Endless Night: Servant Bathrooms, Servant Stairs, The Laundry

ENDLESS NIGHT

A Fantasy Core Adventure

© Jerry Harris 2014

Published here as Open Game Content.

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First Floor Index

Servant Bathrooms

Description: Men and Women’s privies.  Nowhere near as nice as the Guest Bathrooms, but still very clean.  In contrast to every other room on this level, this one is empty.  The characters are free to relieve themselves in peace here.

Servant Stairs

Description: There is a locked door blocking access to the stairs.  The door is labeled, “Second Floor.”

Status: The door will only open after the characters have cleared the First Floor.

The Laundry

Description: Here’s where the monumental task of daily clothes cleaning is done.  Depending on the era of the house, there’s either washers and dryers here or a large washtub and some hanging laundry.  Bright sunlight comes through the windows here.  There’s a door to outside that goes straight into the naked, insanity-inducing Astral Plane.  DC 12 Will Save or driven catatonic for 1 turn.  Those saving are immune to this effect thereafter.

 

Status: Open to entry.

Inhabitants: 1 mean Cloaker

Objective: The characters can gain an ally here.  0 XP award.

Along with the usual laundry you’d expect here, there’s a hanging sheet stretched across the room.  Anyone approaching it is attacked by Surprise by the Cloaker.  It is trying to capture a victim and then disappear.  If it fails to do this and is reduced to 5 or less Hp, the Cloaker ceases to attack, folds itself into a napkin, and a disembodied voice says, “I will serve you.”  (It heals itself completely in 1 turn.) 

The group can take the Cloaker along with them.  Taking it out and flinging it at an enemy, it’ll attack.  Though it can’t cause damage to creatures needing magic to hit, it can still distract and Engulf (as long as the opponent is corporeal).  After the fight, if it’s still alive, it will fold up and disappear.     

Minor Cloaker

HD 4, Hp 16, AC 16 (natural)

Fort +3, Ref +2, Will +4

Melee: Slap +4 to hit 1d6, on a natural 14 hit, the Cloaker engulfs its opponent

Engulf: The Cloaker has wrapped itself around a victim.  DC 18 Str or Escape Artist to get free.  (Give any minor monster attacked a +2 to escape, major monster +5.)  Each rd, the Cloaker squeezes, requiring a DC 18 Fort Sv or rendered unconscious.  After that happens, the next rd, the Cloaker kills the victim.  The next, it folds itself up and disappears.  Any attack on the Cloaker with a victim causes half damage to the victim.

Can Fly