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PRIVATE ROOM. The door to this room is capable of being locked, but
is not. The walls of rough stonework hold shelves. Someone has
scrawled a crude pentagram on the floor in blue chalk. A bed is
covered by dusty green and blue sheets and blankets. A footlocker is
present. Two large dirt-streaked windows of plain glass are here.
The
shelves hold dozens of wood carvings of bizarre fantastic creatures,
having features of different animals with some also showing portions
of human anatomy. If handled, they will bleed from tiny pin-sized
holes, causing the holder's hands to become red. If taken from the
room, they will catch fire and burn to ashes.
The
center of the pentagram is stained brown with old, dried blood.
The
footlocker holds three bottles of lamp oil, a silver pendant with an
demonic face (220 gold crescent value) and an old tome marked with a
blue pentagram on the cover. If the book is opened it will catch
fire and the heavy choking black smoke released from its pages will
coalesce into a strange amalgam creature (AC 6, HD 3+3, hp 16, xp
191). This creature has the torso of a woman, with red-spotted
bat-like wings and leonine claws instead of hands. Instead of legs,
her lower body terminates in a yellow serpentine tail marked with red
spots. She may attack twice with her claws for 1-6/1-6 and it can
lash out with its strong tail for 2-9 points of damage. She may also
breathe fire only once, doing 8 points of damage (save for half)
against everyone within 10” of her mouth.
Should she be destroyed
she will turn into a small wooden statue like those found on the
shelves.
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