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Thinking that this entity might be able to help tow the village somewhere more hospitable – preferably all the way back to Chillhame – they examined it and found what seemed to be a furnace. Logs were thrown down from the village above and the Tyrant was activated. It ignored the villagers completely and strode off to the south, where it began to destroy the oases, trying to finish its task. Boskin’s Story: ‘We didn’t mean to wake it up! It were just that, well, there were a place in the back of it where you could put wood or coals, like… we knew, ‘cause there was ash still in there… so it were clear what you was meant to do with it… and we thought it were some kind of golem, that could maybe help us pull the village back down to earth, help the people get off. You can’t blame us for thinkin’ that! We weren’t to know it would go stompin’ off into the desert and start torchin’ the oasiseses! Now there’s these ruddy great bugs climbin’ over everything… I want to go home.’ The Village: If the Player Characters fly or climb up to Astercote to investigate it, they find it to be a perfectly ordinary little country village with a population of around 1,200 humans. The village wizard disappeared shortly after the place was wrenched into the air. He absconded by means of a fly spell and left the villagers to their fate, fearing that he would be lynched if he stayed around. The Stone of Caradeth: The megalith responsible for raising the village is in the cellar of the wizard’s house, which he has now abandoned. The villagers have not dared to come here, as they are too frightened of what they may find. The command words for the Stone are nowhere to be found. There is thus no way to bring the village gently back down to earth again. A dispel magic or antimagic field spell, if it can overcome the Stone’s CL of 30, will cause the village to drop out of the sky like a very big rock, dealing 20d6 points of falling damage to all creatures in it and burying them as if from a cave-in. Evacuating Astercote: The villagers of Astercote desperately want to get back home, or at least to a safe place. They have little food and water left, enough for two weeks at most. No good-aligned character should be willing to leave them to die. Towing the village is possible but requires the aid of a creature with a Strength of at least 30. The village is weightless while it is levitating but is so vast an object that inertia and buffeting winds make it hard to control. Hauling it down to earth still leaves a drop of some forty feet for the villagers to contend with because the underside of the island bulges out. Even if the Player Characters do find a way to bring the villagers down, they are still in the middle of a desert with no way to get back to civilisation and a monster on the loose. Eventually the Tyrant will come for Astercote, as it contains living plants. Evacuating the village is not be easy; if the Player Characters manage it, they should receive a story award equivalent to a CR 16 challenge. Location: The Ruins The ruined structures on top of the plateau give no indication of what they might once have been. There are only a few tumbled-down walls, the stump of a pillar here and there and loose blocks lying lopsided in the sand. The marks of many enormous legs and dragging bodies prove that the colossal scorpions you saw earlier have made this place their home. If appropriate, the Games Master can introduce more Colossal scorpions here (see above for statistics) or, if the Player Characters are sick of scorpions by now, they can just encounter the spoor. Crevice: This is the crack in the rocks where Boskin and Rummauld found the Tyrant. It is steep-sided, cut in a V shape into the side of the plateau. The Tyrant was wedged at the base, in the point of the V, concealed from view and partly buried in sand. There is a 30-foot drop down to the spot where it lay. Characters investigating this discover the imprint of the Tyrant’s massive body, but no clue as to where it may have gone. Event: The Burning Ghosts If the Player Characters are still among the ruins at nightfall, they may encounter the undead spirits that roam abroad, crying out for revenge so that they may move on to the next world and find peace. The ghosts that walk here are the shades of elven and human foresters who were slaughtered en masse when the Tyrant devastated the region a thousand years ago. They are terrifying to look at, as they still appear freshly burned, their bodies partly scorched and partly burned away by acid. The Tyrant’s re-awakening has stirred up the ghosts again. They want it destroyed forever. While it was dormant, so were they. Now that it walks once more, the plateau is seething with pale ghosts like a smashed termite mound. From afar they look like translucent human shapes wreathed in flame, hovering in the air like will-o-wisps. Ibon Presno Gonzalez (order #73006) 8 185
186 Many of these ghosts are mindless. They are not hostile, but they do not acknowledge the Player Characters at all, instead flying straight through them and keening mournfully. Some of the more stable ghosts speak to the Player Characters if approached. They explain (in slow, empty voices) the history of the land and tell the Player Characters how they died. Non-Player Character: The Tyrant The Tyrant of Brass is a gigantic figure that looks like an efreeti in armour. It depends upon heat to function, as it was crafted on the Elemental Plane of Fire. So long as its internal workings are kept immensely hot, it can use all of its abilities. It has an internal furnace powered by logs or coal, in case it needs to operate in conditions less broiling than those of its plane of origin. It cannot generate heat; it can only amplify it. If they are clever, the Player Characters may work out the Tyrant’s secret dependency on heat. It quickly burned up the fuel that the drow had placed in it but was kept going by the raging forest fires it had created. So long as the woods burned all around it, it could carry on burning more. Once the forest was destroyed it began to cool down. All it could do then was stagger to a hiding place and conceal itself, waiting for its masters to return and refuel it. The Tyrant currently has enough fuel to keep going for long enough to destroy all the remaining oases in the Desert of Sharn, most of which lie to the north. The Player Characters thus do not have the option of sitting back and waiting for it to fall over again. It must be stopped. Extinguishing the Tyrant: The Player Characters may try to open up the hatch on the Tyrant’s back, which would allow them to expose the internal furnace and quench it. This is extremely difficult to do, as the hatch is locked shut to prevent tampering. Smashing the lock off requires a sunder attempt in which the Tyrant gets a +10 circumstance bonus