The Island of Death, The Underground City, Beneath the Great Pyramid of Xuthalhotep
Lost City of Khemsa, Forgotten Kingdom of Verulia, Great Eastern Desert, the World of Hyboria
Day Ten. Midday, 23rd day of the month of Yuluk, 1279th year of the Age of Aquilonia
High above the Island of Death, beyond the Great Pyramid of Xuthalhotep, the unseen sun reaches its cosmic apex and is eclipsed by the moon, plunging day into night. The celestial omen heralds catastrophe and destruction to a realm intimately familiar with both.
Far below, the explorers of the nightmarish underworld, their lives and sanity still intact, find no lurking dangers in the door or the pool. Mako renders Xorzen unseen and they pass safely through the mysterious portal. The adventurers carefully traverse a long stone tunnel of carved, leering demon faces. The otherworldly chanting grows louder with every step. Ahead, the ominous tunnel mouth looms cold and stark, the color of the lichen constellations in the cavern roof.
Amethu douses his lantern and Zahra covers her spearhead as they reach a vast courtyard, surrounded by the temple of loathsome geometry, open to the subterranean sky.
Here, the earth itself is warped by something not of this world.
Here, there is a sacrificial pit.
Here stand more faceless men (F4-F7) in varied stages of surrendering their identities to Zargoth.
Masked priests (P2, P3) gibber and chant a blasphemous mass, led by a bare-faced priestess (P1) in a frightful state of becoming something entirely other.
Her pale comely arms and delicate hands are ridden with a plague of ghastly leering eyes. They ready a sacrificial victim to feed to the pit; a young woman (W1) whose skin and hair are white as the moon.
The high priestess of Zargoth - of ruin and madness and death - intones forbidden syllables, slowly reaching a hellish crescendo.
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Map:
One square = 10 feet.
Map Detail:
PC Status:
Amethu: Verulian Grand Magus Cleric/Magic-User 3/3: Move: 9", AC: 4, HP: 15/15, Spells: 2/7 1st lvl, 1/4 2nd lvl
Cruloc: Cimmerian Northman Barbarian 3: Move: 12", AC: 4, HP: 37/45
Garrin: Argosian Atlantean Paladin 3: Move: 12", AC: 3(1), HP: 14/26, Laying Hands: 1/1
Loche: Pict Savage Thief 5: Move: 9", AC: 5, HP: 31/32
Mako: Khitan Easterner Illusionist 4: Move: 12", AC: 7(5), HP: 12/12, Spells: 2/3 1st lvl, 1/2 2nd lvl, Invisible
Xorzen: Verulian Osoran Monk 4: Move: 18", AC: 6, HP: 10/16, Invisible
Zahra: Verulian Amazon Fighter 4: Move: 12", AC: 3, HP: 24/29, Light spell on javelin
Cruloc: Cimmerian Northman Barbarian 3: Move: 12", AC: 4, HP: 37/45
Garrin: Argosian Atlantean Paladin 3: Move: 12", AC: 3(1), HP: 14/26, Laying Hands: 1/1
Loche: Pict Savage Thief 5: Move: 9", AC: 5, HP: 31/32
Mako: Khitan Easterner Illusionist 4: Move: 12", AC: 7(5), HP: 12/12, Spells: 2/3 1st lvl, 1/2 2nd lvl, Invisible
Xorzen: Verulian Osoran Monk 4: Move: 18", AC: 6, HP: 10/16, Invisible
Zahra: Verulian Amazon Fighter 4: Move: 12", AC: 3, HP: 24/29, Light spell on javelin
PC Magic:
Protection from Evil (Garrin): -2 to AC and +2 to saving throws against evil, in a 10 foot radius around Garrin.
Healing Mists of Osorus (Garrin, Kiri, Loche, Mako and Xorzen have breathed of the mists): All lost HP recovered with 8 hours of sleep. Wakeful rest, or sleeping less than 8 hours, enables recovery of 1 HP per hour. Duration: "months."
Invisibility x 2 (Mako): Target: self and Xorzen.
Slow Poison (Amethu): Target: Cruloc. Duration: 120 rounds.
Light (Mako): Target: Zahra's javelin. Duration: 18 rounds.
Healing Mists of Osorus (Garrin, Kiri, Loche, Mako and Xorzen have breathed of the mists): All lost HP recovered with 8 hours of sleep. Wakeful rest, or sleeping less than 8 hours, enables recovery of 1 HP per hour. Duration: "months."
Invisibility x 2 (Mako): Target: self and Xorzen.
Slow Poison (Amethu): Target: Cruloc. Duration: 120 rounds.
Light (Mako): Target: Zahra's javelin. Duration: 18 rounds.
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