Dungeon23 – Glittering Chamber of the Dao

Well, #Dungeon23 is finished! I managed 183 rooms, so half a year, which I’m pretty happy with. Here’s the final map, the Elemental Earth-themed Level 6.

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Room Descriptions

173 – Crumbling stone steps lead from the secret door in [27] on Level 4, bypassing the fish-folk caverns on Level 5. The walls have small niches holding worthless trinkets like a tiny wooden elephant carving or a glowing blue glass bead.

174 – A pair of hungry xorn searching for precious metals or gems to eat wander this cavern. They offer to share information with the PCs in exchange for food.

175 – The floor of this cavern is a 10’ deep pool of hot, bubbling mud that gives off a pungent smell like rotten eggs. The mud acts as quicksand that inflicts 1d6 fire damage per round. 6 mud mephits live here, bathing in the mud. The mephits are immune to the mud’s fire damage.

176 – Seven pech (Creature Codex), supervised by a stonemaster, are chipping away at the rock walls in search of gemstones. They found some yesterday but were bullied into feeding them to the xorn [174].

177 – Hole in the floor leading down into darkness. Directly above is a similar hole in the ceiling leading to a narrow chimney that extends all the way to the surface.

178 – Stone monolith stands in the centre of this cavern, chiselled into from a natural rock column by the pech [176] under orders from their leader a pech lithlord who stands with his hands on the monolith, silently communing with the rock.

179 – Four gargoyles – two on each ledge – guard this room, swooping down to attack anyone passing below.

180 – Waterfall cascades down from a 30’ high ledge into a 50’ deep pool that is home to a gargoctopus (Creature Codex). The creature has come here to study the ruins of Dhak Janjua and can be befriended if offered books or knowledge.

181 – Large boulders stand on the floor in this cavern. Three galeb duhr hide among them, servants of the dao in [183].

182 – Illusory wall conceals the entrance to the dao’s chamber [183] in the western wall of the corridor – DC 14 Investigation to find.

183 – Elegantly furnished with fine Aqhrani rugs, Tiangaon silk cushions, and Sampuran coffee tables, this is the home of Zashussad the Gifted, a dao. The handsome genie reclines on a divan, smoking a hookah. The walls of the cavern are studded with iridescent gems. “Welcome to my humble abode,” he says. “I have a job for you…”

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Main image by Jonathan Roberts