to its check. The lock has 20 hit points and a hardness of 9. Attempting to pick the lock is impossible while the Tyrant is moving. If it is immobilised somehow, a character can attempt to pick it with an Open Lock check (DC 40). If the Player Characters do succeed in opening the hatch, the fire inside should be treated as a separate creature with an Armour Class of 19. The Player Characters will have to deal a total of 20 points of cold damage to it to extinguish it, or else douse it with at least five gallons of water. Immersing the Tyrant completely in water also shuts it down, though the Player Characters will be hard pressed to find enough water to do this in the Desert of Sharn. The Tyrant of Brass: CR 18; Huge construct (extraplanar); HD 34d10+40; hp 227; Init –2; Spd 20 ft., AC 31, touch 6, flat-footed 31; Base Atk +25; Grp +48; Atk slam +38 melee (4d8+15 plus 1d6 fire); Full Atk 2 slams +38 melee (4d8+15 plus 1d6 fire); Space/ Reach 15 ft./15 ft.; SA acid cloud, breath weapon, heat; SQ construct traits, damage reduction 15/adamantine, darkvision 60 ft., immunity to magic, low-light vision; AL N; SV Fort +11, Ref +9, Will +11; Str 41, Dex 7, Con —, Int —, Wis 11, Cha 1. Acid Cloud (Su): The engineers of the Tyrant designed it as a weapon of terror to deploy against the Material Plane, during the reign of an efreeti sultan who had aspirations (never fulfilled) to conquer that realm. In addition to its fiery powers, the Tyrant was given the power to corrode and dissolve objects and creatures, so that where it had been there would be scorched earth and utter desolation. It has vents in its back that produce thick orange vapour with highly acidic properties. The Tyrant can fill any square through which it moves with acid fog without having to take an action to do so. It does this while moving, leaving the fog behind it in its wake. It may activate or suppress this ability at will. It cannot sustain fog emission while running, nor is it immune to the effects of its own fog. The acid fog functions as if produced as if by an 18 th level sorcerer. Breath Weapon (Su): Once every 1d4+1 rounds, as a free action, the tyrant may breathe out a 30-foot cone of flame that deals 6d8 fire damage. A Reflex saving throw (DC 27) is allowed for half damage. The save DC is Constitution-based. Heat (Ex): The Tyrant’s red-hot body deals 1d6 points of extra fire damage whenever it hits in melee, or in each round it maintains a hold when grappling. Immunity to Magic (Ex): The Tyrant is immune to any spell or spell-like ability that allows spell resistance. In addition, certain spells and effects function differently against the creature, as noted below. A magical attack that deals cold damage slows it (as the slow spell) for three rounds with no saving throw. A magical attack that deals fire damage breaks any slow effect on the Tyrant and heals one point of damage for each three points of damage the attack would otherwise deal. If the amount of healing would cause the Tyrant to exceed its full normal hit points, it gains any excess as temporary hit points. The Tyrant is not affected by rust attacks, such as that of a rust monster or a rusting grasp spell. Ibon Presno Gonzalez (order #73006) 8
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2 Introduction Welcome to The Drow
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4 island of Chillhame, then in the
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6 the past and old ghosts will retu
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8 It is likely that at some point o
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12 but it is considered very dishon
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14 for 1d3 hours after drinking. Ho
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16 Equipment & Treasure: Arrows (20
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18 dagger wounds in their chests. T
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20 break free. The control is also
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22 The people of Jehannum are not i
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24 Skills & Feats: Balance +11, Cli
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30 paws, adding cowardice and the p
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32 Across Unkown Oceans This chapte
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36 light slashing or piercing weapo
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38 Effects of the Vortex If they ar
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40 4. Hidden Entrance The main entr
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42 The One has a +8 racial bonus on
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44 Sahuagin Lacerators The lacerato
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46 other ships are sent out. Whole
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48 If a Harrier should die and his
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50 a hull, lacking any masts or sai
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58 Tizla Leaves These leaves are mi
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64 reduction 2/-, illiteracy, trap
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76 3. Desalinator Coils The air in
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82 If they decide to chase the Sea
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84 Special Qualities: Amphibious, c
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86 At Sunspite’s signal the crew
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92 Possessed By a Myrrik It is quit
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96 Crossroads of the World In this
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98 Non-Player Character Group: The
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102 SA death attack, ki strike (mag
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104 Deathblade Poison: Injury DC 20
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108 Ibon Presno Gonzalez (order #73
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110 Brexel commands the Shadow Trou
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118 Warriors of Winter Following ma
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120 Player Characters will understa
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122 Weremammoths (Frost Giant Lycan
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126 Foundation Keepers Those who un
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128 perfectly preserved bodies of h
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130 Background: Characters who can
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132 Location: The Glacial Peaks If
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