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Beneath Castle Everglory: LEVEL 5: The Palace

2010-09-27T19:10:15Z

Mlangsdorf:

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=1. Guardroom=
This 4 yard by 4 yard room is almost coated in fuzzy green mold, spilling out into the stairwell and the corridor on the far side. The air is stuffy with the dank smell of vegetation. Where the surface of the wall can be seen, it is stamped with the emblem of a golden crown. The room is entirely bare of furnishings but it does have a thriving population of ants and spiders, feasting on the mold.

=2. Theater=
This 10 yard by 20 yard room seems to be a theater. Rows of engraved pinewood seats, padded with moldy red velvet, are arranged before a raised stage, hung with moldy velvet curtains of red and blue. Spider-webs hang from curtain to stage, wall to wall, making it impossible to mount the stage without either walking through them or making a hole in them. There is a large and throne-like wooden chair on the stage, gaudily painted to look like engraved ivory set with bright jewels. The heavily molded backdrop curtain shows a palatial sunlit courtyard, complete with fountains and flowering trees. On a successful Perception roll or upon a careful examination, it will be seen that the extensive mold on the upper right corner of the painting obscures a small group of human figures standing in the far corner of the courtyard and gesturing in the direction of the stage. Unfortunately, the damage is so extensive that little more remains than vague human outlines. Similarly, a successful Perception roll or careful examination will reveal that the mold on the bottom right of the backdrop hides a small painted plant, growing from a crack in the otherwise perfect paving. The plant resembles a miniature black tree, with a tiny human skull at the end of every branch.

There is a small bare 2 yard by 2 yard room leading off the stage to the left. Piles of costumes are stacked in the corner, including clothing appropriate for nobility, clergy, peasantry and soldiers. A variety of painted wooden weapons hang from pegs on the wall and there are simple shelves containing rotted makeup, cobwebbed wings and funny rubber noses. Standing in one corner is a dusty marble statue of a robed old man, bald at the crown but with long hair at the sides and back and a long beard. The old man’s face is grave and he is pointing directly forwards, but someone has wrapped a pink feather boa around his raised arm. If the PCs follow the pointing of his finger, they will find that it points at the rubber noses (irrelevantly).

=3. Music Room=
This 6 yard by 6 yard room is so thickly webbed that even the corridor outside is filled, making it impossible to come within 5 yards of the doorway without touching the web. The web is not strong enough to entrap humans but touching it or otherwise causing movement will summon the Rock Spiders who live in the room and are looking for a meal.

Should the PCs actually make it into the room, they fill find that it contains a wooden dais 2 yards in diameter, before which are set 7 engraved cedar chairs, padded with red velvet and draped in spider-webs. The stained and moldy walls depict scenes of nymphs and satyrs dancing through the woods playing lyres, pipes and drums. The room is home to 18 very aggressive Rock Spiders.

==Monsters==

===18 Rock Spiders===
Rock spiders are brown, furry arachnids about the size of a medium dog, who capture their prey by hunting in packs. They are very aggressive hunters and even human-sized animals, once detected, will immediately be attacked as food.

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==Treasure==
Resting on one of the chairs and covered in web is a bone harp, beautifully carved with long twisting dragons. (The harp is actually made from dragonbone, considerably improving its value). ($7000, 3 lbs.)

=4. Gladiatorium=
This round room is 10 yards in diameter and thickly covered in mold. Engraved cedar chairs, padded with red velvet, line the walls around a wide pit sunk three yards deep. Rope ladders offer access from the seating level down into the pit (but they are rotten and will break if used). Where the mold does not quite cover the wall, it can be seen that the stonework is painted with images of naked skeletons fighting with swords.

The most on the floor is extremely thick here and PCs will be at -3 to any roll to remain on their feet and -5 to climb. Worse yet, the spongy floor is drenched with Witches’ Honey, a gelatinous predator. Noticing the almost transparent “honey” requires a Perception based roll at -3 against Botanist, Naturalist, Zoology or Survival (Underground). The Witches’ Honey will attack as soon as anyone steps on or attacks it.

==Monster==

===Witches’ Honey===
Witches’ Honey is a foul living jelly found in caves, in bodies of water, and in areas with high rainfall. It is a slowly creeping puddle of sickly yellow translucence and eats any organic matter that it can find, adventurers included.

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=5. Art Gallery=
This 4 yard by 12 yard hall is bare of furniture, though the walls have been paneled in oak. The walls are hung with paintings in elaborately engraved wooden frames. However, at some point in the past, the paint has run, somehow becoming liquid and leaving nothing of the original image but a smeared blur of color down the canvas and the wall. These blurs of paint are perfectly dry now.

One painting, halfway down the hall, is only one-third destroyed. The right hand third is a melted mess of paint like any other artwork in the room, but the remaining two-thirds show a fine white stallion wearing an ornate saddle and a set of reigns.

==Treasure==
Any PC who thinks they are going to be able to get money for this ruined artwork is dreaming. Feel free to have an art dealer praise the originality and genius of the works, only to conclude by laughing in the PC’s faces.

=6. Library=
This 4 yard by 4 yard room is so thickly encrusted with mold that nothing can be seen of it but the vague shape of a large chair in the center of the room and the vague shape of standing shelves set against the far wall. Exploring through the mold, the PCs will be able to find an engraved cedar chair with padded velvet seats and a rug so rotten and brown that no pattern can be discerned. The mold on the shelves contains scraps of leather book-covers, but the pages have long since rotted away as has any lettering on the cover.

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=7. Temple=
On a marble dais in the center of this round, 7 yard diameter room stands a tall, green-leafed tree, somehow thriving with no sunlight and no soil. 5 human skulls hang from the branches of the tree on leather thongs. The white marble walls, patchy with mold, are engraved with scenes of farmers and craftspeople peacefully going about their work.

The temple is an area of Very High Sanctity for clerics of a god of Death or the Wilderness. Furthermore, spells cast here are at +7 if cast by the cleric of a god of Death or the Wilderness but at -7 if cast by a cleric of Good. Spells from the colleges of Body, Healing, Plant, Meta and Necromancy are cast at +6, while spells from the elemental collages are cast at -8. Total bonuses and penalties cannot exceed 10. Killing the tree will eliminate the sanctity of the area but the character who delivers the killing blow must save vs. HT-4 or be infected with plant parasites. Consider the parasites to be a Disease (see GURPS Campaigns, p.442) which we will call “Green Death”.

;Green Death
''Vector:'' Respiratory.

''HT roll:'' HT-1

''Delay:'' 6 hours.

''Damage:'' 1d toxic.

''Symptoms:'' Severe chills and vague but horrific nightmares. The whites of the eyes will gain a greenish tinge and the subject may develop feelings of isolation and hopelessness (the degree to which they give in to these feelings or not should be a role-playing matter for the player to decide).

''Cycle:'' 2 x (20-HT)

A Cure Disease spell will cure the Green Death, and so will a Wither Plant spell. A Blight spell will slow the infestation, doubling the duration of cycles.

=8. Great Hall=
This 20 yard by 40 yard oak-paneled hall is crawling with spiders, to the point that the walls and ceiling constantly seem to be moving and there is a continual whisper of scuttling legs. A long table runs down the middle of the room, covered by a white sheet of web, as are the chairs around it. One chair, larger than the others, has been hoisted up from its place at the far end of the table and is now suspended 8 feet in the air at 45 degrees. Nestled in the web with the end of its abdomen resting in the chair is a massive black spider the size of a cow. This is Grandmother Chtikrix.

==Monster==

===Grandmother Chtikrix===
Grandmother Chtikrix is a massive black spider, hairless and with eight gleaming beady eyes. She will do her best to stay off the ground and out of the reach of the PCs. She likes to sit in her chair, but she is perfectly capable of scuttling up her web and and standing upside down on the 12 foot ceiling.

Grandmother Chtikrix isn’t sure if she is going to eat the PCs or not. It may depend on how entertaining they are. She will initiate conversation if given a chance and speaks Elvish and broken Dwarvish. She has no interest in helping the PCs but will agree to spare their lives if they amuse her. She likes dances, songs, stories and jokes. However, some content will make her angry. She hates jokes that rely on an understanding of humanoid social rules, because she doesn’t get them. She also hates romantic tales that end in a man and a woman living happily ever after, because she ate her true love’s head in a fit of passion. Finally, stories in which heroes slay monsters may offend her if she identifies with the monster. She will not warn the PCs about these sore points.

In combat, she is likely to cast Control Animal (Spider Swarm) (see below) and Animate Shadow to keep her foes occupied. Difficult targets, such as well-armored warriors, are likely to be hit with Spider Silk, of which Grandmother Chtikrix can project four strands at once. If damaged, she may cast Steal Vitality to heal herself. She will defend herself from magic with Meta spells (such as Dispel Magic). She quite enjoys biting people if it isn’t too dangerous and may even come down to the floor for the opportunity. She likes to cast Pestilence at fleeing foes and if she needs to escape, she will use Shapeshift to change into a swallow and fly away.

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'''Spells:''' Knows the following spells at level 21: all Hard Animal college spells (including Shapeshifting for most normal birds, reptiles and mammals), all Hard Meta college, and all Hard Necromancy spells that do not deal with the undead, demons or spirits.

===Grandmother Chtikrix’ Spider Swarm===
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See GURPS Campaigns p.461 for swarm rules.

==Treasure==
On her second right foreleg, Grandmother Cthtikrix wears a gold bracelet set with eight small circles of black onyx ($16,000, 1 lb). The bracelet is too wide to be worn by a normal human and has the unpleasant side-effect of attracting mundane spiders.

=9. Shared Bedroom=
This 5 yard by 10 yard room contains 4 carved four-post cedar beds, beside each of which is a carved cedar closet and a carved cedar bedside table, set with a mirror of ivory and silver. The walls, discolored by mold as they are, are painted with bright flowers in all colors. The sheets on the beds are of moldy, stained silk.

==Treasure==
Between the sheets of bed 1 is a stuffed toy cat with one button eye. The cat’s skin, once white, is gray-green with mold.

The closets are filled with once-fine women’s clothing, now ruined by mold. One of the closets seem to have belonged to someone obsessed with having images of cute cats and kittens on their clothing.

The four ivory and silver mirrors, if they can be successfully removed from the tables, are 0.5 lbs each and can sell for $500.

The four beside tables themselves have locked drawers and are of surprisingly sturdy construction. DR 2, HP 14. -1 to Lockpicking skill. They have the following contents.

'''Table 1'''. 12 gold pieces, a silver broach in the shape of a kitten playing with string ($250 0.25 lbs), a silver bracelet engraved with the heads of cats ($400.25 lbs)

'''Table 2'''. The drawer is trapped with a poison needle.

''Poison Needle Trap''

Detect: Per-based Traps -2.

Disarm: Yes.

Circumvent: Block the tiny hole the needle fires from.

Evade: DX-4.

Effects: As for Cobra Venom (GURPS Campaigns, p.439).

Shots: 1

Steal: Yes

39 gold pieces, a lock of white hair tied in a red silk ribbon (worthless).

'''Table 3'''. 17 gold pieces, a silver necklace ($45, 0.05 lbs) and a gold ring engraved with Elvish runes. The ring is a Ring of Poise.

''Ring of Poise''. Gold Ring , engraved with Elvish runes that read “Grace never stumbles”. The ring grants Perfect Balance (p. B74) and is enchanted with Climbing +1 and Dancing +1. ($25,000, 0.25 lbs)

'''Table 4'''. 13 gold pieces, three rings, two silver ($115, 0.15 lbs each) and one electrum ($1,705, 0.15 lbs), a pair of electrum ear-rings ($500, 0.15 lbs), and an electrum necklace ($3,000 0.25 lbs).

=10. Dining Room=

The PCs are likely to hear the soft drumming sound coming from this room as they approach it.

This 6 yard by 6 yard room contains a finely carved cedar table and four finely carved chairs of cedar and velvet. The two silver candelabras are hung with cobwebs and the white silk tablecloth is patched with mold. The walls are paneled in oak and fitted with ornate brass candle holders

'''Monsters'''

The area beneath the table is filled by a mass of leaves and the room is infested with 9 Black Emperor Ants.

'''9 Black Emperor Ants'''

Black Emperor Ants are huge black insects the size of large dogs. They are often heard before they are seen as they communicate with one another by drumming their feet on the floor with a fast vibration. Anything that is not a Black Emperor Ant is considered food and will be immediately attacked.

ST: 11 HP: 12 Speed: 5

DX: 12 Will: 10 Move: 5

IQ: 3 Per: 10

HT: 13 FP: 13 SM: -1

Dodge: 9 Parry: N/A DR: 4

Bite (15): 2d impaling.

Skills: Brawling-15.

Traits: 360º Vision (Vulnerable); Combat Reflexes; Extra Legs (Six Legs); High Pain Threshold; Horizontal; Lifting ST +2; Nictitating Membrane 1; No Fine Manipulators; Slave Mentality; Striking ST +4; Teeth (Sharp); Terrain Adaptation (Sand); Tunneling 1 (Only Through Earth); Wild Animal.

Class: Giant Animal

'''Treasure'''

2 ornate silver-plated candelabras ($4,000 for the pair due to the lovely workmanship, 2bs)

=11. Antechamber=

This 3 yard by 3 yard room contains three simple wooden chairs and a simple set of wooden shelves lined with unmarked glass bottles of red liquid.

All of the bottles contain a single, very fruity type of wine that no connoisseur will be able to identify.

'''Treasure'''

There are 12 bottles in all, each weighing a lb and fetching up to $1,100 each in the right market.

=12. Master Bedroom=

This 10 yard by 10 yard room is entirely free of mold and is luxuriously appointed. It contains a single huge four-posted bed, large enough for six, as well as a pair of ornately carved cedar closets and an ornately carved set of cedar shelves. The walls are paneled in oak and set with brass candle holders.

The room also contains what appear to be three silent human beings, two of which stand perfectly still, while the third bustles around the room dusting surfaces that are already clear of dust.

'''Monsters'''

'''The Three Golems'''

The three golems who defend this room will not attack unless the PCs try to damage or take anything in the room. The golems will not initiate conversation, but will speak with the PCs if spoken to in Common. While they appear to be human, if they are damaged, it will become clear that they are constructed of clay.

'''Lena (Praise Golem)'''

Lena appears to be a beautiful, petite human female with long blonde hair, threaded through with flowers. She wears a light blue silk dress with lace at the collar and cuffs, cut in a style that has not been fashionable for centuries.

She exists to express her love and admiration for someone she knows only as “him”, having forgotten his name. She knows that “he” is the master and builder of the complex and that he sleeps in the bedroom every night and works in the throne room every day. She will want to tell the PCs how great “he” is and how much she loves “him”. If questioned, her description of “him” will be extremely vague. She knows he is handsome and brilliant and wise and so forth, but cannot recall any particulars, not even what the color of “his” eyes are. She is psychologically incapable of realizing how strange this is, however much the PCs point it out. It will be impossible to engage her on any other subject but “him” – anything not directly related to “him” is simply not of any interest to her. She knows nothing of the world beyond the room in which she lives, nor does she care.

Lena is non-aggressive by nature and will only fight if personally attacked. She cares nothing about what happens to the other golems.

ST: 8 HP: 12 Speed: 4

DX: 16 Will: 15 Move: 4

IQ: 14 Per: 10

HT: 12 FP: N/A SM: 0

Dodge: 10 Parry: N/A DR: 1

Punch (14): 1d-4 crush.

Traits: Combat Reflexes; Dark Vision, Detect (Supernatural); Doesn’t Breathe; Doesn’t Eat or Drink; Doesn’t Sleep; Higher Purpose (Protect room); Immunity to Metabolic Hazards; Indomitable; Injury Tolerance (No Blood, No Vitals).

Skills: Brawling-16.

Class: Construct.

Notes: Speaks Common.

'''Bethel (Housework Golem)'''

Bethel appears to be a stocky, plain-looking woman with mousy-brown hair, tied back in a ponytail. She wears a simple black dress in a cheap cut and sensible leather sandals. She is in constant motion, walking around the room inspecting it.

The Housework Golem exists to keep this room tidy. While Bethel does not crave conversation, and will ignore the PCs if they ignore her, she will answer questions honestly if treated respectfully. She knows the layout of this level, which she calls “the palace”. She knows that it is her purpose to serve “him” but she finds it so strange that she can remember nothing about “him” that she has concluded that “he” never really existed. For some reason, Lena and Sir Vemish tolerate her opinions about “him” as if they didn’t hear them at all.

Bethel will only fight if attacked or if the PCs try to remove or damage things in the room. She will not fight to defend the other golems, however - they are outside of her duties and it makes no difference to her whether they live or die.

ST: 20 HP: 20 Speed: 4

DX: Will: Move: 6

IQ: 7 Per: 10

HT: 12 FP: N/A SM: 0

Dodge: 9 Parry: N/A DR: 2

Punch (14): 2d+1 crush.

Traits: Combat Reflexes; Dark Vision, Detect (Supernatural); Doesn’t Breathe; Doesn’t Eat or Drink; Doesn’t Sleep; Higher Purpose (Protect room); Immunity to Metabolic Hazards; Indomitable; Injury Tolerance (No Blood, No Vitals).

Skills: Brawling-16.

Class: Construct.

Notes: Speaks Common.

'''Sir Vemish the Courteous (Boast Golem)'''

Sir Vemish the Courteous appears to be a handsome young man, dressed in fine knightly garb, including a hoodless suit of chainmail. He is clean-shaven, with immaculate black hair reaching to his shoulders.

The Boast Golem exists to boast about “his” achievements and to smugly insult people regarding how inferior they are to “him” in every regard. There isn’t a skill or virtue that “he” has not mastered to perfection in the Boast Golem’s view, whereas the PCs will be held up in rude and contemptuous comparison. The PCs may insult the golem in return as much as they like, but if they insult “him”, the golem will attack. The Golem knows nothing of the world outside the room and like the other golems, can’t remember a single specific particular about “him”.

The Boast Golem will fight in self-defense and will attack anyone who attacks another golem or tries to remove or damage anything in the room. While he cares nothing for the other golems personally, he regards attacks on them as an insult to “him”. Sir Vemish is fond of Feints and Deceptive Attacks and is smart enough to make called shots if he isn’t penetrating armor. If disarmed, his sole priority will be getting his sword back. He is psychologically unable to attack without it.

ST: 24 HP: 30 Speed: 6

DX: 15 Will: 15 Move: 6

IQ: 12 Per: 14

HT: 12 FP: N/A SM: 0

Dodge: 11 Parry: 12 (Broadsword) DR: 4

Weapon (22): Broadsword (4d+2 cutting)

Traits: Combat Reflexes; Dark Vision, Detect (Supernatural); Doesn’t Breathe; Doesn’t Eat or Drink; Doesn’t Sleep; Higher Purpose (Protect room); Immunity to Metabolic Hazards; Indomitable; Injury Tolerance (No Blood, No Vitals).

Skills: Broadsword-22.

Class: Construct.

Notes: Speaks Common.

'''Treasure'''

The closets are filled with fine clothing fit for a lord. Overall, there are 300 lbs of clothing here, about 300 years out of date but in good condition and worth about $7,000 altogether. The shelves are empty.

Sir Vemish happens to be wielding a magic sword, ''Viper’s Tongue''.

''Viper’s Tongue'': This is a very fine, balanced broadsword with a hilt forged in the shape of a viper coiled around a branch. The blade is engraved with extensive geometric relief which sometimes takes the form of stylized serpents. It is enchanted with Accuracy +2 and Quick-Draw, and does +3 damage against Amphibians. $32,000, wt 3.

=13. Stairway Down=

At the end of a short corridor is a heavy locked door (-1 to Lockpicking, Construction: Heavy (see DF 2, p.18)). Beyond the door is a narrow stone staircase, 2 yard wide with simple rough walls. The stairs spiral down for 10 yards before coming to a second heavy locked door (-3 to Lockpicking, Contruction: Very Heavy (see DF 2, p.18) ) behind which is the main corridor of Level 6.

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Beneath Castle Everglory: LEVEL 4: The Garden

2010-09-27T17:20:25Z

Mlangsdorf:

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The stairwell opens up onto what looks to be a sunlit wilderness, housed in a great cavern. A blazing white sphere three yards across, located just beneath the cavern roof 30 yards above, radiates both heat and light. Long grass grows on the plain at the foot of the stairs, while further off is a broad pond and a forest of trees. In the middle of the plain stands what looks to be a white statue.

Closer examination of the “sun” by flying characters will reveal that it is a magic glass ball hanging on an iron chain that is bolted into the cavern roof. The ball has DR 5, but if DR is penetrated, it will be shattered and destroyed, plunging the cavern into darkness. Since all of the denizens of the cavern rely heavily on senses other than sight, this will not disadvantage them in combat. On the other hand, the loss of the sun is an ecological disaster and all of the plants will be dead within a week, forcing the animals to yield their territory and move upstairs somewhere.

=1. Long Grass=
The grass here is a lush green and grows from one to two feet high.

==1A. Flowers==
This small valley is covered in bright flowers in red, yellow and orange, and the air is fragrantly sweet. The flowers also radiate magic. The flowers are of no known type, but a roll against Botany -4, Naturalist -4 or any wilderness Survival -4 will suggest that living flowers will have a curative scent. The Analyze Magic spell will reveal that the scent of the living flowers will function as an Instant Neutralize Poison cast at level 16. The flowers will die if uprooted or planted elsewhere.

==1B. The Statue==
On a small hillock stands a sandstone dais, surrounded by a rock garden of arranged, black stones, overgrown with grass and weeds. On top of the dais stands a pocked and blank-faced marble statue, all features eaten away as if by a powerful acid. The statue is has been damaged over the entirety of its body, though the dais shows no signs of damage at all.

Unfortunately, all of the long grass within four yards of the statue is, in fact, part of a huge Demongrass plant lurking beneath the soil. Noticing the difference between long grass and Demongrass in time to avoid it requires a successful Perception based roll against either Naturalism or Survival (Plains)-4.

==Monster==

===Demongrass===
The Demongrass can make one grapple attack per turn and can have up to ST/5 grapples in effect at any one time (so up to 10 in this case). The first grapple will be to one of the legs. If that is successful, the Demongrass will follow up with a grapple to another limb, chosen at random. If the Demongrass has two successful grapples on a victim, it will attempt a Takedown. If a victim has been taken down, the Demongrass will grapple any limb that is damaging it. If the victim is prone, grappled in at least two places and not doing any immediate damage, the Demongrass will grapple for the throat. The Demongrass does not crush the throat, but it does cut off the air supply unless the victim has rigid neck armor of some kind. The Demongrass may grapple multiple foes and will do so to defend itself, but it must divide its strength between foes.

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=2. Scrub=
The terrain here is a mixture of long grass and low bushes.

==2A. Grove==
There is a small grove of trees here. Hidden alongside it (Per-2 to notice it before it rears up) is a huge Diamond-Headed Tunnel Snake.

==Monster==

===Diamond-Headed Tunnel Snake===

The Diamond-Headed Tunnel Snake looks like a giant cobra with spines running down its back. When threatened, it will give a warning before going on the offensive, trying to scare the PCs away by rearing up and opening its hood, revealing a pattern like a white diamond. The snake may spit up to 15 feet, but the spit is a harmless, if disgusting, bluff.

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=3. Stream=
Clear, clean water flows in a stream through the middle of the cavern in a stream three yards across and one yard deep.

==3A. Stream Source==
The stream flows directly from a hole in the cavern wall here, half a foot in diameter. The tunnel is not deep and ends in a magical opening to a distant lake.

==3B. Stream Bridge==
An ornamental, though practical, wooden bridge crosses the stream here. It is painted in bright red, yellow and green and shows no sign of degeneration.

==3C. Pond==
The stream empties out into a weed-choked pond some 30 yards across. Fragrant white lilies grow on the surface, somewhat masking the scent of wet vegetation rotting. A population of eyeless, grey frogs sits on pads or swim in the water and small insects skip across the pond’s surface.

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=4. Swamp=
For about three yards from the surface of the pond, the water has become soft and marshy, causing feet to sink into the muck and halving movement.

==4A. Mushroom Ring==
A ring of large, white mushrooms with red and brown caps grow in a ring in the mud. A roll against Botany, Naturalist or Survival (Swamp) will reveal that the mushroom is likely to be poisonous, but may be the sort of poison that some cultures consume to heighten their magical senses.

If a mushroom is eaten, the eater must roll against HT or take 1d toxic damage for each point by which they fail their roll. If they do not fail their HT roll, they gain one point of ST and regain 1d of Fatigue for each point by which they succeeded. ST will return to normal within an hour. If a subject eats the mushrooms three times within twenty-four hours, they will be cursed with the Gluttony (Mushrooms) Disadvantage until subjected to a Remove Curse. Taken five times within 24 hours, the mushrooms should cause the PC to develop a mental Disadvantage that the GM rules is an appropriate outgrowth of their personality. The Disadvantage need not have anything to do with mushrooms – it simply represents the character getting a little bit crazier. The GM decides whether the disadvantage can be lifted with a Remove Curse or whether a personal quest of some kind must be undertaken. The mushrooms can be picked, but picked mushrooms become merely poisonous at the next sunrise.

=5. Forest=
The trees here are common surface species for the area, somehow growing green and healthy deep underground.

==5A. Pagoda==
An ornamental wooden pagoda, painted in greens, blues and golds stands before a pebbled courtyard, overgrown with weeds. In the middle of the courtyard grows a tree with twisting branches. Mounted on the tree is a human skull, branches growing through its mouth and eye sockets.

Inside the pagoda is an octagonal wooden table and a warped old rocking chair. On the table is a red clay mug and a white china teacup painted with tiny blue flowers (the cup is worth about $200 but is very fragile).

The Pagoda and courtyard are areas of High Sanctity for clerics of Death or the Wilderness. Furthermore, Spells cast by a cleric of Death or the Wilderness are cast at +4, but if cast by a cleric of a god of Good, at -4. Spells from the Colleges of Body, Healing, Plant, Meta and Necromancy are cast at +4, while spells from the elemental collages are cast at -4. The total bonus or penalty cannot exceed 4. Removing the skull will eliminate the sanctity of the area but the character who does the removing will be the subject of a Curse spell, cast at level 20.

