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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Libramarian" data-source="post: 6091120" data-attributes="member: 6688858">(1) The cave passage is screened by hundreds of very thin translucent tentacles, covered with razor-sharp barbs secreting paralytic  poison. The tentacles depend from a purplish bloated mass on the ceiling  with a prominent central sac. Without taking any special precautions  the characters merely notice a slight pinkish haze to the passage. If a character walks  into the tentacles they are paralyzed (no save) and begin to lose 1d4hp  per round as the tentacles swell and turn beet red. The tentacles can  be cut down with an attack vs. AC as leather from a sharp, slashing  weapon of short sword length or greater, or the pulsating sac in the  ceiling can be punctured with a piercing weapon of 5 feet length or  greater (which causes a gout of warm, purple-black ichor to cover anyone  stuck in the tentacles -- half Charisma until scrubbed off with soap and  water). When the central mass dies unattached tentacles wither and turn dry and papery; attached tentacles harden into semi-flexible rubbery  tubing about half an inch in diameter. Characters hear a few soft notes  of singing ahead.(2) An extremely thin and emaciated aquatic Elven woman is sitting on a  stone shelf and waving her webbed feet in the water of an underground  stream. Characters notice that her feet do not appear to disturb the  water and the air near her is icy cold. She sings O, beautiful Pame, under the seaHow I long to return to theeMy one fear is you would not remember me...If the characters attack her or befoul the stream in any way she attacks  as a Ghost. Characters may follow the stream through a tunnel into the  Ogre's cave in (4).(3) This entrance to this large room has a rainbow-y  sheen. Just inside the room are two goblin corpses (no  sign of violent death or struggle), further on a few dead rats. 60ft  into the room is a silver chalice on a white marble dais, lit with an  amber glow. Scattered around the dais are 36pp and 95ep. The chalice  contains a potion of heroism but is full to the brim and will  spill unless handled very carefully. The entire room is within a bubble  of pure Nitrogen except for a large pocket of air in the ceiling. Any  character entering the room while breathing normally will lose  consciousness almost immediately. If the characters explore the room  farther past the chalice they will find a brass throne covered with  valuable furs (85gp) and a gelatinous cube. Characters hear laughter and  agonized howling ahead.(4) In this large room are 7 Kobolds roasting rats over a firepit near  the entrance and a dozen more near the back of the chamber torturing an  Ogre trapped inside a pocket of rubble. The Ogre can be freed with an  hour of labour or crushed by collapsing the rubble further. Characters  peering into the chamber can see a small crawl-space leading to an  underground stream. The Ogre is weak (half normal hp) but will still be  inclined to attack unless presented with 1 or 2 captured Kobolds, in  which case he will accept a truce and warn the party that the Kobolds  believe the next area is haunted and avoid it. Inside the Ogre's hovel  are a pile of rat bones, pipes of the sewers, a packet of  coxcomb seeds (cures intestinal diseases), an out-sized wineskin, and  80gp. Buried underneath the ashes of the Kobold's firepit is a chest  containing 345gp, 1180sp, 3543cp, and 3 rubies worth 120gp each.(5)  The wide passage to this room is obscured by a grey fog. When the  characters are halfway through they hear a female voice ask "Why do you  discover this place?" If they say they're looking for the body of an  aquatic elf so she can be returned to her people and/or properly buried  they may pass without incident, otherwise roll to see if she attacks as a  Ghost. At the end of the passage the fog clears and the characters pass  over a hallway of metal grating and down spiral stairs. The corpse of  the aquatic Elf lies strapped to a metal table. On the  shelves are alembics, crusted mortars, small stunted fetuses floating in  jars of yellowish ooze, a journal containing a clinical  description of torture procedures and a sketchy map to an undersea Elven  citadel, a chime of hunger, two potions of healing, a potion of gaseous form, and a potion of climbing. A ladder leads to the surface through an illusory boulder.</blockquote>

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