5th level: Bigby's hand, cloudkill, hold monster, legend lore,
passwall, Rary's telepathic bond, telekinesis, wall of stone
6th level: chain lightning, disintegrate, Drawmij's instant
summons, eyebite,jlesh to stone, Otto's irresistible dance,
true seeing
7th level:forcecage, mirage arcana, Mordenkainen's magnificent
mansion, prismatic spray, reverse gravity, teleport
8th level: anti magic field, feeblemind, incendiary cloud, maze.
power word stun, telepathy
THE PUDDING KING
The mad svirfneblin waits for the characters in his
disgusting throne room. Tf the characters haven't seen
the throne room before, read the boxed text description
of the room (see area 30) and add the following:
The Pudding King cowers behind his slime-covered
t hro ne and chortles in his joy. "Calloohl Cal lay! Now you
can join the part y!" he cackles. "You can be one with the
Faceless Lord. just let yourselves be eaten and disgorged!"The Pudding King (see appendix C) prefers to cast
spells while using the throne for cover. As a bonus
action on his turn, he commands a patch of green slime
to drop from the ceiling onto one randomly determined
party member (see "Dungeon Hazards~ in chapter 5 of
the Dungeon Master's Guide for the rules and effects of
green slime).
When one or more of the characters close to within
reach of t he Pudding King, he laughs madly as he tears
away his humanoid guise and transforms into an ooze.
When he reaches 0 hit points, he shrieks as he dissolves
into a dense puddle of goo. Read the following boxed
text as he expires:
"You haven't won! No! We will rise from our children!
We will be reborn from the Faceless Lord! )uiblex will
consume the banquet of the Queen of Fungi and we ...
will ... all ... grow ... !"With the Pudding King gone, the oozes lose their
organization. but they arc still too many and the
svir fneblio sound the call to retreat. Three ga le b
duhr led by the ghost of Burrow Wardenjadger arrive
to take the characters to safety. If the svirfneblin of
Blingdenstone didn't already have a friendly attitude.
they become friendly toward the characters after
the battle.DEVELOPMENT
Back in Diggermattock Hall, the gnome leaders make
good on their promise, giving the characters a stone of
controlling earth elementals along with the gratitude of
their people.XPAWARDS
If the c haracters participated in the battle, they gain a
special award of 200 XP each.LEAVING BLINGDENSTONE
The characters can leave Blingdenstone as heroes
of the svirfneblin. If they express interest in visiting
other Underdark locations. the deep gnomes give them
whatever help they can. including placing them in a
caravan to Gracklstugh or Neverlight Grove. If the
characters ask for help reaching the surface world.
the gnomes guiding them to a tunnel that leads there
(eventually}. They also provide enough food. water. and
other basic supplies for the party's journey.
The characters achieve a great victory if they defeat
the Pudding King, but their victory is incomplete. The
Pudding King's death is a small setback for juiblex. and
the demon lord might send another minion to command
the remaining oozes in Blingdenstonc until they arc
destroyed.
The "banquet'' the Pudding King referred to is the
demonic rite of domination through which Zuggt moy
plans to transform the Underdark into her new abyssal
domain. See chapter 16, "The Fetid Wedding," for more
information.T"E PuoooNG K oNGCllAPTf.R 6 I BUNGDENSTOJ\E