==5B. Forsaken Statue==
The marble statue of a naked woman with flowers in her hair lies on its side here, covered in weeds and with both arms broken. Her right arm holds a snake, wrapped around her forearm. The hand on the left arm seems to be holding fire, rising up from her palm. Standing directly over her is a Peace Blossom Tree.

==Monster==

===Peace Blossom Tree===
Whenever the Peace Blossom Tree is struck or an animal passes within 10 feet of the limbs, it releases a white cloud of spore twenty feet in every direction. Any creature caught in the cloud who is not holding their breath is affected as if by a Sleep spell cast at level 21. Touching a sleeper within 20’ of the tree will automatically trigger another burst of spore. Those sent to sleep by the Peace Blossom can be woken up, but will never wake up without help – the tree keeps them in peaceful slumber until they die and feed the soil.

The Peace Blossom Tree is covered in broad green leaves and small yellow flowers. It has grown to 20 feet in height, with branches reaching 10 feet from the trunk. Characters may recognize the trees for what they are before blundering into them on a successful roll against Botany, Naturalist or Survival (Forest)-4.

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=6. Jungle=
The lush trees here are heavily hung with vines. Movement is halved if the front row characters are hacking through the undergrowth with blades, quartered otherwise.

==6A. Funganoid Territory==
Characters with Discriminatory Smell who make a Perception roll will notice the vague scent of lemon in the air and will be able to trace it back to transparent slime on some of the trees.

==Monsters==

Sooner or later, characters wandering the area will run into 1d6 Funganoids out of the 12 who roam the jungle here.

===12 Streaked Funganoids===
The Funganoids are magical plant creatures shaped like an elongated barrel, with a mass of fern-like feelers at the top and a manipulative foot at the base. Brightly colored in reds, oranges and browns, they are limbless and fly magically. Hundreds of tiny black eyes are arranged around the center of the body, swaying on short stalks. Funganoids have no known mouths.

Funganoids are murderously xenophobic and will attack the PCs as soon as they become aware of them, calling out in ultra-high frequency to attract all other Funganoids in the jungle. For simplicity’s sake, assume that five seconds after the call goes out, 1d6 Funganoids will arrive each second from a variety of directions. The Funganoids will pursue the PCs but will not leave this level of the dungeon.

In combat, a Funganoid is likely to cast Invisibility followed by Great Hallucination. The hallucination will take the form of large slavering mouths appearing in the ground, trees and walls, trying to bite the subject.

The Funganoid attacks by firing seeds from somewhere inside its body. The seeds are as hard as stone and as sharp as glass and make a buzzing sound as they cut through the air. The Funganoid can fire them in any direction.

When a Funganoid dies, it releases a cloud of red gas, which will affect everyone standing within Reach 1 who is not holding their breath. The gas stinks of decomposing plant-life and functions like a Sleep spell cast at skill 15. The gas will dissipate after one minute.

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'''Spells:''' The Funganoids all know the following spells at level 21: Great Hallucination, Hallucination, Illusion Disguise, Invisibility, Mage Stealth, Perfect illusion.

==Treasure==
Funganoids have no treasure as most humanoids understand it, but what they do have is a great pile of leaves heaped around the trunk of an oak old tree. The leaves on the ground are of no value, but the holes in the tree are packed with various herbal concoctions. There are 5 doses of Paut ($135, 0.5 lb each.), 2 Anti-Toxins ($20, 0.5 lb. each) and 2 Invisibility Potions ($2,250, 0.5 lb. each). Identifying them will require a roll against Herb Lore.

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=7. Side Cavern=
The rock of the cavern wall has cracked open, creating an opening into another large cavern, this one devoid of soil and plants, and lit only by the “sunlight” that spills through the cave opening.

==Monster==

===Great Worm===
Lying on the rocky cave floor is what looks to be a gigantic pink earthworm, about eight feet wide and thirty feet long. When it detects intruders, it will open its mouth, revealing a ring two yards wide filled with shining, knife-like teeth. The worm is blind but it can detect movement on the ground through vibration and it will mindlessly pursue and attack anything that it detects.

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==Treasure==
The ivory of the worm’s teeth is quite valuable. It weighs 10 lbs in all and is worth $10,000. However, PC’s are unlikely to recognize this unless they have a suitable Connoisseur specialty that might give them experience with different kinds of ivory.

=8. The Stairs Down=
An opening in the southern wall of the cavern leads to a broad stone stairway 5 yards wide, spiraling downwards. The stonework is particularly fine, with the smooth blocks fitting perfectly together, but the walls are mossy and grow progressively mossier as the characters descend. After descending 10 yards, the PCs will arrive at the landing where the Chest Monster lurks. 20 yards lower than that, at a depth where the walls are thick with moss, is the arched entryway to Level 5, Room 1.

==Monster==
===The Chest Monster===
On an otherwise empty landing sits the silent Chest Monster. The Chest Monster would look like an ordinary large wooden chest with an iron lock, were it not for the three large round eyes and the grinning gash of a mouth, full of sharp teeth. The Chest Monster’s large eyes will make it clear that it is watching everything the PC’s are doing and the closer they get to touching it, even if with an attack, the wider it will grin.

An unusually stupid member of its species, the creature is physically capable of perfectly impersonating a chest, but doesn’t have the sense to do it properly. It is waiting patiently for the PCs to come over and touch it, at which point, it will attack. It has no idea that it is telegraphing its intentions with its highly expressive face. If the monster starts to feel ignored, it may make a sound in its belly like muffled change ringing, not realizing that chests don’t do that.

If spoken to by someone making eye-contact, the creature will assume perfect chest form for three seconds or until touched, during which time it is blind and deaf. After that, one eye will re-appear, then the other two, then the mouth with return. The creature will not otherwise acknowledge having been spoken to.

The creature has a very simple inner life but the GM should feel free to express it all on the face in a very human manner. The monster may emote that it is angry to be ignored, or sad to suffer damage, or surprised by a feat of magic, or whatever else the GM feels is warranted.

If bypassed, the chest will look miserable and jingle as it watches the characters go. As soon as they are out of eyeshot, it will then stalk them with intent to ambush whoever looks smallest.

In its natural, dead form, the Chest Monster looks like a cube of pinkish meat, with three large round eyes and a huge mouth.

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===Treasure===
In the depths of the Chest Monsters gut are two empty bottles, a ceramic cat, and a fuzzy toy bear that squeaks if pressed. They are in poor condition and none of them are worth anything.

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Beneath Castle Everglory: LEVEL 3: Vault of the Servants

2010-09-27T12:19:28Z

Mlangsdorf:

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=1. Dormitory 1=
This 5 yard x 7 yard room contains six simple wooden beds. 4 Cave Ogres lie snoring on a pile of linen sheets and wool blankets on the floor, while a fifth sits on a bed facing the doorway, scratching the side of the bed with his claws, to make shavings curl up (at -3 to notice the PCs). Scratched clumsily into the stone wall above each bed is the symbol of a shield crossed by a staff. In the SE corner, a wooden mop stands in a tin bucket.

==Monsters==

===5 Cave Ogres (Ukrug, Bukrug, Urguk, Gark and Ugraguk)===
The Cave Ogres are squat, eight foot tall, hairless humanoids with tusks and crusty blue-grey skin. They are wearing kilts made out of bear-hide tied with the skin of huge serpent and carry massive, black, flanged, iron maces. Their yellow teeth are like jagged, broken rocks and their breath stinks like rotten eggs. They are violent predators and will attack the PCs as soon as they become aware of them.

If captured, the Ogres will become servile until they find a good opportunity to escape. They know about the dragon (“the great fire snake”) and the giant (“the giant”) and they are terrified of both.

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==Treasure==
The ogres' maces are mauls by human standards ($80, 12 lbs).

=2. Dormitory 2=

This 5 yard x 7 yard room contains six simple wooden beds. On the far wall, a white linen sheet hangs suspended from the wall by unseen means. The sheet has been gashed in a way that makes it look like an unhappy face – two gashes for eyes and a sad, semi-circle mouth (the sheet is harmless and it is held up with glue of some kind). Many linen sheets and wool blankets are piled together in a mound on the floor. Scratched clumsily into the stone wall above each bed is the symbol of a shield crossed by a staff.

=3. Dormitory 3=

This 5 yard x 7 yard room contains six simple wooden beds. Linen sheets and wool blankets are piled together in a mound on the floor. Scratched clumsily into the stone wall above each bed is the symbol of a shield crossed by a staff.

=4. Dormitory 4=

This 5 yard x 7 yard room contains six simple wooden beds. Linen sheets and wool blankets are piled together on a mound on the floor, on which sits a scowling twelve-foot giant, arms crossed over his knees. Scratched clumsily into the stone wall above each bed is the symbol of a shield crossed by a staff.

==Monster==

===Wulfgar (Cavern Giant)===

Wulfgar is 14 feet tall and looks like an oversized rural bum with an implausibly bulbous nose. His long blonde hair and bushy beard are unkempt and dirty, his yellow hemp shirt has no sleeves, his brown hemp trousers are ragged and patched and are tied around his waist with a rope, and his feet are bare and black with dirt. Wulfgar is no fool, however – he just doesn’t like to go to a lot of effort.

Wulfgar the Cavern Giant is a simple soul – he wants to eat the PCs and collect their stuff. He’s curious enough to listen to negotiation attempts, but isn’t going to make any deals – he’s just going to eat the PCs and collect their stuff.

If defeated, Wulfgar will cooperate with the PCs in return for his life. However, he will constantly be looking for a chance to betray and defeat them. He knows the layout of the level and knows about the “little folk” (Cave Ogres), who he despises for being small and weak, and the “abomination” (Chasnahhahkah the dragon), who he hates for being a monster.

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===Treasure===
''Hat of Shrinking''. Wulfgar has a long, floppy, red, wool hat the size of a sleeping bag that can shrink him to 3’ in height. This works for anyone who puts on the huge hat provided that they are over 3’ normally, and the cap will shrink as well to fit. Wulfgar usually only wears this to make it easier to leave the room and while eating, to make his meals bigger. ($500, 20 lbs)

''Ring of Bright Water''. Wulfgar also has a human-sized silver ring that he can wear when he has been shrunk. The thick silver band is enchanted with Create Water. For some reason, the water has a faint white glow. ($4,300, 0.3 lbs)

=5. Kitchen=
This 5 yard by 5 yard room contains four scratched wooden tables and little else. The rear wall is lined with empty wooden shelves and hooks are set in the other walls, but nothing hangs from the hooks any more except for a pair of tin spatula and a whisk.

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=6. Pantry=
This 3 yard by 3 yard room abuts the kitchen (room 5). It is lined with wooden shelves on which nothing now sits but lines of small bones. There are 40 bones in all and a roll against Physician, Physiology, Thanatology, Zoology or First Aid will reveal that they are human toe bones. The GM may allow characters who spend a lot of time around skeletons to substitute IQ for this roll.

=7. Storage=
This 5 yard by 5 yard room is ringed with wooden shelves, laden with open, labeled wooden boxes of different sizes. The boxes contain linen sheets, woolen blankets, and simple woolen shirts, skirts and trousers. The material has deteriorated with the passing of the years and is badly molded and moth-eaten.

=8. Eating Hall=

This smoky, 10 yard by 20 yard room is dominated by a huge, red dragon, laying in wait for anyone or anything that might wander by. The walls are stamped all around with the emblem of a hand holding a silver chalice, except in a few places where the wall has been scorched black. The floor is almost entirely scorched and is covered in a thin layer of ash.

==Monster==

===Chasnahhahkah the Dragon===

Chasnahhahkah is a very splendid looking dragon and he knows it. His gleaming scales are dark red along his back, blending into orange along his sides and deep yellow along his underbelly. He holds his head high at the end of his towering neck, his long, crocodilian face set with bright yellow eyes, slit with black pupils. Six bright purple plumes grow from his face, two from each cheek, and one from above each eyebrow. The dragon can manipulate these plumes independently, an ability that he likes to show off by using them for emphasis in conversation. Dark smoke curls from the dragon’s wide nostrils and past his rows of long teeth.

Above all, the dragon is looking for an opportunity to gloat. Although he intends to eat the PCs, he is even more interested in playing with them, boasting to them, and telling them how powerless they are before him. He is quite self-righteous, believing that the PCs were out to kill him and take his treasure. While his vanity may be exploited, he is highly intelligent and far too paranoid to fall for simple deceptions - Chasnahhahkah may be arrogant but he didn’t get to be 300 years old by being gullible.

The dragon may cast Charm, Mass Suggestion or Perfect Illusion just to mess with the PCs heads. One illusion he likes is to have an obsequious human servant enter the room and confess to a minor mistake, such as breaking a clay cup, after which the dragon gives the “human” a hard look and they burst into flame, dying horribly and dramatically.

In combat, Chasnahhahkah loves nothing better than casting a Terror spell at an enemy group and then breathing fire all over them. He likes to cast Foolishness on annoying mages and Fear on annoying melee fighters. While he doesn’t mind using his claws and teeth, he prefers to use them on foes who are running away.

If defeated, Chasnahhahkah will do anything in return for his life. He will deal honestly with the characters unless being dishonest will allow him to escape from them. He knows the layout of the entire level and knows about all of its current inhabitants by their proper names.

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'''Spells:''' The dragon knows the following spells at level 20: Charm, Detect Magic, Dispel Magic, Fear, Foolishness, Forgetfulness, Mage Sight, Mass Suggestion, Perfect Illusion, Suggestion, Terror.

===Treasure===
Chasnahhahkah is resting on a great pile of copper, silver and gold. Anyone who takes the time to separate and count it will find 3,199 copper pieces, 1,520 silver pieces and 129 gold pieces. Also in the pile are an ordinary pickaxe ($15, 8 lb), a silver crown engraved with lions ($575, 0.5), an electrum bracelet engraved with flowering vines ($5,120, 0.5), and the following three enchanted items:

''Brush of Cooling''. Teak Brush enchanted with Coolness. ($4,020, 0.5 lbs.)

''Garrote of Shell-Cutting''. Very Fine, enchanted with Penetrating Weapon (2). ($5,040, Neg.)

''Shield of Dancing''. This is a fine quality medium shield enchanted with Dancing Shield. The shield’s surface is a patchword of inlaid woods of different kinds, depicting a hawk rising into the air with wings spread. ($6,020, 12 lbs.)

=9. Maintenance=
This 3 yard by 3 yard room is lined with wooden shelves and cluttered with buckets, mops, piles of rags and broken furniture and tools.

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=10. Temple=
This round room, 9 yards in diameter, is centered around a white marble dais on which stands a white marble statue of a robed man holding a shield in his left hand and a staff in his right. The white stone walls are engraved with images of simply dressed figures kneeling to richly dressed ones. Four wooden chairs have been set against the wall and in each chair sits a stiff desiccated corpse, wrapped in a white burial sheet, with their head, arms and shoulders sticking out. A young man in fine clothes is adjusting their postures, somehow managing not to snap their limbs in the process. He appears to be playing with them as if they were dolls.

The temple is an area of High Sanctity for clerics of Love and Fertility. Clerics of a god of Love and Fertility will also cast spells at +4 to skill, while worshipers of a god of Death will cast spells at -8, and of gods of the Hunt, Night or Storm at -4.

==Monster==

===Llyrysyn (Strange Fae Creature)===
Llyrysyn looks like a rich young nobleman who just been to a ball. He is wearing a burgundy velvet coat, well-tailored sheepskin trousers, and a pea-green, three-cornered hat with a decorative silver buckle over the brim. A long, thin dress-rapier hangs at his hip (though he has no idea how to use it). He is clean-shaven, with neatly-combed, lank black hair that reaches his shoulders.

Llyrysyn is a fae creature, not malicious, but insane by human standards, who has dropped by to play with the corpses that he found in the room. He speaks all common languages (including Common, Elvish and Dwarvish) and will respond with as much friendliness or hostility as he is shown. He will not leave his game, however, and will grow hostile if told that he shouldn’t be playing it. He cannot be bribed as he has everything he wants. However, he is aware of the giant “the big, angry man”, the dragon “the great drake” and the ogres “the cave wights”. He will warn friendly PCs that the dragon is a fire-breather and a wizard.

If attacked, Llyrysyn will do his best to escape by casting Perfect Illusion, calling up transparent human “ghosts” dressed in rags and bound in chains warning “flee!” He will defend himself against magic using Meta-College spells such as Dispel Magic. If Llyrysyn can get out of the PC’s sight, he will use Perfect Illusion to disguise himself as a cheap wooden chest and Sound to lead characters away.

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'''Spells:''' Llyrysyn knows all of the Hard spells from the Meta college and all of the Hard spells from the Illusion and Creation college except for the Create spells. All spells are known at level 20.

==Treasure==
Llyrysyn’s clothes and weaponry look valuable, but if taken from him will turn to sticks and leaves by the next dawn.

=11. The Stairs Down=

A short corridor terminates in a stone stairway, spiraling downwards. Characters walking down the stairs will descend a full 100 yards until they arrive at a wide arched opening through which pours what looks like sunlight.

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Beneath Castle Everglory: LEVEL 2: Vault of the Scribes

2010-09-27T12:08:24Z

Mlangsdorf: /* Lurker in Filth */

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=1. Antechamber=

This 4 yard by 4 yard room contains a wooden desk and chair, and some balls of animal dung on the floor (anyone with Naturalist, Survival (Underground) or Zoology has +3 to recognize it as the dung of Giant Rats). The walls are stamped all the way around with the emblem of a hand holding a quill.

==Monster==
Hiding above the doorway waiting to drop on anything that comes through is a predatory Hell Slug.

===Hell Slug===
The Hell slug is a broad, flat invertebrate of roughly oval shape that hides in trees or on ceilings, dropping onto creatures passing below to grapple and smother them. It has a limited ability to alter the color of its rough, slimy hide for camouflage and may vary in color from light brown to dark brown or green, to black. The slug waiting on the ceiling here is dark brown and well-concealed against its background. PCs coming through the door above which it waits are at -6 to notice it. PCs entering through any other door are at -2. The Hell Slug’s pink blood is extremely thick and sticky. Anyone who damages the slug with a weapon of Reach 1 or less must roll Dodge or be splattered with blood on the attacking limb or limbs (no Dodge permitted if striking bare-handed). If a character is splattered, consider their limb to be covered by units of goo equal to the damage they just caused to the slug (example: a sword blow to the slug causing 4 points of damage will produce 4 points of goo). Until the goo is removed, use of the limb will require the character to win a contested ST roll every second against the cumulative amount of goo on it. The goo can be removed at a rate of one unit per second of cloth-wiping or five units per second of washing.

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=2. Kitchen=
This 5 yard by 5 yard room contains four scratched wooden tables and rusty iron cooking implements hanging from hooks on the wall. The rear wall is lined with empty wooden shelves. There are balls of dung here, as in room 1.

=3. Bedroom 1=
This 5 yard by 7 yard room contains three wooden beds and what looks to be scraps of torn linen sheets and woolen blankets on the floor. The walls have been painted with fake windows, looking out onto a sun-filled garden. There is a small wooden locker at the bottom of each bed. They can be opened with a straight lock-picking roll or by doing 10 damage to them (they have DR 2). Smashing the boxes may damage the contents at the GMs discretion.

==Treasure==
'''Locker 1''': 26 silver pieces, an ivory makeup kit engraved with a picture of a sleeping white tiger (1 oz, $200), 5 ounces of Frankincense ($80) and a bottle of Jasmine-scented perfume (6 oz, $500).

'''Locker 2''': 41 silver pieces, a steel dagger of very fine quality enchanted with Penetrating Weapon (2) ($5,400, 0.25 lbs), and a vial containing a green Great Healing potion ($1,000, 0.5 lb).

'''Locker 3''': 4 silver pieces, 25 copper pieces, a pair of red silk men’s slippers ($70, 1 lb) and 3 vials, each containing a black Speed Potion. ($550, 0.5 lb each).

=4. Bedroom 2=
This 5 yard by 7 yard room contains three wooden beds and what looks to be scraps of torn linen sheets and woolen blankets on the floor. The walls have been painted with fake windows, looking out onto a sunny beach. There is a small wooden locker at the bottom of each bed. They can be opened with a straight lock-picking roll or doing 10 damage to them (they have DR 2). Smashing the boxes may damage the contents at the GMs discretion.

==Treasure==
'''Locker 1''': 4 gold pieces, 66 silver pieces, 37 copper pieces, and four small stones in a green velvet bag. To the untrained eye, the stones look quite like diamonds and are as hard as rock. They are, however, a form of sugary candy, and will dissolve pleasantly in the mouth. They are worth a copper piece each.

'''Locker 2''': For some reason, the locker is filled to the brim with old, broken egg-shells. They are worthless.

'''Locker 3''': 12 silver pieces, a small silver mirror ($400, 0.5 lb.), and an electrum broach in the shape of a scarab ($2,000, 0.15 lbs).

=5. Bedroom 3=
This 5 yard by 7 yard room contains three wooden beds and what looks to be scraps of torn linen sheets and woolen blankets on the floor. The walls have been painted with fake windows, looking out onto a sun-dappled forest. There is a small wooden locker at the bottom of each bed. They can be opened with a straight lock-picking roll or by doing 10 damage to them (they have DR 2). Smashing the boxes may damage the contents at the GMs discretion.

==Monster==
The room is currently being used by a spherical, brown, five-limbed earth elemental, who is sitting on the floor and slapping it with its hands/feet, for reasons only an earth elemental can understand.

===Five-Limbed Earth Elemental===
The elemental has a rough, brown-black round body with five supporting limbs, each ending in five fingers/toes. It has ten mouths in a horizontal ring, rocky, toothless holes that are strong enough to crush rocks. The creature has a name, but to PC ears, it sounds like rocks grinding together.

The elemental speaks the language of Earth elementals and broken Dwarvish. It has no interest in the PCs problems and knows nothing of any use. If asked to help, it will agree to aid the party in return for some interesting stones, provided upfront. The elemental will be satisfied by about 100 gold pieces ($8000) worth of stones. However, once it has swallowed them, it will no longer remember having promised to help.

In Combat, the Elemental likes to cast Mud Jet on groups of enemies, followed by Stone Missile. Anyone who damages the elemental in combat will really annoy it and is likely to be the subject of a Flesh to Stone spell. If fearing for its life, the elemental may cast Walk Through Earth to get away from the PCs, but it will be back to finish the fight as soon as it thinks the PCs don’t know where it is, hoping to come at them from an unexpected direction. If defeated, the elemental will be willing to cast Flesh to Stone on any petrified characters, as well as doing whatever else it needs to do to survive long enough to escape.

{{GURPSNPCTraits|25|11|8|14|40|12|9|40|4|6|1|4|9|9|N/A|Punch-16 2d+2 Crushing|Dark Vision; Doesn’t Breathe; Doesn’t Eat or Drink; Doesn’t Sleep; Extra Limbs (5 Arms / Legs); High Pain Threshold; Immunity to Metabolic Hazards; Injury Tolerance (No Blood, No Vitals).|Brawling-16; Innate Attack (Beam)-16.|Elemental|Speaks the language of Earth Elementals and broken Dwarvish.}}

'''Spells:''' The elemental knows all of the Hard spells of the Earth College except Entombment and Steelwraith at level 20.

===Treasure===
'''Locker 1''': The locker contains a thick sheaf of yellowed papers, under which are 44 silver pieces, and a bronze ring engraved with the image of a lotus ($30, 0.1 lb). The top sheets of paper are the alphabet written out carefully again and again, as though someone had been practicing their calligraphy. After that are 40 pencil drawings, all of the face of the same man, somewhat fat, balding and middle-aged and with a faint sneer to his expression. The pictures are signed “Marf”. They aren’t bad but nobody is going to pay money for them.

'''Locker 2''': 2 gold pieces, 37 copper pieces, and a delicate knife, fork and spoon set made of billon ($300 for the set, 0.25 lbs)

'''Locker 3''': Locker 3 is trapped with a magical trap.

; ''Shocking Runes Trap''
{{GURPSTrap|Per-based Thaumatology, or Per-based Traps -2. It is assumed that the Traps skill includes instruction on recognizing magical traps.|No|DX-based Traps roll to scrape the runes off the locker without setting them off. Once removed, the runes are harmless.|No.|Resist Runes-15 with Will or suffer 3d electrical damage (burn).|Infinite.|No}}

60 silver pieces and 3 books, all bound in codex form and written in Common.

''Jade Path of the Magus''.
:Primer: Occultism, Thaumatology. Spell: Ignite Fire (which the book calls “Sacred Flame Ritual”). $250, 9 lbs.
:An introduction to thaumatology and the occult, this book harps heavy on the awesome responsibility of being a magus and includes many exhortations for the student to lead a virtuous and upstanding life.

''The Five Cryptic Keys of Lao''.
:Textbook: Cryptology, Mathematics, Thaumatology. Spells: Create Fire (“Manifestation of the Sun”), Extinguish Fire (“Banishing the Sun”), Ignite Fire (“Evocation of the Sun”), Seek Fire (“Pilgrim of the Sun”), Shape Fire (“Possession of the Sun”). $850, 14 lbs.
:This meandering text can be a little hard to follow, not least because of the author’s reliance on complicated metaphors and cryptic hints. The book includes many logical puzzles which serve no practical use, but might provide some light entertainment over the campfire.

