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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Tom Cashel" data-source="post: 432225" data-attributes="member: 321">The tower has four levels, and a vicious trap just inside the front door (an illusory floor covering a 60' drop onto a bed of spikes, all of which are smeared with dark fluid...).  You also find a room (on the first floor) containing a permanent image of a drifting beholder with its central eye put out.  Also, you set off a few magic mouths set upon the staircases...they seemed designed to warn people upstairs of intruders ("Ha-ha-HA!  WELCOME, WELCOME, WELCOME!!").  Once set off they are gone.In the same cubbyhole as Iago's spellbook, you find a small bag containing 100 pp and a pair of rubies, which Dash tells you are worth about 500 gp each.The large bookshelf in the upper study is glamered to appear to be holding about a hundred rare tomes with provocative titles (e.g. A History of the Netherese, 1001 Tips for a Successful Career in Wizardry, Elminster's Workbook, How to Kill Friends and Influence Enemies).In actuality, the "books" are book-sized blocks of wood, with openable covers, laced with nearly 50 fire traps (at 13th level).The tower has a foyer on the first floor, bedrooms on the second and third, and a study on the fourth.  Each floor has illusory windows that look out on a different sort of landscape (all permanent images): the 4th floor looks out onto a fiery volcanic hellscape, the 3rd onto idyllic green pastures, the 2nd into ocean depths with schools of silvery fish swimming past, and the 1st floor windows look out onto a drifting cloudscape and the earth far below.  In reality, the tower is located on a snowy, rock escarpment with no signs of civilization nearby.</blockquote>

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