Thursday, November 30, 2023

11-30 Keeping an Eye Out

 


The walls of this room may once have contained mosaics, but now the tiles have been removed, leaving only plaster honeycombed with indentations. Within the center of the room is a single stool, upon which rests a human eyeball.

  • Anyone who picks up the eyeball can see through it thereafter, until the eyeball is destroyed or until someone else picks up or is given the eyeball. The eyeball is AC 9 and has 1 hit point. If it is destroyed, a new eyeball appears on the stool in this room.

Monsters: None

Treasure: None


Wednesday, November 29, 2023

11-29 Corner Intersection


 

This intersection between corridors has a set of stone benches set int othe south and east walls. The west wall has an intricate mosaic of fine tiles, depicting an elven lord with arms outstretched, looming over a map of an ancient land.

Monsters: None

Treasure: None


Tuesday, November 28, 2023

11-28 Dusty End


 

This dusty chamber looks like it hasn’t been entered in a while. Settled on the floor, a crate has been shattered, the debris strewn about at random.

Monsters: None

Treasure: 10,000 sp, 5,000 gp


Monday, November 27, 2023

11-27 Faces of Doom


 

This chamber is painted with a number of unsettling murals. They seem to depict people undergoing various sorts of horrific deaths, from being crushed under slabs to being run through by weapons, burned by fire, and other gruesome ends.

  • More than a casual inspection would reveal the faces and figures being slain in these murals to be members of the party. These murals will change based on who enters.

Monsters: None

Treasure: None


Sunday, November 26, 2023

11-26 Side Stop


 

This corridor intersection expands into a broad room with rows of hooks and racks along the north wall. While it may have once been used to hold arms and armor, it is currently void of useful items. The walls have murals depicting some sort of ancient armory.

Monsters: None

Treasure: None


Saturday, November 25, 2023

11-25 The Red Room


 

This chamber has a curiously rust red floor, chipped and scarred here and there. There are fragments of bone and scraps of clothes scattered around.

  • Characters passing through the center of this room have a 1 in 6 chance of triggering a pressure plate in the middle. Doing so causes a massive spring to slam the floor up toward the ceiling at extreme speeds before lowering back down again. Characters within the room will take 10d6 bludgeoning damage if standing, half if laying prone. Characters who are not prone when the room slams upward can make a saving throw vs. breath weapon to throw themselves prone in time. This trap may be triggered any number of times, a character can easily trigger it again while trying to exit the room.

Monsters: None

Treasure: None


Friday, November 24, 2023

11-24 The Far Closet


 

This room appears to have once been some sort of bedroom. There’s the wreckage of a wardrobe and a bed laying about the room, though they are now unusable and ruined. A pair of archways leads into some sort of closet.

  • Characters who enter the closet may discover that they cannot exit. A one way forcefield sits in front of each doorway. A character outside may reach through and pull a character inside out, but if all characters are inside the room, they must either teleport out or successfully dispel the force field.
  • There is a box in the closet that does contain the treasure here.

Monsters: None

Treasure: 10,000 sp, 6,000 gp, 8 pieces of Jewelry (1,400 gp, 1,200 gp, 1,100 gp, 1,000 gp x2, 600 gp x2, 500 gp)


Thursday, November 23, 2023

11-23 Room of Eyes


 

This oval room has a strange eye pattern spanning the walls. Done in fine tilework, the mosaic depicts hundreds of unblinking eyes, staring into the room from all sides.

  • The treasure within this room is hidden in a secret alcove in the west wall. Find secret doors check to discover it.

Monsters: None

Treasure: 30,000 sp, 6,000 gp, 6 pieces of jewelry (1,200 gp x2, 900 gp x3, 600 gp)


Wednesday, November 22, 2023

11-22 Odd Shaped Alcove


 

This oddly shaped room has a large alcove in the south end of the room. The floor seems to slope down on that end of the room, and there is a hole in the floor.

  • The hole is small enough that a character can’t climb in, but may stick a limb or their head within it. It constantly emits a soft hum. If any character does so, they will quickly discover the source of the hum, as every so often, little razor sharp wires zip back and forth across the hole. This will instantly sever whatever is put within the hole unless a successful saving throw vs. death is made.
  • The treasure is at the bottom of the 10’ deep hole.

