The Drow War Book Two. The Dying Of - RoseRed

Spells prepared (4/4/3/3, save DC 12 + spell level): 1 st
– disguise self, ghost sound, feather fall, true strike; 2 nd
– cat’s grace, invisibility, spider climb, undetectable
alignment; 3 rd – false life, misdirection, nondetection;
4 th – clairaudience/clairvoyance, greater invisibility,
modify memory.
Equipment & Treasure: +4 dagger of elf bane, amulet
of proof against detection and location (fashioned to
look like an ornament on a slave collar), drow blade
venom (3 doses).
Event: Completing the Mission
In order to succeed, the Player Characters have to
cripple the factory and prevent the Ironclads from being
deployed against the allied forces. There are several
ways in which they can do this.
Storm Spirit Goes Critical: If the Player Characters
feed Jien Zun Dum a massive overdose of charged
mercury, he swells and glows with the brilliance of a
dozen suns and his cage bars begin to melt. Exactly ten
rounds later, the storm spirit explodes, sending waves
of fire and lightning through the base, bringing down
ceilings, collapsing walls and killing every creature
present.
Spanner in the Works: Sabotaging the machines
(for example, by disintegrate) sets the manufacturing
process back severely. The duergar can build more
but it is not possible to have them ready in time for the
invasion of Crom Calamar. However, any Ironclads
that have already been built can be deployed, so this is
only a partial victory.
Smash the Machines: There are several ways to render
the Ironclads unusable. The Player Characters can
physically smash them to bits, though this takes a long
time. More inventive means, such
as the use of transmute rock to mud
and transmute mud to rock to embed
them in granite, are preferable.
Given that the drow have archmagi
on their side, the Games Master
must assess whether the Player
Characters’ methods truly cripple
the Ironclads or just make them
harder to retrieve. If the drow can
get any of the Ironclads back, they
will. Rannirak believes that the
drow cannot win without them,
because of his prophetic vision.
Event: Failing the Mission
Without the possibility of failure,
victory is meaningless. The Games
Master should make it clear to the
players that failure is an option. If
the party is wiped out, the Conclave
can use magic to bring them back
to Xoth Sarandi and have them
restored to life at the Node, but by
then the advantage of surprise will
have been lost and the Dolorous
Peak will have triple the number
of guards, outside and inside.
If the mission is failed, Rannirak
has the Ironclads moved to Crom
Calamar, ready to send against the
forces that he knows are coming.
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