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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Wicht" data-source="post: 1274134" data-attributes="member: 221">A Bit of honey continuedThe HiveThe actual giant bee hive is located in the hollow stump of a gigantic tree, some 15-20 feet in diameter and still about twenty feet tall (the top of the tree broke off many years ago and has long since rotted away.  The walls of the stump are all about a foot thick.  The stump is located in a circular depression in the ground (about 5 feet deep).  The bottom of the depression is dotted with small areas of brush, but no other trees.  There are also six five feet wide holes in the soil around the trunk that lead to tunnels which lead into chambers below the trunk (see map).  Each of these chambers opens out into the base of the hollow trunk which is the main room of the hive.  Each of the chambers below the trunk contain honeycombs and honey.  The main chamber also contains honeycombs and honey.There are 18 giant bees which make their home in this hive.  At any given time during the daylight hours, 1d6 of the bees are in the hive, 1d6 of the bees are flying in the air around the trunk, and the rest are out on errands.  At night, the bees all sleep in the hive. In the three smaller chambers below the tree there will typically be three bees asleep.  There will normally be about four or five bees sleeping in the larger chamber under the trunk and the rest sleep in the trunk itself.The bees are not aggressive to anyone who stays outside of the circular depression.  One or two bees will first buzz anyone entering the depression during the day and then if the intruders do not flee they will attack en masse.  Likewise anyone trying to enter the tunnels during the day will be attacked.  If a single bee is attacked then all the bees in the vicinity will come to the aid of their comrade.  Violence is likely to get low leveled PCs killed due to the sheer numbers of bees in the area.  At night the bees all sleep and while asleep have a –8 penalty to any spot or listen checks they must make.  However, if wakened by intruders in their hive, any bee will be furious and attack immediately.    Rewards:  In addition to any monetary rewards the PCs may gain for accomplishing the mission, managing to sneak into the hive and get some honey without getting killed (and without killing all the bees) should merit about 500 exp.</blockquote>

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