The Drow War Book Two. The Dying Of - RoseRed

Skills & Feats: Diplomacy +6, Hide +11, Intimidate
+10, Listen +12, Search +10, Sense Motive +8, Spot
+12, Survival +2 (+4 following tracks); Alertness B ,
Blind-Fight, Combat Reflexes, Improved Initiative B .
Constitution Drain (Su): Living creatures hit by a
wraith’s incorporeal touch attack must succeed on a
Fortitude saving throw (DC 14) or be dealt 1d6 points of
Constitution drain. The saving throw DC is Charismabased.
On each such successful attack, the wraith gains
five temporary hit points.
Create Spawn (Su): Any humanoid slain by a wraith
becomes a wraith in 1d4 rounds. Its body remains intact
and inanimate, but its spirit is torn free from its corpse
and transformed. Spawn are under the command of the
wraith that created them and remain enslaved until its
death. They do not possess any of the abilities they had
in life.
Daylight Powerlessness (Ex): Wraiths are utterly
powerless in natural sunlight (not merely a daylight
spell) and flee from it.
Unnatural Aura (Su): Animals, whether wild or
domesticated, can sense the unnatural presence of a
wraith at a distance of 30 feet. They will not willingly
approach nearer than that and panic if forced to do so;
they remain panicked as long as they are within that
range.
Note: The above does not include the benefit of the
desecrate spell. When within the desecrated chapel,
the wraiths attack at +7 melee, deal 1d4+2 points of
damage plus 1d6 Constitution drain, and have 42 hit
points and the following saving throw bonuses: Fort +3,
Ref +6, Will +8.
Shikzen’s Divine Focus: This strangely primitivelooking
spider carving has been made from a piece of
black mineral that glows (if that is the right word!) with
darkness. It emits darkness as an ember emits light.
It has a strong aura of evil. Any character who has
seen tenebrium knows that the divine focus has been
made from that substance. In addition, any Starborn
present (which should be all of the Player Characters)
may make Intelligence checks (DC 15). Those who
succeed instinctively recognise the object as a piece of
the Abyssal Altar.
The obvious conclusion, which the players should be
left to figure out for themselves, is that the Abyssal Altar
is actually made from tenebrium. If the Conclave really
can come up with a device that emits energy specially
tuned to shatter tenebrium, perhaps it could be used to
destroy the Abyssal Altar itself!
11. Entrance to the Mine Complex
The passage here slopes downwards and the walls
become increasingly rough. At the end of the passage a
gate of metal bars stands open, with a heavy chain and
padlock hanging from it. In the room beyond you can
see a row of drow soldiers stationed behind a makeshift
barrier made from sandbags. The soldiers stand with
their backs to you, training heavy crossbows on the
area beyond.
From far off, the sound of battle reaches you. It echoes
up from the caves beyond the gate, so distorted by
distance that you cannot tell what direction it is coming
from.
The ten drow soldiers here are assisted by a warlock
(a wizard with fighter levels). They are holding this
area against a possible dwarf rush from the mine caves.
This is intended to be a fairly tough battle for the Player
Characters; the drow will not yield this position easily.
They are, however, expecting an attack from the other
direction, so the Player Characters have the advantage
of surprise, if they are wise enough to work with it. If
battle does break out, the warlock’s first action is to cast
haste on his comrades.
If the battle appears to be going in the drow’s favour, they
try to capture the Player Characters for interrogation,
inflicting nonlethal damage and then fetching manacles
from the storage room (Room 11a). If the drow appear
to be losing, they fall back into the mines, trying to meet
up with the main force at Area 15.
Anvil: Once the Player Characters can see the rest of
the room, they notice an anvil at the point marked with
an X. This is used to fit chains on the prisoners.
If the party members are above 17 th level on average,
the Games Master should increase the number of drow
soldiers to 14.
Soldiers, Drow War10 (10): CR 10; Medium humanoid
(elf ); HD 10d8; hp 45; Init +2; Spd 30 ft.; AC 12, touch
12, flat-footed 10; Base Atk +10; Grp +11; Atk +12
melee (1d10+1/x3, glaive) or +11 melee (1d6+1/18–20,
rapier) or +12 ranged (1d10/19–20, heavy crossbow);
Full Atk +12/+7 melee (1d10+1/x3, glaive) or +11/+6
melee (1d6+1/18–20, rapier) or +12 ranged (1d10/19–
20, heavy crossbow); SA poison, spell-like abilities; SQ
drow traits, spell resistance 21; AL NE; SV Fort +7,
Ref +5, Will +3; Str 13, Dex 14, Con 10, Int 12, Wis
10, Cha 10.
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