Returning to my #Southlands sandbox, The North Watch, with a #micromap considering the Eastern Approach.
In the High Ranges of the MBazha Mountains, west of the Lion
Road, are a small number of communities of Dwarves. They fled west from the collapse
of Haldaheim rather than south to Sebbek Sobor. Settling into the natural
caverns and abandoned ancient delvings, they founded what they call the
Ironmongery, the mining and refining of iron and steel being the Dwarves' stock in
trade.
Being a young and small community, the Dwarves are very
protective of their holdings. A trail leads east from the Ironmongery to meet
the Lion Road south of the ruins of Old North Watch. Where the Dwarves deem
their eastern border to be, about two days’ travel west of the Watch, they have
built a pair of forts on each side of the road, featuring battlements and an
overlooking tower. Two pairs of tall slotted pillars mark the ends of a
rather cunning trap. When triggered, counter-weights cause heavy steel doors to
spring out of the ground, sliding up the slots in the pillars and blocking a 30
foot long section of the road.
Then, if the Dwarves are so inclined, the contents of two
hidden cisterns can be discharged to fill the space between each gate to the 20
foot height of the doors. One cistern is full of water, the other of oil. The
water can be poisoned or the oil set on fire depending on the target(s) within
the trap.
