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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Imret" data-source="post: 2788545" data-attributes="member: 991">Take as much or as little of this as you need.I'd say it should feel dark, damp, and unsettling. The air is thick and moist and not so much stinking as tasting like brackish water. Water drips from the ceiling or runs down the walls. Fires won't burn for more than a minute, and magical light functions at a quarter of its strength. Every breath should feel like you're drowning by degrees.The entire complex is knee-deep in water, and things slither through it. They're barely an inch or two long, horrible to look at (the thing in my head is somewhere between a squid, a jellyfish, and a toad), and so fast the party doesn't see more than a head or tendril of one for most of the time in there. They're totally harmless, but they won't know that. Distant sounds of sudden splashing, inhuman keening, and a sharp crack! as something eats one.There are no 'doors', only openings in the walls at random heights - mostly underwater - for the otyugh and chokers to slip through. Make sure the monsters use this to ambush.Rooms built for two contrary purposes and left that way.Traps should startle, terrify, and cripple. A blade that swings from the ceiling to strike at an outstretched arm. Bear traps under the water. "Pits" that are simply a sudden strong current that snatches a PC, drags them under and slams them into a wall thirty or forty feet away. Paralysis and knockout poisons on hidden dart traps, so they'll simply drown. Searing Light traps, with Orcus being all about the undead and all - it's possible they'd dazzle PCs in the dark environment.The walls are covered in crude carvings of tentacled things, double-headed things, and a bizarre flowing handwriting that visibly moves if a PC attempts to decipher them...Will save to avoid being shaken?If I get any more, I'll add them.</blockquote>

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