World's Largest Dungeon in actual play [Spoilers!]

Darkmantels

I have a question... what the heck do Darkmantels eat?

They don't seem to be eating what they kill. In room 91 (I think it is) there are strangled bodies in the rubble but the Darkmantles are still attacking the party to get more.

That long room next to 91 (49) has pleanty of bodies to feed off of but the Darkmantels are still hunting.

I guess you can say they like freash kills but they don't seem to eat what they kill.

Just wondering.

rv
 

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Yeah... but the stirges are feeding. Some get caught while feeding on dead trogs. Some are partialy full from other things. Some are full and don't mess with the party unless they mess with the stirges.

The Darkmantles just seem to be killing without feeding.

I ran some folks though the first part of wld as a test (using Fantasy Grounds software) and I first described the Darkmantle has having a circular mouth with gnashing teeth inside the tenticle area... where it would be on an squid or octipuss. And described it as trying to eat the players head. When I started to run my players though I dropped that description out.
 

Traevanon's World's Largest Dungeon Register

I thought it might be useful and entertaining to begin telling you about our group by seeing who has died in my campaign and the short stories of their deaths

Ielenia Amastacia - Bard 1st
Jirka the Roman - Human Fighter 1st

Died after splitting off from the rest of the party due to ideological differences. They also had a Druid with them who died as well, but apparently did not enter his name. The three of them encountered a Fiendish Rat Swarm and made the fatal mistake of thinking that the druid could communicate with it and persuade it to leave them alone.​

Brunhilda - Barbarian 3rd
Died during the first fight with Longtail.​

Smudge - Half-Orc Monk 4th
Killed during an encounter with the Ogre Barbarian (4th) from the Monster Manual (p.199). This was a bonus encounter thrown in while they were clearing out the south-east caves of Map A after completing the plot. At this time (and all the way up until about last month) there were an average of 12 characters in the party.​

Quazit - Kobold Fighter 4th
Killed by the party for actions against the party interests. I believe he objected to the party necromancer wanting to animate Smudge as a zombie but I'm not positive. The necromancer (retired) was a dominant force in the party at this time.​

Khathong - Minotaur Fighter 7th
Elais Mountainsplitter - Human Frenzied Berzerker 7th
Rhyssa - Rakshasa 7th (savage species)

Killed by the Green Death in the center of the Halls of Flesh. In my version there were several Tendriculos attached by vines from a central plant mass on the ceiling 50 feet up. When killed the tendriculos would be pulled back up to the central mass to regenerate (takes about a day). I wanted to make this location someplace worthy of the name Green Death against my large party and it certainly was. The green death still lives on.​

Boyikt (named after what Ikriit was SUPPOSED to be named) - 7th level Kobold sorcerer and apprentice to Ikriit
Killed by the party for repeated violent acts against allies during combat.​

Hassan - Human Ranger, Swashbuckler and Kensai
I plucked Siglinde from her lair and gave her a special new home beginning with the "closet" room at I3. Siglinde became a sub-boss here and the boss of this mini dungeon was a plain, unenhanced Bone Naga. On the way down this 4 level snake pit however, Hassan, during his first day of adventuring with the group, succumbed to the repeated lightning bolts and fireballs the plentiful Nagas in this area were dealing out.​

Trelenial - Drow Paladin 8th
Died during the final boss fight with the Bone Naga. One of the originals and the first character to be raised (the cleric got 9th level with the XP from the boss fight), she continues to fight with the group.​
 


rvalle said:
I have a question... what the heck do Darkmantels eat?

They don't seem to be eating what they kill. In room 91 (I think it is) there are strangled bodies in the rubble but the Darkmantles are still attacking the party to get more.

That long room next to 91 (49) has pleanty of bodies to feed off of but the Darkmantels are still hunting.

I guess you can say they like freash kills but they don't seem to eat what they kill.

Just wondering.

rv

i was always under the impression that darkmantles, stirges, and the like ate warm blood... they don't like it once the creature is dead for too long, so they feed quickly and drain PCs and other "meat"

just my two cents.
 



BlueBlackRed said:
I'll say darkmantles feed off the fear they create.

Rooms N50 through N52 seem to be a mystery that only Mr. Pinto can answer...and yet he hasn't.

sadly, i don't have the text anymore

and the writer who did the first 80 rooms, left a lot of material incomplete

sigh

let me dig up my book...
 

That'd be very helpful, thanks - I've been wondering about that one for quite a while, as the reference to them in later rooms' text seems to portray them as challenging trials.
 

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