The Drow War Book Two. The Dying Of - RoseRed

Skills & Feats: Concentration +48, Diplomacy
+49, Escape Artist +40, Hide +24, Intimidate +45,
Knowledge (history) +45, Listen +47, Move Silently
+40, Sense Motive +45, Search +45, Spot +47, Swim
+21; Alertness, Blind-Fight, Cleave, Flyby Attack,
Hover, Improved Critical (bite), Improved Initiative,
Multiattack, Power Attack, Snatch, Weapon Focus
(bite), Weapon Focus (claw), Wing Over
Breath Weapon (Su): Scallandriax’s breath weapon is a
line of acid 140 ft. in length, 5 ft. wide and 5 ft. high. It
deals 24d4 acid damage, with a Reflex saving throw for
half damage (DC 36).
Crush (Ex): See above. Saving throw DC is 36; the
damage is 4d8+24. The crush only affects creatures of
Large size or smaller.
Frightful Presence (Su): See above. The saving throw
DC is 33 and the ability affects creatures with fewer
than 40 Hit Dice within 360 feet.
Tail Sweep (Ex): As above. Half-circle radius is 40 feet,
the sweep affects creatures of Medium size or smaller
and it automatically deals 2d8+24 damage. Affected
creatures can attempt Reflex saving throws to take half
damage (DC 36).
Water Breathing (Ex): Scallandriax can breathe
underwater indefinitely and can freely use its breath
weapon, spells, and other abilities while submerged.
Corrupt Water (Sp): Once per day Scallandriax can
stagnate ten cubic feet of water, making it become still,
foul, and unable to support animal life. The ability
spoils liquids containing water. Magic items (such
as potions) and items in a creature’s possession must
succeed on a Will saving throw (DC 33) or become
fouled. This ability is the equivalent of a 1 st level spell,
with a range of 360 feet.
Charm Reptiles (Sp): Scallandriax can use this ability
three times per day. It works as a mass charm spell
that affects only reptilian animals. It can communicate
with any charmed reptiles as though casting a speak
with animals spell. This ability is the equivalent of a
1 st level spell.
Other Spell-Like Abilities: 3/day: darkness (radius 120
feet), insect plague; 1/day: plant growth.
Spells: Scallandriax casts spells as a 15 th level
sorcerer.
Spells Known (6/8/7/7/7/7/6/4; save DC 15 + spell
level): 0 th – read magic, resistance, guidance, flare,
touch of fatigue, detect magic, mage hand, open/close,
ray of frost; 1 st – entropic shield, shield of faith, true
strike, ray of enfeeblement, expeditious retreat; 2 nd
– blur, ghoul touch, invisibility, cure moderate wounds,
silence; 3 rd – dispel magic, protection from energy,
stinking cloud, displacement; 4 th – stoneskin, black
tentacles, dimension door, cure critical wounds; 5 th
– cloudkill, dominate person, baleful polymorph,
telekinesis; 6 th – chain lightning, mislead, disintegrate;
7 th – forcecage, reverse gravity.
Mopping Up
The battle is all but over and the bodies of the dead lie
in heaps in the streets. Drow, human and dwarf blood
mingles in the gutters. Brigades of drow soldiers search
through the ruins for survivors. The healthy are taken
captive, while the wounded are dispatched with a quick
crossbow bolt in the eye.
The upper city still holds firm but the drow do not
seem to care. There is not much the Iron Dukes can
do up there and they have only a fraction of the forces
they would need to retake the city. Instead of trying to
invade the upper city, the drow station a large force on
the Shadrill Stair, keeping the Iron Dukes prisoners in
their own fortified sanctuary.
By now the Player Characters should have left for the
Inn of Green Embers to meet their contact. If the Player
Characters are still in the city at this stage, they had
better have a very good reason for staying. The longer
they remain, the more likely it is that Rannirak will scry
their location and send something more deadly than
Gugloth after them.
During this phase, the Player Characters can encounter
the following situations:
• His identity concealed by a swift disguise and his
pockets bulging with gems, Bomber Haggon tries to
flee the city. He claims that he did not want to leave
his business while the battle was still undecided.
Now that the drow are victorious, he is taking what
he can carry and running. The Player Characters
recognise him (or he recognises them) and he tries to
bargain for help to get out of Crom Calamar.
• With the gates in drow hands, the Player Characters
will be hard pressed to find a way out of the city.
They can clearly see Scallandriax breathing acid
on people who try to fly over the walls; the halfdissolved
bodies that fall out of the sky should put
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