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Dungeon24: Day 31!

January 31st, 2024

The final day of January! We’ve finally arrived, one month in with one level finished!

AREA A31: CAVE ENTRANCE

This cave opens into the southern side of the grassy knoll which has formed itself over the ruins. Strewn with rumble, there is a deep square well in the center of the chamber that was once a major source of drinking water for the inhabitants of temple but is now riddled with parasites and disease after centuries of disuse.
Dungeon24: Day 30

January 30th, 2024

AREA A30: INNER SANCTUM OF HERMES

This long cathedral-like hall is furnished with fine Doric columns every 10 feet and a solid, untouched white marble altar at the northwestern end.
Dungeon24: Day 29

January 29th, 2024

AREA A29: PRISON

This stone room is filled with three separate iron-barred cages that have mostly rusted away but still stand as a testament to the Inquisitional proceedings that occurred here.

Monster: Two human commoner zombies lay slumbering in this room and will awake to wreak revenge against any adventurers who enter into this room.
Dungeon24: Day 28

January 28th, 2024

AREA A28: Prefect’s BedROOM

In this simple, burned out stone room you can see the charred remains of what looks like a poster bed, table, chair, and large chest. The smell of acrid, charred flesh still hangs in the air.
Dungeon 24: Catching Up, Days 15-27

January 27th, 2024

Hey y’all it’s been a bit since I’ve posted up on the blog, it’s been a busy two weeks as I’ve been busy painting and haven’t had easy internet access! But anyways, here’s two weeks worth of dungeon rooms!

Area A15: Mushroom Farm

This ruined chapel has been converted into a fungal farm of 10 foot tall mushrooms that the faeries use as a form of solid nutrition. Each mushroom can be broken down into 10 rations worth of food (20 lbs).

Area 16: Guard Room

This simple stone chamber once served as a guard room and armory for the warriors that served in the defense of the priests cloistered here. Some of those warriors (two human warrior skeletons), still stand at their post ready to defend the temple against intruders.

Area A17: Krenshar Nest

Strewn with ruined and chewed wardrobes, a ferocious Krenshar has made its nest in this room after falling down the shaft at the base of the pyramid.

Area A18: Storage Closet

This chamber is lined all the way around with shelves from floor to ceiling. Each of these shelves holds dozens upon dozens of three inch tall, wide-mouthed brown glass bottles. Further inspection of any of the vials will reveal that they are filled to the brim with human teeth.

Area A19: Statuary Hall

Five statues are arranged in a circle in the center of this chamber: one of Hermes, one of Minerva, one of Phosphoros, one of Sofia, and one of Soteria. The statues are all faced outwards, with Hermes facing towards the northern wall, Minerva facing towards the northeastern corner, Phosphoros facing towards the northwestern corner, Sofia facing towards the southeastern corner, and Soteria facing towards the southwestern corner.

Near the western wall, a stirge sucks from the body of a recently deceased adventurer, ready to move onto its next meal.

Area A20: Library

This chamber is a rather well preserved library filled with religious texts and multiple grimoires of Hermetic magic.

Area A21: Guard Room

This simple stone chamber once served as a guard room and armory for the warriors that served in the defense of the priests cloistered here. A spear trap is laid along the southern entrance to this room from the hall leading into it.

Area A22: Statuary Hall

Busts of all 23 High Priests from the Temple’s days of operation are arranged around the perimeter of this dank stone room. A single elf warrior (wounded) is slumped against the western wall next to the door.

Area A23: High Priests’ Crypt

This room contains the sarcophagi the 23 High Priests that held the office while the temple was in operation. Most of them have been broken into and looted already, but five remain untouched. In order, they read in Ancient Elitarian: Porphyrios, 7th Prelate; Galenus, 12th Prelate; Hippon, 18th Prelate; Orestes, 21st Prelate (Decipher Script DC 20)

Treasure: The sarcophagi contain the following grave goods:

Sarcophagus 1: 200 silver pieces, a breastplate engraved with the Eye of Hermes (functions as a helm of teleportation)

Sarcophagus 2: 10 gold pieces, a simple silver ring set with a piece of tiger eye (13 gold pieces), a masterwork shortspear

Sarcophagus 3: 300 silver pieces

Sarcophagus 4: 4,000 copper pieces, 5 iron ingots worth 1 gold piece each (½ lb each), 3 bolts of fine linen worth 10 gold pieces each (4 lbs each)

Sarcophagus 5: 130 gold pieces

Area A24: Forge

This stone room features a large central forge bordered by an anvil and what were once buckets for dousing water. Several bricks have been knocked out of the forge and the leather on the blower has worn way too thin.