''The Last Wizard''.
:Heavy leather covers decorated with swirling scratches. Thesis: Psychology, Thaumatology, 4 points in each. Spells: Burning Touch (“Close Melee Burn”), Explosive Fireball (“Tactical Area Burn”), Fireball (“Targeted Range Burn”), Firecloud (“Firestorm“), Flaming Weapon (“Armed Melee Burn”), Flame Jet (“Flamethrower”), Heat (“Targeted Armor Scorch”), Ignite Fire (“Targeted Incendiary”), Rain of Fire (“Surface Denial Incendiary Area Burn”), Shape Fire “Tactical Incendiary Area Denial”. $1,500, 24 lbs.
:This text is essentially the anonymous autobiography of a mage for hire, woven through with digressions on the subjects of Thaumatology and human psychology and concluding with a grimoire. The mage sees his life as a tale of human triumph. Rising from extreme poverty as a child in the big city, he found success as a mercenary wizard specializing in fire magic, flinging off the chains of morality along the way as he slowly came to realize that only a fool gives a damn about anyone else.

=6. Meeting Chamber=

This 4 yard by 8 yard room has the emblem of a hand holding a quill stamped all around the walls. The room is dominated by a long wooden table, around which there are twelve wooden chairs. There are two toppled ceramic mugs on the table, a shattered glass vase and a small wooden box holding shards of white chalk. The far wall is paneled with slate and has the words “THE FUTURE” written on it in white chalk with Common capital letters.

=7. Workroom=

This 5 yard by 5 yard room has the hand and quill emblem stamped all around the walls. It contains six simple wooden desks, each with a wooden chair. A small, blue ceramic inkwell sits at the right hand corner of each desk. There are empty wooden shelves along each wall that an animal of some kind has been chewing on (A roll against Naturalist, Survival (Underground) or Zoology will identify the teeth-marks of a giant rat).

The inkwells are empty, though stained with ink. If the PCs look under the desks, they will find under one of them that someone has carved in Dwarvish “Get a real job, thief!”.

=8. Storage=

This 5 yard by 5 yard room is ringed with wooden shelves, laden with closed, labeled wooden boxes of different sizes. The boxes contain stacks of old, yellowed, blank paper, bunches of withered writing quills bound with string, and small glass bottles of ink (long dry).

[[Image: Devil5.jpg]]

=9. Library=

The floor of this stinking 4 yard by 4 yard room is covered in torn, stained paper to a depth of about 1 yard, spilling out into the corridor. There are badly-chewed, empty wooden shelves ringing the walls, except where the boards have been torn down. If the PCs stand silently for a few seconds, they will hear occasional shrill squeals and scurrying feet. Eventually, whether they make noise or not, a huge, hairy brown rat head will emerge from the papers and hiss at them, baring yellow teeth.

Once the rats have become aware of the PCs, combat is almost certain. If the PCs invade the rats’ lair, the rats will attack (-4 to hit them through all the paper). On the other hand, if the PCs leave, the hungry rats will take this as a sign of weakness and will follow and attack them.

==Monsters==

===9 Giant Rats===
{{GURPSNPCTraits|9|13|5|13|9|10|12|13|6.5|7|-1|1|9|N/A|N/A|Bite-15 1d-1 Cutting|Night Vision 5; Semi-Upright; Striking ST +2 (ST 11); Wild Animal.|Brawling-15; Stealth-15.|Giant Animal|None.}}

==Treasure==

The pages seem to have scribbled writing on them in a number of hands, but the ink has all run, rendering them illegible. Any PC who has experience with old books will know that ink just doesn’t do that naturally.

=10. Temple=

This round room, 9 yards in diameter, is where all of the Cutnose Orcs’ garbage and dung from Level 1 Room 7 winds up, in a wide lake of filth in the sunken floor, dominated by a hill of trash. The stench is indescribable. On a stone dais in the middle of the hill is a statue, brown with muck. The statue is of man with the head of a cat, holding a stylus and a tablet, upon which is written the word “Wisdom” in Elvish. The filth-caked walls of the room are engraved with scenes of reeds growing on the banks of rivers.

Despite the desecration, the temple is an area of High Sanctity for clerics of Knowledge. Any spells cast to write something somewhere are cast at +6. Any spells that harm a living creature are cast at -4. Mages as well as divine spell-casters are subject to these modifiers.

==Monster==

===Lurker in Filth===
The pool is home to a Lurker in Filth, presently happily submerged beneath the surface and impossible to see. The Lurker in Filth is not looking for a fight, but it will not hesitate to defend the great heap of garbage and Orc dung in which it lives. In practice, this means that anyone who touches the heap will immediately be attacked.

The Lurker in Filth is a slimy, greenish-brown, invertebrate scavenger that lives on rotting organic matter and dung. It has six short legs, three on each side of the body, and four tentacle arms that feed the toothless mouth found on the underside. The Lurker can see and hear perfectly well, despite the lack of any visible sense organs apart from a mass of feeler-tentacles at one end (the end that happens to contain the brain, such as it is). In battle, the Lurker will do its best to face away from danger, which does not hamper its ability to perceive its enemy or to fight, but will convince most enemies to attack its rear end rather than the end that contains its brain.

{{GURPSNPCTraits|40|15|3|12|40|15|14|40|8|4|2|3|9|11|N/A|2 Barbed Tentacle Slash-15 3d Cutting|360 Degree Vision; Discriminatory Smell; Doesn’t Breathe; Extra Attack; Extra Arms (4 Tentacles); Extra Legs (6 Legs); High Pain Threshold; Infravision; Invertebrate; No Fine Manipulators.|Brawling-15|Mundane| The Lurker in Filth’s barbed tentacles both filthy and envenomed. Any character wounded by the Lurker in Filth must roll vs. HT. Failure will reduce that characters HT by 1 for a number of days equal to the degree of failure. Effects are cumulative. This counts as both as poison and disease for resistance and curing.}}

=11. The Stairs Down=
A short corridor terminates in a stone stairway, spiraling downwards. Characters walking down the stairs will descend 10 yards until they arrive at the main corridor.

[http://wiki.rpg.net/index.php/Beneath_Castle_Everglory Table of Contents]

[http://wiki.rpg.net/index.php/Beneath_Castle_Everglory:_LEVEL_3:_Vault_of_the_Servants LEVEL 3: Vault of the Servants]

Beneath Castle Everglory: LEVEL 2: Vault of the Scribes

2010-09-27T12:05:31Z

Mlangsdorf:

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=1. Antechamber=

This 4 yard by 4 yard room contains a wooden desk and chair, and some balls of animal dung on the floor (anyone with Naturalist, Survival (Underground) or Zoology has +3 to recognize it as the dung of Giant Rats). The walls are stamped all the way around with the emblem of a hand holding a quill.

==Monster==
Hiding above the doorway waiting to drop on anything that comes through is a predatory Hell Slug.

===Hell Slug===
The Hell slug is a broad, flat invertebrate of roughly oval shape that hides in trees or on ceilings, dropping onto creatures passing below to grapple and smother them. It has a limited ability to alter the color of its rough, slimy hide for camouflage and may vary in color from light brown to dark brown or green, to black. The slug waiting on the ceiling here is dark brown and well-concealed against its background. PCs coming through the door above which it waits are at -6 to notice it. PCs entering through any other door are at -2. The Hell Slug’s pink blood is extremely thick and sticky. Anyone who damages the slug with a weapon of Reach 1 or less must roll Dodge or be splattered with blood on the attacking limb or limbs (no Dodge permitted if striking bare-handed). If a character is splattered, consider their limb to be covered by units of goo equal to the damage they just caused to the slug (example: a sword blow to the slug causing 4 points of damage will produce 4 points of goo). Until the goo is removed, use of the limb will require the character to win a contested ST roll every second against the cumulative amount of goo on it. The goo can be removed at a rate of one unit per second of cloth-wiping or five units per second of washing.

{{GURPSNPCTraits|40|12|3|12|50|11|10|40|5|5|2|2, 8 vs Crushing|9|N/A|N/A|Squeeze-16 4d Crushing|Constriction Attack; High Pain Threshold; Infravision; Invertibrate; Vermiform.|Brawling-16; Stealth-16.|Dire Animal.|None}}

=2. Kitchen=
This 5 yard by 5 yard room contains four scratched wooden tables and rusty iron cooking implements hanging from hooks on the wall. The rear wall is lined with empty wooden shelves. There are balls of dung here, as in room 1.

=3. Bedroom 1=
This 5 yard by 7 yard room contains three wooden beds and what looks to be scraps of torn linen sheets and woolen blankets on the floor. The walls have been painted with fake windows, looking out onto a sun-filled garden. There is a small wooden locker at the bottom of each bed. They can be opened with a straight lock-picking roll or by doing 10 damage to them (they have DR 2). Smashing the boxes may damage the contents at the GMs discretion.

==Treasure==
'''Locker 1''': 26 silver pieces, an ivory makeup kit engraved with a picture of a sleeping white tiger (1 oz, $200), 5 ounces of Frankincense ($80) and a bottle of Jasmine-scented perfume (6 oz, $500).

'''Locker 2''': 41 silver pieces, a steel dagger of very fine quality enchanted with Penetrating Weapon (2) ($5,400, 0.25 lbs), and a vial containing a green Great Healing potion ($1,000, 0.5 lb).

'''Locker 3''': 4 silver pieces, 25 copper pieces, a pair of red silk men’s slippers ($70, 1 lb) and 3 vials, each containing a black Speed Potion. ($550, 0.5 lb each).

=4. Bedroom 2=
This 5 yard by 7 yard room contains three wooden beds and what looks to be scraps of torn linen sheets and woolen blankets on the floor. The walls have been painted with fake windows, looking out onto a sunny beach. There is a small wooden locker at the bottom of each bed. They can be opened with a straight lock-picking roll or doing 10 damage to them (they have DR 2). Smashing the boxes may damage the contents at the GMs discretion.

==Treasure==
'''Locker 1''': 4 gold pieces, 66 silver pieces, 37 copper pieces, and four small stones in a green velvet bag. To the untrained eye, the stones look quite like diamonds and are as hard as rock. They are, however, a form of sugary candy, and will dissolve pleasantly in the mouth. They are worth a copper piece each.

'''Locker 2''': For some reason, the locker is filled to the brim with old, broken egg-shells. They are worthless.

'''Locker 3''': 12 silver pieces, a small silver mirror ($400, 0.5 lb.), and an electrum broach in the shape of a scarab ($2,000, 0.15 lbs).

=5. Bedroom 3=
This 5 yard by 7 yard room contains three wooden beds and what looks to be scraps of torn linen sheets and woolen blankets on the floor. The walls have been painted with fake windows, looking out onto a sun-dappled forest. There is a small wooden locker at the bottom of each bed. They can be opened with a straight lock-picking roll or by doing 10 damage to them (they have DR 2). Smashing the boxes may damage the contents at the GMs discretion.

==Monster==
The room is currently being used by a spherical, brown, five-limbed earth elemental, who is sitting on the floor and slapping it with its hands/feet, for reasons only an earth elemental can understand.

===Five-Limbed Earth Elemental===
The elemental has a rough, brown-black round body with five supporting limbs, each ending in five fingers/toes. It has ten mouths in a horizontal ring, rocky, toothless holes that are strong enough to crush rocks. The creature has a name, but to PC ears, it sounds like rocks grinding together.

The elemental speaks the language of Earth elementals and broken Dwarvish. It has no interest in the PCs problems and knows nothing of any use. If asked to help, it will agree to aid the party in return for some interesting stones, provided upfront. The elemental will be satisfied by about 100 gold pieces ($8000) worth of stones. However, once it has swallowed them, it will no longer remember having promised to help.

In Combat, the Elemental likes to cast Mud Jet on groups of enemies, followed by Stone Missile. Anyone who damages the elemental in combat will really annoy it and is likely to be the subject of a Flesh to Stone spell. If fearing for its life, the elemental may cast Walk Through Earth to get away from the PCs, but it will be back to finish the fight as soon as it thinks the PCs don’t know where it is, hoping to come at them from an unexpected direction. If defeated, the elemental will be willing to cast Flesh to Stone on any petrified characters, as well as doing whatever else it needs to do to survive long enough to escape.

{{GURPSNPCTraits|25|11|8|14|40|12|9|40|4|6|1|4|9|9|N/A|Punch-16 2d+2 Crushing|Dark Vision; Doesn’t Breathe; Doesn’t Eat or Drink; Doesn’t Sleep; Extra Limbs (5 Arms / Legs); High Pain Threshold; Immunity to Metabolic Hazards; Injury Tolerance (No Blood, No Vitals).|Brawling-16; Innate Attack (Beam)-16.|Elemental|Speaks the language of Earth Elementals and broken Dwarvish.}}

'''Spells:''' The elemental knows all of the Hard spells of the Earth College except Entombment and Steelwraith at level 20.

===Treasure===
'''Locker 1''': The locker contains a thick sheaf of yellowed papers, under which are 44 silver pieces, and a bronze ring engraved with the image of a lotus ($30, 0.1 lb). The top sheets of paper are the alphabet written out carefully again and again, as though someone had been practicing their calligraphy. After that are 40 pencil drawings, all of the face of the same man, somewhat fat, balding and middle-aged and with a faint sneer to his expression. The pictures are signed “Marf”. They aren’t bad but nobody is going to pay money for them.

'''Locker 2''': 2 gold pieces, 37 copper pieces, and a delicate knife, fork and spoon set made of billon ($300 for the set, 0.25 lbs)

'''Locker 3''': Locker 3 is trapped with a magical trap.

; ''Shocking Runes Trap''
{{GURPSTrap|Per-based Thaumatology, or Per-based Traps -2. It is assumed that the Traps skill includes instruction on recognizing magical traps.|No|DX-based Traps roll to scrape the runes off the locker without setting them off. Once removed, the runes are harmless.|No.|Resist Runes-15 with Will or suffer 3d electrical damage (burn).|Infinite.|No}}

60 silver pieces and 3 books, all bound in codex form and written in Common.

''Jade Path of the Magus''.
:Primer: Occultism, Thaumatology. Spell: Ignite Fire (which the book calls “Sacred Flame Ritual”). $250, 9 lbs.
:An introduction to thaumatology and the occult, this book harps heavy on the awesome responsibility of being a magus and includes many exhortations for the student to lead a virtuous and upstanding life.

''The Five Cryptic Keys of Lao''.
:Textbook: Cryptology, Mathematics, Thaumatology. Spells: Create Fire (“Manifestation of the Sun”), Extinguish Fire (“Banishing the Sun”), Ignite Fire (“Evocation of the Sun”), Seek Fire (“Pilgrim of the Sun”), Shape Fire (“Possession of the Sun”). $850, 14 lbs.
:This meandering text can be a little hard to follow, not least because of the author’s reliance on complicated metaphors and cryptic hints. The book includes many logical puzzles which serve no practical use, but might provide some light entertainment over the campfire.

''The Last Wizard''.
:Heavy leather covers decorated with swirling scratches. Thesis: Psychology, Thaumatology, 4 points in each. Spells: Burning Touch (“Close Melee Burn”), Explosive Fireball (“Tactical Area Burn”), Fireball (“Targeted Range Burn”), Firecloud (“Firestorm“), Flaming Weapon (“Armed Melee Burn”), Flame Jet (“Flamethrower”), Heat (“Targeted Armor Scorch”), Ignite Fire (“Targeted Incendiary”), Rain of Fire (“Surface Denial Incendiary Area Burn”), Shape Fire “Tactical Incendiary Area Denial”. $1,500, 24 lbs.
:This text is essentially the anonymous autobiography of a mage for hire, woven through with digressions on the subjects of Thaumatology and human psychology and concluding with a grimoire. The mage sees his life as a tale of human triumph. Rising from extreme poverty as a child in the big city, he found success as a mercenary wizard specializing in fire magic, flinging off the chains of morality along the way as he slowly came to realize that only a fool gives a damn about anyone else.

=6. Meeting Chamber=

This 4 yard by 8 yard room has the emblem of a hand holding a quill stamped all around the walls. The room is dominated by a long wooden table, around which there are twelve wooden chairs. There are two toppled ceramic mugs on the table, a shattered glass vase and a small wooden box holding shards of white chalk. The far wall is paneled with slate and has the words “THE FUTURE” written on it in white chalk with Common capital letters.

=7. Workroom=

This 5 yard by 5 yard room has the hand and quill emblem stamped all around the walls. It contains six simple wooden desks, each with a wooden chair. A small, blue ceramic inkwell sits at the right hand corner of each desk. There are empty wooden shelves along each wall that an animal of some kind has been chewing on (A roll against Naturalist, Survival (Underground) or Zoology will identify the teeth-marks of a giant rat).

The inkwells are empty, though stained with ink. If the PCs look under the desks, they will find under one of them that someone has carved in Dwarvish “Get a real job, thief!”.

=8. Storage=

This 5 yard by 5 yard room is ringed with wooden shelves, laden with closed, labeled wooden boxes of different sizes. The boxes contain stacks of old, yellowed, blank paper, bunches of withered writing quills bound with string, and small glass bottles of ink (long dry).

[[Image: Devil5.jpg]]

=9. Library=

The floor of this stinking 4 yard by 4 yard room is covered in torn, stained paper to a depth of about 1 yard, spilling out into the corridor. There are badly-chewed, empty wooden shelves ringing the walls, except where the boards have been torn down. If the PCs stand silently for a few seconds, they will hear occasional shrill squeals and scurrying feet. Eventually, whether they make noise or not, a huge, hairy brown rat head will emerge from the papers and hiss at them, baring yellow teeth.

Once the rats have become aware of the PCs, combat is almost certain. If the PCs invade the rats’ lair, the rats will attack (-4 to hit them through all the paper). On the other hand, if the PCs leave, the hungry rats will take this as a sign of weakness and will follow and attack them.

==Monsters==

===9 Giant Rats===
{{GURPSNPCTraits|9|13|5|13|9|10|12|13|6.5|7|-1|1|9|N/A|N/A|Bite-15 1d-1 Cutting|Night Vision 5; Semi-Upright; Striking ST +2 (ST 11); Wild Animal.|Brawling-15; Stealth-15.|Giant Animal|None.}}

==Treasure==

The pages seem to have scribbled writing on them in a number of hands, but the ink has all run, rendering them illegible. Any PC who has experience with old books will know that ink just doesn’t do that naturally.

=10. Temple=

This round room, 9 yards in diameter, is where all of the Cutnose Orcs’ garbage and dung from Level 1 Room 7 winds up, in a wide lake of filth in the sunken floor, dominated by a hill of trash. The stench is indescribable. On a stone dais in the middle of the hill is a statue, brown with muck. The statue is of man with the head of a cat, holding a stylus and a tablet, upon which is written the word “Wisdom” in Elvish. The filth-caked walls of the room are engraved with scenes of reeds growing on the banks of rivers.

Despite the desecration, the temple is an area of High Sanctity for clerics of Knowledge. Any spells cast to write something somewhere are cast at +6. Any spells that harm a living creature are cast at -4. Mages as well as divine spell-casters are subject to these modifiers.

==Monster==

===Lurker in Filth===
The pool is home to a Lurker in Filth, presently happily submerged beneath the surface and impossible to see. The Lurker in Filth is not looking for a fight, but it will not hesitate to defend the great heap of garbage and Orc dung in which it lives. In practice, this means that anyone who touches the heap will immediately be attacked.

The Lurker in Filth is a slimy, greenish-brown, invertebrate scavenger that lives on rotting organic matter and dung. It has six short legs, three on each side of the body, and four tentacle arms that feed the toothless mouth found on the underside. The Lurker can see and hear perfectly well, despite the lack of any visible sense organs apart from a mass of feeler-tentacles at one end (the end that happens to contain the brain, such as it is). In battle, the Lurker will do its best to face away from danger, which does not hamper its ability to perceive its enemy or to fight, but will convince most enemies to attack its rear end rather than the end that contains its brain.

{{GURPSNPCTraits|40|15|3|12|40|15|14|40|8|4|2|3|9|11|N/A|2 Barbed Tentacle Slash-15 3d Cutting|Discriminatory Smell; Doesn’t Breathe; Extra Attack; Extra Arms (4 Tentacles); Extra Legs (6 Legs); High Pain Threshold; Infravision; Invertebrate; No Fine Manipulators.|Brawling-15|Mundane| The Lurker in Filth’s barbed tentacles both filthy and envenomed. Any character wounded by the Lurker in Filth must roll vs. HT. Failure will reduce that characters HT by 1 for a number of days equal to the degree of failure. Effects are cumulative. This counts as both as poison and disease for resistance and curing.}}

=11. The Stairs Down=
A short corridor terminates in a stone stairway, spiraling downwards. Characters walking down the stairs will descend 10 yards until they arrive at the main corridor.

[http://wiki.rpg.net/index.php/Beneath_Castle_Everglory Table of Contents]

[http://wiki.rpg.net/index.php/Beneath_Castle_Everglory:_LEVEL_3:_Vault_of_the_Servants LEVEL 3: Vault of the Servants]

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Beneath Castle Everglory: LEVEL 1: Lair of the Cutnose Orcs

2010-09-22T17:42:45Z

Mlangsdorf:

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=1. Guardroom=

This square room is 5 yards to a side with bare stone walls. There is a long wooden bench along each wall and scraps of old food all over the floor. A lever at the back of the room will drop an iron portcullis across the entrance or raise it up again. The portcullis has DR 9, HP 20, 500 lbs, ST 18 (see DF 2, p.18). The Orcs will drop it so as to divide the party if they can. Otherwise, they will drop it to trap the PCs inside the room with them.

==Monsters==
Then are ten Cutnose Orc Warriors in here on guard duty, They are presently having a screaming match over which of them can pull the most intimidating “war face”, leaving them at -8 to hear the PCs.

===10 Cutnose Orc Warriors===
{{CEG-CutnoseWarriors}}

;Treasure
The Orcs have a total of 115 copper pieces, along with 10 cheap Orcish broadswords ($50, 4 lbs each) and 12 cheap, medium Orcish shields ($20, 20 lbs each).

=2. Orc Barracks=

This 10 yard x 20 yard room is filled with 60 old wooden beds upon which have been heaped piles of stinking skins and dirty blankets.

==Monsters==
There are 12 Cutnose Orc Warriors here off-duty, having a screaming match about whether human beings are a species of Dire Pig (the Orcs will be at -8 to hear the PCs). One side points out that human beings look like pigs, while the other contends that human beings are much uglier. The Orcs have their swords sheathed and they have no shields.

===12 Cutnose Orc Warriors===
{{GURPSNPCTraits|12|11|9|11|13|9|12|13|5|5|0|0|8|9|N/A|Orcish Broadsword-13 1d+2 Cu|Appearance (Ugly); Bully (12); Infravision; Rapid Healing; Resistant to Metabolic Hazards (+3); Social Stigma (Savage)|None|Mundane|Speaks Orcish}}

==Treasure==
The Orcs have a total of 140 copper pieces along with 10 cheap Orcish broadswords ($50, 4 lbs each). If the players search the blankets, they will also find a large knife ($40, 1lb), a stale and moldy cheese, a copper ring ($1), a cow’s horn, a flattened straw hat with a large hole, a rag wrapped around 5 non-precious stones, a broken padlock and a torn pair of pink silk hose.

=3. Bugbear Barracks=

This 10 yard x 20 yard room is filled with 60 old wooden beds upon which have been heaped piles of stinking skins and dirty blankets.

==Monsters==
There are six Blood Axe Bugbears in here, sitting against the wall with their axes resting on the floor. They are having a deep, growling conversation in Bugbear about the fact that it is only natural for Bugbears to rule Orcs and that somebody really ought to put that jumped-up chieftain Skull Taker in his place.

===6 Blood Axe Bugbears (Stink, Buzzard, Rock, Meataxe, Rock, Fuzzy)===
{{CEG-BloodaxeBugbears}}

==Treasure==
The Bugbears have 92 silver pieces ($368) between them. They also have 6 suits of heavy Bugbear mail ($40, 200 lbs each) and 6 Bugbear great axes ($30, 16 lbs each). Fuzzy has a telescope tucked under his armor ($500, 6 lbs, DF 1 p.26), his favorite toy and a prized status symbol.

=4. Orc Hall=

This 10 yard by 40 yard is dominated by a long, battered wooden table running down the length of the room. Smashed and broken wooden chairs have been shoved under the table and into the corner. The walls prominently display the emblem of a mailed fist holding a battle axe, repeated 18 times across their surface all the way around the room. The workmanship is too fine for the Orcs to have painted it, but the Orcs have made their own crude additions in red and brown, so that the Axes are now held by caricatures of raging Cutnose Orcs.

==Monsters==
There are three Cutnose Orc warriors standing on the table with weapons drawn, having a screaming argument over who just farted. They do not have shields.

===3 Cutnose Orc Warriors===
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==Treasure==
The Orcs have 34 copper pieces between them. Their 3 cheap Orcish broadswords are each $50, 4 lbs.

=5. Corpse Storage=

This 7 yard by 7 yard room contains three wooden beds, a padded wooden table, a smashed wooden cabinet and 9 dead, naked Orcs, stinking from decomposition. The room buzzes with flies and is crawling with rats.

=6. Smashed Furniture Storage=

This 7 yard by 7 yard room is lined with rows of empty, heavy, wooden shelves. The Orcs have used the room to store wooden furniture that they have smashed up – chairs, desks, cabinets and such. There is a small hill of such furniture in the middle of the room.

=7. Garbage Room and Orc Toilet=

This stinking 3 yard by 3 yard room is where the Orcs throw their trash and is the room they use as a toilet. The floor is sinking at the far end of the room and a hole has opened in the stonework, which allows accumulated filth to eventually fall down to the level below (Level 2, Room 10 to be exact). There are wooden cabinets with books at the far end of the room, two still upright and one toppled, spilling books into the filth. A character crossing the room to the shelves must make a DX check or slide into the hole and down into Level 2.

==Treasure==

Anyone brave enough examine the books will find that they seem to be inventories, written in Common in a number of different hands. Most of the entries are for food of various kinds, particularly basic items like bread, oats, cheese and meat. Other entries keep track of wood, iron, blankets and tools for carpentry and blacksmithing. While the goods are dealt with in bulk quantities, the lack of dates for the various entries makes it difficult to tell how many people were being fed and supplied. There is no descriptive text explaining who was keeping the inventories and why. The books have no value on the open market.

