eotenheim 5

19 Feb, 2026

index

The air carries a static charge. Dark, mild temperature. Smoky.

encounters

1 Centaur
2 Wereboar
3 1d4 centaurs, 1d4 wereboars, about to fight
4 2 cave bears devouring a dead (1-3)centaur (4-6)wereboar
5 Basilisk, feels cold, moving sluggishly
6 hill giant named Vidri, wild eyed, bloody talon marks down her back (half HP)

A. Alabaster skull buried to the bridge of the nose -- a Living Statue(14HD).

B. Silver barbed chains (worth 900 gold pieces) across the SW entrance. Water flows from J to C. Moss, mushrooms. 10 centaurs (4HD). 5 have spears of salvaged silver. Their leader, Avril, searches scrolls for a way to reactivate the fairy ring portal in N (there is none). They are enemies of the wereboars in L.

• reading lorgnettes, gold and sapphire, worth 2,400 gold pieces
• serpentine armbands, silver and ruby, worth 7,000 gold pieces
• 3 maps¹.

C. Water flows from B. Hot mud, sulphurous bubbles. 6 Basilisks (6+1 HD) wallow beneath.

D. Hollow floor hides stairs to L6. Stone shelves up to 40' ceiling. Low: dust, faded scrolls. High:

• 7,600 silver pieces in wooden boxes
• Gold candelabra worth 4,000 gold pieces, inset with gems:
  • 3 worth 10 gold pieces
  • 3 worth 30 gold pieces
  • 4 worth 1,000 gold pieces

E. Stone shelves up to the 40' ceiling. 3 empty map cases. Spiked floor pit, open, 4 centaur corpses at bottom.

F. 2 cave bears (6+6HD) on the upper shelf. Fur has fallen off in clumps, their ribs visible.

G. In a tile grid on the floor, cM1-9. cM1 smashed, illegible. Upper platform has ladder pit to L6.

H. 30' domed roof, 10 griffons (7HD) roost. The pit is 80' deep. 8 naked and emaciated hill giants (8 HD) at the bottom. 1/6: they try to escape, climbing the sheer walls. Griffons harass, drop rocks.

In their nest:

• 4,000 gold pieces
• 3 gems worth 10, 30, and 100 gold pieces.

At the bottom, a secret magical door to L7.

I. Plaster tiles line the walls, imprinted with 9 dinnerplate-sized hand prints. One is missing a finger.

J. A clear pool. ice cold, tastes wonderful. Water flows from K to B.

K. Gold-leaf illuminated mural. Nine tall princes crush hillfolk beneath a great stone wheel.

L. Springwater bubbles up, rimmed by mud. 18 wereboars (4+1HD). 2D6 in human form. They are enemies of the centaurs in B.

They sense that this world's moon is larger and more beautiful, and yearn for the surface.

• 7,000 copper pieces

M. Air elemental (16HD) cares not what you do, so long as you ignore the plain granite sarcophagus. it contains the bones of a hill giant and some treasure.

• two halves of a crude golden crown, worth 2,900 gold pieces
• 7,000 silver pieces

N. There was an explosion here. Fractal lightning-scorches cover every surface. A ring of blackened fairy caps sprout from the blackened stone. A flurry of charred, shattered bones -- human, bear, rhino, horse.

O. Wooly rhino (10HD).

• 6,900 silver pieces
• horn piercing worth 600 gold pieces
• chalice worth 6,000 gold pieces
• ornamental clawed bronze gauntlet worth 400 gold pieces
• helmet made of a single piece of knapped obsidian worth 3,600 gold pieces. Affords no AC, shatters if struck with force.