[Lvl 13] - Web of Chains.pdf

Web of Chains
ENCOUNTER G3:
GHORFAL THE
VORACIOUS
Encounter Level 15 (6,200 XP)
Setup
Ghorfal the Voracious (G)
2 neogi slavers (N)
2 umber hulks (U)
2 bog hags (H)
Hulking insectoid creatures walk along the tops of
the towers, and skittering noises suggest that other
creatures accompany or check on the huge, umber brutes
occasionally. Though the walls are crude, they are built
of stout timbers topped with a walkway. From within the
walls, the moans and cries of exhausted slaves is audible,
partially drowning out all other sounds.
Once the PCs have either bypassed the walls and
tower (possible with Ethaine Stoneshanks’ help) or
fought their way through, read:
The massive creature halfway in one of the tents is the biggest
of these spider-legged abominations you’ve seen yet. Its bulk
seems impossibly bloated, but its thick spider legs move it
with ease if not speed. The creature’s skin is slimier than
others of its kind, and its underside undulates and ripples as
though constantly agitated from within. Two young women
of particularly fine features are bound at its feet, lying
motionless on their sides as if displayed as objects of art.
Once Ghorfal sees the PCs, it screams the command
“Kill them!” in Deep Speech.
July 2009 | DUNGEON 168
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