Monsters: None

Treasure: 10,000 sp, 1,000 gp, Axe +1


Tuesday, November 21, 2023

11-21 Carved Demons


 

The walls of this room are carved in a light relief, and seem to depict a great demon looming over a landscape, with the demon present on the western wall, and a landscape with ruined buildings stretching around the outside of the room.

Monsters: Black Pudding

Treasure: None


Monday, November 20, 2023

11-20 Down to the Depths


 

This cramped room has a series of paintings of a grim looking elven man, or at least his face, just looming on the walls over a curved stair descending down into the darkness.

Monsters: None

Treasure: None


Sunday, November 19, 2023

11-19 An Intersection

 


This intersection room has been used as a gathering place in the past. The walls are decorated with murals depicting soldiers in armor, as well as an officer distributing their pay from a little wood box.

  • The mural depicting the officer is in the south end of the east wall. It conceals a secret panel, requiring a secret door check to find. This is where this room’s treasure is hidden.

Monsters: None

Treasure: 25,000 sp, 4,000 gp


Saturday, November 18, 2023

11-18 Mirror Lens


 

This room has a high arched ceiling, and rounded walls. The walls and ceiling are all polished to a mirror sheen, and seem to reflect light and focus it into the center of the chamber, onto a central pedestal upon which rests a metal box.

  • The mirrors reflect, focus, and magically amplify light and heat within the room, focusing it on the central pillar. So long as any light source is lit, that central beam will automatically inflict 10d8 fire damage on anyone reaching into it, 15d8 if the light sources are considered akin to ‘sunlight’, via spell or otherwise.
  • The treasure is in the central box.

Monsters: None

Treasure: 30,000 sp, 3,000 gp


Friday, November 17, 2023

11-17 The Odd Beast


 

This strange chamber looks like it might have been planned as some sort of expansion to a temple, only to be co-opted into a simple through-room at a later date.

Monsters: Chimera

Treasure: None


Thursday, November 16, 2023

11-16 A Former Waiting Room


 

The southern wall of this chamber is lined with stone benches, and there’s a soft light that shines from stones set in the walls. Other than that, this room appears quiet and empty.

Monsters: None

Treasure: None


Wednesday, November 15, 2023

11-15 Mira’s Chambers

 


A simple if massive wooden bed and dresser is set into this room, as is a large weapons rack.

Monsters: Mira Frostmaiden (Frost Giant, max hp), 2 polar bears

Treasure: 9,000 sp, 11,000 gp


Tuesday, November 14, 2023

11-14 Giant Mercenaries


 

This hall has been set up with a grand table and several large chairs. It is some sort of dining hall set up for massive beings. A few huge cots rest against the walls.

Monsters: 2 Frost Giants

Treasure: None


Monday, November 13, 2023

11-13 Refuse Pit


 

A hole in the ceiling allows access to the floor above, while a pit in the center of the room continues to lead downward. It is surrounded by a low stone wall. Bits of garbage and debris are scattered about this natural cave.

Monsters: None

Treasure: None


Sunday, November 12, 2023

11-12 A Crimson Pool


 

This broad chamber has a pool in the center. The floor has been polished to an almost mirror sheen, while a low stone wall, about a foot tall, surrounds the central pool. The pool is filled with a crimson liquid, akin to blood.

  • The liquid within the pool looks like and tastes like blood, but is not. Rather it is an enchanted liquid that will temporarily grant those who drink more than a mouthful of it 18 strength, a charming gaze, and the ability to turn into a bat or a wolf, as a vampire. These abilities last for 8 hours. When these benefits expire, the imbiber will immediately lose 2 experience levels as if level drained by an undead.

Monsters: None

Treasure: None


Saturday, November 11, 2023

11-11 Abandoned Kitchen


 

This may have been a kitchen of some sort in the past. Large ovens dominate the north wall, while there are counters of stone set up around the other walls. A few hooks in the ceiling look like they may once have supported pots and pans.

