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  Green Devil Face #3 
  James Edward Raggi IV, Editor 
  Green Devil Face logo by Jeff Rients 
  Maria Kyytinen, Proofreader 
   
  Front Cover: Osculum Infame from Compendium maleficarum by Francesco Maria Guazzo (1608) 
  Back Cover: illustration detail from De corporis humani fabrica libri septem, by Andreas Vesalius (1543) 
   
  The copyright to all text belongs to the attributed authors. 
   
  Another Green Devil Face! 
   
  It’s been an interesting few months here at LotFP headquarters, but I’m happy that I can present another 
  issue for you. 
   
  It does seem that GDF gets shorter each issue, but I believe in the concept. For all the publishing going on 
  right now in traditional RPG land, there isn’t a whole hell of a lot designed to just be dropped in the middle 
  of an individual referee’s own creations. How well Green Devil Face accomplishes that is up to the reader to 
  decide – but without feedback, and without your submissions to show us how it’s really done, Green Devil 
  Face will choo-choo along looking something like this. 
   
  Until next time, have fun mining this issue for ideas that your players will hate. 
   
  If you have a particularly original or clever trap, room, item, or tricky situation that you’ve used in one of 
  your games and that you would like to share, submit it for publication in a future issue of Green Devil Face. 
  We can’t pay anything, but you keep the rights to your work, and you get to see your name in print. All 
  contributors get a copy of the final finished product. 
   
  James Edward Raggi IV 
  lotfp@lotfp.com 
  http://www.lotfp.com/RPG/ 
  http://lotfp.blogspot.com 
  Helsinki, Finland 
  August 9, 2009 
   
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  Pool of Fideceal 
  A Vexing Dungeon Furnishing 
  by Alfred John Dalziel 
  alfreddalziel@gmail.com 
   
  The water of this magic pool shines with a faint red-bronze radiance. Upon entering this pool maimed 
  extremities (including limbs and digits) are regrown in the span of 1d4 rounds. The character’s height also 
  increases by 1d6 inches during this time, and the process is mildly painful. Only growth and regeneration 
  happen for Neutral characters that enter this pool. However, if the victim entering this pool is of a non-
  Neutral alignment any regenerated parts are self-willed and of opposing alignment. 
   
  While using the new limb any action attempted by the character that violates the alignment of the limb 
  requires the character save or be Confused for one round. This condition is negated if the character changes 
  alignment to match that of the regenerated part, or by means of a Remove Curse spell. At the referee’s 
  option this pool may also affect the organs of the senses which have been destroyed. For those referees who 
  are particularly fiendish, a penalty to the saving throw may be applied according to the magnitude of 
  regeneration (nil for cosmetic or sense organ regeneration, -1 for a digit, -2 for an extremity such as a hand 
  or foot, -4 for an entire limb). 
   
  If the headless body of a character is bathed in one of these pools, a new head is grown and the body lives – 
  level and skills remain but all memories are gone and the character’s alignment is reversed if not Neutral. 
   
  This feature works well with pendulum blade traps, and it would be lovely fun to throw a Lawful eunuch 
  into one. The Imperial Court in Sansul uses one such pool for castrated criminals. 
   
  
   
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  The Heat of Greed 
  by Andreas Davour 
  http://theomnipotenteye.blogspot.com 
   
   
  For those moments when you feel your characters should be reminded that everything has a price. This is a 
  plain 30 by 30 feet room, with two doors. It’s lit by mystical means, or by torches. Deep in my T&T 
  dungeon, the Dungeon of Voorand, this chest of gold can be found.  
   
  The Hook: 
  This trapped room is a plain 30 by 30 area, devoid of any ornamentation or obvious valuables. The only 
  thing in the room is a chest. The chest is of stout build and it is bolted to the floor.  
   
  The Line: 
  The chest can be opened without any major troubles (maybe it’s stuck, so not to make it too obvious for 
  your players). In it are piles and piles of coins! It’s filled to the brim with glittering coins of all 
  denominations and from all realms to the world.  
   
  The Sinker: 
  The bottom of the chest is a grill, a mesh of metal, and so the bottom of the chest is exposed to the heat of 
  the lava beneath. Opening the lid will slide a false bottom in and cover the furnace beneath. If your players 
  start to scope up the gold they’ll find that the valuables are searingly hot and will burn as hot as their greed.  
   
