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Message: <blockquote data-quote="infax" data-source="post: 1004606" data-attributes="member: 12784">OtyughWhile exploring some underground complex, the party finds the wrinkled body of a dead dwarf preventing the sliding door of a secret passage to close back. Further examination of the body may reveal it was a derro and a Heal check (DC 15) will reveal he died of some disease (DC 25 indicates it is Filth Fever).The secret passage leads to an underground derro complex and this particular passage was seldom used and shows signs of disuse. The complex is completely uninhabited, only corpses appear in the streets wrinkled and fetid, most of them dead from the same disease. There is plenty to loot here if one is willing to risk contagion, however, dwelling for too long in the caves will draw the attention of a group of mutated Otyugh that used to leave in the lower-levels the Duergar threw their garbage in. There is over 20 creatures in the group but they only hunt in clusters of 2-4.These mutated Otyugh, like some fish from the dark, deeper recesses of the sea, has developed some kind of biochemical light, something like a lamp on a stalk that juts from over its maw and that the creatures use to lure pray. This biochemical light, however, affects Derro like sunlight (slowly reducing their Constitution). The lightstalks can be salvaged out of a dead creature and kept in effect for a couple of weeks before waning out, the effect of the light has never been tested against any other kind of creature and may be efficient against other creatures of the dark, perhaps even vampires.</blockquote>

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