


The abbey (which Prospero designed himself) is filled to the brim with all the makings of an incredible party: lots of food, jesters, dancers, musicians, and wine.Prince Prospero is quite the party animal, and plans to have a good time while the rest of the world dies.The doors of the abbey are welded shut, so no one can get in.So he takes a thousand of his knights and maidens and shuts himself up with them in a hidden "castellated abbey" (that would be an abbey made over into a castle, with battlements).

Prince Prospero, the ruler of said kingdom currently being ravaged by the Red Death, is "happy" and "dauntless" and decides he doesn't want to bother with the disease.It's a terrible way to die: shooting pains, seizures, bleeding from all the pores, and then death. A horrible disease called the Red Death is ravaging the countryside.