  Options: 
  If you want this to be a bit less likely to cause inflation in your game world, say that the coins are all of lead, 
  painted gold and silver.  
   
  If you want you players to get less of a warning, make sure this room is in a hot part of the dungeon, so they 
  won’t be ticked of by the fact that hot air meets them when they open the chest.  
   
  Feel free to mention to anyone who examines the chest that there seems to be a false bottom which slides 
  aside when the lid is closed. Would any player be brave enough to step into the chest and let the other party 
  members close the lid? 
   
  
   
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  The Hypercube of Doom 
  by Andreas Davour 
  http://theomnipotenteye.blogspot.com 
   
  This is a regular corridor, except there is a small alcove with an altar. The altar is fairly big, 2m by 1.3m by 
  0.75m. The most curious thing about it, though, is that it looks like it’s made up of smaller cubes. The cubes, 
  and the altar, are made of black stone and they feel solid enough. 
   
  If someone decides to put some weight on top of the altar, say 50 pounds or so, something happens. It 
  becomes obvious that all the cubes are weighted against each other, like a stone archway. The cube in the 
  middle of the top surface of the altar is the keystone. 
   
  Now, this altar will not only fall apart, it actually folds into itself! This is an unstable hypercube, and as the 
  corners of the altar and the front and the back fold into the hold on top, the cubes beneath “roll forward” and 
  even though the cubes that make up the altar disappear, new ones appear, so it looks like the altar is standing 
  still all the time, but what was the inside is now the outside. 
   
  When this happens, anything on top of the altar gets sucked in, and what was on the inside gets spit out. 
  Make something up! I had a heavy amulet show up, a bag of gold, a golden chalice, and such items. In my 
  dungeon two different adventurers decided to use themselves as weight, so those parts might come out as 
  well. One leprechaun stepped on the altar, and a dwarf *sat* on it. Start to imagine what the altar might spit 
  out. 
  
   
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  Sparkling in the Night 
  by Andreas Davour 
  http://theomnipotenteye.blogspot.com 
   
   
  This is a fairly big dungeon room. The exact size is not as important as the proportions. The characters will 
  enter through one of the opposing doors, and they will see stairs leading down into salty water. The entire 
  floor is covered in water. Feel free to make the water murky and mysterious. The room is pitch black, except 
  for a sparkling display in the middle of the room. The sparkling is a big (make it big enough that it will 
  cover most of the width of the room) glass tank filled with electric eels. The eels swim around and electric 
  lightning light up the room with sharp flashes. The tank is precariously balanced on a bunch of weak poles. 
  The poles are far enough between that it will be hard not to hit one as you try to squeeze between them. So 
  far nobody has found this room in my campaign. 
   
  The trick here is to keep this room dark and the water mysterious enough that your players will use their 
  natural clumsiness.  
   
  The Danger: 
  When a character manages to bump into one of the poles, the whole tank comes crashing down, releasing 
  electric eels, to give the poor clumsy fellow a shock. Since the water is saltwater it leads electricity, and if 
  you want to get out of it in a hurry you have to handle the fact that the water is now filled with sharp shards 
  of glass. Congratulations. 
   
  Options: 
  To make your players more likely to tamper with the tank, put something valuable in it. 
   
  Another option is to have the room being magically darkened, so stumbling into the poles will be even more 
  likely. 
   
  If you want to be really devious, tie a slim cord to some of the poles, and tie the other end to a ring in the 
  wall on each side of the tank. Preferably at chest height, since most players should be occupied enough with 
  the water not to look after a tripwire at that height.  
   
  Good luck shocking your players with this one! 
  
   
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  The Great Golden Ball 
  by James Edward Raggi IV 
   
  Somewhere in the dungeon is a great pit, maybe one hundred feet in diameter. The important thing is that if 
  four people were standing equidistant around the thing, a single light source would not be sufficient to see 
  the next person. 
   
  At the twelve, three, six, and nine o’clock positions are great chains bolted into the floor. The chains lead up 
  over the center of the pit. They too are beyond the reach of a standard light source held by someone standing 
  at the pit’s edge. 
   
  Above the pit is a golden ball about the size of a basketball. It is smooth with no markings or features 
  besides the metal clamp fastened around it which the chains are attached to. As long as three or four chains 
  are connected, all is well. If only two chains are connected, every turn there is a 1 in 6 chance the ball will 
  free itself, ripping the chains from their moorings. If one chain is connected, there is a 1 in 6 chance every 
  round the ball will free itself. 
   
