| What's in the room? |
- Stone steps descend into the icy water that partially floods this twenty-foot-wide,
arched tunnel, which continues eastward into darkness. The roof arches twelve feet above
the water, which is eight feet deep. The rowboat tethered at the water's edge looks
safe to use
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| What's happening in the room? |
- Any player that spends more than 1 round in the water must make a DC 13
Constitution Saving Throw or take 1 point of exhaustion
- Any character who gives the frigid water more than a passing glance can see swollen,
half-frozen bodies near the bottom
- The bodies are weighed down by their chain shirts
- There are six human corpses and six dwarf corpses
- All remains of castle guards killed in the assault
- 5-foot-wide, 8-foot-high passages are cut into the north and south wall 20 feet beyond
the water's edge
- Rowboat. This boat comes with two oars and can hold four medium
creatures
- Eastern Door. At the eastern end of the cistern is a 10-foot-square,
2-foot-thick, half-submerged slab of blue marble that blocks the passage to the
Eastern Cistern
- This slab is far enough away that characters won't see it with torches or
Darkvision unless they are next to it
- The lever that lowers and raises this gate is in area C22
- The gate can also be opened with a knock spell or similar magic
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| Monsters and NPC's |
- Guards do not patrol these areas
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| Nearby Locations |
- C19: Storage
- C20: Shrine to Levistus
- C23: East Cistern
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| What's in the room? |
- Frost covers the floor of this dark, fifteen-foot-square room
- To the left and right are narrow tunnels
- Across from the entrance stands an eight-foot-tall pillar of ice with a horned,
pale-skinned, humanoid figure trapped inside it
- The pillar is wrapped in black chains, and the wall behind it is covered with brown
fungus
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| What's happening in the room? |
- The figure in the pillar is a wooden mannequin painted and dressed to resemble the
archdevil Levistus
- The mannequin is encased in ice, which was chiseled into a pillar shape and wrapped
in chains
- Any character who succeeds on a DC 10 Intelligence (Religion) check can guess,
correctly, that the cultists use this frozen, chain-wrapped effigy as an altar.
- The ice is kept frozen at all times by the 10-foot-square patch of brown
mold growing on the wall behind it
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| Monsters and NPC's |
- Brown mold feeds on warmth, drawing heat from anything around it. A
patch of brown mold typically covers a 10-foot square, and the temperature within 30
feet of it is always frigid.
- When a creature moves to within 5 feet of the mold for the first time on a turn or
starts its turn there, it must make a DC 12 Constitution saving throw, taking 22
(4d10) cold damage on a failed save, or half as much damage on a successful one.
- Brown mold is immune to fire, and any source of fire brought within 5 feet of a
patch causes it to instantly expand outward in the direction of the fire, covering a
10-foot-square area (with the source of the fire at the center of that area). A
patch of brown mold exposed to an effect that deals cold damage is instantly
destroyed.
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| Nearby Locations |
- C21: Avarice's Quarters
- C22: Iron Lever
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| What's in the room? |
- A five-foot-wide, eight-foot-high tunnel leads to a dark, cold room that reeks of filth
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| What's happening in the room? |
- After the cultists took over the castle, they trapped most of the servants in this area
- Five of the speaker's servants (unarmed human commoners) have been trapped here by
the cult for the past two weeks
- All of them are malnourished, since the cultists feed them only once every few days
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| Monsters and NPC's |
- Lanthis Alderdusk is Speaker Crannoc's 64-year-old assistant, notary, and
scribe. He's feisty and spry for his age.
- Albright Norbravsky is the effete, tall, skeletally thin, 55-year-old butler.
- Mylbara Norbravsky is Albright's stout, 45-year-old wife and the
speaker's Dwarvish translator.
- Tam Sharif, a mute, 30-year-old petty thief wanted for a murder in Luskan, is
the speaker's housemaid.
- Dassir Ravescar is the speaker's shy, 25-year-old dog keeper
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