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The Doclopedia #1,997
The 5 Room Dungeon Of…: Dread House
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Dread House sits just a few miles outside the city. It has been abandoned for near on 30 years, after the master of the house went insane and killed all of his family, three friends and 5 servants. After that, he was never seen again. It has been haunted ever since. Or is it? You get to finally find out the truth.
The Entrance: The entry room is roughly 15 feet on a side with a 10 foot ceiling. There are two pictures here, both of wolves. After the third person walks through the front door, the wolves jump off the picture and attack.
The Puzzle: Assuming the wolves don’t get you, the next, larger room has doors in the left, right and center walls. One is warm to the touch, one is cool and one is damp. Only the cool one leads out. The warm one lets scorching hot winds blow into the room and the damp one unleashes a mighty torrent.
The Setback: After opening the cool door, you descend down 13 steps into a very large basement. There are many mirrors here and spectral duplicates of you (one each) will step out of them and attack you. I hope you brought magic weapons.
The Boss Fight: In the final room, you find the insane murderer! But now he’s a very powerful ghost with a hell hound pet. Fight’s on, baby!
The Reward: If you destroy the ghost, you’ll have a very short time to grab loot from a large chest before the house starts to shudder, burst into flame and be swallowed down into Hell.
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The Doclopedia #1,998
The 5 Room Dungeon Of…: The Lost Farm
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The legends say there is an old farm way out in the boondocks that holds a mighty magic. Nobody has ever returned from it.
The Entrance: The front yard is full of chickens, ducks, geese and a couple of big turkeys. They look pretty normal, until the last one of you steps through the front gate. At that point, their eyes start glowing red and the attack you. They’re not very tough (except the geese and turkeys), but there are a lot of them and they do not know fear.
The Puzzle: Inside the farmhouse, you find the skeletons of two teenagers and a woman. The woman had time to scrawl “Seal the portal” before she died. Her hand points toward the next room, which is littered with all sorts of things. A very thorough search will let you find a 5 inch long rod of cold iron on a short chain.
The Setback: Holy crap! When you leave the house, 5 goats and two milk cows burst out of the milking shed. They have red eyes, the cows can breathe fire and the goats not only have horns, they are carnivorous!
The Boss Fight: A horse that is immune to magical attacks, a big bull with wicked long horns and very tough hide and an 800 pound hog that drips acid. Destroy them and you can insert the iron rod into a pedestal in the barn and close a gateway to Hell.
The Reward: Not much loot, but you do find an Unholy Book and what looks like a Map of Hell.
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The Doclopedia #1,999
The 5 Room Dungeon Of…: The Mystery Ship
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The galleon just drifted into the docks under it’s own power just after dawn. It’s noon, now and the city fathers will pay you quite well to go on board and find out what the hell is up.
The Entrance: Once you are all on deck (the gangway is near the aft end of the ship), the deck proves to be rotten and you all fall through to the deck beneath it. You take minor damage, but it’s dark down here and smells of death and decay. Especially nimble characters MIGHT avoid the fall, in which case they can either jump down or use the stairs.
The Puzzle: Oh, look, there’s an insane crewman down here pointing a rod of lightning at you. His name is Murf and if you try to attack him, he will blast the lot of you. However, he is babbling about the “Mistress” and how he’s hungry and how once night falls “She will rise!” If you speak calmly to him and offer him food, he will take the food and lay down the rod. THEN you can rush him, but he won’t put up a fight.
The Setback: Murf tells you the Mistress is up forward, just trough that door. Well, not that door exactly. When you open that one, several fast and brain hungry zombies attack you.
The Boss Fight: So after killing the zombies and still keeping your brains, you go through the next door, most likely expecting a vampire. WRONG! She’s a powerful mummy with two lesser mummy servants. Bonus: They are quite damp and will be very hard to burn.
The Reward: Fat loot here, kids! Lots of freshly raided tomb decorations, most of it made of gold and encrusted with jewels.
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