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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Cleon" data-source="post: 6573215" data-attributes="member: 57383">Sure!The chapter revolves around an extradimensional maze created by an enchanted carpet made of "woven space-time". The inner maze contains the trapped spirit of the eponymous Phlegamor, a Death Slaad dubbed the "Maze Master". Any creature who dies in the inner maze is animated by Phlegamor after an hour and the corpse becomes one of his servants.The following passage from the adventure is pretty much all the background on these creatures:Despite his alarming size and appearance, the Maze Master holds no real corporeal form. What explorers in the maze see is no more than an illusion of light and sound incapable of true action. However, this does not render him powerless. Instead of making direct attacks or taking action himself, he commands a force of animated servants. The bodies of all who die in the maze—either by violence or (more frequently) of starvation or suicide form mystical stone rings on their left hands. Such corpses fall permanently under the control of Phlegamor. This will happen even to player characters who die in the maze and remain for more than an hour.Two of the Maze Master’s servants lurch out of the doorway, appearing where their master vanished. (They appear right in the doorway, where they can launch themselves into the weightless environment of the Outer Maze and not fall into the gravity of the Inner Maze.) Phlegamor himself directly controls the actions of these animated corpses which—despite their appearance—are not undead, but rather magically animated servants no different than matter given motion by an animate object spell. Thus, they cannot be turned or affected by any of the traditional undead banes. They attack, but if a foe asks them a question, Phlegamor (through a servant) may very well answer it if it suits him. Further, attempts to reason with the Maze Master do not fall upon deaf ears.Phlegamor’s twisted psyche only allows him two motives—destroy all who disturb the maze, and gather new and interesting knowledge. These two motives become reconciled in that Phlegamor assumes that intruders have nothing new to present to him. Suggestions to the contrary make him pause, interested. The DM should judge whether information offered to the Maze Master is truly new to him and significant enough to impress him. If it is, he will allow the intruders to escape from the maze immediately, returning them to the Entrance Hall.It's worth pointing out that in the adventure Phlegamor's Servants are encountered in pairs, so it's possible he may only be able to control two at a time, although the description of a "force of animated servants" rather suggest he has more than a couple of them on the go at any one time.</blockquote>

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