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Three other mirrors (your choice) are empty frames 23c . GOBLIN DEN
containing illusory glass that has no substance. These Unless the watch post is on alert, nine goblins sleep on
false mirrors conceal small shelves that are carved into the floor, their weapons and shields in easy reach.
the walls behind them. Casting dispel magic on one of The goblins fearfully obey the bugbears in area 23b.
these mirrors ends the illusion and reveals the hidden If their leaders are killed, the goblins flee to area 28 (by
shelf beyond. way of areas 24 and 25).

T REASU RE 24. HALLS OF HOPELESSNESS
Two of the shelves are bare. The third holds a bronze Goblins and bugbears pass through these rooms often.
mask molded to resemble Halaster's visage (SO gp).
No creatures live here, however.
22. EMPTY ROOM
24A. OLD G ATE
A few burned torch stubs and discarded potion bottles Pillars. Two stone pillars with a 10-foot-wide arch be-
suggest that adventurers stop here from time to time, tween them support the 20-foot-high ceiling.
perhaps to rest. The room is otherwise empty. Ore Bones. Near the base of each pillar are the skeletal
remains of two ores. (Adventurers killed and robbed
23. WORG'S EYE WATCH POST these four ores long ago, leaving nothing of value.)
The Xanathar Guild maintains a watch post here, called One of Ha laster's magic gates once stood between
"Worg's Eye" by the bugbears that command it. The the pillars but was destroyed during the Spellplague.
goblinoids stationed here, two bugbears and fifteen The gate's destruction left behind a lingering aura of
goblins, can't be surprised if they know trouble is on the wild magic that can be perceived with a detect magic
way. If the two bugbears in area 2b managed to make it spell. When a creature passes between the pillars,
this far, add them to the roster of enemies. roll a d12 and consult the following table to determine
what happens:
23A. NIMRAITH'S FATE
Goblins. Six bored goblins play here. The goblins have d12 Effect
turned a human skeleton into a marionette and dan- 1-2 The creature must make a DC 12 Constitution
gled it from ropes attached to the ceiling so that they saving throw against the lingering magic, taking
can make it dance around the room. The goblins chant 22 (4d10) force damage on a failed save, or half as
"Nimraith! Nimraith! Nimraith!" as it bobs about. much damage on a successful one.
Cleft Shield. Two halves of a cloven wooden shield lie in 3-7 Nothing happens.
the room's northwest corner. Each half of the cloven 8-11 The creature, along with anything it is carrying or
shield has letters etched into it. One half reads "Nimr." wearing, turns invisible for 1 hour. The effect ends
The other reads "aith." if the creature attacks or casts a spell.
The goblins fearfully obey the bugbears in area 23b. 12 For the next 24 hours, each nonmagical weapon
If their leaders are killed. the goblins flee to area 28 (by carried by the creature glows with a faint purple
way of areas 24 and 25). light and becomes a +1 weapon.
Held together with moldy string, the yellowed skeleton
is all that remains of Nimraith, a human adventurer who 24B. D EAD M AGE
perished in Undermountain over a century ago.
Bones. Moldy bones have been swept into a deep alcove
23B. SHATTERED STATUE in the south wall.
Dead Prisoner. Hanging from rusty manacles on the
Bugbears. Two bugbears stand guard. Each bugbear
has an intellect devourer in its skull cavity. back wall of an alcove to the east is a tiefling skeleton
Noise. The goblins in the adjoining room (area 23a) are missing its legs. Written on the wall above the skele-
ton in dried blood are the following words in Infernal:
noisy enough to be heard here.
Shattered Statue. The remains of a shattered statue lie TALK TOME.
in the middle of the room. (The bugbears are trying to A tiefling mage was cast out of Dweomercore, the
reassemble it.) secret academy on level 9, for spell theft and for being a
suspected agent of the Arcane Brotherhood (a society of
The bugbears detect the approach of adventurers with
the aid of the intellect devourers' Detect Sentience trait renegade wizards based in Luskan). Halaster killed the
tiefling as a precaution and hung its skeleton here as a
and therefore can't be surprised. When a bugbear drops
to 0 hit points, the intellect devourer inhabiting its skull macabre decoration. If a speak with dead spell is cast
on the skeleton, it answers whatever questions it must
teleports away to seek a new host. to satisfy the conditions of the spell and then intones,
This nonmagical statue has broken into seventeen "Look for the little dwarves under the mountain! One of
fist-sized chunks of black stone. (Restoring it will take them hides the key to my heart!" This clue refers to the
the bugbears a month.) Any character who succeeds on stone fresco in area 6c and the magic heart in area 14b.
a DC 15 Intelligence (Investigation) check can ascertain
what the statue depicted: three male human warriors
standing together on a stone mound, facing outward and
clutching swords.

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