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MAP 6.2: TEMPLE OF ASMOOEUS

Secret Door. Behind one of the bas-reliefs is a secret

door, which can be detected with a successful DC 13

Wisdom (Perception) check. Pushing against the sculp-

ture causes a secret door to swing open into area A6.

A6. SECRET VESTRY

This room is hidden behind two secret doors that aren't

disguised on the inside, where a stone knob on each

door allows it to be pulled open with ease. The room

contains the following features:

• Against the south wall stand two black wardrobes
  with nine-pointed stars carved into their doors.
  A pair of tall, s lender mirrors are mounted on the west
  wall, their stone frames carved with serpents.


• Stacked in the middle of the room are six casks of
  wine used for cuJt celebrations.
  Each wardrobe contains five complete outfits of cult
  regalia s ized for adult humans: red robes, devil masks,
  and wooden amulets shaped in the symbol of Asmodeus.
  Cult Gathering. An hour before a cult gathering, five
  human cultists are here donning their regalia.

A7. CEREMONIAL HALL
This hall has a 30-foot-high vaulted ceiling and a pair of
20-foot-high balconies (see area A2) overlooking it. Its
other features as follows:

• Rows of flickering candles in iron candlesticks form a
  pathway to a 30-foot-tall stone statue at the west end

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of the hall. The statue depicts a smiling, bearded man

of diabolical bent, with small horns protruding from

his brow and cloven hooves instead of feet. At the base

of the statue, clutched in a stone claw erupting from

the floor, is a 3-foot-deep, 9-foot-diameter stone bowl

filled with crackling flames.

• Three human cultists wearing red robes, deviJ masks,
  and wooden holy symbols of Asmodeus kneel before
  the statue, feverishly chanting an infernal hymn.
  (During a cult gathering, the number of cultists pres-
  ent increases dramatically.)


• The walls around the statue are covered by large
  tapestries that depict scenes of human debauchery.
  (Behind the north tapestry is a rough-hewn passage
  that leads to a rea A9.)
  The Cassalanters' ritual to save Terenzio and Elzerina
  plays out here (see "Special Events," page 130).
  Cult Gathering. If the cult is he re in force, thirty
  human cultists stand in neat rows before the statue,
  chanting to Asmodeus with wooden goblets in hand
  while their leader, Victoro Cassalanter (see appendix
  B), tosses offerings into the bowl. Roughly half of the
  cultists are members of the nobility; the rest are Water-
  davian rabble brought into the cult to fill out the ranks.
  Standing around the perimeter are Willi fort Crowelle,
  Tissina Khyret, Laiba Rosse, and]andar Chergoba (see
  "Head Servants," page 116). Their job is to make sure
  the other cultists behave themselves while Ammalia

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