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sprinkled on it. Anyone ingesting this powder
or breathing the fumes it gives off while
being burned will suffer ill effects if the
character has also tasted both the white
powder in Mennek’s pocket and either the
red liquid in Mennek’s pocket or the red
wine in the kitchen. If this combination of
substances is present in a character’s system,
he will suffer 2-12 points of damage
(save for half damage) and be incapacitated
for a number of minutes equal to 20 minus
his constitution score. Neutralize poison will
negate this latter effect.
On top of the dresser is a portrait of a
young woman, perhaps twenty years old
and very beautiful. The portrait bear the
elegantly scripted words, “To my beloved
Alex — Thank you. Liana.” Below this
inscription in a different handwriting are
the words, “You shall be avenged.” (This
painting is of the same young lady as the
one in the upper gallery. The portrait will
be face down if the room has been ransacked.)
The four dresser drawers contain
Romdril’s clothes, and his boots are on the
floor partially under the dresser.
The mirror is ornately decorated in gold
and platinum, but otherwise appears normal.
It is, however, a teleportation device
between here and the magical library. The
command word, “vermillion,” is engraved
backward across the bottom of the frame, so
that upon first reading it seems to be “noillimrev.”
Three other words are similarly
engraved across the top and down both
sides of the frame. If someone stands within
one pace of the mirror and utters the command
word, the mirror will act as a portal
to the magical library for that person only,
and the step “inside” the mirror must be
taken within five seconds after the word is
spoken. If one of the other words is spoken
first, or if the time limit expires, the mirror
cannot be entered for ten minutes afterward.
The light cedar bookcase contains 117
volumes of Romdril’s diary, arranged in
order, all similarly bound in brown leather
with golf-leaf embellishment. All of them
except the most recent (uncompleted) volume
are triple- wizard locked at the 21st
level of magic-use. The last one, Volume
CXVII, is freely openable. The entries for
the last three days (also reproduced in the
document section) read as follows:
“Thursday, October 17: Alkus is still
convinced that I have the formula for a
potion of longevity! I have told him time
and time again that I know of no such elixir,
yet he persists. I fear his age is catching up
with him. And yet, his judgment remains
intact. The servants he recommended seem
to know their trades well.”
“Friday, October 18: Flaloch has asked to
‘make amends.’ Hah! How does he expect
me to forgive him for what he did to me?
Nonetheless, he shall attend tomorrow. I
only hope her spirit will forgive me.”
“Saturday, October 19: An unexpected
guest — LeMeurtrier! I did not believe he
had the courage to face me. Still, his arrival
bodes ill. Something in the air is wrong; I
46 JULY 1986
fear this may be my last entry.”
Romdril’s bathroom is normal in all
respects, containing a large porcelain bathtub
and a toilet both connected by pipes to
the water circulation system on the ground
level. There is also a candlestand with a full
candle on it, plus a grooming set consisting
of a hairbrush, shaving razor and clipping
scissors, all of which bear the monogram
“A.R.”
Bodyguard’s bedroom: Mok’s bedroom
is very spartan. There is a bed built to his
proportions in the northeast corner, a
wooden chest in the northwest section of the
room, and a weapons rack on the south wall
(adjoining the bath). Mok’s bed is 10’ wide
and 15’ long. There are no sheets, blankets
or pillows on the bed, just a thin mattress
covering that is rumpled, indicating that the
bed has been slept in recently. The chest has
no lock on it and contains several loose
shirts and pants in Mok’s size. At the bottom
of the chest under the clothes is a very
mirror, and a candlestand with most of a
candle remaining in it.
Alkus Alambar’s bedroom: There are a
few shards of glass on the floor outside the
door to Alambar’s room.
The room contains a bed and nightstand
in the southwest section, a dresser and fulllength
mirror in the southeast corner, a coat
rack on the east wall south of the door, and
a table in the northernmost area. The canopied
bed is 8’ wide and 12’ long, and appears
to have been slept in recently.
(However, though the blanket and pillows
are in disarray, the top sheet is still neatly
tucked in beneath the pillows.) The candle
on the nightstand is entirely melted down.
The dresser drawers are empty; the mirror
and the table are ordinary.
On the coat rack is the robe Alambar
wore last evening. There are several shards
of glass in the lower hem of this robe, and
one of the pockets is ripped open. Under
the robe on the rack is hung a tied leather
expensive mandolin. backpack, with a medium-sized bag of
The weapon rack holds two heavy cross- holding inside. The bag contains five thoubows
and has space for a third one. (If sand gold pieces, but the entire pack weighs
LeMeurtrier presently has one, then only only fifteen pounds.
one other will be in the rack.) Hung on the The bathroom is normal; the bathtub is
rack are four quivers, each one containing dry. The room also contains a toilet, a facial
approximately twenty red-fletched crossbow mirror, and a candlestand with a candle that
bolts. There are also four large maces on has not been burned.
the rack, with a pair of supports indicating
where a fifth one could be stored. Orian Flaloch’s bedroom: The room
Mok’s bathroom is virtually bare, con- contains a canopied bed and nightstand in
taining only a bathtub (recently used), a the northwest section, a full-length mirror
toilet, and a small table supporting a can- and a dresser in the northeast corner, a coat
dlestand that has only a mass of melted wax rack along the wall south of the door, and a
on it. table in the southern section. The bed is 8’
by 12’ and has been slept in recently. The
Breakfast hall: A large ironwood table candle on the candlestand has burned only a
occupies the center of the room. There are small amount. The mirror has a hairline
twelve cedar chairs, five each on the north crack, but is otherwise normal. The four
and south sides of the table and one each at dresser drawers are empty, as is the top of
the head and foot. The table is bare; no the table. In Flaloch’s coat, which is hangplaces
have been set for a meal, even ing on the rack, are a key and a small piece
though the guests were expecting to be fed of paper upon which is written in perfect
at around 8:00. script: “Mr. Flaloch, don’t forget the Romdril
affair to-night. J.R. 10-19.” (This paper
Sandar Fleatis’s bedroom: A bed and is reproduced in the document section.)
nightstand are in the western part of the The bathroom is ordinary and contains a
room, a dresser in the northeast section, a recently used bathtub, a toilet, a facial
full-length mirror on the east wall north of mirror, and a slightly used candle in a
the door, an empty coat rack along the wall stand.
on the other side of the doorway, and a table
in the southernmost section. The canopied Andre LeMeurtrier’s bedroom: The
bed is 8’ wide and 12’ long; it has been room contains a bed and nightstand in the
slept in recently. On the nightstand is a southwest section, a dresser and full-length
partially burned candle. The dresser’s four mirror in the southeast corner, a coat rack
drawers are empty, and an empty backpack along the wall north of the door, and a table
is lying open on top of the dresser. in the northern section.
On the table are three leather-bound The canopied bed, 8’ by 12’, has been
tomes, Fleatis’s traveling spell books. The slept in recently. On the south side of the
first contains six low-level spells: magic bed’s canopy is a strange play of lights, only
missile, spider climb, in visibility knock, visible to someone who moves around to the
dispel magic, and fireball. The second south side of the bed. This effect comes
contains four medium-level spells: dimen- from the westernmost stained-glass window
sion door, wall of ice, extension II, and on the southern wall, a 4’ by 2’ section of
passwall. The third book contains nothing which has been scored, taken out, and
but blank pages. replaced. The pane was put back slightly
The bathroom is ordinary, containing a askew, which causes light to leak in around
recently used bathtub, a toilet, a facial the edges without passing through the glass