Death's Head Keep Level 2, Room 18. #Dungeon23

   The door from Room 17 leads here. 

You walk into a kitchen that is dimly lit by an enchantment worked into the stones of a huge hearth. A cast-iron cauldron, shaped into the smiling face of the Godmother, dominates the entire room.

• It is 15’ x 30’.
• A narrow table runs most of the length of the left-hand wall and a lonely rolling pin sits cockeyed upon it.
• Just after this table is a wide blue door.
• A long table cuts through the middle of the room and it has the word "Frae" carved roughly into it.
• Shelves and larders are bare and there is a slight echo to the room.
• A faint smell of warm cookies lingers greeting you.
• The ceiling is 14' high with thicken wooden rafters.
• There are no webs of any kind within this kitchen.

Death's Head Keep Level 2, Room 17 #Dungeon23

  The door from Room 16 leads here. 

The Sigil of the Witch Queen

A long hallway with windows on both sides that reveal an infinite night filled with stars.

• It is 30’ x 10’.
• The hallway's temperature is 30° and it leads to a heavy orichalcum door with the Sigil of the Witch Queen in dried blood.
• A successful Occult check reveals that the hallway is built within the Plane of Night and the outside is lethal to humanoids.
• The windows have a Parry of 2 and their Object Hardness is 20 (SWADE pg. 98). A broken window will require each creature to succeed at an Athletics check at -2 or be pulled outside where they will die in 1d4 minutes. The windows are enchanted to repair themselves in 1d6 turns.

Death's Head Keep Level 2, Room 16. #Dungeon23

 The door from Room 15 leads here. 

A landing with stairs going up and down lie before you.

• It is 15’ x 10’.
• Dim green lights are built into the left and right wall of the landing.
• If the stairs leading down are taken the sixth step is trap that turns the steps into a slide leading to pit trap with spikes that opens up on the bottom landing. Any PCs that move down the stairs are considered one step behind each other.
• A successful Notice check at -2 alerts a PC to the trap. 
• A successful Athletic check lets a PC catch on to something and not fall into the pit or be harmed by the spikes.
• Remember that some of the PC's may be Fatigued, Exhausted or Wounded from previous rooms or attempt Multi-Actions to help their allies.
• The spikes in the trap inflict 3d6 damage and are AP 2.
• The door on the bottom landing is fake and leads nowhere and the stairs that appear to lead further down from that landing simply lead to a stone wall.

Death's Head Keep Level 2, Room 15

 The left door from Room 14 leads here. 

The wall to the right is covered in a bright yellow hive that throbs to a silent beat.

• It is 20’ x 10’.
• Toward the far corner of the left-most wall is a brass door that is locked by 3 deadbolts.
• Once a creature of Size 1/2 or greater steps on this room's floor the hive immediately stops throbbing and one round later vomits forth hundreds of shiny golden worms that blindly launch themselves at the nearest creature.
• The worms are a Quick Encounter (SWADE pg. 134-135) and the PCs can make an Athletics (get out of the way), Common Knowledge (the door is locked), Fighting (smash them), or Thievery (unlock the door quickly) check at +1. A failed individual roll causes a PC 1 Wound or d4 Wounds on a Critical Failure. An individual success means the PC only has Bumps and Bruises (SWADE pg. 125) or are unscathed with a raise.
• If the PCs have less total successes than their number and they gained a wound then they became Fatigued or Exhausted on Critical Failure.
• The worms are destroyed when they pass through either door.
• A successful Academics or Occult roll identifies these as writhers an alien swarm that can drain a creature of all of its blood in minutes. A raise informs a PC that anyone wounded by a writher can now be tracked magically by certain spells for 2d8 days.

Death's Head Keep Level 2, Room 14

The left door from Room 10 leads here. 

A huge grandfather clock is placed against the left wall this room.

