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accoutrements of a typical kitchen, such as food prepa- 29. OLD BOOKS
ration tables, cupboards stuffed with pots and pans,
and racks of utensils. Its more noteworthy features are Light. Lanterns anchored to the 15-foot-high ceiling by
as follows: iron chains are spaced 20 feet apart and have contin-
ual flame spells cast on them.
Kitchen Staff. Two barbed devils prepare meals here Bookshelves. Carved into the walls are five-tiered book-
and attack anyone they don't recognize. Also present shelves packed with old leather-bound tomes.
are three living unseen servants (see appendix A) Illusory Frescoes. At the north end of the east wall is
that deliver meals. a 20-foot wide, 8-foot-tall painted fresco. A similar
Stove. The kitchen's centerpiece, a massive iron stove fresco adorns the middle of the west wall. These walls
with a domed hood, is topped with bubbling cauldrons and their frescoes are illusions that conceal passages
and sizzling skillets. to areas 28 and 32. Hidden behind the illusory wall
Pneumatic Tubes. Thirteen copper pneumatic tubes to the west are four altered helmed horrors (each
are fastened to one wall, with a shelf of empty copper marked with an H on map 9).
canisters below them.
None of the books stored here are valuable, and many
The devils perform their duties in a half-hearted are so old that they fall apart if opened. Most are text-
manner, usually undercooking or overcooking the food. books about the eight schools of arcane magic, penned
Despite their displeasure, they keep the kitchen clean by sages and scholars of yore, and they contain hand-
and tidy, as befits their orderly nature. The living unseen written margin notes and graffiti from previous owners.
servants have no function other than to deliver meals. The fresco on the east wall depicts a wizard's tower
The stove is powered by magic from the Elemental floating above a city being pulverized by meteor swarms.
Plane of Fire and puts out a lot of heat. Any creature The fresco on the west wall depicts Halaster riding
that touches the stove or starts its turn in contact with it triumphantly on the back of a blue dracolich. The walls
takes 5 (ldlO) fire damage. and their frescoes are illusions without substance.
Pneumatic Tubes. These tubes connect to various Creatures can pass right through them, and an illusory
other locations in Dweomercore and are used to receive wall can be dispelled with a successful dispel magic
food orders (though food is not sent through them). spell (DC 14).
From left to right, the tubes are labeled with their des-
tinations: "Turbulence" (area 8a), "Violence" (area 8b), "HALASTER HORRORS"
"Karstis" (area 8c), "Yarek" (area 8d), "Spite" (area 1 la), Halaster crafted four metal constructs in his likeness,
"Skrianna" (area llb), "Vacant" (area llc), "Cephalossk" furnishing them with metal helms modeled after his
(area lld), "Blan" (area lle), "Nylas" (area llf), "Head- visage, steel staffs, and robes made of articulated, over-
master" (area 15a), "Wormriddle" (area 23c), and "Guest lapping metal plates. These "Halaster horrors" attack
Lecturer" (area 42). anyone not accompanied by the Mad Mage or by a crea-
ture that looks like him.
27B. SCULLERY These constructs are helmed horrors armed with
This room is filled with sinks full of soapy water, shelves metal staffs. They have immunity to cone of cold, disin-
of dishes and cookware, and racks of damp towels. If tegrate, and fireball spells. On its turn, a Halaster horror
she has not been encountered elsewhere, Violence the can use its action to make two attacks with its staff,
tiefling mage (see "The Horned Sisters," page 118) is which deals 8 (ld8 + 4) bludgeoning damage on a hit.
here, cleaning dishes as punishment for threatening a
guest lecturer. 30. DINING HALL
Violence isn't permitted to leave until the headmaster Servants. Six living unseen servants (see appendix A)
releases her, and she's unwilling to sneak off and face stand invisibly about the room.
greater punishment. If the characters approach her in a Dining Set. A 20-foot-long, 5-foot-wide stone table laid
friendly manner, Violence recommends that they speak out with dinnerware has twelve tall wooden chairs
to her sister, who is in the Spellcasting Hall (area 17).
around it.
Light. Suspended above the table are two lanterns with
27C. LARDER
continual flame spells cast on them.
This room contains crates, barrels, and sacks filled with
staple foodstuffs. Tapestry. An old, threadbare tapestry spanning the
north wall depicts seven wizardly figures standing in a
28. MORE HALASTER STATUES row. (A passage leading to area 31 is concealed by this
tapestry.)
This area is identical to area 24, with the added feature
of an illusory wall to the west. The unseen servants' job is to serve meals and tidy up
A detect magic spell cast on the western wall reveals afterward. They bring food from the bone devils in the
that the wall gives off an aura of illusion magic. It has kitchen (area 27a) whenever someone sits down at the
no substance, and creatures and objects can pass right table. These servants do not attack and are worth 0 XP.
through it. The illusory wall can be removed with a suc- The figures portrayed on the tapestry are HaJaster's
cessful dispel magic spell (DC 14). first seven apprentices: three robed women (Arcturia,
Jhesiyra Kestellharp, and Marambra Nyghtsteel), three
robed men (Nester, Rantantar, and Trobriand), and

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