Draft:Rampart

Omega 0.90.4

Rampart is Omega's starting city and a home base for buying equipment, joining guilds, practising a religion and recovering between expeditions. Its streets mix temples, barracks and an arena with fast-food shops, a gym and a public library. Many important choices can be made before leaving for the countryside.

City map

The fixed city layout below includes hidden passages and original guard posts. Maze layout 1 is shown; the other three possibilities appear below. Building markers are an article key, not a literal copy of the game display. Coordinates are (column, row), starting at 00.

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Location index

Key	Place	Coordinates / notes
t	Pantheon	(06, 14)
C	Collegium Magii	(42, 06), (42, 07)
s	Circle of Sorcerors	(55, 05)
M	Legion of Destiny	(53, 12), (54, 12)
P	Order of Paladins	(40, 60)
A	Coliseum	(53, 60), (54, 60)
B	Bank and ATM	(22, 19)
H	Orphanage and Hospice	(06, 19)
c	Castle audience	(24, 56), (24, 57)
v	Vault approach	(12, 55)
V	Inner vault and treasure	(12, 57)
D	Time-lock barrier	(12, 56); initially a wall, opened through the vault interaction
X	City gates	(63, 20), (63, 21)
g	Botanical Gardens	(26, 33)
y	City Cemetery	(03, 35)
J	Gaol	(40, 58)
j	Justiciar's office	(40, 62)
m	Hedge maze entrance	(06, 35)
O	Oracle	(17, 43); maze layout 1 only
>	Sewer stairs	(10, 46); maze layout 1 only
h	Fixed ordinary house	(40, 50), (50, 50)
x	Random shops and residences	64 shuffled building slots

Map key

Terrain and features

Key	Meaning
#	Wall
.	Open ground
"	Hedge
~	Water
=	Enchanted pool
-	Closed door
1	Statue
2	Odin altar
3	Set altar
4	Athena altar
5	Hecate altar
6	Destiny altar

Hidden areas and inhabitants

Key	Meaning
:	Concealed passage
^	Concealed trap
!	Concealed alarm with treasure
$	Treasure pile
G	Guard post
u	Lesser undead
U	Greater undead
T	Lowers nearby portcullises
R	Raises nearby portcullises
|	Gate, initially raised
*	Weak jail masonry
?	Random encounter site inside the maze

The map shows the initial city before opened doors, dried pools, awakened statues, jail repairs or the Duke's succession alter it. The Order's destruction also changes its southern headquarters. Secret passages and treasure are revealed here even when still concealed in your game.

Maze layouts

Maze map key

Key	Meaning
m	Northern entrance
O	Oracle
>	Sewer stairs
"	Hedge
.	Open ground
-	Closed door
?	Random encounter site

Each city uses one of these four layouts. Paths and service positions follow the selected layout; hedge identities and random encounters are generated separately.

Layout 1

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Random buildings

Building map key

Key	Slots	Meaning
x	64	Shuffled slots: 18 shop entrances, including three branches of Commandant Sonder's, and 46 randomly chosen houses, hovels or mansions
h	2	Fixed entrances to ordinary houses

Read signs to identify the shops in your game.

The shuffled businesses are Julie's, Knight's Pawn Shop, Sonder's, the Diner, Les Crapeuleaux, the Healers, the Gymnasium, Ambrosias', the Library, the Public Works office, the Explorers' Club, Rampart Arms, the tavern, the casino, the brothel and the Thieves' Guild. Their services are summarized below.

Getting around

The street layout and major institutions stay in fixed positions, while many shops change location between games. Major destinations, including the martial guilds, hospice and Pantheon, are known from the start. Explore and read shop signs to discover the other establishments.

Press M, then ? to list known destinations. Type a destination name and press Return to travel there. The menu uses categories such as armorer and fast food, not every business's full signboard name.

City travel takes time and triggers the destination's service on arrival. It is unavailable while immobilized, near hostile monsters, or on certain restricted tiles. It also advances conditions such as poison, so it is not an instantaneous rescue from a dangerous status effect.

Shops and everyday services

Establishment	Travel name	What it offers	Availability
Julie's	armorer	Fixed stock of ordinary weapons and body armor	07:00-20:59, except the noon hour
Knight's Pawn Shop	pawn shop	Buying and selling equipment and other goods	07:00-20:59
Commandant Sonder's	fast food	Portable food rations, 5 Au each	All hours
Rampart Diner	diner	A filling meal, 25 Au	All hours
Rampart Healers	healer	Injury treatment, 50 Au; disease cure, 250 Au	All hours
Rampart Gymnasium	gymnasium	Physical training, 2,000 Au per session; accepts Arena credit	All hours
Orphanage and Hospice	hospice	Donations that can improve Lawful alignment	All hours
First Bank of Omega	bank	Deposits, withdrawals and the ATM's one-time robbery sequence	All hours
Ambrosias' Potions et cie.	alchemist	Buys selected monster remains or transforms them into magic items	07:00-20:59
Public Library	library	Reference documents and Intelligence research, 50-1,000 Au per selection	07:00-20:59
Explorers' Club	explorers' club	Return spell, keys, torches and rumors; level 2 and 100 Au to join	All hours
Rampart Arms	condo	A week's recovery for 1,000 Au; ownership and storage for 50,000 Au	All hours
Department of Public Works	department of public works	Eligible welfare claimants have carried cash topped up to 99 Au	All hours
The Centaur and Nymph	tavern	Rumors, 10 Au poison/disease cure, 25 Au bed and breakfast	21:00-06:59
Mithril Nugget Casino	casino	Slots and roulette, with forced losses after favorable results	All hours; random investigation closures
House of the Eclipse	brothel	500 Au stay with HP recovery, food, experience and companionship	21:00-06:59
Les Crapeuleaux	les crapuleux	A luxury dinner for 1,000 Au	17:00-23:59

Shop signs are useful discoveries even when you do not intend to buy anything immediately. The tavern's inexpensive cure and the House's full HP recovery make nighttime visits useful, while the casino and expensive restaurant serve very different purposes.

