Continuing on the hallway opens up to a large semi-circular chamber. The hallway continues on beyond the chamber and there is another hallway to the right.
There are signs here of a recent battle. There is blood on the ground and spent arrows.
There are no bodies and no treasure.
Continuing down this hallway, there is another cell on the right.
The door to this cell is open. Inside are three Zombies. Two are visible in the center of the cell, and the other is propped up against the wall and blends in.
The first two will attack per normal, the other will not attack until the characters are within arm's reach (5 ft). The third zombie is the experiment, it has a bit more intelligence and cunning for an undead corpse and can move faster. It surprises on a roll of 3 or less on a d6 and can attack at any point with its initiative rolls. It attacks as a 3HD monster and has the respective XP.
The zombies have no treasure.
This cell is around the corner on the right. The cell door on the right is open and inside is a glowing portal.
Standing in the room is a human woman. She has two crystals in one hand and is furiously writing notes. She speaks to the party very excitedly, but her language is unknown. She ignores whatever the party says to her; she is too excited about whatever it is she writing.
She is really only interested in this portal. She has no treasure to mention. If she is attacked she jumps through the portal and runs off.
If the characters follow, the portal will close behind. Take the character sheets from the players and hand them their new Castles & Crusades character sheets for the same characters.
You come to a turn in the hallway. It turns to right, but before it does, there is another cell door on your left. These cell doors are open.
This room is empty. There are signs of a recent battle. A pile of bones that look like they belonged to a couple of dire wolves is here.
There is no treasure in this room.
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There is still a group of ahead of the party and they dealt with the skeletal dire wolves.
Continuing down the hall there is another cell on the right.
This cell appears to be used as a storage area. There are several chests, all are empty except for two.
Chest #1: has a Small Bag of Holding inside. The bag itself is empty.
Chest #2: Is actually a Mimic and it is starving.
The mimic itself has no treasure.
Well...not exactly a Mail Call Tuesday today. Though it will be sometime in June/July. But I had to mention these.
ReAction, the company that makes action figures for various properties in the style of the old Kenner Star Wars figures (3.75" scale), has a new series coming out.
Wave 1 of their Dungeons & Dragons line has some very familiar faces.
There is the Sorceress (D&D Moldvay Basic), the Efreeti (DMG), and the Githyanki (Fiend Folio) in the first wave for preorder now.
Damn it. Just when I was in a good place NOT to give WotC any money out of protest for the OGL shenanigans.
Anyway. As someone who really went hardcore with D&D with the Moldvay Basic (my first proper D&D) and writes so much about witches, I am morally obligated to buy the Sorceress. I owe it to that 11-year-old I once was. Besides, she is certainly popular.
The other figures also look great.
The Efreeti also has another advantage. At 3.75", that translates to 18.75' in D&D 3/4/5 scale. So I could use it as the Efreeti Pasha. It would have a certain level of "street cred" to use the same figure as the front of the DMG for it. Everyone in my current gaming groups knows all about 1st Ed AD&D, so to them, pulling this guy would have the same effect as pulling out Tiamat or Orcus.
All three of these figures have also, in one form or another, have had premium statues made of them. The Efreeti and the Githyanki from Wizkids and the Sorceress, in her modern guise of Seoni, from Dynamite. These figures are a lot cheaper.
You should be able to preorder these anywhere.
I am getting mine from Super7, which has better shipping. But I have seen them at Entertainment Earth as well. They will likely be on Amazon soon. Of course you could order them from your FLGS or FLCS.
These are not the same scale as the new D&D Cartoon figures, but they are close to last year's NECA Skyla and Kelek figures. Come back around in June/July, and we will see.
This cell is locked and boarded up. Movement can be heard inside. There are two doors here, the cell and the doors behind it.
Inside this room is an ancient and immortal Grimlock. The Grimlock is very old and blind. The magical experiments done on him have made him immortal, hungry, and insane. It will attack as long as there is no light greater than torchlight.
