Sunday, December 31, 2023

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 (2)


Saturday, December 30, 2023

12-30 Enalodin’s Chambers

 


This room appears to be a mix of library and study. Here is the workshop of the great Enalodin, forgotten prince.

Monsters: Enalodin (Undead elf 9. Treat as Lich, or as mummy with 9 hd and casting as 9th level elf)

Treasure: Spellbook, 20,000 sp, 10,000 ep, 10,000 gp, 4,000 pp, staff of power, crystal ball


Friday, December 29, 2023

12-29 Quiet Camp Site


 

This chamber is eerily quiet. The walls bear a mural depicting a camp site on a summer night, although the stars reflect their positions long ago.

  • Characters may rest in here without fear of encounter for as long as they wish.

Monsters: None

Treasure: None


Thursday, December 28, 2023

12-28 Electrical Columns


 

Tall columns of shining metal are spaced evenly throughout this room. From time to time, electricity arcs between them with a loud pop and crackle.

  • Every round, one or more lightning bolts pass between random columns and the walls. Anyone within the room has a 1 in 4 chance of being targeted by a lightning bolt, tested separately, each round they are within the room or any round during which they pass through it. Being targeted will result in 8d6 hp of electrical damage, save vs. spells for half.

Monsters: None

Treasure: None


Wednesday, December 27, 2023

12-27 Southern Curtained Room


 

A red and black curtain is drawn over the southern face of this room, whether for decoration or to conceal something is uncertain.

  • The invisible stalker who dwells in this room has been commanded to kill all who enter and remain within it.

Monsters: Invisible Stalker

Treasure: None


Tuesday, December 26, 2023

12-26 Flamewreathe’s Lair


 

This chamber is rather large, with a vaulted ceiling. What art once decorated the walls has long been scoured away, and scorch marks are everywhere.

Monsters: Flamewreathe (13 HD Red dragon, max hp)

Treasure: 96,000 sp, 10,000 gp


Monday, December 25, 2023

12-25 False Treasure


 

This room appears to be heaped with all sorts of coins, there must be hundreds of thousands of coins of various sorts, piled knee high through the room.

  • Most of these coins are simply bits of tin which are painted various colors. However, there is real treasure scattered throughout. It might take some time to sort it without magic.

Monsters: None

Treasure: 25,000 sp, 6,000 gp, 11 gems (500 gp x2, 100 gp x3, 50 gp x4, 10 gp x2)


Sunday, December 24, 2023

12-24 The Bell of Clarity


 

This room has a large bronze bell suspended from the statue of a giant standing in the center of the room. A padded mallet lies on the floor beneath it.

  • Striking the bell with the mallet will immediately dissipate all negative effects on the character striking it. Norm will be restored to his prior form, if he’s the one striking the bell. An immediate encounter check must be made. Any one character may strike the bell only once per week.

Monsters: None

Treasure: None


Saturday, December 23, 2023

12-23 Four Maiden Statues

 


This chamber is dominated by four statues of robed maidens, all facing the center. There are paintings of closed doors on the north and the east wall. 

  • Anyone who steps between the four statues will find themselves transported to the Maiden’s Crossroads on level 1 (Room 1-8).

Monsters: None

Treasure: None


Friday, December 22, 2023

12-22 Melee Training Room


 

This room is filled with various training dummies, as if it were once some sort of combat training center.

Monsters: Bronze Golem

Treasure: None


Thursday, December 21, 2023

12-21 Archery Training


 

This broad chamber appears to have a large target painted on the eastern wall, along with a few lines drawn close to the western wall.

  • Anyone who lines up behind the lines near the west wall, and successfully hits the target on the east wall will receive a bonus to ranged attacks for 24 hours. This depends on the AC they hit: AC 9 = +1, AC 5 = +2, AC 0 = +3.

Monsters: None

Treasure: None


Wednesday, December 20, 2023

12-20 Southern Corner Room


 

Another example of the corridors here being enlarged into their own chamber, this one has a scarred up floor and walls, looking as if it has been subject to heavy damage or digging.

Monsters: Purple Worm

Treasure: None


Tuesday, December 19, 2023

12-19 Fork in the Corridor


 

The northern corridor broadens into a proper chamber, only to split into two other exits to the south. Upon the south wall, between those two exits, a painting of an elven woman in armor has her arms crossed, each hand has one finger extended to point to each of the exit corridors.

Monsters: None

Treasure: None


Monday, December 18, 2023

12-18 A Collection of Urns


 

This storage chamber is full of man sized urns. Each of these ancient jars is easily five foot tall, and broad enough for a human to easily fit in. There must be 24 of them in total.

  • The treasure is stored in 3 of the jars, a good mix in each.

Monsters: None

Treasure: 20,000 sp, 2,000 gp, 5 pieces of jewelry (1,700 gp, 1,300 gp, 1,100 gp x2, 700 gp)


Sunday, December 17, 2023

12-17 The Randomizer


 

The center of this room has four columns, each carved to resemble a robed woman, gesturing into the center of the chamber.

  • Anyone stepping within the area defined by the four columns is instantly teleported to room 1 of level 1, far above. Their gear is randomly teleported to room 1d20 of level 1d12. Check the destination for each individual item, except that bundles of items such as arrows, coins, gems and so forth are sent to the same place and checked as one item.

Monsters: None

Treasure: None

Saturday, December 16, 2023

12-16 Laughing Demon Statues


 

A pair of demonic statues point to one another within this room. They look to be laughing.