Area A25: Torture Chamber

This stone chamber still stinks of blood and feces that must have been discharged by its victims over the thousands of hours of inquisitional torture that was performed here. A single monstrous centipede has decided to take up residence in the ruined torture equipment.

Area A26: Guard Room

This simple stone chamber once served as a guard room and armory for the warriors that served in the defense of the priests cloistered here.

Area A27: Dining Room

The tables and chairs that once furnished this grand dining room lie in a broken mess scattered across the floor. Though once beautiful and well lit, it now stinks of rot. A lone darkmantle has taken up residence on the ceiling in the center of this mess, ready to jump out at any overly curious adventurers.
Dungeon24: Day Fourteen

January 14th, 2024

Area A14: Hall Of The Elfish Lord

This grand hall is boisterous with cheer at most times of the day and night, with elfish wine flowing and raucous faerie songs being played and danced too. Once a storage room, this is now the hall of the Elfish Princeling, Myrddin Teuradh (N Elf Fighter 2/Wizard 1). They are accompanied by a guard of 3 level 1 Elf warriors 50% of the time. At night there are 3d6 level 1 Goblin warriors in the hall and during the day that number dwindles down to four.

Myrddin is at first more than happy to see any adventurers and will try to ally with them against the orcs that they sees as invading their territory (according to Elfish law, they are the lord of this hill). If anyone in the hall hears the PCs fighting the fire beetles in Area A13 (Listen DC 15), Myrddin will send someone to investigate with instructions to only attack if it’s the orcs and otherwise to bring news back and welcome any visitors.
Dungeon24: Day Thirteen

January 13th, 2024

AREA A13: LECTURE HALL

Rows of seats and seminar tables slant down, half ruined, from the western end of this octagonal hall towards the eastern end were the lectern still stands ready for another lecturer to pontificate on subjects metaphysical and occult. The air is moist and saccharine, with the faintest hint of rot from the wrecked furniture.

Monsters: Two giant fire beetles have nested in the southwestern quadrant of the room.

Secret Door: Located on the eastern wall, Search DC 30

Trap on secret door: Burning Hands trap: CR 2; magic device; proximity trigger (alarm); automatic reset; spell effect (burning hands, 1st-level wizard, 1d4 fire, DC 11 Reflex save half damage); Search DC 26; Disable Device DC 26
Dungeon24: Day Twelve

January 12th, 2024

Area A12: Baths

Ringed by a three foot bench on all sides, the baths were once filled with water and a grand social space. Now they’ve been taken over by as a guard post by a hobgoblin warrior and four goblin warriors.

Stairs: These stairs lead down to Area (insert area name here when it is created).
Dungeon24: Day 11

January 11th, 2024

Area A11: High Priest’s Chambers

On the northern wall of this room, the rotten remains of the High Priest’s double poster bed graces the entrance. The air smells of putrefaction and decay. On the southern wall are two small foot lockers that used to belong to the long gone Abbott. The walls are adorned with inscriptions in Ancient Eltarian, most of them are too weathered to read but one can still be read to say “Wisest Sage of Our Line, Thrice Great and Ever Learned Hermes and Your Holy Sibling, Guardian of The Gates of Hades, I invoke thine names to guard this place and grant your humble servants guidance into the final treasury beyond the world of the Archons and in your name great Hermes and three-headed Hecate bring doom on all those who would defile this place” (Decipher Script DC 20).

Treasure in eastern chest: 4,000 copper pieces, 2 bolts of fine linen worth 10 gold pieces each (4 lbs each)

Treasure in western chest: 2,000 copper pieces, 10 iron ingots worth 1 gold piece each (1/2 lb each), scroll of command undead (cl 3)

Trap: CR 3; mechanical; location trigger; repair reset; Atk +10 melee (4d6, stone blocks); Search DC 25; Disable Device DC 20.
Dungeon24: Day 10

January 10th, 2024

Area A10: armory

This simple stone room was once one of the armories of the temple complex. Littered across the floor are many smashed grindstones and several broken swords. Anyone in this room can hear the raucous celebrations of the orcs in Area A9.