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In the skeletal fingers is a jade bowl filled with a red liquid. Floating in the liquid is a milky-white orb. The orb is the eye of a cyclops, floating in nd wine. If a PC peers into the bowl, the eye opens. Chaotic characters suffer no ill effect, but lawful or neutral PCs who fail a save vs. spell turn and wander away in carfvsion for an hour. If anyone swallows even a drop of the wine and fails to save vs. poison, he is immediately affected with prophesy; every danger the party will encounter in the remaining adventures is revealed to him. An instant later he goes totally mad with the knowledge. A heal spell. cast by a 15th- or higher-level priest will cure the mad- ness, but he will be permanently feebleminded (INT 3, WIS 3). 1 The Temple of Amnissos The bowl, wine, and eye together form thg Hesper. The whole thing must be brought out intact;ifthewineiss~ortkeeyeremoved, the device will no longer function. Behina the drapery is a carrion crawler's tunnel. If the monster was rsot killed earlier,& attadrs the finst PC who crawls into thetunnel. If a character tries to hring the HespW&w&h these narrOWtunnels,the~~rrmstmaLem4DexbRitg checks befoEreachmg,an exit. Anyfaihupmearrs thewinespills. ConChrdingtheAdventure To retutn to the Autarch's palace, PCs must stand under open sky, then smash the crystal globe given to them by the VizKT.fhis.trigps a retrersedsucc~rspeU, summoningthe\iizierpthe PCs. He then telq;rwts everyone back to the palace. I I 11
The lower Their first task completed, the vizier takes the Hesper from the characters and disappears. The PCs should now zest until they have fully recov- ered from their temple ordeal. They are allowed to replace any damaged weapons and armor with new equipment from the Autarch's supply. They can also store whatever treasure they re- covered from the tomb, with no questions asked. When they are ready, they are once again shown to the vizier's quarters. "The tower is home to an ancient being known as the Lord of Eternal Night," he begins. "Ages ago he overwhelmed and utterly defeated the tower's inhabitants and took control of the Fusces, a powerful trio of magical rods. But as punishment from an ancient god for his unspeakable crimes against the innocents he slaughtered, he is &le to leave his black bne. 12 High winds and storms have deposited nearly 2 feet of sand on the Tow- roof, A 1 or 2 on a d8 indicates that one FC notices a depression in the sand. Underneath is a trap door, and the characters must dig in a %foot circle to get to it. The door is decorated with mosaic tiles in an evil magical symbol 50 powerful khat everyone whosees it mstsavevs. spell or be seized with such fear he will refuse to be the first to enter any mom of the tower. One tile in the mosaic is a different color than the rest; it is a switch that operates a spiral stone staircase that descends into the tower. If the tile is pressed once, the staircase drops into the darkness below. When it is pressed twice rapidly, the stone steps close. The staircase descends only one level at a time. The adventurers must search each level for the hidden switches that lower the steps.
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Page 16 and 17: The cabochon that activates the sta
Page 18 and 19: Level Three Your descent ends in a
Page 20 and 21: As the PCs enter the kitchen, a fla
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Page 26 and 27: The other hands scurry away, disapp
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