  The ball will always fly straight up if it is not firmly attached to the ground. If not attached to the ground by 
  chains, it takes at least five hundred pounds of weight to hold it down. Otherwise, anyone or anything 
  hanging onto it (or sitting on it!) will fly straight up into the air… forever. 
   
  The ball is worth 2000 gold, if a buyer can be found. These things are usually valued based on weight, so 
  what value does a weightless object have (to a stupid merchant, anyway)? 
   
  Remember to roll those wandering monster checks if everyone is scattered around the pit, and certainly if 
  three or four PCs have their hands full transporting the ball. 
   
  
   
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  The Zigzag Path of Doom 
  by Akseli Envall 
  akseli.envall@gmail.com 
   
   
  This one consists of several rooms and a total of 8 traps, but it’s really a thematic entity, and makes much 
  more sense if presented as a whole. It was a part of the 2nd level (upper floor) of a castle. It is a path of 
  rooms, leading to a place where the PCs want to go (the bedchamber of the main bad guy of the adventure, 
  the lord of the castle). 
   
  The trick is, if the PCs don’t want to get mauled by traps, they should realize the pattern that these trap 
  rooms have. If they realize that (as my players did, to my surprise!), they can solve the Zigzag Path of Doom 
  quite easily! The theme of the path is, “pick your poison.” The PCs are given two choices time and time 
  again, one of which is always safe, the other always harmful. With luck and wits, they will survive; with bad 
  luck and bad judgements, they might die. 
   
  The Intermediate Rooms 
  
   
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  The “intermediate rooms” have no content related to the puzzle. They were just various utility rooms in the 
  castle (dining room, library, physical training room, wardrobe, painting room, meditation room etc). Perhaps 
  they could be changed to just small, empty rooms with four doors (two coming from the previous trap 
  rooms, two leading to the next trap rooms). They might even be replaced by other trap rooms, submitted by 
  other GDF contributors, as long as they have 4 and only 4 doors! 
   
  The Shape Of The Path 
  In the original adventure, the shape of the path was a circle, or actually a square. However, I feel that the 
  exact shape of the path is not important here. What is important here is what you can access and from where. 
   
  The square doesn’t need to be a square, really, as long as it behaves the same way. For example: the twin 
  paths might be straight lines, adjacent to each other. Then, the starting room might have all four doors on the 
  same wall; however, they should be in sets of two, so that the PC’s will realize that this pair of doors has 
  something in common, and that pair of doors has something in common. Anyway, if they open the doors, 
  they will see that one pair leads to completely identical rooms, as well as the other. The main thing is that 
  they should realize that they can proceed by two paths (and each of them splits into two paths as well, 
  although those two paths will rejoin at the next intermediate room). 
   
  I’ll say it one more time: do what thou wilt with the intermediate rooms. Just don’t erase them completely: 
  they have to be there, so that after each pair of trap rooms, the party has again the choice of two new rooms. 
   
  Room Keys 
   
  1. Entrance Room 
  This is where characters enter the Zigzag Path of Doom. The starting room has to have 5 doors, one of 
  which is the entrance to the whole shebang, which is not shown on the map. It doesn’t matter if the entrance 
  is from the inside of the circle (like it was in the original adventure) or from the outside of the circle (you 
  might prefer that way if your GDF dungeon has only 1 floor), or a trapdoor in the ceiling or floor. 
   
  2. Yellow Mold Trap 
  The first trap rooms in the clockwise path have a mixed assortment of furnishings: there’s an old cupboard 
  (empty), a set of dining utensils on the wall, a moose’s head trophy on the wall, and a motley rag rug 
  (nailed) on the floor. In the trapped room, if you traverse the room but do not step on the rug, the moose’s 
  head will blow a cloud of yellow mold spores to the room. If each person steps on the rug, the trap does not 
  go off. The non-trapped room is of course completely safe. 
   
  3. Acid Pool Trap 
  The second trap rooms in the clockwise path have a narrow path going across two narrow but long pits. The 
  pits are 10’ deep, and the bottom 3’ is filled with acid. The path’s width is one third of the room, and it goes 
  in the middle, so both pits have a width of 1/3rd of the room, with the length of the whole room. One set of 
  stone steps leads to each pit from each door. (So there are four sets of steps in each room.) Thus, it is 
  relatively easy to get out of the acid, should one fall there. 
   
