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obelisk. Torgel was a member of one
such party that never returned.
During an attack by hordes of
Bullywugs, Torgel lost his spell
book and now has only those spells
he has memorized (but not yet cast)
at his disposal. When he attempted
to use his one teleport spell to
escape the battle, the spell went
awry and he was sent instead to the
center of the obelisk maze.
After losing a large salami and the
tips of two fingers to one of the
disintegrators, he gave up all
attempts to escape the maze and
settled in to await rescue, looking
on this period of enforced (but well
fed) captivity as a time for
meditation and contemplation.
New and Adapted Monsters
Chak(New Monster)
Armor Class: 5 (AC0 if armored)
Move: 9*21
Hit Dice: 5
No. of Attacks: 1 weapon, 2 lightwand,
or bite
Damage: by weapon or 1d6 +
poison
THACO: 15
Alignment: Any
Size: L
Intelligence: Avg. to High
STs: 14
STw: 13
Special Attacks: poisonous bite,
weapons, lightwands (13 charges
each)
Special Defense: shift out of
phase
The Chak are a race of intelligent
beings closely related to phase
spiders. They are the dominant
creatures in Part 3 of this
adventure. The Chak have prospered
as merchants, trading among many of
the races of the Inner Planes of
Existence.
Their society
is large and
advanced.
Planets are
ruled by local
kings serving
an emperor who
rules from the race's home planet
somewhere in the Prime Plane.
Individual Chak may be of any
alignment but tend to associate only
with those of similar alignment (at
least along good-evil lines). The
average Chak lives over a thousand
years. All Chak speak a common
language of the same name, and many
have learned to speak human Common
and several other tongues through
their dealings with other races.
When speaking a "foreign language,"
their speech patterns mimic their
teachers. They develop some odd
colloquial expressions, and these
habits are hard to break. (The "gee
whiz" phrase came into their
vocabulary from contact with a
paladin some 800 years past.)
Noble Chak are 1-4 Hit Dice larger
than the average, with a
corresponding damage bonus (1-4),
and are AC 3. Kings have at least 10
Hit Dice, with bite damage 2d10 and
AC0.
The most common weapon used by the
Chak is the lightwand, a seemingly
innocent, light-producing device
which, when fitted with a special
control ring, can be fired as a
laser (range 120', #AT 2/round, Dmg
2d8, save vs. wands for 1/2 damage;
target treated as AC 10 modified for
magic or dexterity only). Other
small weapons, such as daggers or
hand axes, are also used. In their
lair, over 40% of the Chak
encountered are armed with lightwand
weapons.
Chak spin webs, but only in their
residences, not throughout a Chak
community. A webbed victim of 18 or
greater Strength can break free in
one round. For each point of
Strength under 18, it takes one
additional round to break free of
Chak webbing.
Though Chak can shift out of phase
as normal phase spiders, entering
the Ethereal Plane at will and
returning when desired, they
consider it very impolite to do so.
Besides, the Ether is cold and
possibly dangerous, so it is
normally used only as a route to
other planes, except in emergencies