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25 Blood Water
25 Blood Water
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dungeon by overgrown
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crumbling A few days travel from the nearest village there is an old Some whisper of rumours they have heard:
into the wood. In that wood there is a lake and in the middle of that 1. It’s a sunken wizard tower.
for more w a t e r lake is a tower. Local folk know to keep their distance from 2. The lake water is blessed and harms evil creatures.
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v i s i t below. A this place, only death and danger lie beneath the surface 3. It's an entrance to the underworld.
s i n g l e common wisdom tells them. 4. A demon cult used to meet on the lake bed.
olobosk.com window at 5. Living moss attacks you if you enter the tower.
the top 6. Nobody returns from going inside.
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promises
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the chance for immortality. blessings, its that must be left to rot, this ch
esoteric prayer together
smell of piece of Holy oor.
c o o k i n g He knows about the Titan C h a l k . the fl scales glisten undisturbed. There is a in Shallow water. It has
and fears its release. f chal n with holy 1 in 6 chance that incited many heretical
stew seeps k drawn out o protection. It reading one of these cult outbreaks over the
through
the gaps guards a warnings casts millennia, slowly
A well lit, tidy bed A stocked pantry, small table and a
a r o u n d i l v e chamber with two beds. magically heated stone serve as a crum ring of wishing Suggestion on the gathering strength by
open door
the door plated One looks neat and not ramshackle kitchen & dining gs
at the i r o n slept in, the other room. On the table, scraps of bread a The ton leave this place and doomed sacrifices from
bottom. d o o r scruffy and unmade. and half a bowl of stew grow stale. lin chem fet e ce l giving them a deep their bodies. Now it
stairs ger i ical or ili sense of foreboding. awaits its final sacrifice
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hubris, fuelled by her proximity to the Titan’s abandoning their research and sta in the lake’s holy water
mass grave. The only thing that survives
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influence. If not stopped she will figure out will try to convince others to sta other than their bones are silver lined
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how to complete the ritual soon… oust her from the dungeon. sta scrolls, soaked, but perfectly preserved.