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5. BARRACKS 7. 0ZYMAND1AS'S QUARTERS
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Three crude pallets lie on the floor, and a large iron kettle This room is full of kegs, bags, and boxes. There is a
stands in the center of the chamber. In the northeast cor- rough cot in one corner and a great deal of clutter ev-
ner is a jumbled pile of broken lumber. erywhere. Except for the cot, this appears to be nothing
• more than a disorganized storage room .
Unless alerted by a commotion in area 2. one guard
(veteran) is napping on a pallet.
Until unknown voices or the sounds of battle draw his
The pallets hold nothing but rags stuffed inside flour attention, Ozymandias (priest) is in this room discuss-
sacks to make crude mattresses. The kettle, used for ing survival tactics with a guard (veteran). The room
heating the room, contains ash and charcoal. The
serves as Ozymandias's bedroom, office, and storeroom.
lumber in the corner fuels the kettle. ff the characters If the characters search the jumbled mess. they find a
search through the lumber, they find the guards' weapon couple of kegs of corned beef and pork; bags of beans.
hoard hidden behind i1: five spears, a shortbow and rice. and flour; and two boxes of fresh vegetables from
quiver of twenty arrows, two shortswords, three dag- the abbey's garden. They also find gardening tools, a
gers. two shields, and one suit of chain mail armor sized keg of nails, a box of carpentry tools (saws. hammers,
for a Medium creature.
planes, and so on), three lanterns, ten flasks of oil, two
50-foot coils of rope, twenty torches, and two 10-foot
6. MEDITATION ROOM
wooden poles.
Treasure. Ozymandius wears the special golden
This room has been cleared of all debris and is currently ' medallion (see the sidebar). Carefully searching under
the cot reveals four potions of healing in fancy crystal
being scrubbed clean by a single robed figure. Three
decanters. The decanters are worth 20 gp each if empty.
walls are heavily curtained with draperies of thick black
velvet, and the east wall is decorated with a horrible 8. BAYLEAF'S QUARTERS
mural depicting a red dragon devouring sheep. Near the
west wall is a stone table on which a large iron brazier
Empty weapon racks and several empty bins and shelves
burns. The table has been scrubbed and scoured, but it
line the walls of this room. On the floor is a bedroll of
has many odd discolorations and scorch marks. A half·
three blankets next to a pair of shiny leather boots.
melted statue and two badly damaged candlesticks sit
beside the brazier.
• Bayleaf (bard) is in this room exchanging war stories
with one of the guards (veteran) unless they hear a dis-
If not drawn into area 2 by intruders. one disciple (aco- turbance outside. This former armory of the clerics and
lyte) is cleaning the table and floors here. the abbey guards is now devoid of such contents.
This was a meditation and study room before the Bayleaf has hidden his personal wealth and collection
abbey burned. The clerics still perform what few rites of scrolls under a loose stone in the floor. A character
and ceremonies they can, given the circumstances. The who makes a successful DC 14 Wisdom (Perception$)
furnishings were salvaged from the rubble. check while searching the room spots the loose stone.
A character who has a passive Perception score of Treasure. Bayleaf's boots of striding and springing
13 or higher and examines the floor in front of the sit next to the bed. Under the loose stone are a spell
curtains notices some abrasions on the stone floor in scroll of silent image, a spell scroll of phantasmal force,
the southwest corner. If the characters pull back the a leather pouch containing 75 gp, and a pair of ruby
curtains in the corner and examine the south wall. they earrings worth 150 gp. If the characters make a bargain
automatically notice the hidden door that leads to the with Bayleaf and convince him to leave peacefully. he
Winding Way. takes his treasure with him.
The abbey residents do not tamper with the curtains,
seeing them as sacred objects. Thus they do not know 9. ODIUM'S QUARTERS
about the hidden door behind them. They consider any
attempt to move or tear down the curtains blasphemous
This room contains small statues and figurines. There
attacking the perpetrators if they witness such an act or
are statues of dogs and horses, monks and pilgrims.
learn of it.
Table. The table, discolored by fire and heat, serves footmen and knights on horseback, and several garden
as the ceremonial platform where incense is burned and gnomes. All the statues are between one and three feet
where larger sacrifices are made by burning rich, costly tall. Standing against the northern wall are two life.size
items in the brazier.
statues. One is a robed skeleton holding a large scythe,
Treasure. The candlesticks are gold and worth 10 gp
and the other is a medusa. On the floor in front of these
each. The statue was badly damaged in the fire but is
made of pure silver and is worth 20 gp. statues is a pallet of several blankets.

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