• It is 10’ x 10’.
• The grandfather clock is twice the size of a normal one.
• Its cabinet is a light maple and the metal components are made of orichalcum.
• A booming roar announces that it is Noon and Midnight.
• The floor is covered in saw dust.
• A secret alcove behind the clock can found with a successful Notice check at -1.
• The alcove has 5 shelves and there is a Bearskin Cloak (pg. 149 SWADE Fantasy Companion), Cap of Tongues (pg. 150), and a Potion of Spider Climb and Recharge (pg. 145) on them.
• The ceiling is 30' high and features a large an enchanted lamp offering bright light.

Death's Head Keep Level 2, Room 13. #Dungeon23

A square cage pushes so close to each wall that there is just enough room to squeeze around its edges.

• The room is 10 x 10.
• The cage is 8' x 8' and is made of cold iron.
• Its door is missing and there is a scorch mark on the wall where it should be.
• A moldering blanket and a doll made from a corn husk are all that lie within it.
• Below the blanket is the rune of Captivity and it has been broken and therefore powerless.
• The ceiling is only 6' high
• There is no other door in this room.

Death's Head Keep Level 2, Room 12. #Dungeon23

 

A blazing inferno roars in a pit that dominates this room.

• The room is 80 x 80.
• The fire pit has a diameter of 30'.
• The heat from the fire is so intense that a creature may not get closer than 10' without some form of heat resistance.
• One round after entering the room 4 azers step out of the flame.
• The ceiling is 70’ high and forms a chimney covered in soot and ash.

Their weapons glow white hot as the azsers they move in close.

• Their leader is a head taller than the rest of her kin and she eyes each of the PCs before saying, "I am Hralda Brightspear and my clan and I have pledged to protect this Keep and slay any intruders. Prepare to die."
• Herald's spear is enchanted and grants a +1 to Athletics (Throwing) and Fighting as well as a +1 to damage. Additionally, it grants +1d6 natural Armor against fire.
• On the far wall is a set of steel double doors.

Hralda Brightspear 

Parry 7 | Tough 9 (3) | Pace 6 (d6) | 

Athletics d8 | Fighting d8 + 1 

(spear d8 + d6 + 1) | Shooting d6 | 

Ag d8, Sm d8, Sp d6, St d8, Vi d8 | 

Edges Frenzy | Special Abilities 

Damage Field 2d4, Immunity to fire

Azer

Parry 7 | Tough 8 (3) | Pace 6 (d6) | 

Athletics d6 | Fighting d8 (warhammer 

d8 + d6) | Shooting d6 | Ag d6, Sm d6, 

Sp d6, St d6, Vi d6 | Special Abilities 

Damage Field 2d4, Immunity to fire

Death's Head Keep Level 2, Room 11. #Dungeon23

This room is oval with a dais in the middle and an archway standing empty upon it.

• This room is entered by taking the door on the right from the previous room.
• It has a diameter of 30’.
• The archway doesn’t lead anywhere but it radiates a palpable feeling of dread, oblivion, and wrongness.
• When a PC moves through the archway their life flashes before their eyes and they must make a Spirit check. If successful the next time they spend a Bennie, as long as they are still on Level 2 of the Keep, it is treated as Conviction. If failed they become Fatigued and the GM gains 1 Benny. The archway may only affect each PC in this way one time.
• The ceiling is 15’ high.
• There is a strange blue door that is 5’ tall and 5’ wide past the archway .

Death's Head Keep: Level 2, Room 10. #Dungeon23

 

A hallway turns to the right and after about 50’ has three short steps leading.

• It is 10’ x 75’.
• Three torches are mounted 7’ above the along the left hand wall.
• Their green flame indicates they are enchanted.
• The ceiling is 15’ high.

After the steps two doors are set in far wall. One to the right and one to the left.

• Both doors are locked.
• Neither is trapped.
• A successful Thievery check will open either door.

Sitting vigilantly above both doors in the center of the wall is a gargoyle. 

