ENDLESS NIGHT
A Fantasy Core Adventure
© Jerry Harris 2014
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The Conservatory
Description:
There is a grand piano at one end of the room and a dozen chairs facing
it. Six of chairs are occupied with
skeletons. The piano plays by itself. There are heavy curtains closing off the
windows to the outside. Opening the
curtains reveals the naked, insanity-inducing Astral Plane outside. DC 12 Will Save or driven catatonic for 1
turn. Those saving are immune to this
effect thereafter.
Status:
The door to the room is closed, but not locked.
Music can be heard inside.
Inhabitants:
6 Psi-Skeletons and a lovely melody.
Objective:
Retrieve the Music Box inside the piano.
0 XP award.
Carter’s Introduction: “Meow. Yana Creighton loved to put on a show. Even in death, she can keep an audience
enraptured. Meow.”
Immediately upon entering
the room, the group must make a DC 12 Will Sv against the music. If they do something creative, like stop up
their ears before entering, that will work.
However, this means that they’re still vulnerable to the music in any
later hearings. Those making the save
are immune to its effects. Those failing
are effectively stunned. A DC 18 Will Sv
can be tried every rd to break free of it.
The Six Psi-Skeletons will also rise and attack. They’ll start with their Psi-Blasts. The Skeletons will embrace anyone failing the
save (and anyone already stunned by the music) and proceed to waltz around the
room with them helplessly enthralled, along with automatic claw damage.
Examination of the piano
will reveal that it is not actually playing.
The music is coming from the inside from a small, open Music Box. Simply closing the box, stops the music and
the Skeletons de-animate. If the
characters decide to try and destroy the piano to stop the music, just roll
damage (use common sense about the weapons used). At 20 hp of damage, it collapses. 50% chance that that shuts the box and stops
the music. Otherwise, the characters
will be digging through the debris (DC 12 Find check). When the music stops, the grandfather clock
chimes, and Yana has departed for the
netherworld.
The Music Box will work once
outside of the Conservatory with the same effect. If it is used at a gathering of creatures,
say the Elf or the Goblin party, roll once for every lower level creature
(higher level ones get their own save).
If it succeeds, only half of the inhabitants are effected. If it fails, ¾ are effected.
Psi-Skeleton (6)
HD 1, Hp 4, AC 13
Fort +2, Ref +0, Will +0
Melee:
Claw +1 to hit 1d6
Ranged: Psi-Blast Will Sv
DC 12 + telepathic class bonus or stunned 1 turn. Against a psychic, they are only stunned for
1 rd.
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