Red Estate

Intro
''...a short distance outside the castle Drexler indicates a stone circle on the edge of the gravel road. Beside the circle, a wide cobbled lane leads up to two-story stone building with a decidedly Victorian feel. A chest high wooden fence, painted white, lines both sides of the lane all the way to the house and the side of the road. On the other side of the road, an eight-foot tall chain-link fence topped in barbed wire separates the road from a thick woods.''

''As the party watches, an ocelot pounces at a bird on a high branch. The bird flies away and is electrocuted in a shower of sparks as it hits an invisible wall fifty feet above the chain-link. Its corpse falls back onto the ground just inside the fence, where the ocelot retrieves it and carries it into the woods. ''

''"Welcome to Haverdeen and the Red Estate, the only hotel outside Haverdeen Castle," Drexler says with a sweep of his arm toward the white-fenced stone manor house on the opposite side of the road from the electric fence. "Shall we introduce ourselves?" ''

Overview
While Lady Red has never given her hotel a name (other than "my hotel"), it is the only hotel in Haverdeen and is located just outside Haverdeen Castle, so is generally known either as the Red Estate or the Haverdeen Hotel.

From the outside, the hotel appears to be a white stone two-story Victorian manor house with a white wooden porch running the full width of the building. The roof is brick-red slate. When guests are present the Victorian theme continues inside the building. Although the interior of the hotel is subject to change with rooms added and removed regularly, the size of the hotel inside is generally larger than the outside.

Staff
In true Haverdeen custom, Lady Red refers to her staff as friends, only calling them staff or servants when exceptionally agitated. In June 2063 she lost the bulk of her servants to a quartet of lava gnomes exiled by their tribe and is still attempting to replace those killed and locate those that ran away.

Guards
Lady Red has sublet her front lawn to a tribe of lava gnomes and tasked them with keeping the front lawn free of trespassers and maintaining the fire grass that grows on top of their home. The lava gnomes are not allowed on the entrance path to the hotel but can freely travel under it.

Powers
The entire Red Estate (from wooden furniture, draperies and paintings to even the grass) is fireproof.

See also: Lady Red