not lit (-7 Darkness penalty).
This area has smooth grey walls, floor and ceiling. The middle of the room is dominated by a metal cage that reaches up to the ceiling, leaving only 2 yards of distance from its sides to the walls of the area. The cage has multiple (6) internal sections (10 or 11 yards each), each gated off from each other with metal bar doors. There are two metal bar doors into the cage’s insides from outside. Each such cage door is locked (-1 Lockpicking modifier) and made of metal bars (DR 9, HP 18).
Within the big cage, there are Nx3 Giant Rats kept captive and fed with food pellets delivered via metal tubes coming down from the ceiling that dispense the food at regular intervals every day. There are 10 metal bowls on the floor of the cage, too, each filled with clean drinking water at regular intervals by metal tubes from above as well. The Giant Rats sleep on prepared miniature cloth beds in the cage. The Giant Rats can easily squeeze through the bars of the cage (except for the bars of the outer walls, which are too narrow), allowing the monsters to close in and retreat to safety while fighting the party.
In the middle of the cage’s insides, there is a torc (a solid crescent-shaped piece of jewelry that fits around the neck) made of pure silver and fitted with a red garnet gem in its center (worth $1000, 0.75 lbs.).
On the western wall of the area, there’s an unlocked standard door and a corridor (1 yard wide, 10 yards long) leading west to another room.
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