Jörðgarð Map of the Week #73 - Šarlota's House of Healing

MarkOliva

First of all, apologies to everyone for being a week late. For those who didn't see my message last week: Our Internet connection is via UHF LTE transmission. The LTE station that serves us has serious problems last week that prevented our uploading anything of any size. Everything was supposed to be working on Thursday, but when I left for the weekend on Friday noon, all still was down. Things appear to be working just fine again today.

With the 73rd Map of the Week we continue in the borderlands town of Óðinn's House in the Kingdom of Slovania. This week we take a look at Šarlota's House of Healing, the largest house of non-magical and non-clerical healing in Slovania. Its success is due largely to the number of adventures who go into the ruins of the Æsir Empire to the north and then return with serious injuries. However, adventurers with empty pockets need not go to Šarlota's; hers is a commercial adventure. Treatment is on the basis of cash only. The sizeable complex is a primitive version of a modern physician's practice with clinic and apothecary.

The building consists of a cellar, a ground floor and two upper stories. The cellar is a storage area. The ground floor houses rooms where the healers meet with patients who are not seriously ill or injured, the apothecary and a dining room and kitchen that serve both the staff and ambulatory patients making a convalescent stay in the house. The second story houses patients who need intensive care. The third story houses ambulatory convalescing patients.

Cellar

The cellar is not usually illuminated. There is a hand torch in a sconce on the wall that can be lit and carried.

1. Stairs to the Ground Floor.

2. Well Shafts.

3. Chimney Bases. The chimneys can be cleaned here.

Ground Floor

The cellar is not usually illuminated. There is a hand torch in a sconce on the wall that can be lit and carried.

4. Entrance. The door to the left, leading to the stairway and dining area, always is locked. To gain entrance, one must go to the reception (Area 10).

5. Stairway to the Inpatient Stations.

6. Dining Area. Both staff members and ambulatory inpatients dine here. There also is a lounge area that ambulatory inpatients may use.

7. Kitchen.

8. Stairway to the Cellar.

9. Patient Waiting Room.

10. Reception. The laborer Kazimir works this area and area Nr. 11.

11. Vendula's Room. The healer Vendula receives and treats ambulatory patients here.

12. Šarlota's Room. The healer Šarlota receives and treats ambulatory patients here.

13. Emergency Room. Non-ambulatory patients who are seriously ill or injured are given immediate treatment here by the healer Leoš. After receiving initial treatment, they can be placed upon the bed in the small, enclosed room. This bed is a lift, which brings the bedded patient into intensive care on the second story. A hand crank and pulley system raises and lowers the bed lift.

14. Valentýn's Apothecary Shop. Customers can buy a wide variety of herbal remedies and medicines here. The herbalists Valentýn, Bruno and Evženie all take turns waiting upon customers.

15. Apothecary Laboratory. Under Valentýn's supervision, he, Bruno and Evženie make herbal medicines and remedies in the laboratory.

16. Stairway to the Cellar. Many of the herbal ingredients and potions that are used to make medicines are stored in the cellar.

Second Story – Intensive Care

17. Stairway from the Ground Floor.

18. Lift Bed (see the ground floor description).

19. Gurney. This primitive gurney with a wooden bed and wooden wheels is used to transport patients from the lift to their beds.

20. Healers' Work Area. Šarlota, Vendula and Leoš all work in this area.

21. Stairs to the Third Story.
22. Corridor.

23. Chimneys.

24. Intensive Care Stations. The seriously ill have beds, night tables and chairs for visitors. Their belongings are kept in the brown wardrobes. Small wood-burning stoves are used to keep herbal potions and medicines warm


Third Story – Convalescent Care

Patients who are ambulatory but still to ill or injured to be released stay on this floor.

25. Stairway from the Second Story.

26. Healers' Work Area. The healers Šarlota, Vendula and Leoš all work in this area.

27. Convalescent Care Stations. Patients have beds, night tables and chairs and tables for visits. Their belongings are kept in the light brown chests of drawers and foot lockers. Small wood-burning stoves are used to keep herbal potions and medicines warm

The graphics above are reduced in size. You can get the full-sized maps in two versions:

1. The Fractal Mapper (TM) 8 map in FMP format, fully editable, from our Jörðgarð web page (18.3 MB).

2. Four JPG flat maps of 1360 Pixels x 1350 Pixels each (3.3 MB total), available from the NBOS website at:

http://www.nbos.com/nox/download.php?id=453

Both versions are released for personal and commercial use under the Open Game License Version 1.0a, which you can read on the Jörðgarð web site.

The Jörðgarð web site:

http://www.vintyri.org/joerdhgardh/joerdhgardh.htm

Next: The Vintyri Project will be on vacation for the rest of the month. We'll be back on September 3 with Óðinn's House – Skáldar Meet Tavern