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<blockquote data-quote="Dyson Logos" data-source="post: 9231569" data-attributes="member: 83678"><p>[ATTACH=full]342180[/ATTACH]</p><p></p><p><strong>Drake Pit Tower</strong></p><p></p><p>The wizard Azkalador was an ambitious alchemist who discovered a rare vein of “energized” gold that could be further enhanced to create potent potions and elixirs well beyond their typical craft. Mining for this gold, Azkalador finally discovered what was making the gold so special – at the heart of the vein was a golden egg a full twenty inches across. The egg was hot to the touch and radiated not just heat but potent magical energy – as well as some form of magical influence over those who found it, as several miners fell upon each other with their picks to claim the egg, even as Azkalador watched.</p><p></p><p>Once the egg was extracted from the gold veins, the gold quickly reverted first to normal gold, and then to a black material with the tensile strength of gold without the lustre that poisoned any preparation Azkalador made with it. Azkalador’s attention thus switched to the egg itself, and multiple alchemical and magical attempts were made to hatch it. Finally, Azkalador took the egg to a tropical island and hatched it on a beach surrounded by as much gold as the alchemist could produce, borrow, or steal.</p><p></p><p>What erupted from the egg was an elemental dragon – a beast of gold, fire, and wrath. It shrugged off Azkalador’s attempts to control it and killed the haughty wizard within the first few hours of its life. It terrorized those tropical islands for decades before being exiled from this world along with Azkalador’s gold.</p><p></p><p>The tower remains here, far from the dragon’s wrath. A two-story structure with a small wooden building atop it, all perched over the gold mine where the magical gold was once found. There are now veins of strange soft black metal throughout the dungeon levels below – and the upper levels (1 and 2) have been cleaned up hiding the origins of the structure as a mine. Level 3 still contains extensive mines, (and the bottom of the central pit of the mine, while level 4 has become a sump, half-flooded and befouled.</p><p></p><p><em>The 1200 dpi versions of the map were drawn at a scale of 300 pixels per square and are 10,200 pixels (34 squares) wide. To use this with a VTT you would need to resize the squares to either 70 pixels (for 5′ squares) or 140 pixels (for my preferred 10′ squares) – so resizing it to either 2,380 pixels wide or 4,760 pixels wide, respectively.</em></p><p></p><p>[URL unfurl="true"]https://dysonlogos.blog/2023/12/27/drake-pit-tower/[/URL]</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="Dyson Logos, post: 9231569, member: 83678"] [ATTACH type="full"]342180[/ATTACH] [B]Drake Pit Tower[/B] The wizard Azkalador was an ambitious alchemist who discovered a rare vein of “energized” gold that could be further enhanced to create potent potions and elixirs well beyond their typical craft. Mining for this gold, Azkalador finally discovered what was making the gold so special – at the heart of the vein was a golden egg a full twenty inches across. The egg was hot to the touch and radiated not just heat but potent magical energy – as well as some form of magical influence over those who found it, as several miners fell upon each other with their picks to claim the egg, even as Azkalador watched. Once the egg was extracted from the gold veins, the gold quickly reverted first to normal gold, and then to a black material with the tensile strength of gold without the lustre that poisoned any preparation Azkalador made with it. Azkalador’s attention thus switched to the egg itself, and multiple alchemical and magical attempts were made to hatch it. Finally, Azkalador took the egg to a tropical island and hatched it on a beach surrounded by as much gold as the alchemist could produce, borrow, or steal. What erupted from the egg was an elemental dragon – a beast of gold, fire, and wrath. It shrugged off Azkalador’s attempts to control it and killed the haughty wizard within the first few hours of its life. It terrorized those tropical islands for decades before being exiled from this world along with Azkalador’s gold. The tower remains here, far from the dragon’s wrath. A two-story structure with a small wooden building atop it, all perched over the gold mine where the magical gold was once found. There are now veins of strange soft black metal throughout the dungeon levels below – and the upper levels (1 and 2) have been cleaned up hiding the origins of the structure as a mine. Level 3 still contains extensive mines, (and the bottom of the central pit of the mine, while level 4 has become a sump, half-flooded and befouled. [I]The 1200 dpi versions of the map were drawn at a scale of 300 pixels per square and are 10,200 pixels (34 squares) wide. To use this with a VTT you would need to resize the squares to either 70 pixels (for 5′ squares) or 140 pixels (for my preferred 10′ squares) – so resizing it to either 2,380 pixels wide or 4,760 pixels wide, respectively.[/I] [URL unfurl="true"]https://dysonlogos.blog/2023/12/27/drake-pit-tower/[/URL] [/QUOTE]
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