Locked doors with keypads lead from the antechamber to the
vampires’ individual havens and the storerooms. The Repairers
keep files on their clients, including photographs, videotapes and incriminating physical evidence, some of the latter in freezers. Everything is thoroughly fireproofed with brick and concrete construction, spartan metal furniture, smoke alarms, a sprinkler system and halon fire extinguishers in every room. The complex also has two emergency escape routes. Twisting and pulling a particular wall sconce collapses a section of wall in the shrine’s inner chamber, providing an exit into the city storm drains. The Setites and cultists use this to escape if anyone raids the temple during a service. One minute later, this also detonates a large bomb hidden inside the statue to Set, providing a final sacrifice to the Dark God. Ahmose and Sahira’s haven holds another secret escape route. Sahira’s plain sarcophagus has a false bottom. When she presses a button inside the coffin, the bottom drops out and forms a simple barge that carries her away into the storm drains — her own River of Duat. Ahmose’s fancier, carved and gilded sarcophagus does not contain such an escape route, but opening the lid without pressing a hidden button within the next 15 seconds will trigger a loud alarm in Sahira’s coffin. Both coffins lock from the inside.