Monsters: 3 hill giants

Treasure: 8,000 gp


Friday, November 10, 2023

11-10 Abandoned Dining Hall


 

Broken benches and capsized tables lay here and there throughout the room, indicating some sort of dining room. There are a few piles of old crates settled in the corner, while garbage, bones, and other refuse are strewn freely about the floor.

Monsters: 2 Hill Giants

Treasure: None


Thursday, November 9, 2023

11-9 Scattered Stones, Scattered Bones


 

The floor of this chamber is a rough terrain of fallen stones and shattered bones. If anything, it looks like the roof collapsed upon people long ago, and they were left here to rot. However, the ceiling is actually smooth, with no indication that it ever collapsed.

  • The victims on the ground are long ago subjects of some sort of assault spell. The treasure in this room is scattered among them.

Monsters: None

Treasure: 30,000 sp, 2,000 gp, 2 gems (500 gp, 50 gp)


Wednesday, November 8, 2023

11-8 Forgotten Temple


 

This tucked out of the way chapel has a strange look. There are murals of elven priests and elf-looking angels painted on the walls, although all seem to have had black voids painted on their eyes. A stone altar rests against the eastern wall.

  • The altar radiates magic if detected. 1d4 minutes after a corpse is placed upon the altar, the corpse is reanimated as a zombie.

Monsters: None

Treasure: None


Tuesday, November 7, 2023

11-7 Forgotten Tomb


 

This forgotten tomb looks as if it hasn’t seen traffic in decades. The walls are decorated with paintings of some noble elven family, although they have been covered with dust. A wooden coffin rests in one corner.

Monsters: Vampire

Treasure: 8,000 gp, 3,000 pp


Monday, November 6, 2023

11-6 Large Orange Room


 

This large room has had its walls and roof painted a vivid orange. There is some indication of why, as a broad semicircle dominates the western wall, as if someone had started painting the sun crossing the horizon, but never got around to detailing things.

Monsters: None

Treasure: None


Sunday, November 5, 2023

11-5 Gorfum’s Lair


 

This sumptuous room is almost sickening in its decadence, with a grand bed, and sturdy couches. Rich fabrics drape about the walls of the room.

Monsters: Gorfum the Grotesque (Devil Swine, max hp), 2 wereboars

Treasure: 500 go gem, 3 pieces of jewelry (1,700 gp, 1,100 gp, 700 gp)


Saturday, November 4, 2023

11-4 Gorfum’s Banquet


 

This room is dominated by a large table with several chairs. Upon the table is a vast array of fine food, drink, and various treats.

  • A banquet has been laid out on the table of this room. Its smells are enticing and designed to attract those within. Anyone who isn’t a lycanthrope who enters the room must save vs. spells or be caught up with a compulsion to sit down and eat. The food itself is laced with tranquilizers, that will require a save vs. poison or result in a deep sleep after just five minutes. This sleep can last 1d4 days unless the sleeper is awakened magically or by suffering damage. Just shaking them or making loud noises will not awaken them.

Monsters: None

Treasure: None

Friday, November 3, 2023

11-3 A Jungle Scene


 

The walls of this chamber, as well as the ceiling, have been painted with a representation of a lush green jungle, complete with vine-covered trunks, reaching leaves, and underbrush.

Monsters: Wyvern

Treasure: None


Thursday, November 2, 2023

11-2 A Room of Calling

 


Within the center of this octagonal room is a carefully inscribed silver circle, surrounded by magical symbols etched into the stone floor.

  • This circle can be used as a magic circle for spells and rituals that require it. Furthermore, simply calling forth an extraplanar entity’s true name can call them into the circle for 10 minutes, allowing for communication or bargaining.

Monsters: None

Treasure: None


Wednesday, November 1, 2023

11-1 Entry Stairs


 

Sturdy steps descend to this floor from above, opening into a cramped room. Upon the walls are carvings resembling elven figures standing at attention.

Monsters: None

Treasure: None


12-31 The Treasury

  Herein lies a secure chamber, with what remains of the elflord’s treasure. Monsters: None Treasure: 30,000 sp, 6,000 gp, ring of wishes...