  The acid inflicts 1d8 damage to a creature fallen in there each round, as well as taking away 1d3 points of 
  strength and dexterity each (roll separately). This attribute damage comes also each round. The points come 
  back when the damage that suffered from the acid is healed. If a creature falls in the acid, it must make a 
  dexterity check for getting out. On a successful check, it gets to the stairs in one round and thus suffers the 
  damage and attribute losses only once. On a failed check, it takes two rounds, and thus the damage and 
  attribute losses come twice. 
   
  In the safe room, the PCs can cross the bridge in peace (unless they start fooling around) and have no chance 
  of falling. In the trapped room, the bridge itself is trapped, and will flip a traversing PC into the acid pit. 
  They should make a dexterity check, a save vs. wands or the like, to see if they indeed fall, or if they can 
  
   
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  avoid the flip and jump to safety. This save or check should be at –3. Also remember that the pit is 10’ deep, 
  so there should be falling damage as well, should someone fall to the acid (1d6). 
   
  4. Trap Door in Darkness 
  These rooms have a Continual Darkness spell cast in them. The rooms are completely empty; the only 
  feature is a trap door in the middle. The trap door covers the whole width of the corridor, so it cannot be 
  averted by going around. It can be jumped over, however, as it is only 5’ long. 
   
  If the Continual Darkness is dismissed by Continual Light, Dispel Magic or the like (it is cast by a 9th level 
  cleric), the outlines of the trap door can be clearly seen. However, even the safe room has similar outlines in 
  the floor (remember that the rooms look completely identical!), although it has no trap. The real trap door 
  leads to a 30’-deep pit, the fall doing 3d6 damage. It used to lead to the 1st floor of the castle, in the middle 
  of a corridor. If your dungeon does not have a structure like this, then it just might teleport the victim to the 
  starting room of the dungeon, 1 round after the fall. 
   
  5. Iron Statue Trap 
  These rooms are empty with the exception of three statues made of iron lining the walls. In the trapped 
  room, these are indeed animated iron statues and will attack anyone stepping in front of them. In the safe 
  room, the statues are made of iron, but otherwise normal. 
   
  6. The Green Dragon’s Painful Trap Room of Madness 
  These rooms look outright nasty. The rooms are full of large metal balls with long spikes attached in them, 
  small caltrops on the floor, and barbed wire all around. A narrow but clear safe path zigzags through the 
  rooms, leading to the opposite door. From the ceiling in the middle of the room, a thick green metal tube 
  descends downwards, carved in the likeness of a green dragon’s neck and head. The dragon’s mouth is open. 
   
  In the trapped room, when anyone is under the dragon tube, it breathes out a white but transparent mist that 
  fills the whole room. Anyone in the mist must make a saving throw vs. spells (only once) or go berserk for 
  1d4 rounds. A berserk character will physically attack anyone near him or her, with his or her most effective 
  weapon. That’s bad in itself, but here’s the catch: anyone who takes physical damage in this room must 
  make a dexterity check (or appropriate saving throw) or they will fall to the spikes, caltrops and barbed wire. 
  The check or saving throw will have a penalty of the amount of damage taken, divided by two, rounded up. 
  A character who fails the check or saving throw will take 1d8-3 points of damage from the sharp objects. Of 
  course, this damage will not trigger another check. 
   
  In the safe room, unless the PC’s start fooling around, they should be able to reach the other side unscathed. 
   
  7. The “Press Here” Poison Needle Trap 
  A narrow red carpet goes in these rooms, from one door to the other. In the middle of the room, a portcullis 
  effectively bars entrance to the other side of the room. The portcullis is a grid of criss-crossing iron bars and 
  quite easy to see through. In both ends of the room, near the door, there is a text on the wall: “Press Here”. 
  Under the text, there is a tile in the wall with a sunken relief image of a human hand. In the middle of the 
  hand, there is an ominous small hole. The hand tile can be pressed down, but only if an object of human 
  temperature is touching the whole sunken relief image of the hand. This will lift up the portcullis for 15 
  seconds, after which it will slowly drop down again. 
   
