The Gentleman's safe house

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

Exterior
The safe house was located in a banyan tree in an open clearing. Thick patches of vines and roots descended into a circular space that was awash with waist high swamp water and general bog rot floating over the surface for about a 30 to 40 foot radius. The roots rose up and merged at different places where the tree itself began to expand about ten feet up.

Below the water was thick sediment, muck, and the bones of wayward creatures that had been left to rot. Toads, tadpoles, and other small slithering natural creatures lived in the area.

Someone had tied an old, weathered teal bandanna ten feet up around one of the branches. There was a four-foot carved hollow covered by piece of weathered driftwood leading into the tree.

Interior
Inside of the tree was a carved chamber about 30 feet wide and 12 feet tall with roots dangling from the top. It was well-cleared and smelled of marsh water and lamp oil. There were two hooks jammed into the wall that carried the top part of an oil lantern that had been shattered against the wall. 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.