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THE BUNKER

⏵ THE BUNKER ⏴
An unassuming but rather large building easily mistaken for a rundown warehouse sits far enough from the city center it takes a bit of effort to get to. Its entrance is rather small and nondescript, almost below ground level, only accessible by a special key. The front door opens onto a metal catwalk with a staircase down to the main level. The main level itself is decorated in Art Deco style with wall sconces and metalwork decorations. The frieze around the walls contains hidden symbols, sigils, and Devil's traps. At every doorway, there is a symbol which would be the next line of defense if a demon breaks in. A war room one greets guests at the bottom of the stairs, and deeper inside is a library. Further in there are several rooms meant as sleeping quarters. The complex also houses a shooting range, complete with three targets and a dungeon for holding demons hidden in one of its archive rooms.

⏵ MAIN LEVEL ⏴


The bunker consists of several levels. The front door opens onto a metal catwalk with a staircase down to the main level. The main level is decorated in Art Deco style with wall sconces and metalwork decorations. The frieze around the walls contains hidden symbols, sigils, and Devil's traps. At every doorway, there is a symbol which would be the next line of defense if a demon breaks in.

⏵ THE WAR ROOM ⏴




Upon descending the metal staircase, one enters a war room with ham radio, telegraph, switchboard, map table, and other electronic devices including a Commodore 64. According to Charlie, it has encryption software and appeared to be powered by something magical. Charlie said that the whole system acts like an alarm in cases of global catastrophe, such as angels being cast out of Heaven, as Kevin Tran has witnessed. Charlie added that during circumstances like those, the system shuts down the bunker.


⏵ THE LIBRARY ⏴



The library walls are covered with bookcases and filing cabinets containing many files collected over centuries. The books and files contain accounts of every exorcism conducted over three hundred years, case files, incident reports, and information on the many hunters the Men of Letters worked with. At the end was a an alcove housing a large telescope, described by Mrs. Butters as an interdimensional geoscope.




The Bunker can be sent into a lockdown that cuts off all power and water inside, locks the doors beyond any ability to open and stops the airflow into the Bunker. This type of lockdown will kill three people trapped inside in two to three days and with the addition of a mystical dampener, even magic can't reverse it. The only way to end this kind of lockdown is to hit the manual override located outside the Bunker.


⏵ THE BASEMENT/DUNGEON ⏴

The complex also housed a shooting range, complete with three targets, and a dungeon for holding demons hidden in one of its archive rooms. The dungeon included a Devil's trap as well as cuffs and chains that were engraved in spellwork. There was also a very large kitchen, and what seemed to be an infirmary.


⏵ THE GARAGE⏴

The bunker included a garage that housed a number of vehicles, like cars and Dorothy's motorcycle. Most vehicles were classics due to the Order's foundation in earlier decades.


⏵ THE DEAN CAVE⏴

The Dean Cave (or Fortress of Dean-a-tude) is an area of the Men of Letters Bunker which Dean has turned into a recreational room for himself and Sam. The room's layout includes a Foosball table, a jukebox that only plays vinyl, a bookshelf of vinyl records and cassette tapes, double La-Z-Boy recliners, and a bar (still a work in progress) which consists of two cinder blocks and a bit of wood on top of an alcohol-filled credenza. The walls are decorated with AC/DC and Led Zeppelin posters, as well as a framed vinyl record of Kansas' Point of Know Return album, an Impala poster, and neon beer signs and beer posters, with four kegs hanging from the ceiling.