The Gentleman's Safe House

The Safe House and Storage Facility was located somewhere in the Labenda Swamp. The Gentleman used this facility for hiding and storing assets.

Exterior
The safe house was located in an open clearing, with thick patches of vines and roots that descend into a circular space that was awash with waist high swamp water and general bog rot that was floating over the surface, like a moat had formed naturally around this gargantuan banyan tree about 30 or 40 feet across from side to side. The roots rise up, and merge at different places where the tree itself began to expand about ten feet up before it reaches out and curves and carves into the earth before disappearing beneath the water, the still, awful swamp water that surrounds it.

Below the water there were thick sediment, muck, a few bones of some wayward creature that long has been left to rot. with nothing living in there aside from toads, tadpoles, other small slithering natural creatures that called the swamp home.

Ten feet up around one of the branches was a band of old, starched, weathered teal bandana tied, that has been weathered and dirtied from just being there for a long time. There was a four-foot carved hollow covered by piece of weathered driftwood leading into the tree.

Interior
Inside of the tree was a chamber about 30 feet wide and 12 feet tall with hanging roots that were dangling from the top. It looked like it was been carved away. It has a fairly well-cleared interior that smelled of marsh water and lamp oil. There were two hooks on the wall that have been jammed in that carried the top part of an oil lantern that had been shattered against the wall. The glass itself was broken. The metal was bent and there was some soaked lamp oil that had fallen from impacts that had hit the ground on the wall nearby and was offering that additional smell to the room. The floor was soggy with moss and bits of sand and gravel as well as the occasional heavy root that breaks through the surface of that soft floor. There were some pieces of broken wood slats, besides that, the chamber was empty.

There were scattered splashes of blood across areas of the walls inside. They were dried, but dried enough to the point where they weren't gone completely black and disintegrated. There were certain gashes against it looked like there was definitely a fight and scuffle. The soft ground here had signs of turbulent movement as well as a number of smeared grooves in the ground that snake and spiral about.

In the far north corner of the chamber where some of the roots have gathered and come down, there's one space where you don't see the wall of the tree behind it. There is a hole about two and a half feet wide that descends below the tree into a Subterranean Tunnel. There was a little bit of that damp water and moisture that seeped into the chamber from the hole by just being near the swamp. It wasn't a thick layer of water, maybe half an inch or so in the actual portions of the chamber and some of it was heading down the hole.