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+4 ghost touch dagger; AL CN; Int 10, Wis 14, Cha 14; Speech, 120-ft. vision and hearing; Ego 15. Lesser Powers: Spot 10 ranks, Listen 10 ranks. Special Purpose: Defeat/slay non-spellcasters. Dedicated Power: Can use crushing despair. Personality: Nightwatch was forged to protect the young sorcerers of Kandang’s royal line. When on expeditions into the wild, they would drive the dagger into the ground and the unblinking eye would keep watch for them, alerting the designated wielder to any danger. Many noble lives have been saved by the weapon’s diligence; its harsh, metallic voice barks out a warning when it sees an enemy hiding in the shadows or a trap waiting to be sprung. Strong divination: CL 15 th . Note for the Games Master: If the Player Characters have Azarak with them, this final encounter may well be too easy. To increase the challenge, the Games Master may do any of the following: have Zamelak, if she is still alive, come to Bastirak’s aid (this is especially effective if she is already with the party, as she can turn traitor); give Bastirak two ice devils as bodyguards; have two devourers emerge from the gate to Noctulos, smash through the ice sheet and attack. The Ice: The ice is thin and fragile as well as slippery. Characters who place heavy weights on it risk breaking the surface. It can support weights of 33lb. or less without danger. A weight of 100 to 150 pounds has a 50% chance per round to break the ice. A weight of 151 to 300 pounds has an 80% chance per round to break the ice and any weight heavier than this automatically breaks it. Characters who are standing on ice when it breaks must make Reflex saving throws (DC 20) or fall through into the water beneath. Bastirak likes to catch foes floundering in the water with freezing sphere. Beneath the ice is a 60-foot shaft filled with ice-cold water. 20 feet below the surface is a swirling vortex of livid black and purple energies, the source of the motion that the Player Characters can see above the ice. This is the gateway to Noctulos, which Bastirak has cunningly concealed. Noctulos is dealt with in a subsequent chapter, Following Darkness Like a Dream. The Skull: The skull is all that remains of Azarak’s mother, a red dragon. Bastirak has kept it as a souvenir. Secreted within it are three gleaming treasures: a golden belt buckle (worth 1,200 gold pieces), a pectoral ornament in the shape of a falcon with spread wings (worth 1,000 gold pieces) and a sword hilt decorated with knotwork patterns (worth 1,400 gold pieces). An Appraise, Bardic Lore or Knowledge (history) check (DC 20) identifies these as grave-goods of the kind that used to be buried with tribal chieftains in places like Jehannum and Visk, about two thousand years ago. If the Player Characters return these to the chattermen, they gratefully return to their snowy graves. The Coffer: Inside the coffer are the skeletal remains and smashed skull of the lich Venderesc, kept by Bastirak partly as a trophy and partly because he fears the lich may reanimate and come back to claim the circlet. Venderesc is quite dead but Bastirak remains paranoid. The Planar Gateways The tunnels leading away from the Cyst end in planar rifts. These are ragged, blurry-edged holes in reality leading into other planes of existence. Bronderbok the planespider has woven its anchoring webs across them but the Player Characters can easily break these and enter the various planes. However, breaking the webbing may alert Bronderbok, who will not be at all pleased. The following sections allow the Player Characters to explore bizarre alternate realities and learn important information. None of this section is crucial to the campaign, nor do the different planes offer much in the way of traditional adventuring of the ‘combat and treasure’ kind. Each plane is deliberately constructed so that the Player Characters cannot travel far from the entry point. Their main purpose is to allow a complete break from the kind of adventures that the Player Characters have had up until now while supplying some interesting hints for the future. 14. The Halls of the Apathy Gods Beyond the gateway is a gigantic hallway, the roof many hundreds of feet above you, the walls held up by grey pillars. The air smells stale and tired. Slumped on thrones the size of houses are ten Colossal beings dressed in togas and crowned with withered laurels. They are all male, with beards down to their knees, seemingly endless hair tangled over everything and long fingernails that spiral in horrid corkscrew lengths. Their expressions are of utter boredom and apathy. They barely register your presence. The Player Characters can attempt to talk to these beings but the only answer is a disinterested groan. This is a group of deities who have been confined to their (extremely limited) universe for so long that they have given up on immortality altogether. There is nothing left to create, nothing to do, nothing to say. Ibon Presno Gonzalez (order #73006) 8 153
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2 Introduction Welcome to The Drow
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32 Across Unkown Oceans This chapte
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