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• Greedy Nangnang urges her host to search the balco- and immunity to fire, poison, and psychic damage.
nies and bone-filled alcoves for treasure. When a strut drops to 0 hit points, it breaks and causes
• Nervous Obo'laka is concerned that the bones in the the other two struts to snap as the Soulmonger falls.
northern alcoves might rise up and attack. The struts are wide enough that Medium or Small
Shrewd Papazotl suspects that the atropal might be creatures can walk along them without difficulty. How-
vulnerable to radiant damage and that killing it might ever. any creature that takes damage while standing on
summon forth its evil master. a strut must succeed on a DC 10 Dexterity saving throw
• Virtuous Shagambi recognizes that the atropal is un- or fall off it, plunging into the lava unless the creature is
holy and orders her host to destroy it at once. somehow secured.
• Contemplative Unkh urges her host to communicate Unless likewise secured, any creature standing on an
with the atropal. Perhaps the creature is just mis- adamantine strut when the strut breaks falls into the
understood. lava. If the creature is within reach of a balcony, it can
• Deranged Wongo wants his host to attack the tenta- leap onto the balcony and avoid the fall with a successful
cles sprouting from the top of the Soulmonger. DC 10 Dexterity saving throw.
Tentacles. Once per turn, in response to any creature
TuE SOULMONGER making a successful melee weapon attack against the
The Soul monger is an upright crystal cylinder 20 feet cylinder or one of its struts, the Soulmonger attacks that
high and 10 feet in diameter. The adamantine struts that creature with one of its 30-foot-long tentacles. The ten-
suspend it above the lava attach to an adamantine ring tacle bas a Strength score of 22 and makes one melee
around the cylinder's midsection. weapon attack against the creature: +7 to hit. 24 (4d8
Under the scrutiny of a detect magic spell or similar + 6) bludgeoning damage. Instead of dealing damage,
effect, the Soul monger radiates an intense aura of nec- a tentacle can grapple its target (escape DC 16). If the
romantic magic. Destroying the Soulmonger not only target weighs 330 pounds or less, the tentacle can also
ends the effects of the death curse (see the introduction lift the grappled creature and move it to any unoccupied
to the adventure) but also frees all the souls trapped space within its 30-foot reach, or drop it in the lava.
within the device. Freed souls travel to the afterlife, and The tentacles can be attacked and destroyed. Each
any creature whose soul is set free can be brought back one is a Huge animated object with AC 15, 30 hit points,
from the dead by magical means. and immunity to poison and psychic damage.
The Soul monger is an artifact of evil-a Huge object Destroyin' the SoulmonF. When the Soulmonger
with AC 15; 200 hit points; vulnerability to radiant dam- drops to 0 hit points, read:
age; and immunity to bludgeoning, piercing, and slash-
ing damage from nonmagical attacks.
Adamantine Struts. One way to destroy the Soulmon- The crystal cylinder shatters, and a myriad of tiny lights
ger ls to break any of the three adamantine struts that pour forth from within. These bright souls coil through
suspend it above the lava. Each strut is a Large object the air like a tornado, blazing upward and then vanishing
with AC 20; 100 hit points; immunity to bludgeoning, in a blinding, spectral flash.
piercing, and slashing damage from nonmagical attacks;

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