Beneath the Forbidden City of the Dead, Pictland, the World of Hyboria
Day Nine. Morning. 19th day of the month of Qrot, 1280th year of the Age of Aquilonia
Dawn comes to the ruins of Thracia, lost forever to antiquity.
Far below the dead city, the explorers turn their backs on the rising sun and descend into the black depths of the mysterious underworld.
Here, long ago in vaults buried deep, had once existed the greatest library on Earth. Verulia's lost past would be found here, along with treasures beyond imagining... it is hoped.
Zahra notches the stone to mark the secret passage.
Amethu, the budding scholar of Atlantean lore, scrutinizes the dark walls and discerns faint etchings among the cracks and crags. The style is the same brutal hand observed earlier, of that dark Thracian epoch after the destruction of Atlantis.
The horrific tableau depicts Thracia fallen into death worship, chaos and ruin after the apocalypse of the world's greatest civilization.
Farther down the vertiginous steps, the etched city has become Hell, a subterranean, supernatural netherworld where walk the souls of the departed for all eternity. A ferryman carries the newly deceased across a river that divides the world of the living from the world of the dead. The crude carvings inspire haunting visions within the minds of the explorers:
At last, they reach the bottom of the stairway and Kiri's spectral torch guides them deeper into Pandemonium.
The stone corridor turns north. Zahra peers around the corner and the hovering, ghostly flame reveals a great cave and a rope bridge extending out across an abyss!
The sound of a river echoes in the cavern, but of the ferryman there is no sign.
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Map:
One square = 10 feet. Lighter areas are visible, all else is from memory.
PC Status:
Cruloc: Cimmerian Northman Barbarian 3: Move: 12", AC: 4, HP: 44/45
Dahinna: Zamoran Southwoman Thief 4: Move: 12", AC: 4, HP: 17/19
Grigor: Zamoran Nomad Cleric/Fighter 3/3: Move: 9", AC: 1, HP: 29/29, Spells: 4/4 1st lvl, 2/2 2nd lvl
Iago: Zingaran Southman Fighter 4: Move: 12", AC: 2, HP: 30/32
Kiri Khutan: Kambujan Easterner Fighter/Magic-User 3/3: Move: 9", AC: 3, HP: 21/21, Spells: 2/3 1st lvl, 1/1 2nd lvl, Torch, near Zahra
Zahra: Verulian Amazon Fighter 4: Move: 12", AC: 3, HP: 26/29
Gnasher: Grigor's Hound: Move: 12", AC: 5, HD: 2+2, HP: 11/11, AT: 1, D: 1-4
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