The Drow War Book Two. The Dying Of - RoseRed

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creatures, no two of which can be more than 30 feet
apart); Search DC 34; Disable Device DC 34.
2. Ossuary
This chamber reeks of death – not just the foul fish-like
stench of something that has lain rotting in the water
for years but the stifling, sickly smell of embalming
fluid or putrid flower petals. Before you there stretches
a hallway with stone pews on either side, as if for some
great assembly or church service. If so, it is a service
for the dead, because the pews are full of limbless
skeletons, hundreds of them, huddled against one
another. They are clearly not the remains of humans, as
their eye sockets gape wide enough for a man’s fist and
their crania have a bony ridge like a shark’s fin.
From the sheer number of Myrrik skeletons in this
room, one might think that there had been an act of
mass ritual slaughter in the city’s final hours. In fact, the
Myrrik in this chamber were more at peace than those
left outside in the city streets. They waited patiently in
their appointed places until the Animus Operative came
for them. When their souls were transferred into the
stone eggs, their empty bodies simply collapsed and
eventually starved to death.
2a: There is another magical trap here, this time a mind
fog trap to soften up exploring creatures’ minds before
they enter the Animus Operative’s chamber.
Mind fog trap: CR 6; magic device; proximity trigger
(alarm); automatic reset; spell effect (mind fog, 9 th level
wizard, Will saving throw (DC 17) negates); Search DC
31; Disable Device DC 31.
3. The Animus Operative
This chamber must at one time have been a workshop.
The soapstone workbenches covered with unrecognisable
tools, twists of silvery wire and pieces of curved glass
give you no indication of what was built here or why.
If the Animus Operative has not already been
encountered and destroyed, the Games Master should
add the following:
Patches of coloured light move up, across and down
the walls. They are shining from the device that
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