  • Anyone stepping between these two statues is transported up to the similar room on level 8.

Monsters: None

Treasure: None


Friday, December 15, 2023

12-15 Columned Tomb


 

This room has four columns lining the center of it, while niches in the north-east wall appear to house burials.

Monsters: Vampire, 2 Spectres, 4 Mummies, 4 Wights, 6 Ghouls, 12 Zombies, 12 Skeletons

Treasure: 12,000 sp, 1,000 gp, 2,000 pp, plate mail +1, sword +1, Bow +1, potion of flying, scroll of protection from undead


Thursday, December 14, 2023

12-14 The Room with the Red Curtain


 

This large room is bisected neatly with a large red curtain, with faint black patterns upon it. It looks like it splits in the middle, although is currently drawn closed.

  • While the curtain is closed, nothing can be heard or sensed from one side of the room to the other. Indeed, as soon as someone might slip through to the other side, they will immediately vanish from the senses of anyone on the original side.

Monsters: None

Treasure: None

Wednesday, December 13, 2023

12-13 Ruined Pillar Room


 

The room here opens out north of the corridor running along its south side. There’s signs that there were once columns that separated it from the corridor like a few other rooms further up in the complex, although they have long since been knocked down.

Monsters: Frost Giant, Mastodon

Treasure: None


Tuesday, December 12, 2023

12-12 Bottom of the Pit


 

This natural cave is filled waist high with rotting garbage and debris, likely fallen from the hole in the ceiling far above.

Monsters: None

Treasure: None


Monday, December 11, 2023

12-11 Hot Bath


 

This room has a hot, steaming pool of water in the center, and appears to be some sort of bathing chamber. A pair of closets are visible through archways on the west wall.

  • The closets are outfitted like changing rooms, and stocked with warm towels and robes.
  • The bath is comfortable, and will sooth and heal 1 hp of damage per turn soaked within it.

Monsters: None

Treasure: None


Sunday, December 10, 2023

12-10 Former Receiving Room


 

A chamber that was once perhaps used as a receiving room, there’s signs that there were once benches here, although they are long gone. Desks on the northwest and southwest corners are still in evidence, though they have been destroyed and lay ruined on the ground.

Monsters: 12 Rust Monsters

Treasure: None


Saturday, December 9, 2023

12-9 Stairs From Above

 


The sturdy, curved stairway from above descends into a somewhat cramped, corner shaped room. On the angled wall facing the stairs is painted the face of a regal elven lord.

Monsters: None

Treasure: None


Friday, December 8, 2023

12-8 The Lone Treasure Chest

 


This small chamber has a single large chest in the center.

  • The chest in the center is just a front. It sits on a pillar in the middle of a 10’x10’ pit, 10’ deep. The pit is concealed by an illusory floor. Those falling through the illusory floor will find that the pit is filled with green slime, and will likely get immersed in it.
  • The chest contains a single note.

Monsters: None

Treasure: A note, upon which a message is scribbled in elvish. “The real treasure was the slimes you made along the way.”


Thursday, December 7, 2023

12-7 Arrival Chamber

 


This large room looks to have been designed to be one of a few receiving rooms. There are the ruins of desks along the north-east and north-west corners, and spots on the floor that look like they once supported benches.

Monsters: None

Treasure: None


Wednesday, December 6, 2023

12-6 Chamber-Adjacent Chamber


 

The walls of this room have been painted pitch black, while the floor and ceiling have both been painted a pristine white. No explanation on why seems forthcoming.

Monsters: 2 Fire Giants

Treasure: None


Tuesday, December 5, 2023

12-5 Demon Funnel


 

This chamber narrows on the south end, into a single corridor, while the north wall is painted with a leering demon face in the center of it.

  • Stepping in from the southern hall, or out of the room toward the southern hall, will cause the demon face to fire a fireball toward the southern hall to detonate just where it enters into room 7. The fireball will deal 8d6 points of fire damage, save vs. spells for half.

Monsters: None

Treasure: None


Monday, December 4, 2023

12-4 Broad Juncture

 


This chamber joins two distinct corridors, and has two side exits. The floor has a single large elven word carved into it, the word for ‘Bleed’.

Monsters: None

Treasure: None


Sunday, December 3, 2023

12-3 An Ordinary Closet


 

This chamber appears to be relatively small, with a niche in the far wall which contains a single wardrobe. Upon the walls are several paintings of an average human man, of average height and weight, wearing a tunic and trousers.

  • Characters walking into this room must save vs. spells or be polymorphed into Norm (as per polymorph other, except that in this instance, it can indeed duplicate an individual person), an average human male of about 30 years of age. He has 1 hit die, his ability scores are all 10, and he has no class abilities to speak of.
  • The treasure is in the wardrobe.

Monsters: None

Treasure: 15,000 sp, 6,000 gp


Saturday, December 2, 2023

12-2 Corner Room


 

This chamber appears to have been expanded out from the adjacent corridor, forming a sort of corner room, with an additional door in the south wall. The walls here are otherwise undecorated.

Monsters: 2 Chimera

Treasure: None


Friday, December 1, 2023

12-1 Storage Cabinets


 

This smallish storage room has a strange set of stone lids closing alcoves in the southern wall.

  • The treasure within this room is in one of the alcoves.

Monsters: None

Treasure: 15,000 sp, 6,000 gp, 11 pieces of jewelry (1,400 gp x2, 1,200 gp x2, 1,100 gp, 1,000 gp x2, 900 gp x2, 700 gp, 300 gp), shield +1


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...