• It’s perch is about 8’ high.
• A successful Notice roll at -1 reveals that it opens its left eye every 15 to 20 seconds to spy on anyone in the hallway.
• If spoken to it will reveal it’s name is Kerna and it is a spy for it’s clan here in the Keep.
• Kerna is a pacifist and won’t defend itself if attacked.
• If pressed they will admit that they deplore violence and are essentially an outcast given this role because their parents were too embarrassed to have her stay at their megalith.
• Kerna’s parents are the leaders of her megalith. Their father is known as the Stalactite and their mother is known as the Stalagmite.
• Kerna isn’t used to kindness let alone anyone listening to her so any social Trait rolls involving her are at a +2.
• If asked directly she will advise taking the door on the right because she believe there is a dragon in the room on the left.
• At Noon and Midnight a bellowing roar can easily be heard from the room on the left.
• Kerna uses her innate magic to transport to her megalith and therefore has never been in either of the rooms she watches over.

Kerna 

Wild Card

Parry 4 | Tough 11 (4) | Pace 4 (d4) | 

Athletics d10 | Fighting d4-2 | 

Shooting d4-2 | Ag d6, Sm d4, Sp d8, 

St d10, Vi d10 | Edges Alertness,

Brute, Improved Arcane Resistance,

Improved Block, Iron Jaw | 

Special Abilities Armor 4, Flight 

(Pace 10)

Death's Head Keep: Level 2, Room 9. #Dungeon23

A large library filled with hundreds of books on shelves going from the floor and a central circular table with a raven wearing a fez studying a scroll.

• It is 40’ x 30’.
• The ceiling is 15’ high and a stark white.
• A huge chandelier provides bright natural light that is refreshing compared to what you have found in the Keep thus far.
• A large circular table cut from sequoia sits under the chandelier with several books and scrolls scattered upon it.
• A raven wearing a fez is engrossed with one of the scrolls on the table.

The raven won’t notice you until you make any kind of noise.

• The raven is Xing Xao Xoo a Sorcerer who lost a bet with The Dagda and is now looking for a way to return to his own shape.
• He is very egotistical and will lose interest in any conversation that doesn’t focus on him and his plight.
• Xing has found the spell he needs but requires the eye of a ghoul, the tongue of a mimic, and a feather from Thoth whom he owes 80 gp.

Xing Xao Xoo 

Wild Card

Parry 6 | Tough 12(6) | Pace 6 (d6) | 

Athletics d6 | Fighting d6 

(talons d4 + d4) | Shooting d6 | 

Spellcasting d12 | Ag d8, Sm d12+1, 

Sp d8, St d4, Vi d8 | Edges Arcane 

Background (Magic), Channeling, Danger Sense, Improved Arcane Resistance, Quick, Wizard | Special Abilities Armor +6, Flight (Flying Pace of 12)

 

The walls are covered in books except for the door you entered through and a matching door across the way as the only exit.

• The shelves are filled with histories, magical treatises, books on alchemy, geometry, astronomy, astrology, and bestiaries from all over the world.
• The shelves in the far right corner are behind a orichalcum cage that is locked.
• The cage is enchanted.
• A successful Thievery check at -2 will detect and bypass the lock’s trap.
• While a successful Thievery check at +1 will open the lock.
• If the trap is not detected anyone within a Small Blast Template will take 4d6 cold damage that may be Evaded.

The books within the cage all deal with the darkest of subjects including awakening eldritch horrors, worshipping destructive deities, guides to Hell and the Abyss, and the foulest of sorceries.

• On the bottom shelf is Melodia of Endor’s Book of Shadows. Studying it for at least a month will allow you to take Warlock and Witch Edges on pg. 95 of the SWADE Fantasy Companion.
• The sole book on the fifth shelf is I, Cambion chronicling the life and times of Yussev the Hellbringer. Studying it for a month allows you to take the Diabolist Eges on pg. 86 of the SWADE Fantasy Companion.
• On the eighth shelf is The Summoner’s Almanac whose author is unknown. Studying it for a month allows you to take the Summoner Edges on pg. 93 of the SWADE Fantasy Companion.
• On the top shelf is the Kakodex by Fester Moonbow, the Lich of Eddings. Studying it for a month allows you to take the Necromancers Edges on pg. 90 of the SWADE Fantasy Companion.