=8. Kennels=

This 20 yard diameter round room has walls of engraved white stone and is dominated by a 10’ marble statue of a human woman in robes, holding up a sword. Thanks to the Orcs, the woman has had her nose smashed off and has had her skin painted green and hair painted red, like a Cutnose. The engravings on the walls show humans (now painted to be Cutnose Orcs) fighting with melee weapons. The armor looks about three-hundred years out of date and there are no clear sides – just a great deal of combat.

Despite the desecrations of the Cutnose Orcs, the room is an area of High Sanctity for those who follow gods of War. Furthermore, clerics of a War god will cast their spells at +4 here, clerics of a Death god at +2, clerics of a god of Good or Evil at -2, and clerics of a god of Love and Fertility at -4.

==Monsters==

The room also contains 8 ferocious Hell Boars on chains just long enough to prevent them from leaving the kennels, and three heavily scarred Orcish keepers.

===3 Cutnose Orc Warriors===
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===8 Hell Boars===
Hell Boars are black, pony-sized mammals that look like a cross between a great pig, a wolf, and a rat. They have short hair, long hairless tails, and a mouth full of gleaming sharp teeth. They are hunters by nature and are extremely vicious and bad tempered. Their eyes blaze and foam drips from their teeth when they are angry, which is most of the time. They can eat almost anything and always feel hungry.

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==Treasure==
The Orcs have 27 copper pieces between them. Their 3 cheap Orcish broadswords are each $50, 4 lbs each. One of the Hell Boards, underneath the folds of fat on its neck, is wearing a studded leather collar with the word “Angry” burned crudely into the leather in Orcish ($1, 0 lbs)

=9. Orc Kitchens=

This 7 yard by 7 yard room stinks with the unique aroma of an Orcish kitchen. All sorts of strange and revolting ingredients lie smeared over the deeply-scratched surface of what was once a fine rosewood desk. Dangling strings hanging from hooks in the ceiling keep other plants and animals in easy reach and at the far end of the room, clay bowls filled with yet other ingredients line the battered shelves of what was once a pair of fine rosewood cabinets. The floor is covered with moldering trash.

==Monsters==
4 Orcish cooks are having a screaming argument over whether it is best to gut rats, roasting the flesh and making soup from the guts, or whether it is best to eat them alive. They are jabbing at the air with iron knives in each other’s directions to make their point.

===4 Cutnose Orc Cooks===
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==Treasure==
The Orcish “spices” held in simple clay cups are not labeled and are mostly worthless, but careful examination will reveal 4 ounces of salt ($60) and an ounce of Orcish Firegrain ($150, DF p. 11)

=10. Workshop=

This 3 yard x 5 yard room contains four scratched wooden tables, covered with crude iron tools. In the NE corner of the room, broken swords and arrows are piled up together.

==Treasure==
The tools include a cheap hatchet ($6, 2 lbs), and clumsy implements for blacksmithing and carpentry including chisels, hammers, planes, saws and tongs ($200, 80 lbs, -4 to skill).

=11. Orc Breeding Pits=

This huge 60 yard by 90 yard room is a natural cavern given a level wooden floor. These are the Orc breeding pits where the tribe’s females and juveniles live in squalor – 120 Orcs in all. Cutnose Orc culture relegates females and juveniles to the status of livestock and they keep them in the breeding pits. Here they live naked in filth amidst screaming and fighting, amusing themselves by bullying anyone smaller. Scarification is common, being the only form of decoration available. These Orcs will avoid combat with the PCs if possible, though the adult females will not abandon the juveniles even if the situation is hopeless. Given a chance to communicate, adult females will beg for their lives and the lives of the juveniles, promising that they have no treasure to take. If they are spared, they will not tell the Chief about the PCs – instead they will use the opportunity to run away. The PCs may encounter them sometime later as forest bandits, in which case, the Orcs will treat the PCs with contempt for being such merciful idiots.

==Monsters==
In combat, these Orcs will try to overwhelm foes with numbers, trying to outflank and looking for opportunities to slam or grapple. If they successfully capture a PC through mass grappling, they will stab the PC with knives.

===29 Adult Cutnose Orc Breeders===
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===18 Older Cutnose Orc Juveniles===
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===22 Younger Cutnose Orc Juveniles===
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The remaining 40 Orcs are too young to fight.

==Treasure==
While the Orcs have hoarded bits of rag, ordinary stones and small bones, none of it is of any monetary value.

=12. Prison=

This 7 yard by 7 yard room may once have been a smithy, judging by the old bellows and the large iron anvil. Now it is the Orc’s prison and torture chamber, thanks to the addition of three cells with doors held shut by crossbars. Sets of manacles are bolted into the walls of the room, beside a glowing brazier and a stack of sharp or pointed iron tools.

The troll in cell 3 is screaming to be let out, while the two Orcish guards are screaming at her to shut up. The other two cells contain an Orcish and a Dwarven prisoner. Thanks to the healing spells cast by the Orcish Shamans, the prisoners are all at full hit points right now, ready to be tortured again.

==Monsters==

;Jailors

===2 Cutnose Orc Jailors (Wet Pits and Little Hatchet)===
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;Prisoners

===Rat Crab Spider (Cutnose Orc Prisoner)===
Rat Crab Spider is a very thin Cutnose Orc with broken teeth and a scar running right down the middle of his face. He was been thrown into the dungeon because he laughed out loud when the chief, Skull Taker, began to use perfume. Rat Crab Spider has been terrified lately, but he is delighted to see the PCs, who he hopes will free him. He knows that he will never be welcome among the Cutnose Orcs again and he’s looking for a new gang to hang with – being with any outfit would be better than being alone. He will immediately try to ingratiate himself with the PCs, speaking to them in broken Common. He will tell them that if they spare his life, he would make a very useful guide and that he hates the Cutnose more than the PCs do. As it happens, the Orc really does know the layout of the entire level, really has no plans to betray the PCs, and will be a loyal minion if offered the chance. If allowed to accompany the party, Rat Crab Spider will try to attach himself to whoever seems most sympathetic towards him, performing services and offering flattery. If nobody is particularly sympathetic, he’ll attach himself to the biggest, strongest character. He will put up with a lot of bullying, but may eventually respond to cruelty by stealing valuables and fleeing. Rat Crab Spider will do his best to be obedient, but his instincts are animalistic and hateful. When forbidden to engage in a cruel act against an outsider, Rat Crab Spider will be unable to prevent himself from weeping loudly and possibly rolling on the ground. He just cannot stop himself from crying, even if it puts the entire party in danger. He also has a tendency to laugh inappropriately.

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===Snori Hillstout (Dwarf Prisoner)===
Snori is a thin but muscular dwarf dressed in ragged woolen trousers and a torn linen shirt. His long black hair and brown beard are unkempt and bristle wildly in all directions.

Snori will be very grateful if released. He is more than ready to take his revenge on the Orcs and he feels honorbound to save the life of one of at least one party member. However, if he accompanies the party, he will want an equal share of the treasure. If given an equal share after defeating the Orcs, he will agree to accompany the players to lower levels. Snori hates Orcs and will never trust Rat Crab Spider.

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===Waaarg (Troll Prisoner)===
Waaarg is a ten foot naked humanoid reduced to skin and bones with hunger. Her leathery, grey skin is covered with scabs and there are patches of matted black hair on her scalp. Her wide mouth bristles with teeth like needles and her red eyes blaze with rage. Waaarg claws at the door to her cell, screaming like a wounded animal. She has gone insane with rage and suffering and now all the Troll cares about is killing. Although she wants to escape from her cell, she is too crazy to hide her desire to rend the PCs limb from limb. As long as the PCs do not open the door to her cell, she is no danger to them but if they let her out, she will try to kill them.

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==Treasure==
The brazier is not of Orcish design ($120, 6 lbs) but the torture implements are just scrap iron twisted into strange shapes ($20, 20 lbs)

[[Image: Goatman.jpg]]

=13. Temple=

This twelve yard by fifteen yard room has empty wooden weapon-racks lined along the walls which are engraved with neat stick figures in combat poses. At the far end of the room is a stone altar, carved with crude leering Orcish faces. On the alter is the blood-dripping head of a ram on a spike. As long as the head remains upright, the temple is an area of High Sanctity for clerics of Evil gods, including the Orcish Shamans. Furthermore, Clerics of a god of Death, Evil or War will cast spells at +4, of a god of Earth, Fire or of The Hunt at +2, of a God of Agriculture at -2, and of a God of the City, Good, the Sea, or the Sun at -4. The Orcish shamans will cast at +4.

==Monsters==
7 Cutnose Orc Warriors, lead by 4 Cutnose Orc Shamans wearing tiger-hide robes and carrying staves, are chanting at the altar. The warriors have their backs turned to the entrance, but the Shamans are standing behind the altar with a clear view.

===Old Snaggle (Head Shaman)===
Old Snaggle’s long hair has turned completely white and his spine is so bent that he can hardly hold his head up. His nose also seems to have grown with age, now hanging down almost six inches from his face. He wears nothing but heavy leather leggings and a patchwork rat-fur cloak. His chest is covered in a brightly colored and skillfully rendered tattoo depicting a giant squid fighting with a dragon. Old Snaggle’s engraved staff is topped with a jewel that is glowing with a soft yellow light.

Old Snaggle has great authority and the other Orcs will do whatever Old Snaggle orders them to, short of turning against the Chieftain, Skull Taker. Old Snaggle will fight bravely, but if forced to choose between death and cooperating with the party, he will definitely cooperate. He will do anything to stay alive.

In combat, the first thing Old Snaggle will do is cast Invisibility on himself, then use his Staff of Ranger’s Tread to cast Mage-Stealth on himself, then look for an opportunity to drop an Explosive Fireball on the enemy without doing too much collateral damage to the Orcs. He is fond of Dispel Magic, Fireball and Daze and may cast Minor Healing or Major Healing on himself or another shaman. If forced into single combat, he is likely to cast Paralyze Limb.

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'''Spells:''' Old Snaggle knows the following spells, all at level 18: Armor, Cure Disease, Darkness, Daze, Detect Magic, Dispel Magic, Explosive Fireball, Fireball, Invisibility, Mage Sight, Major Healing, Mass Daze, Mass Sleep, Minor Healing, Paralyze Limb, Shatter, Sleep, Staff, Strike Blind, Touch.

===3 Cutnose Orc Shamans (Gut Biter, Axe Stone and Bad Dreams)===
The Shamans wear robes made of tiger hides and carry staffs in their hands that are engraved with images of battle. They are smaller than most Cutnose Orcs and their spines have become increasingly bent with age. All of them have streaks of white through the red of their hair.

In combat, the shamans favor Mass Sleep and Sleep spells. They exploit opportunities to cast Dispel Magic and may cast Minor Healing or Major Healing on another Shaman. If Forced into Single Combat, they are likely to cast Daze to give them an opportunity to flee.

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'''Spells:''' The shamans know the following spells, all at level 15: Armor, Cure Disease, Darkness, Daze, Detect Magic, Dispel Magic, Major Healing, Mass Daze, Mass Sleep, Minor Healing, Paralyze Limb, Sleep, Staff, Strike Blind, Touch.

===7 Cutnose Orc Warriors===
In combat, the first priority of the warriors will be to protect the shamans.
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==Treasure==
The 7 Orcish Warriors have 55 copper pieces between them. They also have 7 cheap Orcish broadswords ($50, 4 lbs each) and 7 cheap, medium Orcish shields ($20, 20 lbs each)

The 3 shamans wear tiger-skin robes, which are not well made, but the hide is genuine enough and is in good condition ($200, 5 lbs). Their oak staffs (their power items) are carved with stylized images of Orcs in battle ($300, 4 lbs).

Snaggle Tooth’s leather leggings are stitched to fit his twisted limbs and are without value in the open market. Despite the work that went into making a cloak out of rat-hides, the garment is likewise without value back in civilization. Old Snaggle’s weapon looks like an ordinary alder staff carved with leaves and vines, but is a Staff of Ranger’s Tread ($10,500, Mage-Stealth, 4 lbs, users of Divine magic only).

=14. Chieftain’s Hall=

This 15 yard by 20 yard chamber has a stage at the far end, on which Skull Taker, the chieftain, has set his wooden throne. The stage is hung with moldy and tattered red curtains and the walls are stamped all around with the repeated emblem of the battle axe in a mailed fist. The emblem shows fine workmanship and the battle-axe looks like a human design rather than an Orcish one. Distributed all about the room are twenty free-standing iron spikes five feet tall, each topped with a severed head, some Orcish, some human. The heads are in various stages of decomposition, ranging from barely cold to mere skulls. Behind the throne sit three large wooden chests, bound with iron.

==Monsters==
Skull Taker sits on his throne attended by a full retinue armored in iron plate. Three Blood Axe Bugbears stands guard beside the throne, while ten Orcish warriors (some of them particularly large) stand below the stage, paying him compliments.

===Skull Taker===
Skull Taker is a huge, muscled Orc, though stooped with age. His long red hair, streaked with white, is bound into many plaits with leather thongs. The Chief wears a gleaming suit of polished plate mail built to fit his frame, although if he isn’t expecting trouble, the hawk-plumed helmet will be sitting beside his throne. Skull Taker smells strongly of sweet lilac perfume, an affectation he has only recently acquired. His odor is unusual, but is much more pleasant than that of the average Orc.

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===4 Cutnose Orc Bodyguards (Blood Boar, Leg Breaker, Foul Breath, Face Rip)===
There are four particularly strong and vicious Cutnose warriors, picked to personally serve and protect the chief. Their black iron mail is of Orcish production. Though it looks clumsy and ugly, it is practical and highly effective.

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===3 Blood Axe Bugbears (Bull, Wide-Oak, Guts)===
{{CEG-BloodaxeBugbears}}

===7 Cutnose Orc Warriors===
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==Treasure==
The 7 Orcish Warriors have 70 silver pieces between them. Their 4 suits of Orcish mail are the wrong shape for anyone without a hunched spine, but would be worth something to an armorer for salvage ($20, 80 lbs each). They also have 7 cheap Orcish broadswords ($50, 4 lbs each) and 7 cheap, medium Orcish shields ($20, 20 lbs each).

The 3 Blood Axe Bugbears have 95 silver pieces between them. They also have 3 suits of heavy Bugbear mail ($40, 200 lbs each) and 3 oversized great axes ($30, 16 lbs each).

The 4 Orcish Bodyguards have 132 silver pieces between them. They also have 4 suits of decorative Orcish mail ($100, 80 lbs each), 4 cheap Orcish broadswords ($50, 4 lbs each), and 4 cheap, medium Orcish shields ($20, 20 lbs each).

Skull Taker has 100 silver pieces ($400) on his person. His mail is more elaborate than that of the other Orcs, but that only makes it uglier ($100, 80 lbs). His medium shield is fine quality human work, decorated with a red griffon ($600, 12 lbs). He wields a fine enchanted ''Broadsword of Seeking'' (enchanted with Accuracy +1, $7,000, 3 lbs).

The chests are all DR 2, HP 14. $200, 40 lbs. They are locked and only Skull Taker knows where the key is hidden. Each can be opened with a straight Lockpicking roll and there are no traps.

'''Chest 1''' contains 200 square feet of wolf fur ($1,000, 150 lbs)

'''Chest 2''' contains 2,108 copper pieces.

'''Chest 3''' contains 1,091 silver pieces.

=15. The Stairs Down=

A short corridor terminates in a stone stairway, spiraling downwards. Characters walking down the stairs will descend 10 yards until they arrive at the open doorway into level 2, room 1.

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Beneath Castle Everglory: LEVEL 1: Lair of the Cutnose Orcs

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Mlangsdorf:

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=1. Guardroom=

This square room is 5 yards to a side with bare stone walls. There is a long wooden bench along each wall and scraps of old food all over the floor. A lever at the back of the room will drop an iron portcullis across the entrance or raise it up again. The portcullis has DR 9, HP 20, 500 lbs, ST 18 (see DF 2, p.18). The Orcs will drop it so as to divide the party if they can. Otherwise, they will drop it to trap the PCs inside the room with them.

;Monsters
Then are ten Cutnose Orc Warriors in here on guard duty, They are presently having a screaming match over which of them can pull the most intimidating “war face”, leaving them at -8 to hear the PCs.

;10 Cutnose Orc Warriors
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;Treasure
The Orcs have a total of 115 copper pieces, along with 10 cheap Orcish broadswords ($50, 4 lbs each) and 12 cheap, medium Orcish shields ($20, 20 lbs each).

=2. Orc Barracks=

This 10 yard x 20 yard room is filled with 60 old wooden beds upon which have been heaped piles of stinking skins and dirty blankets.

;Monsters
There are 12 Cutnose Orc Warriors here off-duty, having a screaming match about whether human beings are a species of Dire Pig (the Orcs will be at -8 to hear the PCs). One side points out that human beings look like pigs, while the other contends that human beings are much uglier. The Orcs have their swords sheathed and they have no shields.

;12 Cutnose Orc Warriors
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;Treasure
The Orcs have a total of 140 copper pieces along with 10 cheap Orcish broadswords ($50, 4 lbs each). If the players search the blankets, they will also find a large knife ($40, 1lb), a stale and moldy cheese, a copper ring ($1), a cow’s horn, a flattened straw hat with a large hole, a rag wrapped around 5 non-precious stones, a broken padlock and a torn pair of pink silk hose.

=3. Bugbear Barracks=

This 10 yard x 20 yard room is filled with 60 old wooden beds upon which have been heaped piles of stinking skins and dirty blankets.

;Monsters
There are six Blood Axe Bugbears in here, sitting against the wall with their axes resting on the floor. They are having a deep, growling conversation in Bugbear about the fact that it is only natural for Bugbears to rule Orcs and that somebody really ought to put that jumped-up chieftain Skull Taker in his place.

;6 Blood Axe Bugbears (Stink, Buzzard, Rock, Meataxe, Rock, Fuzzy)
{{CEG-BloodaxeBugbears}}

;Treasure
The Bugbears have 92 silver pieces ($368) between them. They also have 6 suits of heavy Bugbear mail ($40, 200 lbs each) and 6 Bugbear great axes ($30, 16 lbs each). Fuzzy has a telescope tucked under his armor ($500, 6 lbs, DF 1 p.26), his favorite toy and a prized status symbol.

=4. Orc Hall=

This 10 yard by 40 yard is dominated by a long, battered wooden table running down the length of the room. Smashed and broken wooden chairs have been shoved under the table and into the corner. The walls prominently display the emblem of a mailed fist holding a battle axe, repeated 18 times across their surface all the way around the room. The workmanship is too fine for the Orcs to have painted it, but the Orcs have made their own crude additions in red and brown, so that the Axes are now held by caricatures of raging Cutnose Orcs.

;Monsters
There are three Cutnose Orc warriors standing on the table with weapons drawn, having a screaming argument over who just farted. They do not have shields.

;3 Cutnose Orc Warriors
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;Treasure
The Orcs have 34 copper pieces between them. Their 3 cheap Orcish broadswords are each $50, 4 lbs.

=5. Corpse Storage=

This 7 yard by 7 yard room contains three wooden beds, a padded wooden table, a smashed wooden cabinet and 9 dead, naked Orcs, stinking from decomposition. The room buzzes with flies and is crawling with rats.

=6. Smashed Furniture Storage=

This 7 yard by 7 yard room is lined with rows of empty, heavy, wooden shelves. The Orcs have used the room to store wooden furniture that they have smashed up – chairs, desks, cabinets and such. There is a small hill of such furniture in the middle of the room.

=7. Garbage Room and Orc Toilet=

This stinking 3 yard by 3 yard room is where the Orcs throw their trash and is the room they use as a toilet. The floor is sinking at the far end of the room and a hole has opened in the stonework, which allows accumulated filth to eventually fall down to the level below (Level 2, Room 10 to be exact). There are wooden cabinets with books at the far end of the room, two still upright and one toppled, spilling books into the filth. A character crossing the room to the shelves must make a DX check or slide into the hole and down into Level 2.

;Treasure

Anyone brave enough examine the books will find that they seem to be inventories, written in Common in a number of different hands. Most of the entries are for food of various kinds, particularly basic items like bread, oats, cheese and meat. Other entries keep track of wood, iron, blankets and tools for carpentry and blacksmithing. While the goods are dealt with in bulk quantities, the lack of dates for the various entries makes it difficult to tell how many people were being fed and supplied. There is no descriptive text explaining who was keeping the inventories and why. The books have no value on the open market.

=8. Kennels=

This 20 yard diameter round room has walls of engraved white stone and is dominated by a 10’ marble statue of a human woman in robes, holding up a sword. Thanks to the Orcs, the woman has had her nose smashed off and has had her skin painted green and hair painted red, like a Cutnose. The engravings on the walls show humans (now painted to be Cutnose Orcs) fighting with melee weapons. The armor looks about three-hundred years out of date and there are no clear sides – just a great deal of combat.

Despite the desecrations of the Cutnose Orcs, the room is an area of High Sanctity for those who follow gods of War. Furthermore, clerics of a War god will cast their spells at +4 here, clerics of a Death god at +2, clerics of a god of Good or Evil at -2, and clerics of a god of Love and Fertility at -4.

;Monsters

The room also contains 8 ferocious Hell Boars on chains just long enough to prevent them from leaving the kennels, and three heavily scarred Orcish keepers.

;3 Cutnose Orc Warriors
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;8 Hell Boars
Hell Boars are black, pony-sized mammals that look like a cross between a great pig, a wolf, and a rat. They have short hair, long hairless tails, and a mouth full of gleaming sharp teeth. They are hunters by nature and are extremely vicious and bad tempered. Their eyes blaze and foam drips from their teeth when they are angry, which is most of the time. They can eat almost anything and always feel hungry.

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;Treasure
The Orcs have 27 copper pieces between them. Their 3 cheap Orcish broadswords are each $50, 4 lbs each. One of the Hell Boards, underneath the folds of fat on its neck, is wearing a studded leather collar with the word “Angry” burned crudely into the leather in Orcish ($1, 0 lbs)

=9. Orc Kitchens=

This 7 yard by 7 yard room stinks with the unique aroma of an Orcish kitchen. All sorts of strange and revolting ingredients lie smeared over the deeply-scratched surface of what was once a fine rosewood desk. Dangling strings hanging from hooks in the ceiling keep other plants and animals in easy reach and at the far end of the room, clay bowls filled with yet other ingredients line the battered shelves of what was once a pair of fine rosewood cabinets. The floor is covered with moldering trash.

;Monsters
4 Orcish cooks are having a screaming argument over whether it is best to gut rats, roasting the flesh and making soup from the guts, or whether it is best to eat them alive. They are jabbing at the air with iron knives in each other’s directions to make their point.

;4 Cutnose Orc Cooks
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;Treasure
The Orcish “spices” held in simple clay cups are not labeled and are mostly worthless, but careful examination will reveal 4 ounces of salt ($60) and an ounce of Orcish Firegrain ($150, DF p. 11)

=10. Workshop=

This 3 yard x 5 yard room contains four scratched wooden tables, covered with crude iron tools. In the NE corner of the room, broken swords and arrows are piled up together.

;Treasure
The tools include a cheap hatchet ($6, 2 lbs), and clumsy implements for blacksmithing and carpentry including chisels, hammers, planes, saws and tongs ($200, 80 lbs, -4 to skill).

=11. Orc Breeding Pits=

This huge 60 yard by 90 yard room is a natural cavern given a level wooden floor. These are the Orc breeding pits where the tribe’s females and juveniles live in squalor – 120 Orcs in all. Cutnose Orc culture relegates females and juveniles to the status of livestock and they keep them in the breeding pits. Here they live naked in filth amidst screaming and fighting, amusing themselves by bullying anyone smaller. Scarification is common, being the only form of decoration available. These Orcs will avoid combat with the PCs if possible, though the adult females will not abandon the juveniles even if the situation is hopeless. Given a chance to communicate, adult females will beg for their lives and the lives of the juveniles, promising that they have no treasure to take. If they are spared, they will not tell the Chief about the PCs – instead they will use the opportunity to run away. The PCs may encounter them sometime later as forest bandits, in which case, the Orcs will treat the PCs with contempt for being such merciful idiots.

;Monsters
In combat, these Orcs will try to overwhelm foes with numbers, trying to outflank and looking for opportunities to slam or grapple. If they successfully capture a PC through mass grappling, they will stab the PC with knives.

;29 Adult Cutnose Orc Breeders
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;18 Older Cutnose Orc Juveniles
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;22 Younger Cutnose Orc Juveniles
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The remaining 40 Orcs are too young to fight.

;Treasure
While the Orcs have hoarded bits of rag, ordinary stones and small bones, none of it is of any monetary value.

=12. Prison=

This 7 yard by 7 yard room may once have been a smithy, judging by the old bellows and the large iron anvil. Now it is the Orc’s prison and torture chamber, thanks to the addition of three cells with doors held shut by crossbars. Sets of manacles are bolted into the walls of the room, beside a glowing brazier and a stack of sharp or pointed iron tools.

The troll in cell 3 is screaming to be let out, while the two Orcish guards are screaming at her to shut up. The other two cells contain an Orcish and a Dwarven prisoner. Thanks to the healing spells cast by the Orcish Shamans, the prisoners are all at full hit points right now, ready to be tortured again.

;Monsters

;Jailors

;2 Cutnose Orc Jailors (Wet Pits and Little Hatchet)
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;Prisoners

;Rat Crab Spider (Cutnose Orc Prisoner)
Rat Crab Spider is a very thin Cutnose Orc with broken teeth and a scar running right down the middle of his face. He was been thrown into the dungeon because he laughed out loud when the chief, Skull Taker, began to use perfume. Rat Crab Spider has been terrified lately, but he is delighted to see the PCs, who he hopes will free him. He knows that he will never be welcome among the Cutnose Orcs again and he’s looking for a new gang to hang with – being with any outfit would be better than being alone. He will immediately try to ingratiate himself with the PCs, speaking to them in broken Common. He will tell them that if they spare his life, he would make a very useful guide and that he hates the Cutnose more than the PCs do. As it happens, the Orc really does know the layout of the entire level, really has no plans to betray the PCs, and will be a loyal minion if offered the chance. If allowed to accompany the party, Rat Crab Spider will try to attach himself to whoever seems most sympathetic towards him, performing services and offering flattery. If nobody is particularly sympathetic, he’ll attach himself to the biggest, strongest character. He will put up with a lot of bullying, but may eventually respond to cruelty by stealing valuables and fleeing. Rat Crab Spider will do his best to be obedient, but his instincts are animalistic and hateful. When forbidden to engage in a cruel act against an outsider, Rat Crab Spider will be unable to prevent himself from weeping loudly and possibly rolling on the ground. He just cannot stop himself from crying, even if it puts the entire party in danger. He also has a tendency to laugh inappropriately.

