The Drow War Book Two. The Dying Of - RoseRed

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Paralysing Touch (Su): Any living creature that Yahg hits
with its touch attack must succeed on a Fortitude saving
throw (DC 27) or be permanently paralysed. Remove
paralysis or any spell that can remove a curse can free
the victim (see the bestow curse spell description). The
effect cannot be dispelled. Anyone paralysed by Yahg
seems dead, though a Spot check (DC 20) or a Heal
check (DC 15) reveals that the victim is still alive. The
save DC is Charisma-based.
Poison (Ex): Injury, Fortitude DC 27, initial and
secondary damage 1d8 Con. The save DC is Charismabased.
Spells: Yahg casts spells as a 7 th level sorcerer. It can
also cast spells from the cleric spell list and from the
Chaos and Evil domains as arcane spells. The cleric
spells and domain spells are considered arcane spells
for Yahg, meaning that it does not need a divine focus
to cast them.
Spells known (6/7/7/5, save DC 15 + spell level): 0 th
– cure minor wounds, daze, detect magic, mage hand,
open/close, ray of frost, read magic; 1 st – command,
divine favour, entropic shield, magic missile, shield of
faith; 2 nd – cat’s grace, invisibility, summon swarm; 3 rd
– displacement, fireball.
Yahg is a vast bony serpent with a fanged human
skull for a face, slithering among the dust and debris
of forgotten ages. Its body looks like the result of a
horribly botched mummification job. Swatches of
cloth are tied around some sections as if to hold them
together. Patches of crackling hide have been crudely
stitched in place with leather thongs. It speaks in an
archaic dialect of Common that requires an Intelligence
check (DC 15) to understand.
If it has heard the Player Characters coming, which is
likely given the amount of noise that opening the stone
slab makes, it casts invisibility and waits for them to
approach. The Player Characters will probably notice
the figure on the altar first (see below) and take it for
some kind of undead creature.
The Altar of the Maggot God: The southern end of
the temple features an altar upon a raised stone dais,
where a composite figure sits with its arms raised and
snakelike coils beneath. This is a hideous composite
mummy made from the lower part of a giant snake and
the torso of a human male. Unlike the other creatures in
the Mound, it is merely dead and not undead. It gleams
golden in the radiance of the Player Characters’ light
sources; the whole thing has been covered with thick
gold foil and ornamented with jewels.
Some of the mummy’s ornaments are valueless, or
apparently so. It wears earrings of looped bone, a girdle
made from the skulls of dozens of small rodents and
(for some unknown reason connected to the cult) has a
tongue made from iron in its mouth. Strung around the
mummy’s neck is a string of prayer beads that seems
to be ordinary but is in fact a greater strand of prayer
beads.
A character who takes the time to pick off all of the
precious metals and jewels, which takes about three
hours, can retrieve 500 gold pieces’ worth of gold and
an assortment of gems: 230 worth ten gold pieces each,
47 worth 50 gold pieces each and two small ruby lenses
covering the eyes, worth 1,100 gold pieces each.
Yahg’s Phylactery: The lich-naga concealed its
phylactery – a mere clay tablet covered with magical
scrawls into which diamond dust has been mixed – in
the column marked with an X. As this column was
sealed up and plastered over, there is no door to find,
so attempts to find secret doors do not work. A Search
check (DC 30), that includes tapping, detects that the
column is hollow.
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