Death's Head Keep: Level 2, Room 8. #Dungeond23

This cramped room has a enchanted torch, its flame a bright green, in a sconce on the left hand wall.

• It is 15’ x 10’.
• The torch in mounted 5’ above the floor in the middle of the left wall.
• The ceiling is 9’ high and is made of strips of hard wood. Probably pine.

The wall to the right looks and smells as if it has been cleaned recently.

• There are three small spots of blood on the floor that apparently were missed.

The far wall has a door in its left-hand corner.

• The door’s hinges look like they’ve have been oiled a day or two ago.
• At knee height 3 feet from the door someone has poorly etched these words into the wall, “we do not want to d”.

Death's Head Keep: Level 2, Room 7. #Dungeon23

The only light spills in from the open door to dimly reveal stacks of wooden chairs and a narrow walkway along the left wall.

• It is 15’ x 25’.
• The room is cool and dry.
• There are 8 stacks of 5 to 7 chairs.
• The ceiling is 8’ high.

There are 2 doors in the far left corner.

• The first door is on the left hand wall about 3/4 of the way down that wall.
• The second door is about 2’ from the left-hand corner on the far wall.

The first door has a padlock made out of a heavy steel.

• The lock can be picked quickly and/or under stress with a successful Thievery check.
• If there is no rush anyone with a d6 or higher in Thievery can pick it in d4 minutes.

The second door is unlocked and squeaks like a squirrel as it opens.

• It is 15’ x 10’.
• The room beyond its door has large pelts on the stone walls and a hearth with a roaring fire in the middle of the far wall.
• Several couches face the fire and its comfortable warmth is felt from the doorway.
• This “room” is a mimic and as soon as it least one person has entered its maw it attacks.
• Us the stats from the Pathfinder for Savage Worlds Bestiary on page 90 with the following adjustments: Size is Large, Strength is d12+2, Toughness is 15 (2).
• When the mimic is killed anyone inside of it is vomited out into the stacks of chairs and takes 2d6 damage and the “door” disappears.
• Anyone who makes an Occult check can point out that the monster somehow used extra-dimensional space for its “gut”.
• A successful Notice check at -1 allows the discovery of the mimic’s bezoar which at this size is worth 600 gp.

Level 2, Room 6

Death's Head Keep: Level 2, Room 6. #Dungeon23

 The far wall of this well lit room is composed of a huge mirror.

• It is 20’ x 40’.
• The floor is black stone that slopes subtly toward a drain in the center of the room.
• The ceiling is barely 7’ high and makes the room feel cramped and tight.
• The door you enter through disappears once everyone is in this room.

Moments after you catch sight of your reflection in the mirror it howls with fury and attacks you.

• Your reflection has your stats and is a Wild Card as well.
• When your reflection takes its 3rd Wound it shatters into broken glass. 

Death's Head Keep: Level 2, Room 5 #Dungeon23

 Soft light filters through gauzy curtains that reveal the silhouette of a figure lounging on pillows and singing a bawdy tune about a unicorn and a noble.

• It is 25’ x 20’.
• A rainbow of soft pastel scarves hang from a bright white ceiling barely concealing the singer.
• Silk pillows litter the floor around the singer who reclines upon them with nary a care.
• The smell of a yasemin cigarette, which rests lazily in the beings hand, is earthy and with a hint of musk.
• The singing stops and the figure calls out, “Visitors? What day is it? Oh, yes. It is today.  I am Habrind Lokzmezcka and we must talk.”

The speaker is tall, lean and confident and once through the streamers Habrind is revealed to be a rakshasa with white fur and emerald stripes.