  In the trapped room, both hand tiles are trapped: a small poisoned needle awaits in the hole in the middle of 
  the hand, and will stab anyone pressing the tile with their hand (or any other body part). Then they will have 
  to make a saving throw vs. poison, or suffer the consequences (2d6 damage, or alternatively death if you’re 
  into that sort of thing). All the holes in the hand tiles have a tiny Continual Darkness spell cast in their 
  bottom, to hide away the needle. In the safe rooms, there are still needles in the holes in the darkness, but 
  they have no poison, and they’re a tiny bit shorter so they do not damage or even touch the pressing hand. 
   
  
   
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  8. Blindness Trap 
  These rooms are completely empty. The trapped room has a magical trap; a flashing light will burst in the 
  middle of the room, and anyone in the room must make a save vs. spells or be blinded for 1d10 turns (i.e. 
  1d10 x 10 minutes). There should be wandering monsters about in the dungeon for this trap to be 
  meaningful. 
   
  9. The Double Double Double Dragon Trap 
  These rooms are otherwise empty, but a strange statue descends from the middle of the ceiling. The metallic 
  object is of reddish-hued iron and looks like a four-headed dragon. Two of the heads curve and look towards 
  each door. One of the heads on each side is an oil-sprayer, and the other is a sparkle-sprayer, designed to 
  ignite the oil. Observation, even from afar, will reveal that the other head has some soot soiling it (the 
  sparkle-sprayer), while the other is stained, and slowly dripping with oil (the oil-sprayer of course). 
   
  In the safe room, none of the dragon heads are functional, despite their alarming outlook, but in the trapped 
  room, they will indeed function, and spray a huge, destructive storm of burning oil when anyone enters their 
  side of the room. Everyone in that half of the room (and even in the adjacent intermediate room, if the door 
  is open and someone is in line-of-sight) will take 3d6 fire damage. A successful save vs. dragon breath will 
  halve the damage. Keep in mind that if the PCs survive the damage and press on to the other half of the 
  room, they will be blasted by those other two dragon heads in the other side of the room! Let’s hope they are 
  not that stupid! 
   
  After the Double Double Double Dragon Trap (yes, there are 8 dragon heads, count’em!) comes the end 
  room (10). From there, 2 doors lead to the iron statue trap rooms. 
   
  FINAL NOTES: 
  The in-game reason for this whole Zigzag Path of Doom was that this was an inhabited castle, not an 
  abandoned tomb. The castle lord wanted his private chambers guarded by traps, but the kind of ones that he 
  would have no trouble going through several times a day. Thus, for him, it was easy to avoid the traps with a 
  minimum of fuss. Also, the castle had an open courtyard in the middle, so that’s where the circle/square 
  shape comes from.  
   
  
   
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  Beware the Red Stream 
  by Caleb Jensen 
  Bluskreem@gmail.com 
   
  While traveling down an unfamiliar path the party comes across a grave warning, and are privy to an 
  unusually threat: the Deadly Curse of the Sea Kittens. 
   
  A Very Odd Scene Indeed  
  Along the side of the road the party encounters a partially mummified corpse propped up on a crudely 
  constructed sign. The corpse is that of a male goblin bowman, wearing an old vomit-encrusted leather vest 
  splattered with what appears to be bright red paint and a bridle clenched tightly in his mouth. The sign bears 
  a warning in the goblin tongue, “Beware the Red Stream” written in dried blood . In the distance the sounds 
  of a bubbling brook intermingled with splashing, laughter, and “mewing.” 
   
  Further down the path the party sees what appears to be a heard of wild horses being attacked by a dire wolf 
  before a stream. As the party draw nearer, however, it becomes apparent that the wolf is not attacking the 
  horses, but frolicking with them. Should the wolf be attacked and killed, the horses will become sullen and 
  try to nudge and awaken their fallen companion. No animal in the clearing can be tamed. 
   
  Within the stream the characters can find the source of all the giggling and mewing: Mer-fish, the kittens of 
  the sea. These adorable, fuzzy and fishy felines frolic in the shallow water. As the party comes closer more 
  and more Sea-Kittens will come towards the surface and start singing strangely catchy, yet wholly irritating 
  song in their mewing tongue as they dance and frolic. 
   
  The road is bisected by the stream. 
   
  The Curse of the Sea-Kittens 
  Any horse (or other draft animal) that comes close to the stream will be entranced by their song, bucking off 
  any rider it may have, and turn to play with the horses already there. Any gear that is carried by the pack 
  animal will magically be teleported to the back of the animal’s former master, and cannot be removed with 
  out a successful casting of “Remove Curse” on them. 
   