Guilds and religion

Three martial careers connect directly to the choice of a starting weapon:

• The Legion of Destiny offers equipment, cash and physical advancement, with a daytime curfew.
• The Order of Paladins offers a horse, blessed spear and return services, but requires Lawful conduct.
• The Gladiators' Guild offers an additional maneuver and Gym credit. Registration is separate from entering a match.

A new character chooses between these martial memberships. Magical and thieving careers can accompany a martial one, subject to their own requirements:

Organization	Why join?	Main restriction
Collegium Magii	Intelligence, Power and spell research; free enrollment at Intelligence 18	Intelligence 13 minimum; no active Circle membership
Circle of Sorcerors	Large Power gains and a predictable series of combat spells	Neutral or Chaotic to join, Chaotic for ordinary promotion; no College membership
Thieves' Guild	Utility spells, thieving skills, cheap identification and better sale prices	Alignment at most +10 to join; nighttime service

Membership is not required for every guild service. Outsiders can pay for College spell research, Circle mana restoration and Thieves' Guild identification. The Circle even restores mana free at character level 0. These services provide useful options before committing to a career.

The Pantheon in the northwest contains altars to Odin, Set, Athena, Hecate and Destiny. Worship can establish a priesthood without visiting a main countryside temple. The nearby hospice provides an inexpensive way for a neutral beginner to become slightly Lawful. A priesthood can coexist with a martial guild, but memberships using guild experience divide experience awards between them.

Preparing to leave

Choose a career before buying equipment it supplies for free. Then equip the weapon you intend to use, review your combat sequence, and obtain food for the journey. A meal at the Diner fills you immediately; a purchase at the fast-food shop provides rations to carry. The distinction matters when budgeting both cash and pack weight.

Locate the healer, tavern and pawn shop during ordinary exploration, so their destinations are available when needed later. The healer treats injuries and disease, but has no poison-removal service; at night the tavern's 10 Au shot clears poison and disease. Travel still takes time, so discovering the remedy in advance matters. Check whether your guild can cover recovery before paying for it elsewhere.

At level 2, the Explorers' Club teaches Return for a 100 Au membership fee. It can bring you back outside Rampart from the countryside or shuttle between the first and deepest explored levels of the current dungeon. It needs mana and has a charging delay. On the way home, keep useful monster parts for the alchemist before selling all your loot.

The ATM offers both savings and a one-time robbery payout, with different long-term consequences. When cash is nearly gone, the public works office may cover basic supplies. For accumulated attribute damage and temporary conditions, a week's rental provides broader recovery than a single healing treatment.

The city gates open onto the countryside on the eastern edge. The Oracle offers direction for further adventures, while the castle and other organizations provide their own goals. Neither visiting every institution nor entering the Arena is required before the first expedition.

Dangers and city life

Rampart is a base, not a guarantee of safety. The sewers, cemetery, guarded sites and private properties are different propositions from visiting a shop. Hostile encounters can arise inside the city, and alarming the guards also involves the Justiciar and can interrupt access to the Order.

The gardens offer enchanted pools and statues with both rewards and serious risks. The hedge maze leads to the Oracle and sewer entrance; levitation protects against ordinary hedge contact but does not prevent a trifid from grabbing you. Carrying salt water provides a specific answer to that encounter.

Houses, hovels and mansions contain residents and hidden safes. Their defenses and treasure differ, and a safe alarm can cause prosecution even in a hovel. The gaol article covers probation, paladin expulsion, repeated imprisonment and escape. The castle vault is another robbery target, with its own time lock and concealed alarms; becoming Duke offers a different route to its treasure.

Some services close at night, and Julie's closes for lunch even during the day. Plan around the clock rather than assuming a remembered destination is always usable. City travel may get you to a locked-up shop just as efficiently as an open one.

The tavern's bed skips hours without directly healing injuries. The House of the Eclipse does refill HP, but neither stay is a substitute for all of the condo's restoration. Their clock and calendar behavior also differ; do not assume an overnight stay automatically triggers every daily service.

Background and trivia

The in-game Guide to Rampart, presented as a publication of the Rampart Tourist Association, describes the city as a bastion in LOCUS with a truce between Law and Chaos. Its suspiciously emphatic denial of treasure-filled passages below the city sits beside warnings about missing sewer explorers. Read it as the city's publicity, not a promise of safe exploration.

The businesses preserve a deliberately mixed setting: fast-food buckets, the Diner's refusal of a free lunch, and the Arena's garage-door opener coexist with traditional fantasy quests. Their individual articles explain the specific jokes and cultural connections.