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;Snori Hillstout (Dwarf Prisoner)
Snori is a thin but muscular dwarf dressed in ragged woolen trousers and a torn linen shirt. His long black hair and brown beard are unkempt and bristle wildly in all directions.

Snori will be very grateful if released. He is more than ready to take his revenge on the Orcs and he feels honorbound to save the life of one of at least one party member. However, if he accompanies the party, he will want an equal share of the treasure. If given an equal share after defeating the Orcs, he will agree to accompany the players to lower levels. Snori hates Orcs and will never trust Rat Crab Spider.

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;Waaarg (Troll Prisoner)
Waaarg is a ten foot naked humanoid reduced to skin and bones with hunger. Her leathery, grey skin is covered with scabs and there are patches of matted black hair on her scalp. Her wide mouth bristles with teeth like needles and her red eyes blaze with rage. Waaarg claws at the door to her cell, screaming like a wounded animal. She has gone insane with rage and suffering and now all the Troll cares about is killing. Although she wants to escape from her cell, she is too crazy to hide her desire to rend the PCs limb from limb. As long as the PCs do not open the door to her cell, she is no danger to them but if they let her out, she will try to kill them.

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;Treasure:
The brazier is not of Orcish design ($120, 6 lbs) but the torture implements are just scrap iron twisted into strange shapes ($20, 20 lbs)

[[Image: Goatman.jpg]]

=13. Temple=

This twelve yard by fifteen yard room has empty wooden weapon-racks lined along the walls which are engraved with neat stick figures in combat poses. At the far end of the room is a stone altar, carved with crude leering Orcish faces. On the alter is the blood-dripping head of a ram on a spike. As long as the head remains upright, the temple is an area of High Sanctity for clerics of Evil gods, including the Orcish Shamans. Furthermore, Clerics of a god of Death, Evil or War will cast spells at +4, of a god of Earth, Fire or of The Hunt at +2, of a God of Agriculture at -2, and of a God of the City, Good, the Sea, or the Sun at -4. The Orcish shamans will cast at +4.

;Monsters
7 Cutnose Orc Warriors, lead by 4 Cutnose Orc Shamans wearing tiger-hide robes and carrying staves, are chanting at the altar. The warriors have their backs turned to the entrance, but the Shamans are standing behind the altar with a clear view.

;Old Snaggle (Head Shaman)
Old Snaggle’s long hair has turned completely white and his spine is so bent that he can hardly hold his head up. His nose also seems to have grown with age, now hanging down almost six inches from his face. He wears nothing but heavy leather leggings and a patchwork rat-fur cloak. His chest is covered in a brightly colored and skillfully rendered tattoo depicting a giant squid fighting with a dragon. Old Snaggle’s engraved staff is topped with a jewel that is glowing with a soft yellow light.

Old Snaggle has great authority and the other Orcs will do whatever Old Snaggle orders them to, short of turning against the Chieftain, Skull Taker. Old Snaggle will fight bravely, but if forced to choose between death and cooperating with the party, he will definitely cooperate. He will do anything to stay alive.

In combat, the first thing Old Snaggle will do is cast Invisibility on himself, then use his Staff of Ranger’s Tread to cast Mage-Stealth on himself, then look for an opportunity to drop an Explosive Fireball on the enemy without doing too much collateral damage to the Orcs. He is fond of Dispel Magic, Fireball and Daze and may cast Minor Healing or Major Healing on himself or another shaman. If forced into single combat, he is likely to cast Paralyze Limb.

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'''Spells:''' Old Snaggle knows the following spells, all at level 18: Armor, Cure Disease, Darkness, Daze, Detect Magic, Dispel Magic, Explosive Fireball, Fireball, Invisibility, Mage Sight, Major Healing, Mass Daze, Mass Sleep, Minor Healing, Paralyze Limb, Shatter, Sleep, Staff, Strike Blind, Touch.

;3 Cutnose Orc Shamans (Gut Biter, Axe Stone and Bad Dreams)
The Shamans wear robes made of tiger hides and carry staffs in their hands that are engraved with images of battle. They are smaller than most Cutnose Orcs and their spines have become increasingly bent with age. All of them have streaks of white through the red of their hair.

In combat, the shamans favor Mass Sleep and Sleep spells. They exploit opportunities to cast Dispel Magic and may cast Minor Healing or Major Healing on another Shaman. If Forced into Single Combat, they are likely to cast Daze to give them an opportunity to flee.

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'''Spells:''' The shamans know the following spells, all at level 15: Armor, Cure Disease, Darkness, Daze, Detect Magic, Dispel Magic, Major Healing, Mass Daze, Mass Sleep, Minor Healing, Paralyze Limb, Sleep, Staff, Strike Blind, Touch.

;7 Cutnose Orc Warriors
In combat, the first priority of the warriors will be to protect the shamans.
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;Treasure
The 7 Orcish Warriors have 55 copper pieces between them. They also have 7 cheap Orcish broadswords ($50, 4 lbs each) and 7 cheap, medium Orcish shields ($20, 20 lbs each)

The 3 shamans wear tiger-skin robes, which are not well made, but the hide is genuine enough and is in good condition ($200, 5 lbs). Their oak staffs (their power items) are carved with stylized images of Orcs in battle ($300, 4 lbs).

Snaggle Tooth’s leather leggings are stitched to fit his twisted limbs and are without value in the open market. Despite the work that went into making a cloak out of rat-hides, the garment is likewise without value back in civilization. Old Snaggle’s weapon looks like an ordinary alder staff carved with leaves and vines, but is a Staff of Ranger’s Tread ($10,500, Mage-Stealth, 4 lbs, users of Divine magic only).

=14. Chieftain’s Hall=

This 15 yard by 20 yard chamber has a stage at the far end, on which Skull Taker, the chieftain, has set his wooden throne. The stage is hung with moldy and tattered red curtains and the walls are stamped all around with the repeated emblem of the battle axe in a mailed fist. The emblem shows fine workmanship and the battle-axe looks like a human design rather than an Orcish one. Distributed all about the room are twenty free-standing iron spikes five feet tall, each topped with a severed head, some Orcish, some human. The heads are in various stages of decomposition, ranging from barely cold to mere skulls. Behind the throne sit three large wooden chests, bound with iron.

;Monsters
Skull Taker sits on his throne attended by a full retinue armored in iron plate. Three Blood Axe Bugbears stands guard beside the throne, while ten Orcish warriors (some of them particularly large) stand below the stage, paying him compliments.

;Skull Taker
Skull Taker is a huge, muscled Orc, though stooped with age. His long red hair, streaked with white, is bound into many plaits with leather thongs. The Chief wears a gleaming suit of polished plate mail built to fit his frame, although if he isn’t expecting trouble, the hawk-plumed helmet will be sitting beside his throne. Skull Taker smells strongly of sweet lilac perfume, an affectation he has only recently acquired. His odor is unusual, but is much more pleasant than that of the average Orc.

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;4 Cutnose Orc Bodyguards (Blood Boar, Leg Breaker, Foul Breath, Face Rip)
There are four particularly strong and vicious Cutnose warriors, picked to personally serve and protect the chief. Their black iron mail is of Orcish production. Though it looks clumsy and ugly, it is practical and highly effective.

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;3 Blood Axe Bugbears (Bull, Wide-Oak, Guts)
{{CEG-BloodaxeBugbears}}

;7 Cutnose Orc Warriors
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;Treasure:
The 7 Orcish Warriors have 70 silver pieces between them. Their 4 suits of Orcish mail are the wrong shape for anyone without a hunched spine, but would be worth something to an armorer for salvage ($20, 80 lbs each). They also have 7 cheap Orcish broadswords ($50, 4 lbs each) and 7 cheap, medium Orcish shields ($20, 20 lbs each).

The 3 Blood Axe Bugbears have 95 silver pieces between them. They also have 3 suits of heavy Bugbear mail ($40, 200 lbs each) and 3 oversized great axes ($30, 16 lbs each).

The 4 Orcish Bodyguards have 132 silver pieces between them. They also have 4 suits of decorative Orcish mail ($100, 80 lbs each), 4 cheap Orcish broadswords ($50, 4 lbs each), and 4 cheap, medium Orcish shields ($20, 20 lbs each).

Skull Taker has 100 silver pieces ($400) on his person. His mail is more elaborate than that of the other Orcs, but that only makes it uglier ($100, 80 lbs). His medium shield is fine quality human work, decorated with a red griffon ($600, 12 lbs). He wields a fine enchanted ''Broadsword of Seeking'' (enchanted with Accuracy +1, $7,000, 3 lbs).

The chests are all DR 2, HP 14. $200, 40 lbs. They are locked and only Skull Taker knows where the key is hidden. Each can be opened with a straight Lockpicking roll and there are no traps.

'''Chest 1''' contains 200 square feet of wolf fur ($1,000, 150 lbs)

'''Chest 2''' contains 2,108 copper pieces.

'''Chest 3''' contains 1,091 silver pieces.

=15. The Stairs Down=

A short corridor terminates in a stone stairway, spiraling downwards. Characters walking down the stairs will descend 10 yards until they arrive at the open doorway into level 2, room 1.

[http://wiki.rpg.net/index.php/Beneath_Castle_Everglory Table of Contents]

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Beneath Castle Everglory: LEVEL 1: Lair of the Cutnose Orcs

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Mlangsdorf: Added templates to pretty-print the stats

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=1. Guardroom=

This square room is 5 yards to a side with bare stone walls. There is a long wooden bench along each wall and scraps of old food all over the floor. A lever at the back of the room will drop an iron portcullis across the entrance or raise it up again. The portcullis has DR 9, HP 20, 500 lbs, ST 18 (see DF 2, p.18). The Orcs will drop it so as to divide the party if they can. Otherwise, they will drop it to trap the PCs inside the room with them.

;Monsters
Then are ten Cutnose Orc Warriors in here on guard duty, They are presently having a screaming match over which of them can pull the most intimidating “war face”, leaving them at -8 to hear the PCs.

;10 Cutnose Orc Warriors
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;Treasure
The Orcs have a total of 115 copper pieces, along with 10 cheap Orcish broadswords ($50, 4 lbs each) and 12 cheap, medium Orcish shields ($20, 20 lbs each).

=2. Orc Barracks=

This 10 yard x 20 yard room is filled with 60 old wooden beds upon which have been heaped piles of stinking skins and dirty blankets.

;Monsters
There are 12 Cutnose Orc Warriors here off-duty, having a screaming match about whether human beings are a species of Dire Pig (the Orcs will be at -8 to hear the PCs). One side points out that human beings look like pigs, while the other contends that human beings are much uglier. The Orcs have their swords sheathed and they have no shields.

;12 Cutnose Orc Warriors
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;Treasure
The Orcs have a total of 140 copper pieces along with 10 cheap Orcish broadswords ($50, 4 lbs each). If the players search the blankets, they will also find a large knife ($40, 1lb), a stale and moldy cheese, a copper ring ($1), a cow’s horn, a flattened straw hat with a large hole, a rag wrapped around 5 non-precious stones, a broken padlock and a torn pair of pink silk hose.

=3. Bugbear Barracks=

This 10 yard x 20 yard room is filled with 60 old wooden beds upon which have been heaped piles of stinking skins and dirty blankets.

;Monsters
There are six Blood Axe Bugbears in here, sitting against the wall with their axes resting on the floor. They are having a deep, growling conversation in Bugbear about the fact that it is only natural for Bugbears to rule Orcs and that somebody really ought to put that jumped-up chieftain Skull Taker in his place.

;6 Blood Axe Bugbears (Stink, Buzzard, Rock, Meataxe, Rock, Fuzzy)
{{CEG-BloodaxeBugbears}}

;Treasure
The Bugbears have 92 silver pieces ($368) between them. They also have 6 suits of heavy Bugbear mail ($40, 200 lbs each) and 6 Bugbear great axes ($30, 16 lbs each). Fuzzy has a telescope tucked under his armor ($500, 6 lbs, DF 1 p.26), his favorite toy and a prized status symbol.

=4. Orc Hall=

This 10 yard by 40 yard is dominated by a long, battered wooden table running down the length of the room. Smashed and broken wooden chairs have been shoved under the table and into the corner. The walls prominently display the emblem of a mailed fist holding a battle axe, repeated 18 times across their surface all the way around the room. The workmanship is too fine for the Orcs to have painted it, but the Orcs have made their own crude additions in red and brown, so that the Axes are now held by caricatures of raging Cutnose Orcs.

;Monsters
There are three Cutnose Orc warriors standing on the table with weapons drawn, having a screaming argument over who just farted. They do not have shields.

;3 Cutnose Orc Warriors
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;Treasure
The Orcs have 34 copper pieces between them. Their 3 cheap Orcish broadswords are each $50, 4 lbs.

=5. Corpse Storage=

This 7 yard by 7 yard room contains three wooden beds, a padded wooden table, a smashed wooden cabinet and 9 dead, naked Orcs, stinking from decomposition. The room buzzes with flies and is crawling with rats.

=6. Smashed Furniture Storage=

This 7 yard by 7 yard room is lined with rows of empty, heavy, wooden shelves. The Orcs have used the room to store wooden furniture that they have smashed up – chairs, desks, cabinets and such. There is a small hill of such furniture in the middle of the room.

=7. Garbage Room and Orc Toilet=

This stinking 3 yard by 3 yard room is where the Orcs throw their trash and is the room they use as a toilet. The floor is sinking at the far end of the room and a hole has opened in the stonework, which allows accumulated filth to eventually fall down to the level below (Level 2, Room 10 to be exact). There are wooden cabinets with books at the far end of the room, two still upright and one toppled, spilling books into the filth. A character crossing the room to the shelves must make a DX check or slide into the hole and down into Level 2.

;Treasure

Anyone brave enough examine the books will find that they seem to be inventories, written in Common in a number of different hands. Most of the entries are for food of various kinds, particularly basic items like bread, oats, cheese and meat. Other entries keep track of wood, iron, blankets and tools for carpentry and blacksmithing. While the goods are dealt with in bulk quantities, the lack of dates for the various entries makes it difficult to tell how many people were being fed and supplied. There is no descriptive text explaining who was keeping the inventories and why. The books have no value on the open market.

=8. Kennels=

This 20 yard diameter round room has walls of engraved white stone and is dominated by a 10’ marble statue of a human woman in robes, holding up a sword. Thanks to the Orcs, the woman has had her nose smashed off and has had her skin painted green and hair painted red, like a Cutnose. The engravings on the walls show humans (now painted to be Cutnose Orcs) fighting with melee weapons. The armor looks about three-hundred years out of date and there are no clear sides – just a great deal of combat.

Despite the desecrations of the Cutnose Orcs, the room is an area of High Sanctity for those who follow gods of War. Furthermore, clerics of a War god will cast their spells at +4 here, clerics of a Death god at +2, clerics of a god of Good or Evil at -2, and clerics of a god of Love and Fertility at -4.

;Monsters

The room also contains 8 ferocious Hell Boars on chains just long enough to prevent them from leaving the kennels, and three heavily scarred Orcish keepers.

;3 Cutnose Orc Warriors
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;8 Hell Boars
Hell Boars are black, pony-sized mammals that look like a cross between a great pig, a wolf, and a rat. They have short hair, long hairless tails, and a mouth full of gleaming sharp teeth. They are hunters by nature and are extremely vicious and bad tempered. Their eyes blaze and foam drips from their teeth when they are angry, which is most of the time. They can eat almost anything and always feel hungry.

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;Treasure
The Orcs have 27 copper pieces between them. Their 3 cheap Orcish broadswords are each $50, 4 lbs each. One of the Hell Boards, underneath the folds of fat on its neck, is wearing a studded leather collar with the word “Angry” burned crudely into the leather in Orcish ($1, 0 lbs)

=9. Orc Kitchens=

This 7 yard by 7 yard room stinks with the unique aroma of an Orcish kitchen. All sorts of strange and revolting ingredients lie smeared over the deeply-scratched surface of what was once a fine rosewood desk. Dangling strings hanging from hooks in the ceiling keep other plants and animals in easy reach and at the far end of the room, clay bowls filled with yet other ingredients line the battered shelves of what was once a pair of fine rosewood cabinets. The floor is covered with moldering trash.

;Monsters
4 Orcish cooks are having a screaming argument over whether it is best to gut rats, roasting the flesh and making soup from the guts, or whether it is best to eat them alive. They are jabbing at the air with iron knives in each other’s directions to make their point.

;4 Cutnose Orc Cooks
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;Treasure
The Orcish “spices” held in simple clay cups are not labeled and are mostly worthless, but careful examination will reveal 4 ounces of salt ($60) and an ounce of Orcish Firegrain ($150, DF p. 11)

=10. Workshop=

This 3 yard x 5 yard room contains four scratched wooden tables, covered with crude iron tools. In the NE corner of the room, broken swords and arrows are piled up together.

;Treasure
The tools include a cheap hatchet ($6, 2 lbs), and clumsy implements for blacksmithing and carpentry including chisels, hammers, planes, saws and tongs ($200, 80 lbs, -4 to skill).

=11. Orc Breeding Pits=

This huge 60 yard by 90 yard room is a natural cavern given a level wooden floor. These are the Orc breeding pits where the tribe’s females and juveniles live in squalor – 120 Orcs in all. Cutnose Orc culture relegates females and juveniles to the status of livestock and they keep them in the breeding pits. Here they live naked in filth amidst screaming and fighting, amusing themselves by bullying anyone smaller. Scarification is common, being the only form of decoration available. These Orcs will avoid combat with the PCs if possible, though the adult females will not abandon the juveniles even if the situation is hopeless. Given a chance to communicate, adult females will beg for their lives and the lives of the juveniles, promising that they have no treasure to take. If they are spared, they will not tell the Chief about the PCs – instead they will use the opportunity to run away. The PCs may encounter them sometime later as forest bandits, in which case, the Orcs will treat the PCs with contempt for being such merciful idiots.

;Monsters
In combat, these Orcs will try to overwhelm foes with numbers, trying to outflank and looking for opportunities to slam or grapple. If they successfully capture a PC through mass grappling, they will stab the PC with knives.

;29 Adult Cutnose Orc Breeders
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;18 Older Cutnose Orc Juveniles
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;22 Younger Cutnose Orc Juveniles
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The remaining 40 Orcs are too young to fight.

;Treasure
While the Orcs have hoarded bits of rag, ordinary stones and small bones, none of it is of any monetary value.

=12. Prison=

This 7 yard by 7 yard room may once have been a smithy, judging by the old bellows and the large iron anvil. Now it is the Orc’s prison and torture chamber, thanks to the addition of three cells with doors held shut by crossbars. Sets of manacles are bolted into the walls of the room, beside a glowing brazier and a stack of sharp or pointed iron tools.

The troll in cell 3 is screaming to be let out, while the two Orcish guards are screaming at her to shut up. The other two cells contain an Orcish and a Dwarven prisoner. Thanks to the healing spells cast by the Orcish Shamans, the prisoners are all at full hit points right now, ready to be tortured again.

;Monsters

;Jailors

;2 Cutnose Orc Jailors (Wet Pits and Little Hatchet)
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;Prisoners

;Rat Crab Spider (Cutnose Orc Prisoner)
Rat Crab Spider is a very thin Cutnose Orc with broken teeth and a scar running right down the middle of his face. He was been thrown into the dungeon because he laughed out loud when the chief, Skull Taker, began to use perfume. Rat Crab Spider has been terrified lately, but he is delighted to see the PCs, who he hopes will free him. He knows that he will never be welcome among the Cutnose Orcs again and he’s looking for a new gang to hang with – being with any outfit would be better than being alone. He will immediately try to ingratiate himself with the PCs, speaking to them in broken Common. He will tell them that if they spare his life, he would make a very useful guide and that he hates the Cutnose more than the PCs do. As it happens, the Orc really does know the layout of the entire level, really has no plans to betray the PCs, and will be a loyal minion if offered the chance. If allowed to accompany the party, Rat Crab Spider will try to attach himself to whoever seems most sympathetic towards him, performing services and offering flattery. If nobody is particularly sympathetic, he’ll attach himself to the biggest, strongest character. He will put up with a lot of bullying, but may eventually respond to cruelty by stealing valuables and fleeing. Rat Crab Spider will do his best to be obedient, but his instincts are animalistic and hateful. When forbidden to engage in a cruel act against an outsider, Rat Crab Spider will be unable to prevent himself from weeping loudly and possibly rolling on the ground. He just cannot stop himself from crying, even if it puts the entire party in danger. He also has a tendency to laugh inappropriately.

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;Snori Hillstout (Dwarf Prisoner)
Snori is a thin but muscular dwarf dressed in ragged woolen trousers and a torn linen shirt. His long black hair and brown beard are unkempt and bristle wildly in all directions.

Snori will be very grateful if released. He is more than ready to take his revenge on the Orcs and he feels honorbound to save the life of one of at least one party member. However, if he accompanies the party, he will want an equal share of the treasure. If given an equal share after defeating the Orcs, he will agree to accompany the players to lower levels. Snori hates Orcs and will never trust Rat Crab Spider.

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;Waaarg (Troll Prisoner)
Waaarg is a ten foot naked humanoid reduced to skin and bones with hunger. Her leathery, grey skin is covered with scabs and there are patches of matted black hair on her scalp. Her wide mouth bristles with teeth like needles and her red eyes blaze with rage. Waaarg claws at the door to her cell, screaming like a wounded animal. She has gone insane with rage and suffering and now all the Troll cares about is killing. Although she wants to escape from her cell, she is too crazy to hide her desire to rend the PCs limb from limb. As long as the PCs do not open the door to her cell, she is no danger to them but if they let her out, she will try to kill them.

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;Treasure:
The brazier is not of Orcish design ($120, 6 lbs) but the torture implements are just scrap iron twisted into strange shapes ($20, 20 lbs)

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=13. Temple=

This twelve yard by fifteen yard room has empty wooden weapon-racks lined along the walls which are engraved with neat stick figures in combat poses. At the far end of the room is a stone altar, carved with crude leering Orcish faces. On the alter is the blood-dripping head of a ram on a spike. As long as the head remains upright, the temple is an area of High Sanctity for clerics of Evil gods, including the Orcish Shamans. Furthermore, Clerics of a god of Death, Evil or War will cast spells at +4, of a god of Earth, Fire or of The Hunt at +2, of a God of Agriculture at -2, and of a God of the City, Good, the Sea, or the Sun at -4. The Orcish shamans will cast at +4.

;Monsters
7 Cutnose Orc Warriors, lead by 4 Cutnose Orc Shamans wearing tiger-hide robes and carrying staves, are chanting at the altar. The warriors have their backs turned to the entrance, but the Shamans are standing behind the altar with a clear view.

;Old Snaggle (Head Shaman)
Old Snaggle’s long hair has turned completely white and his spine is so bent that he can hardly hold his head up. His nose also seems to have grown with age, now hanging down almost six inches from his face. He wears nothing but heavy leather leggings and a patchwork rat-fur cloak. His chest is covered in a brightly colored and skillfully rendered tattoo depicting a giant squid fighting with a dragon. Old Snaggle’s engraved staff is topped with a jewel that is glowing with a soft yellow light.

Old Snaggle has great authority and the other Orcs will do whatever Old Snaggle orders them to, short of turning against the Chieftain, Skull Taker. Old Snaggle will fight bravely, but if forced to choose between death and cooperating with the party, he will definitely cooperate. He will do anything to stay alive.

In combat, the first thing Old Snaggle will do is cast Invisibility on himself, then use his Staff of Ranger’s Tread to cast Mage-Stealth on himself, then look for an opportunity to drop an Explosive Fireball on the enemy without doing too much collateral damage to the Orcs. He is fond of Dispel Magic, Fireball and Daze and may cast Minor Healing or Major Healing on himself or another shaman. If forced into single combat, he is likely to cast Paralyze Limb.

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'''Spells:''' Old Snaggle knows the following spells, all at level 18: Armor, Cure Disease, Darkness, Daze, Detect Magic, Dispel Magic, Explosive Fireball, Fireball, Invisibility, Mage Sight, Major Healing, Mass Daze, Mass Sleep, Minor Healing, Paralyze Limb, Shatter, Sleep, Staff, Strike Blind, Touch.

;3 Cutnose Orc Shamans (Gut Biter, Axe Stone and Bad Dreams)
The Shamans wear robes made of tiger hides and carry staffs in their hands that are engraved with images of battle. They are smaller than most Cutnose Orcs and their spines have become increasingly bent with age. All of them have streaks of white through the red of their hair.

In combat, the shamans favor Mass Sleep and Sleep spells. They exploit opportunities to cast Dispel Magic and may cast Minor Healing or Major Healing on another Shaman. If Forced into Single Combat, they are likely to cast Daze to give them an opportunity to flee.

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'''Spells:''' The shamans know the following spells, all at level 15: Armor, Cure Disease, Darkness, Daze, Detect Magic, Dispel Magic, Major Healing, Mass Daze, Mass Sleep, Minor Healing, Paralyze Limb, Sleep, Staff, Strike Blind, Touch.