  If a party member that is wearing leather armor, or has attacked a creature with in the eyesight of the stream 
  comes near the stream, the sea kittens will stare at them intently. Should they try and forge the stream 
  several sea-kittens will spit a stream of viscous red liquid at the party member (Save vs. Breath Weapon to 
  avoid). This red fluid sticks to their armor, cursing it. The sea kittens will not attempt to impede their 
  progress any further. 
   
  Whenever a party member wearing the red armor eats, or witnesses anyone else eating any kind of meat, 
  they suffer from vivid hallucinations of mistreated baby animals, and scenes of slaughter accompanied by a 
  ghostly chanting, “Murderer! Murderer!” repeatedly. This is accompanied by waves of nausea, forcing the 
  character to vomit up any food they might have eaten in the past day. If the character is not careful this may 
  eventually lead to starvation. Further, monsters and NPCs will act more aggressively towards a character 
  wearing the cursed armor, and unconsciously refer to cursed individual and his associates as murderers. 
   
  (When a DM rolls on a reaction table for a party containing at least one member wearing the red armor treat 
  the result as though it were one step more hostile.)  
   
  
   
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  Between a Rock and a Hard Place 
  by James Edward Raggi IV 
   
  This one works only if there is an intelligent force interested in luring interlopers to their doom. 
   
  In a large cavern area are many dozens of statues. Each is incredibly lifelike. All depict men dressed in full 
  robes and hoods in various poses showing they were trying to evade some fate. Some have hideously 
  terrified expressions on their face. All are carrying a sack or backpack that looks to be overflowing with 
  coins, gems, and jewelry (also part of the stone statues). 
   
  In the center of the cavern is a raised dais, with a pit in the middle and stairs leading down into the darkness. 
  The sound of rattles can be heard below. Anyone venturing below will see in the room below, at the edge of 
  their torchlight (or infravision or whatever) the silhouette of a female form with snake-hair. 
   
  This female is a helpless 0 level woman with two hit points. She is chained to the floor and is gagged. Her 
  hair is dreadlocked and knotted so as to stand up, looking curiously like snakes in dim lighting. If attacked in 
  panic, of course she’s likely to die. If she is survives and is questioned, she says she was captured by (insert 
  name of the forces that control the dungeon). All she knows is that she was told the medusa that used to live 
  here was killed, and that it was “advantageous” to make people believe one still lived here. She also 
  overheard talk about the statues – that the (insert name of the forces that control the dungeon) would love to 
  get at the treasure they carry, but each was a powerful holy warrior and they fear too great losses. 
   
  There is a pit near the woman in which lies a giant rattlesnake. Amongst the refuse is a scroll case 
  containing a Stone to Flesh scroll. 
   
  The statues are all petrified medusae, of course unrecognizable as they are all robed and hooded. If one of 
  them is unpetrified, it will immediately attempt to stone everyone around them. The “treasure” is all copper 
  and glass and tin, practically worthless. 
   
  
   
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  Affluentarium 
  by Settembrini 
   
  Behind a metal door at the end of the hall the Explorers find an 
  oblong room with two very different types of fountains. 
   
  The recess on the right hand is about 2m (7’) deep. Inside is a 
  tastefully elegant and simple basalt basin, filled with a lutescent 
  liquid. The basin stands on a small pedestal, which is 
  surrounded by a crevice, 15cm (6”) wide and of unknown depth. 
  The basin is constantly overflowing, with the excess liquid 
  falling into the crevice with a slight and hollow gurgle. The 
  liquid faintly smells like rotten eggs, and indeed is sulfurous 
  water. The basin shows some signs of sulfuring, especially on 
  the edges. The liquid in the basin constantly bubbles from the 
  center, where a small copper pipe is located. The lutescent water 
  has about human body temperature. 
   
  The recess on the left hand is also 2m (7’) deep. Inside is a 
  roughly hewn brimstone trough, filled with a thick, jet black 
  liquid. The trough has an overflow hewn into the back. The liquid smells and tastes metallic, and is only 
  somewhat above the freezing point of water. Even small amounts are nearly fully opaque. A seemingly 
  natural opening is where the liquid sprouts from the wall into the trough. 
   
  There is a table between the fountains. On the table there is a cast iron bowl, a porcelain dipper, a paper box 
  and a bronze dipper. The porcelain dipper has a blue flame painted on it. Inside the rather fragile paper box 
  are six (out of a possible ten) 1” long items, that look like large bouillon cubes, but smell like woodruff. 
   
