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The banshee will wail every round
that the door remains open, unless
the characters enter the room. In this
case she will shriek forward into melee
combat, lashing out viciously until
slain. Her room is empty of items of
value.
The good news: her wail does not
cause Klavikus to begin gating in
demons. She does it several times a
day on the average, and he’s used to
the noise. In fact, he rather likes it.
7. Lair of the...Vampknight?
A dull flickering light is visible
from under the door to this room. It is
quite faint, and might not be noticed
if the characters are carrying light
sources of their own—any character
not carrying a light can make an Intelligence
Check.
The door to this room swings open
easily if pushed.
Thirteen candles glow from niches
in the wall around the periphery of
this room. Each is tall and
slender—no wax yet runs from
them.
The walls of the room, between
the candles, are hung with plush
draperies of a deep crimson color.
The candlelight gives them the color
of/fresh blood. In the center of
the room, resting on a raised stone
platform, is a long box. Its lid
stands open.
Any character who thinks to ask
immediately recognizes the box as a
coffin. Even as the PCs open the door,
a body sits up in the coffin and
beckons them inward.
This creature resembles a vampire
in every way—it is dressed in a black
silk robe, and its face is pasty white. It
even has long white fangs. But it is, in
actuality, a death knight. It attempts
to lure as many of the PCs as it can
into the room, and then casts its wall
of ice spell across the door.
After this, the death knight
attempts to gate in a demon every
round that it can do so. When and if
the characters engage in melee combat,
it abandons the use of magical
powers in order to fight with its twohanded
sword, +5 defender.
Death Knight: AC 0 (+ effect of
sword); MV 12”; HD 9; hp 51; #AT
1; Dmg 2d6+5 (+ effect of sword);
SA all power word spells; MR 75%
(on roll of 11% or lower, spell
rebounds on caster); AL CE; Size M;
XP 4,500
The death knight will not use its
fireball in these close quarters. It will
fight soundlessly, and the wall of ice
will help to soundproof the room, so
Klavikus will not be alarmed by this
fight—unless the wall of ice is
destroyed before the fight is over.
8. Treasure Room (sort of)
The door to this room is stuck and
must be opened forcefully. Unless the
noise of this is silenced, Klavikus will
hear it. He will not intervene yet, but
he will begin gating in his war party if
he has not already done so.
There is another door in the righthand
wall of this large room. The
near side of the chamber is empty,
but many objects are piled on the
floor and against the wall on the
other side.
Small mountains of gold coins
are heaped across the floor. Brilliant
gems gleam from these piles.
Swords, shields, several long staffs,
and shirts of plate armor can be
seen—the piles are so high that
there is no telling what might lie
under the surface.
This room does contain treasure,
but not perhaps so much as it might
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seem. Gold coins have been scattered
across the top of mounds of copper
and silver pieces. Many of the
“gems” are pieces of cleverly cut glass
that, at a distance, will seem to scintillate
like the real thing.
Many of the swords and suits of
plate mail are indeed magical, while
much of the rest has been enchanted
only with Nystul’s magic aura.
The door into room 9 has a large
keyhole in it. If the PCs have somehow
entered this room undetected,
one can peer through the keyhole to
see Klavikus, bored, waiting on the
other side. (Show the players the picture
on page 24.) If the demon has
heard them, however, the room
beyond will be cloaked in darkness.
The purpose of this room is to draw
intruders into it, where they can be
restrained by one of the two traps in
the room and slowly dismembered by
Klavikus and his pals. Each of the
traps is activated when the door
between rooms 8 and 9 is opened.
The first trap is mechanical: an
invisible net is strung across the ceiling
of the room. It will cover the
entire floor (and everything on it)
when it drops. Note that, even if the
characters have a detect invisible spell
in operation, the character with the
spell must state that he is looking at
the ceiling—the net is camouflaged
so as to be difficult to see, even without
the spell. The net can be dropped
by the players if they discover it
first—they simply have to cut a loop
at each corner and in the middle. Or
it could be burned, or magically
destroyed—it is mundane in every
respect.
Characters caught in the net can
cut themselves free in 1d6+1 rounds.
While trapped, they suffer a +4 penalty
to their Armor Class. If they
attempt to fight within the net, they
are unable to use missile weapons.
Attacks with melee weapons suffer a