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VAULT OF
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orange crystal appears at the bottom of the font and 35. I'JIN'S TOMB
can easily be removed. If the eye is taken from the font
and later put back, it disappears and the illusory soup Characters can reach this area via area 18, by lowering
the stone block in the east wall (area 35A), or by slipping
effect is reset.
between the teeth of the jackal visage at area 29.
Crystal Eye. The nonmagical crystal eye is one of
the ten keys needed to open the vault of the beholder
35A. STONE BLOCK
(area 44).
A 5-foot-wide, 5-foot-thick, 12-foot-tall block of solid
stone fills ~he doorway leading to l'jin's tomb (area 35B).
EMPTY C LOSET
The block ts featureless on the side that faces the tomb,
East of the font is a dusty, empty room.
and it is impervious to damage and spells. If the charac-
34. PEEPHOLE ters approach the block from the east, read:
The corridor turns sharply to the left. At the corner just I a seven-foot-tall jackal-headed humanoid with a circular
If one or more characters approach this area from the
south, read: The corridor ends at a block of stone on which is painted

carvings of locusts.
before the turn, a peephole is carved into the stone wall gold medallion around its neck. All around the figure are
at a height of 6 feet.
Close inspection reveals that one of the carved locusts
is a button that can be pushed. When this happens, the
The peephole forms one end of a 5-foot-long tube cut
stone block sinks into the floor, creating an open pas·
through the solid rock wall. Magnifying lenses set
sage to the tomb (area 35B).
throughout the tube give anyone who peers through the The "medallion" worn by the jackal-headed painting is
bole a clear view of the gold medallion in area 35A and actually a 6-inch-diameter gold disk engraved with the
the hieroglyph visible on the dial behind it. In addition, face of a homed devil, its mouth agape. Lodged behind
a creature looking through the peephole can communi- this disk is a clay dial etched with eight hieroglyphs.
cate telepathically with creatures in area 35B. Using the One hieroglyph (a vulture) is visible through a hole that
peephole, a character can identify the correct sequence
forms the devil's gaping mouth, but the dial is locked in
of floor tiles to step on in area 35B and communicate
place and its remaining seven hieroglyphs are hidden
that information to everyone in I'jin's tomb.
from view behind the medallion.
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