The Drow War Book Two. The Dying Of - RoseRed

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perfectly preserved bodies of human women, themselves
as pale as the ice around you. As you observe them,
you realise that they are not corpses after all. They are
moving in the ice, swimming slowly as if it were water.
At each point marked 7a there are two whiteladies
present, one on each side of the passage. If the Player
Characters are lower than 15 th level on average, the
Games Master should have one of the whiteladies stay
out of the fight until later.
The whiteladies are curious to see what is happening
above. They are responding either to the Player
Characters’ presence or to that of the skitterjinxes,
who were poking around down here before the Player
Characters arrived. They swim through the ice and into
the passageway, then begin to drift through the cellars.
If the whiteladies have reason to believe that the Player
Characters are hostile, they remain in the ice and watch
fearfully. If the Player Characters try to dig them out,
one of them swims off to alert the Grun.
The whiteladies use the ice walls to move about and
watch the Player Characters while remaining safe (or so
they think). The Player Characters should feel almost
as though they are in an aquarium, with sinister white
figures staring at them from behind the glassy surfaces.
7b. Guardian of the Brood
This chamber seems to be the heart of the ice labyrinth.
Steps lead down from all sides into a sea of freezing
fog. The mists are thick in the air here, rippling out
from the centre of the room like water from a fountain.
You cannot tell what lies under the cloudy layer but it is
clearly the source of all this mist.
The steps lead down into an amphitheatre-like area,
currently full of mist from the Grun’s mist shroud. The
Grun is hunched, silent, under the mists. Nearby, a tenfoot-square
shaft drops down to the queen’s chamber
(Room 8). The Grun uses its mist shroud to keep this
hidden.
If the Player Characters threaten the whiteladies, the
Grun lumbers off to attack them. The whiteladies do not
attack alongside it, which should make the encounter
more survivable. If the Grun falls, however, one of the
whiteladies attempts to finish the Player Characters off,
trusting that the icy detonation has crippled them.
7c. Shaft
This shaft is coated with ice. It drops down and slopes
gently, so that the bottom is out of sight.
The shaft is 30 feet deep, with slick slippery walls. It
leads down into the whitelady queen’s egg chamber
(see below).
8. The Monstrous Mother
You cannot tell what use this cavern was put to when the
giants lived here. Its purpose now is all too clear. This
is an egg chamber. Pearly-white eggs three feet high
stand in clutches against the walls. Nearby, coiling
upon itself, is a grotesque creature, woman from the
waist up and a centipede-like travesty from the waist
down. Its bloated lower body means that there are
surely more eggs to come.
This is the whitelady queen. She viciously attacks the
Player Characters if they threaten her eggs. So long
as they refrain from damaging the eggs and do not
attack her, she holds back and parleys. If the Player
Characters think to communicate with her, they may
learn the following:
• Grommen’s bag is down here, with its interesting
contents. He must have flung it down here before
the band of giants left for good. The queen is willing
to trade it to the Player Characters in exchange for
something of similar value. She is, in fact, willing
to give it up in return for being left undisturbed, but
the Player Characters should not know this at first.
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