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Cake Mage

Explorer
I've set my party up to explore an old keep to find its secrets. They are looking for an ancient weapon and they have two keys to unlock it. The weapon is actually the keep itself which is basically a giant mech built by the dwarves long ago and then kept hidden.
Since then it has been used as a Noble's estate, a barracks for a human army a prison and finally an insane asylum.

My charge to you, the awesome enworld community, is to fill this thing's rooms for the party to die in ... I mean explore. Any manner of creatures could be used and evil/ crazed spirits is probably a must.

Go! :-)

Edit: spelling
 

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First thing that comes to mind is the power source. I'm picturing a web of basement boilers and piping the size of trees, full of golems and captive fire elementals. If you have a copy of Fifth Edition Foes, the Furnace Golem would make an excellent hazard.
 

That's a great idea. I had thought that it was built (or left) on a giant hot springs but I think this works better.

I don't have a copy but certainly am willing to pick one up.
 


Oh sorry. They are level 8.

Party comp includes:
Dwarven Cleric/Paladin
Tiefling Warlock
Elven Ranger
Half Orc Barbarian
Human Wizard
 
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I would definitely use some haunts, pathfinder style. Old prison cells, the torture chamber, the rooms where the mentally ill were kept are all likely places for them.

And you need a ghost who only wants their bones laid to rest. Of course they were walled up in a room that now houses a nasty monster. Maybe a gibbering mouther.
 

When it rises from the ground, is it a humanoid mech?

If so, base sections on anatomy and internal organs. So you might have the power source in the "heart" with the magma-powered center of the construct, tubes and tunnels of magma leading to various places, the "bowels" of the fortress being winding intestines of filth and slime, a "stomach" where undead creatures tear living beings apart for the fortress to "consume", perhaps a "brain" that is now the lair of an illithid master, and so on.
 



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