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location/cellar.md

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-# Cellar
+# Cellar (Upper Level)
 
 Beneath the Burnt Tongue, accessed through the trapdoor in the storage room. The air changes immediately — colder, damper, and carrying a faint metallic tang that doesn't come from the pipes.
 
+> **DM note — this is the *upper* cellar.** Everything the endgame needs is here: the thin point, Orenn's binding circle, and the ward-sigils. The [Reckoning](../storylines/the-reckoning.md) still plays out in this room, unchanged. But behind the barrel racks is a **[concealed door](#the-concealed-door)** down to the [Deep Cellar](deep-cellar.md) — the vast, hidden warren where Orenn and Mags kept the real secrets (their fortune, their prisoners, their laboratory, and a widening rift). The Deep Cellar is the module's exploration track and is entirely optional. Casual visitors to the cellar see only this room.
+
 ## Read-Aloud: Descending
 
 > *Žebřík skřípe pod vaší vahou. Vzduch je tu jiný — chladný a vlhký, s kovovou pachutí, jako by někdo olízl starou minci. Vaše nohy dopadnou na holou hlínu. Strop je nízký, sotva metr osmdesát, a stěny jsou nahý kámen — ne stavební, ale živá skála, do které byl sklep vytesán. Svíčky tu nejsou. Cokoliv chcete vidět, musíte si posvítit sami.*
@@ -12,22 +14,23 @@ The cellar is a single irregular space carved into bedrock, roughly 10 meters by
 
 ```
 ┌──────────────────────────────────┐
-│            CELLAR                │
-│                                  │
-│  [Barrel     ┌──────────┐       │
-│   Racks]     │Foundation│       │
-│              │  Stone   │       │
-│  [Old        │(ward-    │       │
-│   Crates]    │ sigils)  │       │
-│              └──────────┘       │
+│         CELLAR (UPPER)          │
 │                                  │
+│ ╔══════╗     ┌──────────┐       │
+│ ║Conceal║    │Foundation│       │
+│ ║ door →║    │  Stone   │       │
+│ ║(Deep  ║    │(ward-    │       │
+│ ║ Cellar║    │ sigils)  │       │
+│ ╚══════╝     └──────────┘       │
+│  [Barrel                         │
+│   Racks]                         │
+│  [Old        [Thin Point]        │
+│   Crates]                        │
 │  [Orenn's                        │
-│   Circle]    [Thin Point]        │
-│                                  │
-│         ┌────┐                   │
-│         │Trap│                   │
-│         │door│ (up to storage)   │
-│         └────┘                   │
+│   Circle]    ┌────┐              │
+│              │Trap│              │
+│              │door│ (up to       │
+│              └────┘  storage)    │
 └──────────────────────────────────┘
 ```
 
@@ -40,6 +43,18 @@ Wine and spirits too good for the upstairs crowd. A few barrels are marked with
 - A stoppered clay jug of **Alchemist's Fire** (3 flasks worth)
 - A bundle of **iron nails inscribed with tiny runes** (10 nails). Hammering one into a surface creates a minor ward — any fiend crossing within 5 feet of it takes 1d4 radiant damage and the nail glows white-hot for 1 round, alerting anyone nearby. Single use per nail.
 
+### The Concealed Door (Behind the Barrel Racks, North Wall)
+
+What looks like raw bedrock behind the barrel racks is a **shell of stone facing an iron door**. This is the entrance to the [Deep Cellar](deep-cellar.md) — the hidden lower level, and the module's exploration track.
+
+- **DC 15 Investigation** (behind the racks) reveals the seam, the fitted stone, a drag-scuff on the earth floor, and a cold draft that shouldn't be there.
+- **DC 15 Perception** catches the same draft plus the smell rising through it — copper, tallow, and something animal and sweet-rotten beneath.
+- The door is under a permanent **Arcane Lock** (DC 20 to force, DC 25 Thieves' Tools). It opens for **Orenn's black iron key** (on his body — the plain heavy key that fits nothing upstairs) or *Knock*.
+- **Mags** knows what's down there and expects no one to find it. She reveals the door only under the most extreme trust — see [mags.md](../npc/mags.md). Players who find it themselves take that choice out of her hands, which is exactly the point.
+- If **Přástka**, the household [phase spider](deep-cellar.md#encounter--the-guardian), is roaming, sharp-eared PCs may hear dry clicking beyond the door before they open it.
+
+See **[deep-cellar.md](deep-cellar.md)** for the full lower level.
+
 ### Old Crates (South-West)
 
 Genuinely old supplies: moth-eaten cloth, rusted tools, empty bottles. Nothing useful — but the crates themselves are positioned to obscure the circle on the floor behind them. Someone (Orenn) arranged them this way deliberately.