;7 Cutnose Orc Warriors
In combat, the first priority of the warriors will be to protect the shamans.
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;Treasure
The 7 Orcish Warriors have 55 copper pieces between them. They also have 7 cheap Orcish broadswords ($50, 4 lbs each) and 7 cheap, medium Orcish shields ($20, 20 lbs each)

The 3 shamans wear tiger-skin robes, which are not well made, but the hide is genuine enough and is in good condition ($200, 5 lbs). Their oak staffs (their power items) are carved with stylized images of Orcs in battle ($300, 4 lbs).

Snaggle Tooth’s leather leggings are stitched to fit his twisted limbs and are without value in the open market. Despite the work that went into making a cloak out of rat-hides, the garment is likewise without value back in civilization. Old Snaggle’s weapon looks like an ordinary alder staff carved with leaves and vines, but is a Staff of Ranger’s Tread ($10,500, Mage-Stealth, 4 lbs, users of Divine magic only).

=14. Chieftain’s Hall=

This 15 yard by 20 yard chamber has a stage at the far end, on which Skull Taker, the chieftain, has set his wooden throne. The stage is hung with moldy and tattered red curtains and the walls are stamped all around with the repeated emblem of the battle axe in a mailed fist. The emblem shows fine workmanship and the battle-axe looks like a human design rather than an Orcish one. Distributed all about the room are twenty free-standing iron spikes five feet tall, each topped with a severed head, some Orcish, some human. The heads are in various stages of decomposition, ranging from barely cold to mere skulls. Behind the throne sit three large wooden chests, bound with iron.

;Monsters
Skull Taker sits on his throne attended by a full retinue armored in iron plate. Three Blood Axe Bugbears stands guard beside the throne, while ten Orcish warriors (some of them particularly large) stand below the stage, paying him compliments.

;Skull Taker
Skull Taker is a huge, muscled Orc, though stooped with age. His long red hair, streaked with white, is bound into many plaits with leather thongs. The Chief wears a gleaming suit of polished plate mail built to fit his frame, although if he isn’t expecting trouble, the hawk-plumed helmet will be sitting beside his throne. Skull Taker smells strongly of sweet lilac perfume, an affectation he has only recently acquired. His odor is unusual, but is much more pleasant than that of the average Orc.

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;4 Cutnose Orc Bodyguards (Blood Boar, Leg Breaker, Foul Breath, Face Rip)
There are four particularly strong and vicious Cutnose warriors, picked to personally serve and protect the chief. Their black iron mail is of Orcish production. Though it looks clumsy and ugly, it is practical and highly effective.

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;3 Blood Axe Bugbears (Bull, Wide-Oak, Guts)
{{CEG-BloodaxeBugbears}}

;7 Cutnose Orc Warriors
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;Treasure:

The 7 Orcish Warriors have 70 silver pieces between them. Their 4 suits of Orcish mail are the wrong shape for anyone without a hunched spine, but would be worth something to an armorer for salvage ($20, 80 lbs each). They also have 7 cheap Orcish broadswords ($50, 4 lbs each) and 7 cheap, medium Orcish shields ($20, 20 lbs each).

The 3 Blood Axe Bugbears have 95 silver pieces between them. They also have 3 suits of heavy Bugbear mail ($40, 200 lbs each) and 3 oversized great axes ($30, 16 lbs each).

The 4 Orcish Bodyguards have 132 silver pieces between them. They also have 4 suits of decorative Orcish mail ($100, 80 lbs each), 4 cheap Orcish broadswords ($50, 4 lbs each), and 4 cheap, medium Orcish shields ($20, 20 lbs each).

Skull Taker has 100 silver pieces ($400) on his person. His mail is more elaborate than that of the other Orcs, but that only makes it uglier ($100, 80 lbs). His medium shield is fine quality human work, decorated with a red griffon ($600, 12 lbs). He wields a fine enchanted ''Broadsword of Seeking'' (enchanted with Accuracy +1, $7,000, 3 lbs).

The chests are all DR 2, HP 14. $200, 40 lbs. They are locked and only Skull Taker knows where the key is hidden. Each can be opened with a straight Lockpicking roll and there are no traps.

'''Chest 1''' contains 200 square feet of wolf fur ($1,000, 150 lbs)

'''Chest 2''' contains 2,108 copper pieces.

'''Chest 3''' contains 1,091 silver pieces.

=15. The Stairs Down=

A short corridor terminates in a stone stairway, spiraling downwards. Characters walking down the stairs will descend 10 yards until they arrive at the open doorway into level 2, room 1.

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Beneath Castle Everglory: LEVEL 1: Lair of the Cutnose Orcs

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Mlangsdorf:

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=1. Guardroom=

This square room is 5 yards to a side with bare stone walls. There is a long wooden bench along each wall and scraps of old food all over the floor. A lever at the back of the room will drop an iron portcullis across the entrance or raise it up again. The portcullis has DR 9, HP 20, 500 lbs, ST 18 (see DF 2, p.18). The Orcs will drop it so as to divide the party if they can. Otherwise, they will drop it to trap the PCs inside the room with them.

;Monsters
Then are ten Cutnose Orc Warriors in here on guard duty, They are presently having a screaming match over which of them can pull the most intimidating “war face”, leaving them at -8 to hear the PCs.

;10 Cutnose Orc Warriors
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;Treasure
The Orcs have a total of 115 copper pieces, along with 10 cheap Orcish broadswords ($50, 4 lbs each) and 12 cheap, medium Orcish shields ($20, 20 lbs each).

=2. Orc Barracks=

This 10 yard x 20 yard room is filled with 60 old wooden beds upon which have been heaped piles of stinking skins and dirty blankets.

;Monsters
There are 12 Cutnose Orc Warriors here off-duty, having a screaming match about whether human beings are a species of Dire Pig (the Orcs will be at -8 to hear the PCs). One side points out that human beings look like pigs, while the other contends that human beings are much uglier. The Orcs have their swords sheathed and they have no shields.

;12 Cutnose Orc Warriors
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;Treasure
The Orcs have a total of 140 copper pieces along with 10 cheap Orcish broadswords ($50, 4 lbs each). If the players search the blankets, they will also find a large knife ($40, 1lb), a stale and moldy cheese, a copper ring ($1), a cow’s horn, a flattened straw hat with a large hole, a rag wrapped around 5 non-precious stones, a broken padlock and a torn pair of pink silk hose.

=3. Bugbear Barracks=

This 10 yard x 20 yard room is filled with 60 old wooden beds upon which have been heaped piles of stinking skins and dirty blankets.

;Monsters
There are six Blood Axe Bugbears in here, sitting against the wall with their axes resting on the floor. They are having a deep, growling conversation in Bugbear about the fact that it is only natural for Bugbears to rule Orcs and that somebody really ought to put that jumped-up chieftain Skull Taker in his place.

;6 Blood Axe Bugbears (Stink, Buzzard, Rock, Meataxe, Rock, Fuzzy)
{{CEG-BloodaxeBugbears}}

;Treasure
The Bugbears have 92 silver pieces ($368) between them. They also have 6 suits of heavy Bugbear mail ($40, 200 lbs each) and 6 Bugbear great axes ($30, 16 lbs each). Fuzzy has a telescope tucked under his armor ($500, 6 lbs, DF 1 p.26), his favorite toy and a prized status symbol.

=4. Orc Hall=

This 10 yard by 40 yard is dominated by a long, battered wooden table running down the length of the room. Smashed and broken wooden chairs have been shoved under the table and into the corner. The walls prominently display the emblem of a mailed fist holding a battle axe, repeated 18 times across their surface all the way around the room. The workmanship is too fine for the Orcs to have painted it, but the Orcs have made their own crude additions in red and brown, so that the Axes are now held by caricatures of raging Cutnose Orcs.

;Monsters
There are three Cutnose Orc warriors standing on the table with weapons drawn, having a screaming argument over who just farted. They do not have shields.

;3 Cutnose Orc Warriors
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;Treasure
The Orcs have 34 copper pieces between them. Their 3 cheap Orcish broadswords are each $50, 4 lbs.

=5. Corpse Storage=

This 7 yard by 7 yard room contains three wooden beds, a padded wooden table, a smashed wooden cabinet and 9 dead, naked Orcs, stinking from decomposition. The room buzzes with flies and is crawling with rats.

=6. Smashed Furniture Storage=

This 7 yard by 7 yard room is lined with rows of empty, heavy, wooden shelves. The Orcs have used the room to store wooden furniture that they have smashed up – chairs, desks, cabinets and such. There is a small hill of such furniture in the middle of the room.

=7. Garbage Room and Orc Toilet=

This stinking 3 yard by 3 yard room is where the Orcs throw their trash and is the room they use as a toilet. The floor is sinking at the far end of the room and a hole has opened in the stonework, which allows accumulated filth to eventually fall down to the level below (Level 2, Room 10 to be exact). There are wooden cabinets with books at the far end of the room, two still upright and one toppled, spilling books into the filth. A character crossing the room to the shelves must make a DX check or slide into the hole and down into Level 2.

;Treasure

Anyone brave enough examine the books will find that they seem to be inventories, written in Common in a number of different hands. Most of the entries are for food of various kinds, particularly basic items like bread, oats, cheese and meat. Other entries keep track of wood, iron, blankets and tools for carpentry and blacksmithing. While the goods are dealt with in bulk quantities, the lack of dates for the various entries makes it difficult to tell how many people were being fed and supplied. There is no descriptive text explaining who was keeping the inventories and why. The books have no value on the open market.

=8. Kennels=

This 20 yard diameter round room has walls of engraved white stone and is dominated by a 10’ marble statue of a human woman in robes, holding up a sword. Thanks to the Orcs, the woman has had her nose smashed off and has had her skin painted green and hair painted red, like a Cutnose. The engravings on the walls show humans (now painted to be Cutnose Orcs) fighting with melee weapons. The armor looks about three-hundred years out of date and there are no clear sides – just a great deal of combat.

Despite the desecrations of the Cutnose Orcs, the room is an area of High Sanctity for those who follow gods of War. Furthermore, clerics of a War god will cast their spells at +4 here, clerics of a Death god at +2, clerics of a god of Good or Evil at -2, and clerics of a god of Love and Fertility at -4.

;Monsters

The room also contains 8 ferocious Hell Boars on chains just long enough to prevent them from leaving the kennels, and three heavily scarred Orcish keepers.

;3 Cutnose Orc Warriors
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;8 Hell Boars
Hell Boars are black, pony-sized mammals that look like a cross between a great pig, a wolf, and a rat. They have short hair, long hairless tails, and a mouth full of gleaming sharp teeth. They are hunters by nature and are extremely vicious and bad tempered. Their eyes blaze and foam drips from their teeth when they are angry, which is most of the time. They can eat almost anything and always feel hungry.

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;Treasure
The Orcs have 27 copper pieces between them. Their 3 cheap Orcish broadswords are each $50, 4 lbs each. One of the Hell Boards, underneath the folds of fat on its neck, is wearing a studded leather collar with the word “Angry” burned crudely into the leather in Orcish ($1, 0 lbs)

=9. Orc Kitchens=

This 7 yard by 7 yard room stinks with the unique aroma of an Orcish kitchen. All sorts of strange and revolting ingredients lie smeared over the deeply-scratched surface of what was once a fine rosewood desk. Dangling strings hanging from hooks in the ceiling keep other plants and animals in easy reach and at the far end of the room, clay bowls filled with yet other ingredients line the battered shelves of what was once a pair of fine rosewood cabinets. The floor is covered with moldering trash.

;Monsters
4 Orcish cooks are having a screaming argument over whether it is best to gut rats, roasting the flesh and making soup from the guts, or whether it is best to eat them alive. They are jabbing at the air with iron knives in each other’s directions to make their point.

;4 Cutnose Orc Cooks
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;Treasure
The Orcish “spices” held in simple clay cups are not labeled and are mostly worthless, but careful examination will reveal 4 ounces of salt ($60) and an ounce of Orcish Firegrain ($150, DF p. 11)

=10. Workshop=

This 3 yard x 5 yard room contains four scratched wooden tables, covered with crude iron tools. In the NE corner of the room, broken swords and arrows are piled up together.

;Treasure
The tools include a cheap hatchet ($6, 2 lbs), and clumsy implements for blacksmithing and carpentry including chisels, hammers, planes, saws and tongs ($200, 80 lbs, -4 to skill).

=11. Orc Breeding Pits=

This huge 60 yard by 90 yard room is a natural cavern given a level wooden floor. These are the Orc breeding pits where the tribe’s females and juveniles live in squalor – 120 Orcs in all. Cutnose Orc culture relegates females and juveniles to the status of livestock and they keep them in the breeding pits. Here they live naked in filth amidst screaming and fighting, amusing themselves by bullying anyone smaller. Scarification is common, being the only form of decoration available. These Orcs will avoid combat with the PCs if possible, though the adult females will not abandon the juveniles even if the situation is hopeless. Given a chance to communicate, adult females will beg for their lives and the lives of the juveniles, promising that they have no treasure to take. If they are spared, they will not tell the Chief about the PCs – instead they will use the opportunity to run away. The PCs may encounter them sometime later as forest bandits, in which case, the Orcs will treat the PCs with contempt for being such merciful idiots.

;Monsters
In combat, these Orcs will try to overwhelm foes with numbers, trying to outflank and looking for opportunities to slam or grapple. If they successfully capture a PC through mass grappling, they will stab the PC with knives.

;29 Adult Cutnose Orc Breeders
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;18 Older Cutnose Orc Juveniles
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;22 Younger Cutnose Orc Juveniles
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The remaining 40 Orcs are too young to fight.

;Treasure
While the Orcs have hoarded bits of rag, ordinary stones and small bones, none of it is of any monetary value.

=12. Prison=

This 7 yard by 7 yard room may once have been a smithy, judging by the old bellows and the large iron anvil. Now it is the Orc’s prison and torture chamber, thanks to the addition of three cells with doors held shut by crossbars. Sets of manacles are bolted into the walls of the room, beside a glowing brazier and a stack of sharp or pointed iron tools.

The troll in cell 3 is screaming to be let out, while the two Orcish guards are screaming at her to shut up. The other two cells contain an Orcish and a Dwarven prisoner. Thanks to the healing spells cast by the Orcish Shamans, the prisoners are all at full hit points right now, ready to be tortured again.

;Monsters

;Jailors

;2 Cutnose Orc Jailors (Wet Pits and Little Hatchet)
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;Prisoners

;Rat Crab Spider (Cutnose Orc Prisoner)
Rat Crab Spider is a very thin Cutnose Orc with broken teeth and a scar running right down the middle of his face. He was been thrown into the dungeon because he laughed out loud when the chief, Skull Taker, began to use perfume. Rat Crab Spider has been terrified lately, but he is delighted to see the PCs, who he hopes will free him. He knows that he will never be welcome among the Cutnose Orcs again and he’s looking for a new gang to hang with – being with any outfit would be better than being alone. He will immediately try to ingratiate himself with the PCs, speaking to them in broken Common. He will tell them that if they spare his life, he would make a very useful guide and that he hates the Cutnose more than the PCs do. As it happens, the Orc really does know the layout of the entire level, really has no plans to betray the PCs, and will be a loyal minion if offered the chance. If allowed to accompany the party, Rat Crab Spider will try to attach himself to whoever seems most sympathetic towards him, performing services and offering flattery. If nobody is particularly sympathetic, he’ll attach himself to the biggest, strongest character. He will put up with a lot of bullying, but may eventually respond to cruelty by stealing valuables and fleeing. Rat Crab Spider will do his best to be obedient, but his instincts are animalistic and hateful. When forbidden to engage in a cruel act against an outsider, Rat Crab Spider will be unable to prevent himself from weeping loudly and possibly rolling on the ground. He just cannot stop himself from crying, even if it puts the entire party in danger. He also has a tendency to laugh inappropriately.

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;Snori Hillstout (Dwarf Prisoner)
Snori is a thin but muscular dwarf dressed in ragged woolen trousers and a torn linen shirt. His long black hair and brown beard are unkempt and bristle wildly in all directions.

Snori will be very grateful if released. He is more than ready to take his revenge on the Orcs and he feels honorbound to save the life of one of at least one party member. However, if he accompanies the party, he will want an equal share of the treasure. If given an equal share after defeating the Orcs, he will agree to accompany the players to lower levels. Snori hates Orcs and will never trust Rat Crab Spider.

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;Waaarg (Troll Prisoner)
Waaarg is a ten foot naked humanoid reduced to skin and bones with hunger. Her leathery, grey skin is covered with scabs and there are patches of matted black hair on her scalp. Her wide mouth bristles with teeth like needles and her red eyes blaze with rage. Waaarg claws at the door to her cell, screaming like a wounded animal. She has gone insane with rage and suffering and now all the Troll cares about is killing. Although she wants to escape from her cell, she is too crazy to hide her desire to rend the PCs limb from limb. As long as the PCs do not open the door to her cell, she is no danger to them but if they let her out, she will try to kill them.

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;Treasure:
The brazier is not of Orcish design ($120, 6 lbs) but the torture implements are just scrap iron twisted into strange shapes ($20, 20 lbs)

[[Image: Goatman.jpg]]

=13. Temple=

This twelve yard by fifteen yard room has empty wooden weapon-racks lined along the walls which are engraved with neat stick figures in combat poses. At the far end of the room is a stone altar, carved with crude leering Orcish faces. On the alter is the blood-dripping head of a ram on a spike. As long as the head remains upright, the temple is an area of High Sanctity for clerics of Evil gods, including the Orcish Shamans. Furthermore, Clerics of a god of Death, Evil or War will cast spells at +4, of a god of Earth, Fire or of The Hunt at +2, of a God of Agriculture at -2, and of a God of the City, Good, the Sea, or the Sun at -4. The Orcish shamans will cast at +4.

'''Monsters'''

7 Cutnose Orc Warriors, lead by 4 Cutnose Orc Shamans wearing tiger-hide robes and carrying staves, are chanting at the altar. The warriors have their backs turned to the entrance, but the Shamans are standing behind the altar with a clear view.

'''Old Snaggle (Head Shaman)'''

Old Snaggle’s long hair has turned completely white and his spine is so bent that he can hardly hold his head up. His nose also seems to have grown with age, now hanging down almost six inches from his face. He wears nothing but heavy leather leggings and a patchwork rat-fur cloak. His chest is covered in a brightly colored and skillfully rendered tattoo depicting a giant squid fighting with a dragon. Old Snaggle’s engraved staff is topped with a jewel that is glowing with a soft yellow light.

Old Snaggle has great authority and the other Orcs will do whatever Old Snaggle orders them to, short of turning against the Chieftain, Skull Taker. Old Snaggle will fight bravely, but if forced to choose between death and cooperating with the party, he will definitely cooperate. He will do anything to stay alive.

In combat, the first thing Old Snaggle will do is cast Invisibility on himself, then use his Staff of Ranger’s Tread to cast Mage-Stealth on himself, then look for an opportunity to drop an Explosive Fireball on the enemy without doing too much collateral damage to the Orcs. He is fond of Dispel Magic, Fireball and Daze and may cast Minor Healing or Major Healing on himself or another shaman. If forced into single combat, he is likely to cast Paralyze Limb.

ST: 12 HP: 20 Speed: 6

DX: 12 Will: 15 Move: 6

IQ: 13 Per: 15

HT: 13 FP: 16 SM: 0

Dodge: 9 Parry: 13 (Staff) DR: 2 (Legs Only)

Weapons (15): Quarterstaff (2d cr)

Traits: Appearance (Ugly); Bully (12); High Pain Threshold; Infravision; Rapid Healing; Resistant to Metabolic Hazards (+3); Social Stigma (Savage).

Class: Mundane.

Notes: Speaks Bugbear, Common, Dwarven, Goblin and Orcish.

Spells: Old Snaggle knows the following spells, all at level 18: Armor, Cure Disease, Darkness, Daze, Detect Magic, Dispel Magic, Explosive Fireball, Fireball, Invisibility, Mage Sight, Major Healing, Mass Daze, Mass Sleep, Minor Healing, Paralyze Limb, Shatter, Sleep, Staff, Strike Blind, Touch.

'''3 Cutnose Orc Shamans (Gut Biter, Axe Stone and Bad Dreams)'''

The Shamans wear robes made of tiger hides and carry staffs in their hands that are engraved with images of battle. They are smaller than most Cutnose Orcs and their spines have become increasingly bent with age. All of them have streaks of white through the red of their hair.

In combat, the shamans favor Mass Sleep and Sleep spells. They exploit opportunities to cast Dispel Magic and may cast Minor Healing or Major Healing on another Shaman. If Forced into Single Combat, they are likely to cast Daze to give them an opportunity to flee.

ST: 10 HP: 12 Speed: 5.5

DX: 12 Will: 13 Move: 5

IQ: 12 Per: 14

HT: 12 FP: 14 +4 Power Item (Quaterstaff) SM: 0

Dodge: 8 Parry: 12 (Staff) DR: 0

Weapons (15): Quarterstaff (1d+2 cr)

Traits: Appearance (Ugly); Bully (12); Infravision; Rapid Healing; Resistant to Metabolic Hazards (+3); Social Stigma (Savage).

Class: Mundane.

Notes: Speak Bugbear, Goblin and Orcish.

Spells: The shamans know the following spells, all at level 15: Armor, Cure Disease, Darkness, Daze, Detect Magic, Dispel Magic, Major Healing, Mass Daze, Mass Sleep, Minor Healing, Paralyze Limb, Sleep, Staff, Strike Blind, Touch.

'''7 Cutnose Orc Warriors'''

In combat, the first priority of the warriors will be to protect the shamans.

ST: 12 HP: 13 Speed: 5

DX: 11 Will: 9 Move: 5

IQ: 9 Per: 12

HT: 11 FP: 13 SM: 0

Block: 11 (shield) Dodge: 8 Parry: 9 (Broadsword) DR: 0

Weapons (13): Broadsword (1d+2 cut)

Traits: Appearance (Ugly); Bully (12); Infravision; Rapid Healing; Resistant to Metabolic Hazards (+3); Social Stigma (Savage).

Class: Mundane.

Notes: Speak Orcish.

'''Treasure'''

The 7 Orcish Warriors have 55 copper pieces between them. They also have 7 cheap Orcish broadswords ($50, 4 lbs each) and 7 cheap, medium Orcish shields ($20, 20 lbs each)

The 3 shamans wear tiger-skin robes, which are not well made, but the hide is genuine enough and is in good condition ($200, 5 lbs). Their oak staffs (their power items) are carved with stylized images of Orcs in battle ($300, 4 lbs).

Snaggle Tooth’s leather leggings are stitched to fit his twisted limbs and are without value in the open market. Despite the work that went into making a cloak out of rat-hides, the garment is likewise without value back in civilization. Old Snaggle’s weapon looks like an ordinary alder staff carved with leaves and vines, but is a Staff of Ranger’s Tread ($10,500, Mage-Stealth, 4 lbs, users of Divine magic only).

=14. Chieftain’s Hall=

This 15 yard by 20 yard chamber has a stage at the far end, on which Skull Taker, the chieftain, has set his wooden throne. The stage is hung with moldy and tattered red curtains and the walls are stamped all around with the repeated emblem of the battle axe in a mailed fist. The emblem shows fine workmanship and the battle-axe looks like a human design rather than an Orcish one. Distributed all about the room are twenty free-standing iron spikes five feet tall, each topped with a severed head, some Orcish, some human. The heads are in various stages of decomposition, ranging from barely cold to mere skulls. Behind the throne sit three large wooden chests, bound with iron.

'''Monsters'''

Skull Taker sits on his throne attended by a full retinue armored in iron plate. Three Blood Axe Bugbears stands guard beside the throne, while ten Orcish warriors (some of them particularly large) stand below the stage, paying him compliments.

'''Skull Taker'''

Skull Taker is a huge, muscled Orc, though stooped with age. His long red hair, streaked with white, is bound into many plaits with leather thongs. The Chief wears a gleaming suit of polished plate mail built to fit his frame, although if he isn’t expecting trouble, the hawk-plumed helmet will be sitting beside his throne. Skull Taker smells strongly of sweet lilac perfume, an affectation he has only recently acquired. His odor is unusual, but is much more pleasant than that of the average Orc.

ST: 21 HP: 25 Speed: 6.25

DX: 13 Will: 13 Move: 6

IQ: 13 Per: 15

HT: 13 FP: 16 SM: 0

Block 13 (Shield) Dodge: 11 Parry: 13 (Broadsword) DR: 6 (Platemail protects skull, face, neck, torso, vitals, arms, hands, groin, legs and feet)

Weapons (16): Broadsword (4d+2 cut)

Traits: Appearance (Ugly); Bully (12); Combat Reflexes; High Pain Threshold; Infravision; Rapid Healing; Resistant to Metabolic Hazards (+3); Social Stigma (Savage).

Class: Mundane.

'''4 Cutnose Orc Bodyguards (Blood Boar, Leg Breaker, Foul Breath, Face Rip)'''

There are four particularly strong and vicious Cutnose warriors, picked to personally serve and protect the chief. Their black iron mail is of Orcish production. Though it looks clumsy and ugly, it is practical and highly effective.

ST: 15 HP: 17 Speed: 5

DX: 12 Will: 10 Move: 5

IQ: 9 Per: 14

HT: 12 FP: 14 SM: 0

Block (Shield): 12. Dodge: 9 Parry: 11 (Broadsword) DR: 4 (Orcish mail protects skull, face, neck, torso, vitals, arms, groin and legs)

Weapons (15): Broadsword (2d+2 cut)

Traits: Appearance (Ugly); Bully (12); Combat Reflexes; High Pain Threshold; Infravision; Rapid Healing; Resistant to Metabolic Hazards (+3); Social Stigma (Savage).

Class: Mundane.

'''3 Blood Axe Bugbears (Bull, Wide-Oak, Guts)'''

ST: 20 HP: 24 Speed: 6

DX: 13 Will: 11 Move: 5

IQ: 8 Per: 12

HT: 13 FP: 20 SM: 1

Dodge: 9 Parry: 11 (Axe) DR: 4 (Heavy Bugbear mail)

Weapons (15): Great Axe (4d+1 cut)

Traits: Combat Reflexes, High Pain Threshold, Infravision; Social Stigma (Savage).