  If the porcelain dipper is used to scoop water from the basin, and poured onto a cube in the iron bowl, and 
  afterwards quenched with a dollop of black fluid from the bronze dipper, a Gelatinous Ooze will grow from 
  the cube within a turn, attacking the next living thing. All other permutations will just dissolve the cube. 
  This process works everywhere, e.g. it’s possible to create a Gelatinous Ooze anywhere, as long as the 
  liquids do actually come from their respective sources, and all the correct implements are used. The 
  knowledge to create new cubes seems to be lost, but might be rediscovered. One of the scarcer components 
  is the cooked brain and liver of a master-forester, the main component being ground orc bones. 
   
  Background: The two fountains are directly connected to two great stream systems of the Underearth, the 
  Dark River and the Sulfur Stream, the latter of which is known to sometimes burst into blue flames. Anyone 
  with alchemical knowledge knows sulfur burns with a blue flame. Explorers with knowledge of the 
  Underearth might have heard of the great streams themselves. 
   
  
   
  14
  Swallow of Summoning 
  by Chris Weller 
  chrisweller@yahoo.com 
   
  This miraculous creature appears as a small, ordinary bird and indeed it must be fed, protected and cared for. 
  It can live inside the sleeve of a robe, in a cage or under a large hat. 
   
  Once per week, the swallow’s owner can command the bird to find a PC or NPC and either deliver a 
  message or compel the target to travel to the owner’s present location. The owner’s instructions can be very 
  general, as in, “Go find a priest to resurrect Sir Belch,” or quite specific as in, “Fetch the frost witch 
  Mathilda. You will find her at Castle Cragbelt in the Northern Moors.” 
   
  The swallow will then fly off in search of the target at the speed of an unladen swallow, which is 16-19 
  MPH. During this time, the swallow needs neither rest nor food, but it must have a clear way out of any 
  enclosed location, such as a dungeon, or it will wait until one is available. 
   
  The time it takes to find the target will depend on the how specific the request is and whether the target is 
  likely to be at the location(s) suggested. In addition to time flying to the target’s general area, add one to two 
  days if the swallow needs to search a medium city or forest; add a week if the city is large or the bird must 
  scour the nearby countryside. It can travel between continents or planes of existence (add one day per plane 
  crossed). The swallow may be noticed as it travels, and can be followed. It will try to elude pursuit. It is 
  immune to harm by all but the mightiest gods and demons as it travels. 
   
  If the owner only sent a message, the bird will whisper it verbatim to the target, who will understand it 
  regardless of any language differences involved. Note that this is word for word translation. Idioms may not 
  be understood. 
   
  If the owner wants the bird to lead a PC back, the bird must first catch the attention of the target and the 
  target must approach the bird, talk to it or catch it. It might sing strangely, knock on a rock, flap about, steal 
  a small item (jewelry, spell component small personal item, etc.) to lure the owner into this interaction. If the 
  target is an NPC, the GM should decide how to proceed. 
   
  Once the target has interacted with the swallow, the bird will whisper to the target, who must save vs. spells 
  or be placed under a geas with the directive to follow the bird to the place where the bird last saw its owner. 
  In some cases, the target might save but still want to follow the bird to the owner, in order to join the party 
  or avenge this insolence. 
   
  The swallow will lead the target on the safest available route as fast as the target can follow, up to the 
  swallow’s maximum velocity. If the target should die en route, the bird will return to the owner’s last known 
  location with some grisly proof. 
   
  
   
  15
  This Is Seriously Unfair 
  By James Edward Raggi IV 
   
  This works well for a fiendish overlord’s throne room or other personal chamber. There should be a secret 
  back entrance into the area in addition to the obvious entry from which the players will most likely enter. 
   
  Simply put, there is a very large room with a throne or some such on one end. By the throne is a lever. When 
  the lever is thrown, the trap activates: 
   
  There are several “safe zones” in the floor, about five feet apart from each other. If anyone steps on an area 
  of the floor that is not a safe zone (automatically unless jumping, 4 in 6 chance if randomly jumping 
  around), then spikes jut up from the floor inflicting damage every round someone is standing there. 
   
  The safe zones all have Silence 10’ Radius spells which activate when the trap lever is thrown, so no 
  spellcasting from the trap floor! 
   
  The trap area ends 15’ in front of the throne. 
  
   
  
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