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EADEEPS IS DESICNED FOR FOUR 1 4TH-LEVEL ENEMIES AT T H E GATES
characters, and adventurers who defeat the Through methods unknown to the illithids, the
monsters on this level should gain enough githyanki vanguard force tracked the survivors of their
XP to advance to 15th level. Before running attack on the colony to Undermountain. Having recently
this level, consider reviewing the "Gith" secured the nearby Crystal Labyrinth (level 16), the
and "Mind Flayer" entries in the Monster githyanki now wage war against the mind flayers in
Manual, as well as the "Ulitharid" entry Seadeeps. Uncertainty about its own future has forced
in appendix A. They will help you roleplay Extremiton to hold off on transforming into an elder
the monsters on this level and bring their conflict in brain. Instead, it is focused on defending the colony and
Seadeeps to life. destroying its githyanki neighbors. With only a dozen
mind flayers remaining under its rule, Extremiton has
WHAT DWELLS HERE? resorted to breeding a neothelid (see appendix A) and
plans to set it loose in the Crystal Labyrinth to finally
Mind flayers from the Underdark have formed a new
wipe out the githyanki force. Extremiton is also gather-
colony on this level of Undermountain, though githyanki
ing thralls of every race to help defend the colony if the
from level 16 are determined to wipe it out.
neothelid is destroyed or fails in its task.
MIND FLAYERS
CITY OF T HE MIND
Deep in the Underdark, a githyanki vanguard force Extremiton can sense intelligent creatures within 2
attacked a large colony of mind flayers controlled by an miles of it and is able to communicate with them tele-
elder brain. Fearing the colony's destruction, the elder pathically. Using this ability judiciously, the ulitharid has
brain instructed its most loyal vassal, an ulitharid called learned a great deal about the city above and its inhabi-
Extremiton, to establish a splinter colony somewhere tants. Waterdeep has, in a way, captured the ulitharid's
safe from githyanki incursions. Extremiton made its imagination.
way to Undermountain with a group of mind flayers, laid Extremiton intends to enslave the population ofWa-
claim to level 17 of the dungeon, and began fortifying terdeep, but not before it fully understands this strange
it against attacks from the githyanki and others. The city and its people. The telepathic communications the
dungeon's proximity to Waterdeep guaranteed the mind ulitharid has initiated with random Waterdavians has
flayers a limitless supply of brains to feed on, while provided it with plenty of information, but no firsthand
Undermountain's existing defenses offered an unprece- knowledge of how city dwellers behave and react on a
dented level of security. daily basis.

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