• Habrind makes no effort to rise and will not stop anyone from simply moving toward the door in the middle of the far wall.
• His eyes are lavender and each time he takes a drag on his cigarette he shapes the blown smoke into fantastic shapes such as narwhals, kaiju, and comets.
• If the PCs choose to interact with him he offers them cigarettes and cinnamon tea. Neither item will harm them.
• He explains that he is the Witch Queen’s Major Domo and it is his job to prevent trespassers.
• The Witch Queen doesn’t want her experiments jeopardized and has no patience for “adventurers”.
• He offers each of them 200 gp and teleportation to any area within 10 miles.
• If he is attacked he shrinks and heads for a small hole in the wall behind his pillows.
• Any Notice check to find him is at a -4.

Rakshasa 

Parry 7 | Tough 8 | Pace 10 (d10) | 

Athletics d12 | Fighting d10 

(claws d12+1 + d6) | Shooting d10 |

Spellcasting d12 | Ag d10, Sm d12, 

Sp d10, St d12+1, Vi d12 | 

Skills Notice d10, Gambling d10, 

Intimidation d10, Persuasion d12 | 

Edges Arcane Background (Magic),

Strong-Willed, Danger Sense, Humiliate,

Rabble Rouser, Retort, Tough As Nails | 

Powers Armor, Confusion, Entangle, 

Growth/Shrink,Illusion, Puppet, 

Quickness, Stun, Teleport | 

Power Points 50

Death's Head Keep: Level 2, Room 4 #Dungeon23

 A dozen skeletons hang from long chains, attached to the ceiling, swaying lazily. 

• The left hand door from room 2 leads here.
• It is 40’ x 40’.
• The ceiling is 50’ high.
• The chains are 40’ long.
• The skeleton’s feet are approximately 3’ off the ground.
• The floor is stone that has been stained pink in many places.

The chains form a maze that leads to a door in the left corner of the far wall.

• Touching any chain awakens the 12 skeletons who immediately drop to the ground and attack the closest enemy.
• If the Action Card for the skeletons is a black king or black queen a wraith is summoned and an Action Card card is dealt for it.
• Navigating the maze without touching the chains requires 3 succesfull Athletic checks at -1 for each PC.

Skeleton x 12

Parry 5 | Tough 5 | Pace 6 (d6) | 

Fighting d6 (claws d6 + d4) | 

Shooting d6 | Athletics d6 | 

Ag d6, Sm d4, Sp d4, St d6, Vi d6 | 

Edges Combat Reflexes

Wraith 

Wild Card

Parry 6 | Tough 6 | Pace 10 (d10) | 

Fighting d8 (claws d8 + d4) | 

Shooting d6 (death stare 2d8 6/12/24)  | 

Athletics d6 | Ag d8, Sm d6, Sp d6, 

St d8, Vi d8 | Edges Dead Shot | 

Powers Flying

Death's Head Keep: Level 2, Room 3 #Dungeon23

 Hay covers the stone floor of this large room that is also littered with strange rocks.

• The right hand door from room 2 leads here.
• It is 60’ x 30’. 
• There is a musky odor.
• There is no other door in this room.

An ill kept coop sits in the middle of the far wall.

• A light clucking can be heard from within it.

A cockatrice is roosting in the coop and will turn its petrify stare upon anyone who disturbs it.

• The statistics for a cockatrice is in the SWADE Fantasy Companion on page 176.
• The cockatrice is broody and is trying to hatch a ring.
• A clear amethyst stone is set in a platinum band.
• The ring is enchanted and will adjust to fit the wearer’s finger.
• The ring increases the wearer’s Stealth by 1 die and their Gambling by 3 dice.

Death's Head Keep: Level 2, Room 2

 

A long dining table with 10 seats and a full meal is set up in this room.

• It is 30’ x 40’. 
• A full meal of pheasant, potatoes, carrots, and onion soup are laid out on the table.
• The food seems fresh and has a pleasant aroma.
• Two bottles of a red Burgundy are at each end of the table.
• The table sits horizontally in the middle of the room and is an ornate oak.
• The chairs are blue velvet and high-backed.
• The food and wine are safe to consume, the only enchantment used to keep the food warm and fresh.