Class: Mundane.

'''7 Cutnose Orc Warriors'''

ST: 12 HP: 13 Speed: 5

DX: 11 Will: 9 Move: 5

IQ: 9 Per: 12

HT: 11 FP: 13 SM: 0

Block (Shield): 12 Dodge: 9 Parry: 10 (Broadsword) DR: 4 (Orcish mail, protects skull, face, neck, torso, vitals, arms, groin and legs)

Weapons (15): Broadsword (1d+3 cut)

Traits: Appearance (Ugly); Bully (12); Combat Reflexes; High Pain Threshold; Infravision; Rapid Healing; Resistant to Metabolic Hazards (+3); Social Stigma (Savage).

Class: Mundane.

'''Treasure:'''

The 7 Orcish Warriors have 70 silver pieces between them. Their 4 suits of Orcish mail are the wrong shape for anyone without a hunched spine, but would be worth something to an armorer for salvage ($20, 80 lbs each). They also have 7 cheap Orcish broadswords ($50, 4 lbs each) and 7 cheap, medium Orcish shields ($20, 20 lbs each).

The 3 Blood Axe Bugbears have 95 silver pieces between them. They also have 3 suits of heavy Bugbear mail ($40, 200 lbs each) and 3 oversized great axes ($30, 16 lbs each).

The 4 Orcish Bodyguards have 132 silver pieces between them. They also have 4 suits of decorative Orcish mail ($100, 80 lbs each), 4 cheap Orcish broadswords ($50, 4 lbs each), and 4 cheap, medium Orcish shields ($20, 20 lbs each).

Skull Taker has 100 silver pieces ($400) on his person. His mail is more elaborate than that of the other Orcs, but that only makes it uglier ($100, 80 lbs). His medium shield is fine quality human work, decorated with a red griffon ($600, 12 lbs). He wields a fine enchanted ''Broadsword of Seeking'' (enchanted with Accuracy +1, $7,000, 3 lbs).

The chests are all DR 2, HP 14. $200, 40 lbs. They are locked and only Skull Taker knows where the key is hidden. Each can be opened with a straight Lockpicking roll and there are no traps.

'''Chest 1''' contains 200 square feet of wolf fur ($1,000, 150 lbs)

'''Chest 2''' contains 2,108 copper pieces.

'''Chest 3''' contains 1,091 silver pieces.

=15. The Stairs Down=

A short corridor terminates in a stone stairway, spiraling downwards. Characters walking down the stairs will descend 10 yards until they arrive at the open doorway into level 2, room 1.

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Beneath Castle Everglory: CASTLE EVERGLORY

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=CASTLE EVERGLORY=

The ruins of castle Everyglory consist of no more than four low, uneven walls arranged in a square with an open turret at each corner. The walls are all 30 yards in length and range from 7-10 feet high on the North, East and West sides to a mere 2-3 feet on the South side. The turrets are 15 feet high and the tops can easily be reached by stone stairs. While the turrets offer no cover, they are used as lookouts and are a favorite position for Orcish archers in search of a clear field of fire.

There will be two Cutnose Orc Archers on lookout duty on each turret at any given time. Their Vision is 10 and they periodically get distracted by things like birds in the sky, the need to pick their feet, or the latest screaming argument going on among the Orcs.

The Orcish forces in the ruins of Castle Everglory should be too strong to be defeated by a frontal assault (if they aren’t, add more Orcs and Bugbears). If the PCs want to get past them, they will have to make clever use of their skills. Fortunately, the Orcish captain in charge of surface forces, Iron Claw, is arrogant, stubborn and stupid (IQ 8), which makes deception easier. He is not insane, however, and will not simply fall for any plan, however ridiculous. Frightening the Orcs away will be particularly difficult. They are very brave in their own crazy, violent way and are not likely to run until at least half their numbers have fallen with little damage done to the other side. The Bugbears will not flee under any circumstances. While the captain is dim, the individual soldiers are bright enough to try to make effective use of the castle ruins. Warriors will try to surround and overwhelm numerically inferior opponents while archers will seek to fire from the towers if that will give them a clear shot.

At any given time, there is very likely to be a screaming match going on in the castle, which may make things easier for the PCs. Most usually, this is a three way argument between the Orcish captain, Iron Claw, the Orcish Shaman, Toad Face, and a Bugbear named “Rock”, about who should be in charge. Iron Claw thinks Toad Face is too much of a coward and Rock is too much of an idiot to be in charge. Toad Face thinks that both Iron Claw and Rock are too stupid to be in charge. Rock thinks both Orcs are too weak to be in charge.

==Monsters==

===12 Cutnose Orc Archers===
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===12 Cutnose Orc Warriors===
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===3 Blood Axe Bugbears (Rock, Hammer and Strangefruit)===
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===Iron Claw (Orcish Captain)===
Iron Claw is a short, stocky, buck-toothed Orc with arms long enough for him to drag his knuckles. He is bare-chested but wears fine-looking human breeches. He is stupid, arrogant and stubborn, though not insane. Iron Claw’s lack of brains may well be the defenders most significant weakness.

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===Toad Face (Orcish Shaman)===

Just as short as Iron Claw but less heavy, Toad Face the shaman is most easily distinguished by his bald head, his tiger-skin robes, the extraordinary wartyness of his skin, and the engraved wooden staff he holds in his hands. He is by far the cleverest Orc present and he knows it. The frustration of not being in charge is eating him up inside.

In combat, Toad Face’s first priority is keeping himself out of melee range. His next priority is to look for an opportunity to cast Mass Daze on a concentrated enemy group. He will also look for an opportunity to disrupt enemy plans with Dispel Magic and may use Minor Healing and Major Healing to heal himself or one of the Blood Axe Bugbears. If forced into melee combat, he will cast Strike Blind on whoever looks most likely to hurt him.

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'''Spells:''' The shaman knows the following spells, all at level 16: Armor, Cure Disease, Darkness, Daze, Detect Magic, Dispel Magic, Major Healing, Mass Daze, Mass Sleep, Minor Healing, Paralyze Limb, Sleep, Staff, Strike Blind, Touch.

==Treasure==

The common Archers and Warriors have 219 copper pieces between them. All together, they will yield 12 cheap Orcish shortbows ($10, 2 lbs each), 12 cheap Orcish quivers ($1, 1 lb each), 12 cheap Orcish broadswords ($50, 4 lbs each) and 12 cheap, medium Orcish shields ($20, 20 lbs each)

The 3 bugbears have 9, 12 and 19 silver pieces (42 in total, $168 value). Given the scarcity of bugbear-shaped customers, their armor is effectively scrap metal ($40, 200 lbs each). Their great axes are useless to anyone without gigantism ($30, 16 lbs each). Strangefruit wears a bronze Torc around his neck, too large for a human ($100, 2 lbs).

Iron Claw has 2 gold and 10 copper pieces ($170) as well as the standard Orcish broadsword ($50, 4 lbs) and shield ($100, 20 lbs). Though his breeches look nice from a distance, the cuffs are torn are they are worthless.

Toad Face the shaman has no money at all. His tiger-skin robes are not well made, but the hide is genuine enough and is in good condition ($200, 5 lbs). His oak staff (his power item) is carved with stylized images of Orcs in battle ($300, 4 lbs).

=THE BOTTLE DUNGEON=

In the middle of the castle ruins is a hole in the ground with a rickety wooden ladder protruding. The ladder leads down into a bottle-shaped stone dungeon, 4 yards across by 3 yards deep. Graffiti scratched into the wall in Common reads “if yoo are so smart how come yoo can reed this???”

The north-west section of wall opens into a rough earthen tunnel 2 yards in diameter, sloping steeply downward. The tunnel spirals down for 20 yards and is difficult going. A PC moving at half speed must roll vs. DX or Climbing minus their level of encumbrance, or tumble to the bottom of the pit for 2d crushing damage. The roll not to fall is at -4 if moving at normal speed. PCs need not roll at all if they are Cat-Folk, Coleopterans, Corpse-Eaters, Dark Ones, Gnomes, Goblin Kind of any sort, or Halflings, even if moving at normal speed. The Cutnose Orcs and Blood Axe Bugbears can likewise move at normal speed here without any chance of falling.

At the bottom of the pit, the tunnel becomes a horizontal corridor constructed from well-cut sandstone blocks. The corridor extends north for 5 yards before turning left, from which direction can be heard the sounds of Cutnose Orcs shouting at each other in room 1 of the first subterranean level.

[http://wiki.rpg.net/index.php/Beneath_Castle_Everglory Table of Contents]

[http://wiki.rpg.net/index.php/Beneath_Castle_Everglory:_LEVEL_1:_Lair_of_the_Cutnose_Orcs LEVEL 1: Lair of the Cutnose Orcs]

Template:CEG-BloodaxeBugbears

2010-09-22T14:13:46Z

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2010-09-22T14:07:10Z

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2010-09-22T14:06:48Z

Mlangsdorf:

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Beneath Castle Everglory: CASTLE EVERGLORY

2010-09-20T15:00:24Z

Mlangsdorf: /* 12 Cutnose Orc Archers */

[[Image: Hastingsarcher.jpg]]

=CASTLE EVERGLORY=

The ruins of castle Everyglory consist of no more than four low, uneven walls arranged in a square with an open turret at each corner. The walls are all 30 yards in length and range from 7-10 feet high on the North, East and West sides to a mere 2-3 feet on the South side. The turrets are 15 feet high and the tops can easily be reached by stone stairs. While the turrets offer no cover, they are used as lookouts and are a favorite position for Orcish archers in search of a clear field of fire.

There will be two Cutnose Orc Archers on lookout duty on each turret at any given time. Their Vision is 10 and they periodically get distracted by things like birds in the sky, the need to pick their feet, or the latest screaming argument going on among the Orcs.

The Orcish forces in the ruins of Castle Everglory should be too strong to be defeated by a frontal assault (if they aren’t, add more Orcs and Bugbears). If the PCs want to get past them, they will have to make clever use of their skills. Fortunately, the Orcish captain in charge of surface forces, Iron Claw, is arrogant, stubborn and stupid (IQ 8), which makes deception easier. He is not insane, however, and will not simply fall for any plan, however ridiculous. Frightening the Orcs away will be particularly difficult. They are very brave in their own crazy, violent way and are not likely to run until at least half their numbers have fallen with little damage done to the other side. The Bugbears will not flee under any circumstances. While the captain is dim, the individual soldiers are bright enough to try to make effective use of the castle ruins. Warriors will try to surround and overwhelm numerically inferior opponents while archers will seek to fire from the towers if that will give them a clear shot.

At any given time, there is very likely to be a screaming match going on in the castle, which may make things easier for the PCs. Most usually, this is a three way argument between the Orcish captain, Iron Claw, the Orcish Shaman, Toad Face, and a Bugbear named “Rock”, about who should be in charge. Iron Claw thinks Toad Face is too much of a coward and Rock is too much of an idiot to be in charge. Toad Face thinks that both Iron Claw and Rock are too stupid to be in charge. Rock thinks both Orcs are too weak to be in charge.

==Monsters==

===12 Cutnose Orc Archers===
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===12 Cutnose Orc Warriors===

ST: 12 HP: 13 Speed: 5

DX: 11 Will: 9 Move: 5

IQ: 9 Per: 12

HT: 11 FP: 13 SM: 0

Block: 11 (shield) Dodge: 8 Parry: 9 (Broadsword) DR: 0

Weapons (13): Broadsword (1d+2 cut)

Traits: Infravision

Class: Mundane.

Notes: Speak Orcish.

===3 Blood Axe Bugbears (Rock, Hammer and Strangefruit)===

ST: 20 HP: 24 Speed: 6

DX: 13 Will: 11 Move: 5

IQ: 8 Per: 12

HT: 13 FP: 20 SM: 1

Dodge: 9 Parry: 11 (Axe) DR: 4 (Heavy Bugbear mail, protects skull, torso, vitals, arms, groin and legs)

Weapons (15): Great Axe (4d+1 cut)

Traits: Combat Reflexes, High Pain Threshold, Infravision; Social Stigma (Savage).

Class: Mundane.

Notes: Speak Orcish and Bugbear. They ignore any orders they are given. Given a chance to fight, they will just charge into the fray, regardless of what the Orcish captain wants.

===Iron Claw (Orcish Captain)===

Iron Claw is a short, stocky, buck-toothed Orc with arms long enough for him to drag his knuckles. He is bare-chested but wears fine-looking human breeches. He is stupid, arrogant and stubborn, though not insane. Iron Claw’s lack of brains may well be the defenders most significant weakness.

ST: 14 HP: 14 Speed: 6

DX: 13 Will: 12 Move: 5

IQ: 8 Per: 8

HT: 13 FP: 16 SM: 0

Block: 12 (medium shield) Dodge: 9 Parry: 11 (Broadsword) DR: 0

Weapons (15): Broadsword (2d+1 cut),

Traits: Appearance (Ugly); Bully (12); Combat Reflexes, High Pain Threshold, Infravision; Rapid Healing; Resistant to Metabolic Hazards (+3); Social Stigma (Savage).

Class: Mundane.

Notes: Speaks Orcish.

===Toad Face (Orcish Shaman)===

Just as short as Iron Claw but less heavy, Toad Face the shaman is most easily distinguished by his bald head, his tiger-skin robes, the extraordinary wartyness of his skin, and the engraved wooden staff he holds in his hands. He is by far the cleverest Orc present and he knows it. The frustration of not being in charge is eating him up inside.

In combat, Toad Face’s first priority is keeping himself out of melee range. His next priority is to look for an opportunity to cast Mass Daze on a concentrated enemy group. He will also look for an opportunity to disrupt enemy plans with Dispel Magic and may use Minor Healing and Major Healing to heal himself or one of the Blood Axe Bugbears. If forced into melee combat, he will cast Strike Blind on whoever looks most likely to hurt him.

ST: 10 HP: 12 Speed: 5.5

DX: 12 Will: 13 Move: 5

IQ: 13 Per: 14

HT: 12 FP: 14 +4 (Power Item Quarterstaff) SM: 0

Dodge: 8 Parry: 12 (Staff) DR: 0

Weapons (15): Quarterstaff (1d+2 cr)

Traits: Appearance (Ugly); Bully (12); Infravision; Rapid Healing; Resistant to Metabolic Hazards (+3); Social Stigma (Savage).

Class: Mundane.

Notes: Speaks Bugbear, Common, Goblin and Orcish.

Spells: The shaman knows the following spells, all at level 16: Armor, Cure Disease, Darkness, Daze, Detect Magic, Dispel Magic, Major Healing, Mass Daze, Mass Sleep, Minor Healing, Paralyze Limb, Sleep, Staff, Strike Blind, Touch.

==Treasure==

The common Archers and Warriors have 219 copper pieces between them. All together, they will yield 12 cheap Orcish shortbows ($10, 2 lbs each), 12 cheap Orcish quivers ($1, 1 lb each), 12 cheap Orcish broadswords ($50, 4 lbs each) and 12 cheap, medium Orcish shields ($20, 20 lbs each)

The 3 bugbears have 9, 12 and 19 silver pieces (42 in total, $168 value). Given the scarcity of bugbear-shaped customers, their armor is effectively scrap metal ($40, 200 lbs each). Their great axes are useless to anyone without gigantism ($30, 16 lbs each). Strangefruit wears a bronze Torc around his neck, too large for a human ($100, 2 lbs).

Iron Claw has 2 gold and 10 copper pieces ($170) as well as the standard Orcish broadsword ($50, 4 lbs) and shield ($100, 20 lbs). Though his breeches look nice from a distance, the cuffs are torn are they are worthless.

Toad Face the shaman has no money at all. His tiger-skin robes are not well made, but the hide is genuine enough and is in good condition ($200, 5 lbs). His oak staff (his power item) is carved with stylized images of Orcs in battle ($300, 4 lbs).

=THE BOTTLE DUNGEON=

In the middle of the castle ruins is a hole in the ground with a rickety wooden ladder protruding. The ladder leads down into a bottle-shaped stone dungeon, 4 yards across by 3 yards deep. Graffiti scratched into the wall in Common reads “if yoo are so smart how come yoo can reed this???”

The north-west section of wall opens into a rough earthen tunnel 2 yards in diameter, sloping steeply downward. The tunnel spirals down for 20 yards and is difficult going. A PC moving at half speed must roll vs. DX or Climbing minus their level of encumbrance, or tumble to the bottom of the pit for 2d crushing damage. The roll not to fall is at -4 if moving at normal speed. PCs need not roll at all if they are Cat-Folk, Coleopterans, Corpse-Eaters, Dark Ones, Gnomes, Goblin Kind of any sort, or Halflings, even if moving at normal speed. The Cutnose Orcs and Blood Axe Bugbears can likewise move at normal speed here without any chance of falling.

At the bottom of the pit, the tunnel becomes a horizontal corridor constructed from well-cut sandstone blocks. The corridor extends north for 5 yards before turning left, from which direction can be heard the sounds of Cutnose Orcs shouting at each other in room 1 of the first subterranean level.

[http://wiki.rpg.net/index.php/Beneath_Castle_Everglory Table of Contents]

[http://wiki.rpg.net/index.php/Beneath_Castle_Everglory:_LEVEL_1:_Lair_of_the_Cutnose_Orcs LEVEL 1: Lair of the Cutnose Orcs]

User:Mlangsdorf

2010-09-20T14:58:08Z

Mlangsdorf:

See [http://westmarchsaga.wikia.com/wiki/User:Mlangsdorf here].

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2010-09-20T14:57:47Z

Mlangsdorf: Created page with 'See [http://westmarchsaga.wikia.com/wiki/User:Mlangsdorf here]].'

See [http://westmarchsaga.wikia.com/wiki/User:Mlangsdorf here]].

Beneath Castle Everglory: INTO THE WOODS: Travelling to Castle Everglory

2010-09-20T12:42:28Z

Mlangsdorf: /* Smash Head (Platoon Leader) */

=INTO THE WOODS: Travelling to Castle Everglory=

[[Image: Woodcut_Archer.jpg]]

Castle Everglory should be as far from Land’s End as the GM wishes, according to how interested they are in having the PCs muck about in the forest. The trip should take at least long enough for the PCs to run into two Orc Patrols, described below as Orc Hunting Party 1 and Orc Hunting Party 2.

==Orc Hunting Party 1==

The hunting party has 11 members. The platoon leader, Wolf Fang, is screaming at the other Orcs to be quiet, calling them stupid for scaring the game away. He is doing his best to play the tough guy, trying to dominate the others. However, the other Orcs openly disrespect him. Some are screaming back at him that he is too much of a runt and a weakling to lead the hunt. Two other Orcs are screaming at one another over the issue of a stolen bone.

The PCs should be able to hear the Orcs long before the Orcs are aware of the PCs, giving them ample time to avoid them or to make preparations.

===Wolf Fang (Platoon Leader)===

Wolf Fang is a tall, skinny Orc who is one of the Cutnoses’ most skillful hunters when he isn’t stuck leading a hunting team. He wears a tunic and trousers that he skillfully sewed for himself out of wolf hides. He has decorated his outfit with the tails of various animals he has killed – wild pigs, wolves, cats and small mammals.

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===10 Cutnose Orc Archers===
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===Treasure===

The Archers have 91 copper pieces between them. Their bows are cheap shortbows of unattractively Orcish design ($10, 2 lbs each) and their quivers are crude pouches of hide ($1, 1 lb each). Wolf Fang’s cheap broadsword also looks unpleasantly Orcish ($50, 4 lbs). As proud as he is of his clothes, no human would consider paying money for them. His pockets contain 20 copper pieces, an apple, and a 4 carat hematite stone worth $160.

==Orc Hunting Party 2==

The Orcs are having a screaming match over who gets to carry the horned helmet of Smash Head, the platoon leader. Smash Head himself is staying aloof from it all, allowing the lesser Orcs to sort it out among themselves. Should Smash Head get a chance to put his helmet back on before combat, it will provide DR 4 to his head (but not face). However, he won’t stop to put it back on if opponents are already within melee range. The PCs should be able to hear the Orcs long before the Orcs are aware of the PCs, giving them ample time to avoid them or to make preparations.
===Smash Head (Platoon Leader)===

Smash Head is a hulking Orcish brute who has at some point received a serious crushing wound to the face, pushing in his cheeks, breaking all his front teeth and leaving deep scars on the skin. He is proud of his wound, thinking that it demonstrates how tough he is. He wears a bear-fur cloak about his shoulders and he likes to flip it back dramatically before entering combat.

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===9 Cutnose Orc Archers===
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===Treasure===

The nine archers have 102 copper pieces between them, and a bunch of rats tails bound with string. Their bows are cheap shortbows of unattractively Orcish design ($10, 2 lbs each) and their quivers are crude pouches of hide ($1, 1 lb each). Smash Head has 40 copper pieces in his pockets. His iron helmet is sturdy but lopsided and ugly. It looks like the kind of thing an Orc would wear and will sell accordingly ($10, 8 lbs). Smash Head’s cheap broadsword and medium shield look similarly Orcish and are $50, 4 lbs and $20, 20 lbs respectively. His bear-fur cloak is not of Orcish workmanship and is quite nice ($200, 7 lbs).

==Further Random Encounters==

[[Image: 220px-St_GeorgeEnglish.jpg]]

If the GM would like further wandering monsters and has access to GURPS Bestiary and GURPS Fantasy Bestiary for GURPS 3rd edition, they may use the following system. For each day and each night, roll 3D6 for encounters. If the characters have wiped out the Cutnose Orcs beneath Castle Everglory, ignore results of Cutnose Orcs.

For a day’s travel, there will be an encounter from the day table on 8-

For a night’s camping, there will be an encounter from the night table on 8-

For a day’s camping, there will be an encounter from the day table on 7-

For a night’s travel, there will be an encounter from the night table on 10-
===Day Encounter Table===

3 - Palac Cat (Fantasy Bestiary, p.50)

4 - Griffon (Fantasy Bestiary, p.59)

5 - Hodag (Fantasy Bestiary, p.31)

6 - Strix (Campaigns, p. 461)

7 - Centipede, Giant (Besitary, p. 11)

8 – Snake (Poisonous) (Bestiary, p.32)

9 – Wolves (Bestiary, p.38)

10 – Red Deer (Campaigns, p.457)

11 – Cutnose Orc Archers (3D6)

12 – Wild Boars (Campaigns, p. 458)

13 – Grizzly bears (Campaigns p.456)

14 - Shrew, Giant (Fantasy Bestiary, p.66)

15 - Crocotta (Fantasy Beastiary, p.50)

16 - Hydrus (Fantasy Bestiary, p.35)

17 - Jaculus (Fantasy Besitary, p.36)

18 - Unicorn, Fantasy (Fantasy Bestiary, p.77)

===Night Encounter Table===

3 – Plat-eye (Fantasy Bestiary, p. 54)

4 - Palac Cat (Fantasy Bestiary, p.50)

5 - Griffon (Fantasy Bestiary, p.59)

6 - Crocotta (Fantasy Beastiary, p.50)

7 – Foul Bats (DF 2, p.23)

8 – Centipede, Giant (Besitary, p. 11)

9 – Grizzly Bears (Campaigns, p.456)

10 – Wolves (Bestiary, p.38)

11 – Cutnose Orc Archers (3D6)

12 – Leopard (Bestiary, p.20)

13 - Shrew, Giant (Fantasy Bestiary, p.66)

14 – Strix (Campaigns, p. 461)

15 - Hodag (Fantasy Bestiary, p.31)

16 - Hydrus (Fantasy Bestiary, p.35)

17 - Jaculus (Fantasy Besitary, p.36)

18 – Pooka (Fantasy Beastiary, p. 55)

[http://wiki.rpg.net/index.php/Beneath_Castle_Everglory Table of Contents]

[http://wiki.rpg.net/index.php/Beneath_Castle_Everglory:_CASTLE_EVERGLORY CASTLE EVERGLORY]

Beneath Castle Everglory: INTO THE WOODS: Travelling to Castle Everglory

2010-09-20T11:59:02Z

Mlangsdorf: /* INTO THE WOODS: Travelling to Castle Everglory */

=INTO THE WOODS: Travelling to Castle Everglory=

[[Image: Woodcut_Archer.jpg]]

Castle Everglory should be as far from Land’s End as the GM wishes, according to how interested they are in having the PCs muck about in the forest. The trip should take at least long enough for the PCs to run into two Orc Patrols, described below as Orc Hunting Party 1 and Orc Hunting Party 2.

==Orc Hunting Party 1==

The hunting party has 11 members. The platoon leader, Wolf Fang, is screaming at the other Orcs to be quiet, calling them stupid for scaring the game away. He is doing his best to play the tough guy, trying to dominate the others. However, the other Orcs openly disrespect him. Some are screaming back at him that he is too much of a runt and a weakling to lead the hunt. Two other Orcs are screaming at one another over the issue of a stolen bone.

The PCs should be able to hear the Orcs long before the Orcs are aware of the PCs, giving them ample time to avoid them or to make preparations.

===Wolf Fang (Platoon Leader)===

Wolf Fang is a tall, skinny Orc who is one of the Cutnoses’ most skillful hunters when he isn’t stuck leading a hunting team. He wears a tunic and trousers that he skillfully sewed for himself out of wolf hides. He has decorated his outfit with the tails of various animals he has killed – wild pigs, wolves, cats and small mammals.

{{GURPSNPCTraits|12|13|11|12|15|12|14|14|6.25|6|0|0|10|11|N/A|Broadsword-15 1d+3 Cut; Short Bow-15 1d Imp Acc 1 110/165|Appearance (Ugly); Bully (12); Combat Reflexes; Infravision; Rapid Healing; Resistant to Metabolic Hazards (+3); Social Stigma (Savage)|Stealth-15; Tracking-15|Mundane|Speaks Orcish}}

===10 Cutnose Orc Archers===
{{CEG-CutnoseArchers}}

===Treasure===

The Archers have 91 copper pieces between them. Their bows are cheap shortbows of unattractively Orcish design ($10, 2 lbs each) and their quivers are crude pouches of hide ($1, 1 lb each). Wolf Fang’s cheap broadsword also looks unpleasantly Orcish ($50, 4 lbs). As proud as he is of his clothes, no human would consider paying money for them. His pockets contain 20 copper pieces, an apple, and a 4 carat hematite stone worth $160.

