The Drow War Book Two. The Dying Of - RoseRed

The cold here is severe (see the DMG) and causes
damage to creatures who are not adequately protected.
This is the home plane of many of the outsiders the
Player Characters have encountered so far, including
the skitterjinxes, the windshapers and the whiteladies.
The sculptures are to mark the rift and have no magical
effect. The denizens of the plane stay away from the
rift, not wishing to be trapped on an alien world.
Wandering from this point is likely to get the Player
Characters lost in an endless wilderness of white.
The only creatures they encounter are a pack of four
skitterjinxes who attempt to trick them into wandering
away from the gate so that they can steal their
possessions.
20. The Necropolis
The moment you step beyond the gateway you smell the
unmistakable odours of damp, mould and turned earth
that signify a freshly opened tomb. The gateway has led
you to a low vaulted corridor with low niches set into
the walls like shelves. Each of these contains a stone
sarcophagus large enough to contain a single body.
The corridor runs on as far as you can see, with coffin
after coffin laid end-to-end into the distance. This must
be some immense storehouse of the dead.
The Player Characters can explore this labyrinth if
they wish. They are inside a single edifice the size of
a small city, with millions of biers holding the remains
of the dead. None of the coffins is marked and each
one contains a skeleton, whole or piecemeal. These
skeletons are those of elves, humans, halflings and other
familiar humanoid races. Once the Player Characters
have explored for a while, the following happens:
You hear the sound of echoing steps, and a figure comes
into view at the end of the corridor, dragging a sack.
The figure is a large humanoid made from black stone,
with the face of a mourning angel.
If statistics are needed for this creature, the Games
Master should use those of a stone golem; however,
it does not attack. It carries a sack of bones which it
carefully deposits into coffins that were previously
empty. If it notices the Player Characters, it hails them
and asks their business here ‘on a dead world’. The
Player Characters can learn the following:
The world on which they have arrived is dead. The
Player Characters are the only truly living things
here. Only constructs move among the remains. The
world’s population perished in a mighty war against
the followers of a force called the Dark. Both sides
were eventually annihilated and the Dark scoured the
remaining life from the planet’s surface.
The stone creature is a gravewarden, created by the
former living occupants of this world to perform the duty
of entombing the dead. It and its fellow gravewardens
have spent the last 70,000 years building this tomb from
the stones of dismantled cities. Every day they go out
and collect the dead, then bring them back here to their
places of rest. It is all they know how to do.
The Player Characters may attempt to contact the spirits
of the dead. If successful, they can learn that the Dark
manifested itself in physical form on this world towards
the end of the great war and enclosed the place in a
globe of living darkness that blotted out the sun. This
foreshadows the events of The Drow War, Book Three:
The Darkest Hour. It should be obvious that the fate of
this world is going to be shared by Ashfar if the Player
Characters are unsuccessful in their quest.
Unusual Creatures of the Cold Waste
The gateways in Bastirak’s citadel have released
extraplanar creatures into the world of Ashfar. Some
of these were deliberately brought back and released
to see how they would fare, while others escaped from
captivity or came through open gates on their own
initiative. As a result, the Waste is now infested with
strange and terrible beings not found anywhere else on
the planet.
Arctic Light
Small Aberration (Air)
Hit Dice: 18d8 (81 hp)
Initiative: +13
Speed: Fly 50 ft. (10 squares) (perfect)
Armour Class: 32 (+1 size, +9 Dex, +12 deflection),
touch 32, flat-footed 23
Base Attack/Grapple: +13/+4
Attack: Shock +23 melee touch (2d8 electrical)
Full Attack: Shock +23 melee touch (2d8 electrical)
Space/Reach: 5 ft./5 ft.
Special Attacks: Electrical aura, electrical detonation,
headflame, spell-like abilities
Special Qualities: Darkvision 60 ft., electrical
conductivity, immunity to electrical damage, immunity
to magic, obvious, shimmer
Saves: Fort +6, Ref +15, Will +15
Abilities: Str 1, Dex 29, Con 10, Int 15, Wis 18, Cha
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