There are 2 doors in the far corners of the room.

• Both doors are unlocked.

There are 2 paintings on the left and right wall of smiling woman full of life and mirth.

• The woman in each painting has flowing dark red hair and a splash of freckles around her eyes.
• In the painting on the left wall her eyes are green.
• In the painting on the right wall her left eye is green and her right eye is a menacing orange and is reminiscent of an owl’s and a night-black long sword rests on her lap.
• The long sword has blasphemous runes etched upon it that are disturbing to look at.

There is thick white fur rug covering most of the floor.

• A successful Academics check reveals that has been made out of several yeti hides.

Death's Head Keep: Level 2, Room 1 #Dungeon23

 A long hallway leads to a set of double doors.

• It is 10’ x 60’. 
• 24 magical torches are evenly distributed along the hall at a height of 8’ on both walls.
• The ceiling is 15’ high and is composed of six 10’ mirrors.
• A gray rug covers the floor.
• Wainscoting is found on both side walls at a height of 4’.
• A Notice check reveals that the reflections in the mirror have no shadows.

The doors are thick and heavy mahogany with a large ivory skull and emerald eyes split symmetrically across them.

• The doors are unlocked.
• The 2 emeralds are worth 500 gp each.
• When the right hand door is touched the shadows of everyone in the hallway attack. See statistics below.
• When the left hand door is touched nothing unusual occurs.
• Any attempt to remove the emeralds is made at -4. 

Shadow 

Parry 7 | Tough 6 | Pace 6 (d6) | 

Fighting d8 (claws d6 + d4) | 

Shooting d6 | Athletics d6 | 

Ag d8, Sm d6, Sp d6, St d6, Vi d8 | 

Edges Block

Death's Head Keep: Level 1, Room 5

The room is dominated by a wide set of stone steps leading down into obscuring mists.

• It is 10’ x 40’. 
• The mist starts 10’ down the steps.
• The room is oppressively humid and anyone wearing armor sweats profusely.

The steps within the mist are slick with moisture.

• They lead down 20’. 
• The steps are Difficult Ground.

A large doorway glows amber in the mist.

• The doorway is 20’ away from the bottom step.
• The amber glow is a minor enchantment on the doorframe.
• The ground is spongy with an earthy smell and in the light of the doorway you can see it is covered in brown moss.

Death's Head Keep: Level 1, Room 4 #Dungeon23

The room is pitch black with a lonely 

stool in its center.

- It is 15’ x 25’. 

-The walls are rough stone.

- The smell of chlorine is acrid and

  startling.

- A barred wooden door is the only exit  

  in the far right corner of the room.

Anyone who sits on the stool must 

make a Spirit check. 

- On a failure the apparition of an 

  ancient woman moves intangibly 

  through the door to stand before them. 

- The woman’s left eye is covered with 

  an eye-patch and her nose is crooked

  and broken.

- She in an imposing sight and is just

  over 6' tall.

- Her teeth are crooked and black and

  leans uncomfortable close to asks the 

  creature who sat down what their True

  Name is.

- If the creature chooses to answer her

  question and lies the GM gains a Benny.

- Any attacks pass harmlessly through

  her as she is an astral projection and 

  her body is far from her. 

- The next round she leaves the way she

  came in.

- She will not reappear again.

  There is a secret door in the middle of

  the left-hand wall that can be found

  with a Notice check at -1.

- It has 6 shelves that holds close to 3

  dozen humanoid hearts in glass jars.

- The hearts are suspended in a bright

  green fluid. 

- All of the hearts are beating audibly

  and in unison. 

        - There is room for more hearts equal to

  the number of PCs. 

- If opened the heart in the jar stops

   beating and the liquid turns blue, 

   has the consistency of honey, and is 

           becomes a remarkably strong adhesive 

           known as twitterpaste.