==Orc Hunting Party 2==

The Orcs are having a screaming match over who gets to carry the horned helmet of Smash Head, the platoon leader. Smash Head himself is staying aloof from it all, allowing the lesser Orcs to sort it out among themselves. Should Smash Head get a chance to put his helmet back on before combat, it will provide DR 4 to his head (but not face). However, he won’t stop to put it back on if opponents are already within melee range. The PCs should be able to hear the Orcs long before the Orcs are aware of the PCs, giving them ample time to avoid them or to make preparations.
===Smash Head (Platoon Leader)===

Smash Head is a hulking Orcish brute who has at some point received a serious crushing wound to the face, pushing in his cheeks, breaking all his front teeth and leaving deep scars on the skin. He is proud of his wound, thinking that it demonstrates how tough he is. He wears a bear-fur cloak about his shoulders and he likes to flip it back dramatically before entering combat.

{{GURPSNPCTraits|16|12|8|13|20|10|10|20|5|5|0|2 (torso/vitals); 1* (limbs, groin)|9|12|12+2|Orcish Broadsword-16 2d+3 Cut; Orcish Shield-12 1d Cr|Appearance (Ugly); Bully (12); Combat Reflexes; High Pain Threshold; Infravision; Rapid Healing; Resistant to Metabolic Hazards (+3); Social Stigma (Savage)|None|Mundane|Speaks Orcish}}

===9 Cutnose Orc Archers===
{{CEG-CutnoseArchers}}

===Treasure===

The nine archers have 102 copper pieces between them, and a bunch of rats tails bound with string. Their bows are cheap shortbows of unattractively Orcish design ($10, 2 lbs each) and their quivers are crude pouches of hide ($1, 1 lb each). Smash Head has 40 copper pieces in his pockets. His iron helmet is sturdy but lopsided and ugly. It looks like the kind of thing an Orc would wear and will sell accordingly ($10, 8 lbs). Smash Head’s cheap broadsword and medium shield look similarly Orcish and are $50, 4 lbs and $20, 20 lbs respectively. His bear-fur cloak is not of Orcish workmanship and is quite nice ($200, 7 lbs).

==Further Random Encounters==

[[Image: 220px-St_GeorgeEnglish.jpg]]

If the GM would like further wandering monsters and has access to GURPS Bestiary and GURPS Fantasy Bestiary for GURPS 3rd edition, they may use the following system. For each day and each night, roll 3D6 for encounters. If the characters have wiped out the Cutnose Orcs beneath Castle Everglory, ignore results of Cutnose Orcs.

For a day’s travel, there will be an encounter from the day table on 8-

For a night’s camping, there will be an encounter from the night table on 8-

For a day’s camping, there will be an encounter from the day table on 7-

For a night’s travel, there will be an encounter from the night table on 10-
===Day Encounter Table===

3 - Palac Cat (Fantasy Bestiary, p.50)

4 - Griffon (Fantasy Bestiary, p.59)

5 - Hodag (Fantasy Bestiary, p.31)

6 - Strix (Campaigns, p. 461)

7 - Centipede, Giant (Besitary, p. 11)

8 – Snake (Poisonous) (Bestiary, p.32)

9 – Wolves (Bestiary, p.38)

10 – Red Deer (Campaigns, p.457)

11 – Cutnose Orc Archers (3D6)

12 – Wild Boars (Campaigns, p. 458)

13 – Grizzly bears (Campaigns p.456)

14 - Shrew, Giant (Fantasy Bestiary, p.66)

15 - Crocotta (Fantasy Beastiary, p.50)

16 - Hydrus (Fantasy Bestiary, p.35)

17 - Jaculus (Fantasy Besitary, p.36)

18 - Unicorn, Fantasy (Fantasy Bestiary, p.77)

===Night Encounter Table===

3 – Plat-eye (Fantasy Bestiary, p. 54)

4 - Palac Cat (Fantasy Bestiary, p.50)

5 - Griffon (Fantasy Bestiary, p.59)

6 - Crocotta (Fantasy Beastiary, p.50)

7 – Foul Bats (DF 2, p.23)

8 – Centipede, Giant (Besitary, p. 11)

9 – Grizzly Bears (Campaigns, p.456)

10 – Wolves (Bestiary, p.38)

11 – Cutnose Orc Archers (3D6)

12 – Leopard (Bestiary, p.20)

13 - Shrew, Giant (Fantasy Bestiary, p.66)

14 – Strix (Campaigns, p. 461)

15 - Hodag (Fantasy Bestiary, p.31)

16 - Hydrus (Fantasy Bestiary, p.35)

17 - Jaculus (Fantasy Besitary, p.36)

18 – Pooka (Fantasy Beastiary, p. 55)

[http://wiki.rpg.net/index.php/Beneath_Castle_Everglory Table of Contents]

[http://wiki.rpg.net/index.php/Beneath_Castle_Everglory:_CASTLE_EVERGLORY CASTLE EVERGLORY]

Beneath Castle Everglory: INTO THE WOODS: Travelling to Castle Everglory

2010-09-20T11:58:42Z

Mlangsdorf: /* 10 Cutnose Orc Archers */

=INTO THE WOODS: Travelling to Castle Everglory=

[[Image: Woodcut_Archer.jpg]]

Castle Everglory should be as far from Land’s End as the GM wishes, according to how interested they are in having the PCs muck about in the forest. The trip should take at least long enough for the PCs to run into two Orc Patrols, described below as Orc Hunting Party 1 and Orc Hunting Party 2.

==Orc Hunting Party 1==

The hunting party has 11 members. The platoon leader, Wolf Fang, is screaming at the other Orcs to be quiet, calling them stupid for scaring the game away. He is doing his best to play the tough guy, trying to dominate the others. However, the other Orcs openly disrespect him. Some are screaming back at him that he is too much of a runt and a weakling to lead the hunt. Two other Orcs are screaming at one another over the issue of a stolen bone.

The PCs should be able to hear the Orcs long before the Orcs are aware of the PCs, giving them ample time to avoid them or to make preparations.

===Wolf Fang (Platoon Leader)===

Wolf Fang is a tall, skinny Orc who is one of the Cutnoses’ most skillful hunters when he isn’t stuck leading a hunting team. He wears a tunic and trousers that he skillfully sewed for himself out of wolf hides. He has decorated his outfit with the tails of various animals he has killed – wild pigs, wolves, cats and small mammals.

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===10 Cutnose Orc Archers===
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===Treasure===

The Archers have 91 copper pieces between them. Their bows are cheap shortbows of unattractively Orcish design ($10, 2 lbs each) and their quivers are crude pouches of hide ($1, 1 lb each). Wolf Fang’s cheap broadsword also looks unpleasantly Orcish ($50, 4 lbs). As proud as he is of his clothes, no human would consider paying money for them. His pockets contain 20 copper pieces, an apple, and a 4 carat hematite stone worth $160.

==Orc Hunting Party 2==

The Orcs are having a screaming match over who gets to carry the horned helmet of Smash Head, the platoon leader. Smash Head himself is staying aloof from it all, allowing the lesser Orcs to sort it out among themselves. Should Smash Head get a chance to put his helmet back on before combat, it will provide DR 4 to his head (but not face). However, he won’t stop to put it back on if opponents are already within melee range. The PCs should be able to hear the Orcs long before the Orcs are aware of the PCs, giving them ample time to avoid them or to make preparations.
===Smash Head (Platoon Leader)===

Smash Head is a hulking Orcish brute who has at some point received a serious crushing wound to the face, pushing in his cheeks, breaking all his front teeth and leaving deep scars on the skin. He is proud of his wound, thinking that it demonstrates how tough he is. He wears a bear-fur cloak about his shoulders and he likes to flip it back dramatically before entering combat.

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===9 Cutnose Orc Archers===
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===Treasure===

The nine archers have 102 copper pieces between them, and a bunch of rats tails bound with string. Their bows are cheap shortbows of unattractively Orcish design ($10, 2 lbs each) and their quivers are crude pouches of hide ($1, 1 lb each). Smash Head has 40 copper pieces in his pockets. His iron helmet is sturdy but lopsided and ugly. It looks like the kind of thing an Orc would wear and will sell accordingly ($10, 8 lbs). Smash Head’s cheap broadsword and medium shield look similarly Orcish and are $50, 4 lbs and $20, 20 lbs respectively. His bear-fur cloak is not of Orcish workmanship and is quite nice ($200, 7 lbs).

==Further Random Encounters==

[[Image: 220px-St_GeorgeEnglish.jpg]]

If the GM would like further wandering monsters and has access to GURPS Bestiary and GURPS Fantasy Bestiary for GURPS 3rd edition, they may use the following system. For each day and each night, roll 3D6 for encounters. If the characters have wiped out the Cutnose Orcs beneath Castle Everglory, ignore results of Cutnose Orcs.

For a day’s travel, there will be an encounter from the day table on 8-

For a night’s camping, there will be an encounter from the night table on 8-

For a day’s camping, there will be an encounter from the day table on 7-

For a night’s travel, there will be an encounter from the night table on 10-
===Day Encounter Table===

3 - Palac Cat (Fantasy Bestiary, p.50)

4 - Griffon (Fantasy Bestiary, p.59)

5 - Hodag (Fantasy Bestiary, p.31)

6 - Strix (Campaigns, p. 461)

7 - Centipede, Giant (Besitary, p. 11)

8 – Snake (Poisonous) (Bestiary, p.32)

9 – Wolves (Bestiary, p.38)

10 – Red Deer (Campaigns, p.457)

11 – Cutnose Orc Archers (3D6)

12 – Wild Boars (Campaigns, p. 458)

13 – Grizzly bears (Campaigns p.456)

14 - Shrew, Giant (Fantasy Bestiary, p.66)

15 - Crocotta (Fantasy Beastiary, p.50)

16 - Hydrus (Fantasy Bestiary, p.35)

17 - Jaculus (Fantasy Besitary, p.36)

18 - Unicorn, Fantasy (Fantasy Bestiary, p.77)

===Night Encounter Table===

3 – Plat-eye (Fantasy Bestiary, p. 54)

4 - Palac Cat (Fantasy Bestiary, p.50)

5 - Griffon (Fantasy Bestiary, p.59)

6 - Crocotta (Fantasy Beastiary, p.50)

7 – Foul Bats (DF 2, p.23)

8 – Centipede, Giant (Besitary, p. 11)

9 – Grizzly Bears (Campaigns, p.456)

10 – Wolves (Bestiary, p.38)

11 – Cutnose Orc Archers (3D6)

12 – Leopard (Bestiary, p.20)

13 - Shrew, Giant (Fantasy Bestiary, p.66)

14 – Strix (Campaigns, p. 461)

15 - Hodag (Fantasy Bestiary, p.31)

16 - Hydrus (Fantasy Bestiary, p.35)

17 - Jaculus (Fantasy Besitary, p.36)

18 – Pooka (Fantasy Beastiary, p. 55)

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=INTO THE WOODS: Travelling to Castle Everglory=

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Castle Everglory should be as far from Land’s End as the GM wishes, according to how interested they are in having the PCs muck about in the forest. The trip should take at least long enough for the PCs to run into two Orc Patrols, described below as Orc Hunting Party 1 and Orc Hunting Party 2.

==Orc Hunting Party 1==

The hunting party has 11 members. The platoon leader, Wolf Fang, is screaming at the other Orcs to be quiet, calling them stupid for scaring the game away. He is doing his best to play the tough guy, trying to dominate the others. However, the other Orcs openly disrespect him. Some are screaming back at him that he is too much of a runt and a weakling to lead the hunt. Two other Orcs are screaming at one another over the issue of a stolen bone.

The PCs should be able to hear the Orcs long before the Orcs are aware of the PCs, giving them ample time to avoid them or to make preparations.

===Wolf Fang (Platoon Leader)===

Wolf Fang is a tall, skinny Orc who is one of the Cutnoses’ most skillful hunters when he isn’t stuck leading a hunting team. He wears a tunic and trousers that he skillfully sewed for himself out of wolf hides. He has decorated his outfit with the tails of various animals he has killed – wild pigs, wolves, cats and small mammals.

{{GURPSNPCTraits|12|13|11|12|15|12|14|14|6.25|6|0|0|10|11|N/A|Broadsword-15 1d+3 Cut; Short Bow-15 1d Imp Acc 1 110/165|Appearance (Ugly); Bully (12); Combat Reflexes; Infravision; Rapid Healing; Resistant to Metabolic Hazards (+3); Social Stigma (Savage)|Stealth-15; Tracking-15|Mundane|Speaks Orcish}}

===10 Cutnose Orc Archers===
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===Treasure===

The Archers have 91 copper pieces between them. Their bows are cheap shortbows of unattractively Orcish design ($10, 2 lbs each) and their quivers are crude pouches of hide ($1, 1 lb each). Wolf Fang’s cheap broadsword also looks unpleasantly Orcish ($50, 4 lbs). As proud as he is of his clothes, no human would consider paying money for them. His pockets contain 20 copper pieces, an apple, and a 4 carat hematite stone worth $160.

==Orc Hunting Party 2==

The Orcs are having a screaming match over who gets to carry the horned helmet of Smash Head, the platoon leader. Smash Head himself is staying aloof from it all, allowing the lesser Orcs to sort it out among themselves. Should Smash Head get a chance to put his helmet back on before combat, it will provide DR 4 to his head (but not face). However, he won’t stop to put it back on if opponents are already within melee range. The PCs should be able to hear the Orcs long before the Orcs are aware of the PCs, giving them ample time to avoid them or to make preparations.
===Smash Head (Platoon Leader)===

Smash Head is a hulking Orcish brute who has at some point received a serious crushing wound to the face, pushing in his cheeks, breaking all his front teeth and leaving deep scars on the skin. He is proud of his wound, thinking that it demonstrates how tough he is. He wears a bear-fur cloak about his shoulders and he likes to flip it back dramatically before entering combat.

{{GURPSNPCTraits|16|12|8|13|20|10|10|20|5|5|0|2 (torso/vitals); 1* (limbs, groin)|9|12|12+2|Orcish Broadsword-16 2d+3 Cut; Orcish Shield-12 1d Cr|Appearance (Ugly); Bully (12); Combat Reflexes; High Pain Threshold; Infravision; Rapid Healing; Resistant to Metabolic Hazards (+3); Social Stigma (Savage)|None|Mundane|Speaks Orcish}}

===9 Cutnose Orc Archers===
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===Treasure===

The nine archers have 102 copper pieces between them, and a bunch of rats tails bound with string. Their bows are cheap shortbows of unattractively Orcish design ($10, 2 lbs each) and their quivers are crude pouches of hide ($1, 1 lb each). Smash Head has 40 copper pieces in his pockets. His iron helmet is sturdy but lopsided and ugly. It looks like the kind of thing an Orc would wear and will sell accordingly ($10, 8 lbs). Smash Head’s cheap broadsword and medium shield look similarly Orcish and are $50, 4 lbs and $20, 20 lbs respectively. His bear-fur cloak is not of Orcish workmanship and is quite nice ($200, 7 lbs).

==Further Random Encounters==

[[Image: 220px-St_GeorgeEnglish.jpg]]

If the GM would like further wandering monsters and has access to GURPS Bestiary and GURPS Fantasy Bestiary for GURPS 3rd edition, they may use the following system. For each day and each night, roll 3D6 for encounters. If the characters have wiped out the Cutnose Orcs beneath Castle Everglory, ignore results of Cutnose Orcs.

For a day’s travel, there will be an encounter from the day table on 8-

For a night’s camping, there will be an encounter from the night table on 8-

For a day’s camping, there will be an encounter from the day table on 7-

For a night’s travel, there will be an encounter from the night table on 10-
===Day Encounter Table===

3 - Palac Cat (Fantasy Bestiary, p.50)

4 - Griffon (Fantasy Bestiary, p.59)

5 - Hodag (Fantasy Bestiary, p.31)

6 - Strix (Campaigns, p. 461)

7 - Centipede, Giant (Besitary, p. 11)

8 – Snake (Poisonous) (Bestiary, p.32)

9 – Wolves (Bestiary, p.38)

10 – Red Deer (Campaigns, p.457)

11 – Cutnose Orc Archers (3D6)

12 – Wild Boars (Campaigns, p. 458)

13 – Grizzly bears (Campaigns p.456)

14 - Shrew, Giant (Fantasy Bestiary, p.66)

15 - Crocotta (Fantasy Beastiary, p.50)

16 - Hydrus (Fantasy Bestiary, p.35)

17 - Jaculus (Fantasy Besitary, p.36)

18 - Unicorn, Fantasy (Fantasy Bestiary, p.77)

===Night Encounter Table===

3 – Plat-eye (Fantasy Bestiary, p. 54)

4 - Palac Cat (Fantasy Bestiary, p.50)

5 - Griffon (Fantasy Bestiary, p.59)

6 - Crocotta (Fantasy Beastiary, p.50)

7 – Foul Bats (DF 2, p.23)

8 – Centipede, Giant (Besitary, p. 11)

9 – Grizzly Bears (Campaigns, p.456)

10 – Wolves (Bestiary, p.38)

11 – Cutnose Orc Archers (3D6)

12 – Leopard (Bestiary, p.20)

13 - Shrew, Giant (Fantasy Bestiary, p.66)

14 – Strix (Campaigns, p. 461)

15 - Hodag (Fantasy Bestiary, p.31)

16 - Hydrus (Fantasy Bestiary, p.35)

17 - Jaculus (Fantasy Besitary, p.36)

18 – Pooka (Fantasy Beastiary, p. 55)

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Beneath Castle Everglory: INTO THE WOODS: Travelling to Castle Everglory

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Mlangsdorf: /* Wolf Fang (Platoon Leader) */

=INTO THE WOODS: Travelling to Castle Everglory=

[[Image: Woodcut_Archer.jpg]]

Castle Everglory should be as far from Land’s End as the GM wishes, according to how interested they are in having the PCs muck about in the forest. The trip should take at least long enough for the PCs to run into two Orc Patrols, described below as Orc Hunting Party 1 and Orc Hunting Party 2.

==Orc Hunting Party 1==

The hunting party has 11 members. The platoon leader, Wolf Fang, is screaming at the other Orcs to be quiet, calling them stupid for scaring the game away. He is doing his best to play the tough guy, trying to dominate the others. However, the other Orcs openly disrespect him. Some are screaming back at him that he is too much of a runt and a weakling to lead the hunt. Two other Orcs are screaming at one another over the issue of a stolen bone.

The PCs should be able to hear the Orcs long before the Orcs are aware of the PCs, giving them ample time to avoid them or to make preparations.

===Wolf Fang (Platoon Leader)===

Wolf Fang is a tall, skinny Orc who is one of the Cutnoses’ most skillful hunters when he isn’t stuck leading a hunting team. He wears a tunic and trousers that he skillfully sewed for himself out of wolf hides. He has decorated his outfit with the tails of various animals he has killed – wild pigs, wolves, cats and small mammals.

{{GURPSNPCTraits|12|13|11|12|15|12|14|14|6.25|6|0|0|10|11|N/A|Broadsword-15 1d+3 Cut, Short Bow-15 1d Imp Acc 1 110/165|Appearance (Ugly); Bully (12); Combat Reflexes; Infravision; Rapid Healing; Resistant to Metabolic Hazards (+3); Social Stigma (Savage)|Stealth-15, Tracking-15|Mundane|Speaks Orcish}}

===10 Cutnose Orc Archers===

ST: 11 HP: 12 Speed: 5.25

DX: 12 Will: 9 Move: 5

IQ: 9 Per: 12

HT: 11 FP: 12 SM: 0

Dodge: 8 Parry: 9 (Knife) DR: 0

Weapons (13): Large Knife (1d-1 impale), Short Bow (Acc 1, 110/165, 1d-1 impale).

Traits: Appearance (Ugly); Bully (12); Infravision; Rapid Healing; Resistant to Metabolic Hazards (+3); Social Stigma (Savage).

Skills: Stealth-12, Tracking-12.

Class: Mundane.

Notes: Speak Orcish.
===Treasure===

The Archers have 91 copper pieces between them. Their bows are cheap shortbows of unattractively Orcish design ($10, 2 lbs each) and their quivers are crude pouches of hide ($1, 1 lb each). Wolf Fang’s cheap broadsword also looks unpleasantly Orcish ($50, 4 lbs). As proud as he is of his clothes, no human would consider paying money for them. His pockets contain 20 copper pieces, an apple, and a 4 carat hematite stone worth $160.

==Orc Hunting Party 2==

The Orcs are having a screaming match over who gets to carry the horned helmet of Smash Head, the platoon leader. Smash Head himself is staying aloof from it all, allowing the lesser Orcs to sort it out among themselves. Should Smash Head get a chance to put his helmet back on before combat, it will provide DR 4 to his head (but not face). However, he won’t stop to put it back on if opponents are already within melee range. The PCs should be able to hear the Orcs long before the Orcs are aware of the PCs, giving them ample time to avoid them or to make preparations.
===Smash Head (Platoon Leader)===

Smash Head is a hulking Orcish brute who has at some point received a serious crushing wound to the face, pushing in his cheeks, breaking all his front teeth and leaving deep scars on the skin. He is proud of his wound, thinking that it demonstrates how tough he is. He wears a bear-fur cloak about his shoulders and he likes to flip it back dramatically before entering combat.

ST: 16 HP: 20 Speed: 5

DX: 12 Will: 10 Move: 5

IQ: 8 Per: 10

HT: 13 FP: 20 SM: 0

Block: 12 (medium shield) Dodge: 9 Parry: 12 (Broadsword) DR: 2 on torso, and vitals (hard leather), DR 1 on arms, groin and legs (soft leather).

Weapons (16): Broadsword (2d+3 cut).

Traits: Appearance (Ugly); Bully (12); Combat Reflexes; High Pain Threshold; Infravision; Rapid Healing; Resistant to Metabolic Hazards (+3); Social Stigma (Savage).

Class: Mundane.

Notes: Speak Orcish.
===9 Cutnose Orc Archers===

ST: 11 HP: 12 Speed: 5.25

DX: 12 Will: 9 Move: 5

IQ: 9 Per: 12

HT: 11 FP: 12 SM: 0

Dodge: 8 Parry: 9 (Knife) DR: 0

Weapons (13): Large Knife (1d-1 impale), Short Bow (Acc 1, 110/165, 1d-1 impale).

Traits: Appearance (Ugly); Bully (12); Infravision; Rapid Healing; Resistant to Metabolic Hazards (+3); Social Stigma (Savage).

Skills: Stealth-15, Tracking-15.

Class: Mundane.

Notes: Speak Orcish.

===Treasure===

The nine archers have 102 copper pieces between them, and a bunch of rats tails bound with string. Their bows are cheap shortbows of unattractively Orcish design ($10, 2 lbs each) and their quivers are crude pouches of hide ($1, 1 lb each). Smash Head has 40 copper pieces in his pockets. His iron helmet is sturdy but lopsided and ugly. It looks like the kind of thing an Orc would wear and will sell accordingly ($10, 8 lbs). Smash Head’s cheap broadsword and medium shield look similarly Orcish and are $50, 4 lbs and $20, 20 lbs respectively. His bear-fur cloak is not of Orcish workmanship and is quite nice ($200, 7 lbs).

==Further Random Encounters==

[[Image: 220px-St_GeorgeEnglish.jpg]]

If the GM would like further wandering monsters and has access to GURPS Bestiary and GURPS Fantasy Bestiary for GURPS 3rd edition, they may use the following system. For each day and each night, roll 3D6 for encounters. If the characters have wiped out the Cutnose Orcs beneath Castle Everglory, ignore results of Cutnose Orcs.

For a day’s travel, there will be an encounter from the day table on 8-

For a night’s camping, there will be an encounter from the night table on 8-

For a day’s camping, there will be an encounter from the day table on 7-

For a night’s travel, there will be an encounter from the night table on 10-
===Day Encounter Table===

3 - Palac Cat (Fantasy Bestiary, p.50)

4 - Griffon (Fantasy Bestiary, p.59)

5 - Hodag (Fantasy Bestiary, p.31)

6 - Strix (Campaigns, p. 461)

7 - Centipede, Giant (Besitary, p. 11)

8 – Snake (Poisonous) (Bestiary, p.32)

9 – Wolves (Bestiary, p.38)

10 – Red Deer (Campaigns, p.457)

11 – Cutnose Orc Archers (3D6)

12 – Wild Boars (Campaigns, p. 458)

13 – Grizzly bears (Campaigns p.456)

14 - Shrew, Giant (Fantasy Bestiary, p.66)

15 - Crocotta (Fantasy Beastiary, p.50)

16 - Hydrus (Fantasy Bestiary, p.35)

17 - Jaculus (Fantasy Besitary, p.36)

18 - Unicorn, Fantasy (Fantasy Bestiary, p.77)

===Night Encounter Table===

3 – Plat-eye (Fantasy Bestiary, p. 54)

4 - Palac Cat (Fantasy Bestiary, p.50)

5 - Griffon (Fantasy Bestiary, p.59)

6 - Crocotta (Fantasy Beastiary, p.50)

7 – Foul Bats (DF 2, p.23)

8 – Centipede, Giant (Besitary, p. 11)

9 – Grizzly Bears (Campaigns, p.456)

10 – Wolves (Bestiary, p.38)

11 – Cutnose Orc Archers (3D6)

12 – Leopard (Bestiary, p.20)

13 - Shrew, Giant (Fantasy Bestiary, p.66)

14 – Strix (Campaigns, p. 461)

15 - Hodag (Fantasy Bestiary, p.31)

16 - Hydrus (Fantasy Bestiary, p.35)

17 - Jaculus (Fantasy Besitary, p.36)

18 – Pooka (Fantasy Beastiary, p. 55)

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