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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Reynard" data-source="post: 9858845" data-attributes="member: 467">Looking at the map, I think I am going to change the solo monster outside the Axe chamber where the manticore lairs to a minor hazard. I rolled a 3, so a stuck or locked barrier. The door to the east is stuck, and if the PCs force it open before investigating the axe chamber, they will alert the manticore to their presence.,Since we are here, what sort of trop lies in the room beyond. I rolled a 1 and a 4: a crude mechanical trap. Checking on page 114 and rolling 3 12-siders, I get a falling block set off by a tripwire that does 3d10/unconscious. There will be some enticing faux treasure on the altar in the alcove, and foolish explorers can be crushed by a ceiling block falling. it is crude, so detecting it will not be hard, but also it can be avoided but not disarmed without serious ingenuity.Who made it and why? Let's see who the mob monsters are in the adjacent southeast corner room: roll=33=page226=harpies. This place is starting to give archaic Greece vibes. Interesting. A group of harpies (being vulture like scavengers) followed the manticore in and have been hoping to catch some cultists to eat. That gives me an idea: the thing on the altar is not a faux treasure, but an actual piece of the bone naga (a fang? the skull?). If the guards get it, they can reanimate their "god" which can then defeat the manticore.So what is in the other corner? Roll=49=page242=Pegasus! Perhaps this creature was captured by the cult before the manticore came in, and was meant as a sacrifice to the Naga god. Now the harpies want to eat it, too. Maybe the party can free and befriend it, or free it and "sell" it to the harpies?</blockquote>

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