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(Conjuration), Spell Focus (Evocation), Spell Focus (Illusion), Spell Penetration, Weapon Finesse. Spells prepared (4/5/5/5/5/4/4/3/3/2, save DC 14 + spell level): 0 th – detect magic, message, read magic, resistance; 1 st – charm person, magic missile, shield, true strike (2); 2 nd – acid arrow, cat’s grace, fox’s cunning, mirror image, web; 3 rd – blink, dispel magic, fireball, sleet storm, slow; 4 th – black tentacles, greater invisibility, resilient sphere, stoneskin, wall of fire; 5 th – summon monster V, transmute rock to mud, wall of force, waves of fatigue; 6 th – globe of invulnerability, greater dispel magic, mislead, repulsion; 7 th – forcecage, mass hold person, project image; 8 th – iron body, maze, summon monster VIII; 9 th – meteor swarm, time stop. Arcane Fire (Su): Bezenkai can change arcane spell energy into arcane fire, manifesting it as a bolt of raw magical energy. The bolt is a ranged touch attack with long range (440 feet) that deals 1d6 points of damage plus 1d6 points of damage per level of the spell used to create the effect. Familiar: Bezenkai’s familiar is Kronk, a raven. Equipment & Treasure: +4 rapier of speed, +3 hand crossbow, crossbow bolts (10), drow blade venom, key to maintenance room, key to testing area, robe of the archmagi (black), staff of transmutation (34 charges). The bonuses from these items have been factored in already, with the exception of the +2 bonus to caster level checks made to overcome creatures’ spell resistance. Kronk (Raven): CR –; Tiny Magical Beast; HD 1/4 d8 (22 hp); Init +2; Spd 10 ft., fly 40 ft. (average); AC 23, touch 14, flat-footed 21; Base Atk +8; Grp –5; Atk +12 melee (1d2–5, claws); Full Atk +12 melee (1d2–5, claws); Space/Reach 2-1/2 ft./0 ft.; SA deliver touch spells; SQ empathic link, improved evasion, lowlight vision, share spells, speak with birds, speak with master, spell resistance 22; AL N; SV Fort +5, Ref +7, Will +14; Str 1, Dex 15, Con 10, Int 14, Wis 14, Cha 6. Skills & Feats: Concentration +18, Decipher Script +11, Knowledge (arcana) +20, Knowledge (architecture and engineering) +11, Knowledge (history) +11, Knowledge (the planes) +11, Listen +5, Spellcraft +18, Spot +7; Alertness, Weapon Finesse B . Speak Undercommon (Su): Kronk can speak the Undercommon tongue. Non-Player Character: Jien Zun Dum the Storm Spirit The storm spirit has been held captive in this specially wrought duergar cage for six months. It is not very intelligent but it does understand anger. The cage prevents escape; all it can do is rage and hurl electric wrath against the bars of its prison. The duergar bottle this electricity and power the machines with it. Statistics are not given for Jien Zun Dum, as it is essentially a minor deity. While it is imprisoned, it cannot return to its own plane. If it wholly discharged itself, it could discorporate and escape that way, but the duergar have allowed for this. They regularly ‘feed’ it with ampoules of magically charged mercury, which refresh its powers of lightning production. If Jien Zun Dum were not fed, it would expend itself and escape; if it were fed too much, it would become strong enough to deliver all of its stored electricity in one immense explosion and break the cage. The Player Characters can attempt to communicate with the spirit. It has an effective Intelligence of 6. It wants to get out but does not know how this could be achieved. The Cage: The cage is made from magically reinforced steel. It has a +20 resistance bonus to saving throws against magic and a hardness of 20. Maintenance Room The door to this room is kept wizard locked; Archmage Bezenkai is the caster. This small room is lined with shelves of plain dark wood and has a single workbench which resembles an alchemy lab. The work here seems to involve filling glass shells with mercury. The shelves hold books with peeling leather covers and a single unremarkable wooden box. This is where the storm spirit’s mercury ampoules are prepared. Every day, Bezenkai drops one down the metal tube and into the spirit’s body, where it is absorbed. The Books: The tomes are rare volumes on monsters of the various planes, theology and extraplanar magic. They all have bookplates in the front that identify them as the property of Archmage Bezenkai. A character searching through the books and making a successful Knowledge (arcana) check (DC 30) or Ibon Presno Gonzalez (order #73006) 8 235
236 Knowledge (the planes) check (DC 25) turns up the following paragraph, which has been highlighted in the margin: Also there be the Storm Spirits, that do Dwell in the Places of Ayr, that are of little Wit but prodigious Might. Legend saith that the great Interlocutor, a Mechanical Contrivance built by wise Carbiliocarb of fabled Zunt, was driven by one of these Spirits that the aforesaid Mage had trapp’d therein. Others tell of the inexhaustible Chariot of Glorion, by which he roved from City to City in the time of Burning Dust. This, he claimed, was propell’d by Bottled Lightning, drawn from the substance of the Storm Spirit that dwell’d in his Tower. When it was demanded of him how the Storm Spirit could continue to manifest Lightning, when any normal Cloud would be swiftly exhausted, Glorion tapp’d his nose and did say that a Storm fed on a diet of Mercury properly prepared grows ever blacker and fatter. The Box: The box holds 20 ampoules of charged mercury. They radiate strong Transmutation magic. Dropping them all down the feeding tube into the storm spirit causes it to ‘go critical’ and explode (see Finishing the Mission, below). Lightning Vessels The