Croatoan Headquarters

"The mill was the spookiest place I had ever been in my life. [...] Everything in there was straight out of a horror movie."

- Benjamin Ripley describing the old mill in Spy School Revolution

The Croatoan Headquarters is the Croatoan's lair. It is located underneath an old mill 750 paces northwest of the Potomac Falls in Great Falls Park on the Maryland/Virginia border. Ben, Catherine, Erica and Mike infiltrate the headquarters in Spy School Revolution.

Description
Engulfed by a forest and overrun by foliage, the mill is surrounded on three sides by a chain fence, sporting numerous no-trespassing warning signs, and a steep cliff bordering the fourth side. Despite looking abandoned, the grass in front of the gate is scraped bare, meaning that it gets opened on a regular basis. The mill has been decaying for two hundred years; the building creaks and groans; there is dripping water; the wind whistles through cracks in the walls. There are sounds such as scuttling rodents and squeaking bats.

A trapdoor on the floor reveals an ancient wooden staircase which leads into the actual headquarters, drastically cleaner and more furnished than the mill. There is modern day lighting and light green painted walls with some inspirational posters. The furniture consists of a couch, two armchairs, a coffee table, and filing cabinets and storage shelves. The cabinets contain a myriad of the Croatoan's plots and schemes throughout history. There is even a foosball table, which Mike was very excited to discover because it's better than the ones in the Academy's dormitories.

Behind a secret panel is an alcove presenting a drafting table and bulletin board, displaying the Croatoan's current evil scheme. The workspace is exceedingly messy, containing the following:


 * piles of scratch paper
 * sketches
 * surveillance photos
 * books
 * crumpled soda cans
 * stubby pencils
 * clay models