double doors to this room are made from darkwood and are locked, unless opened with an Open Lock check (DC 30). This crescent-shaped room has circular stone pedestals set at regular intervals. Each one bears a glass bell jar around three feet high, full of what looks like a miniature thunderstorm. The jars light up the area like a sky full of silent blue fireworks. This is where the surplus bottled lightning is stored. The duergar keep the room full of these spare ‘batteries’ in case the machines burn too much power or there is a problem with the storm spirit. Fine Crafts Workshop This area has been set up as a workshop, but there is no industrial clamour here. Instead, male drow bend over workbenches, their hair tied back, magnifying monocles screwed into their eyes. They are working on fine and delicate objects: some grind crystal lenses, some wind fine silver wire around carbon rods, some carefully distil alchemical fluids. There are eight of these craftsmen in all, working in pairs. Two more drow, wearing dark purple robes, supervise them carefully. The eight workers are drow master craftsmen; the supervisors are war-mages. They are manufacturing the ‘brains’ of the Ironclads and other special components, such as the fire and ice emitters and the poison gas vents. The Equipment: The materials needed for this project are rare and precious. Characters who take the time to plunder all of the jewels, metals and other valuables here can garner the following: • 30,000 gold pieces’ worth of precious metals in ingot form (silver, gold, platinum). • 14 diamond lenses worth 1,000 gold pieces each. • Four large sapphires worth 3,500 gold pieces each. Consecration Temple From the cloth hangings on the wall that depict the goddesses She and Arkady, attended by the wickedly grinning Arosi and the pale, crimson-eyed god Jubb, you can tell that this area is a temple of sorts. More precisely, it seems to be an emptied-out factory room that has been converted into a temple. The altar is a block of grey stone, with ominous crimson stains and melted-down candle stubs testifying to recent use. In the room’s centre, a magic circle of some sort has been marked out in green, slightly luminous paint. An Ironclad sits in the circle, as if it had been summoned there. Two female drow wearing loose ritual garments are carefully anointing it with oils from a flask. These senior priestesses are preparing to activate the latest Ironclad to come off the production lines. If the Player Characters watch to see what happens, they activate the Ironclad with a ritual (which leaves one of the priestesses exhausted, as she has just lost several thousand experience points) and call for a pilot to come and drive the craft to the testing area. Testing Area The doors to this zone are made from stone and are kept locked; they can be opened with an Open Lock check (DC 30). The pilots carry keys, as does Archmage Bezenkai. Unlike the rest of the complex, these caves seem to be natural. The air feels damp and cold. There is a smell of burned hair coming from somewhere nearby. 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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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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34 and electricity 10, spider climb
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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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84 Special Qualities: Amphibious, c
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86 At Sunspite’s signal the crew
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88 creatures, no two of which can b
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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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102 SA death attack, ki strike (mag
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104 Deathblade Poison: Injury DC 20
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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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130 Background: Characters who can
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132 Location: The Glacial Peaks If
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134 Surrounding the citadel are sta
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138 6. The Tropical Garden As you e
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144 ways to create one. A dagger to
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146 Fellraven: +4 keen scythe; AL N
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152 The Family Azarak, Zamelak and
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156 ‘The dark ones, little dark o
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158 Skills: Bluff +22, Diplomacy +3
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162 Special Qualities: All-around v
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164 Special Qualities: Construct tr
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166 Misdirection (Sp): To put hunte
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170 Tyrant of Brass This adventure
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174 The Destriers of Heaven The Sun
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176 News from Jehannum The merchant
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180 Moch and Krunna, Mummy Lords, C
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182 Paralysing Touch (Su): Any livi
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