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A pair of drow mages and siblings named Elvilac and
Lorlynn searched and plundered the sarcophagi. Each
sarcophagus rests atop a 1-foot-tall stone bier and is 7
feet long, 3 feet wide, and 3 feet tall. The contents of the
sarcophagi are as follows:- The northern sarcophagus contains the moldy bones
of a dwarf with corroded bits of armor clinging to it.
Its skull is hidden inside a rusty bucket helm. - The middle sarcophagus is empty, but a body-shaped
impression in the dust suggests that someone rested
here recently. (Elvilac, the dead drow in area 11,
rested here while he meditated.) - The southern sarcophagus contains the bones and
tattered robe of a long-dead mind flayer.
14B. NORTHERN CRYPT
The door to this room is identical to the one guarding
area 14a, except for a triangular hole at the bottom. Be-
hind the door is a dusty, 10 -foot-high crypt containing
the following features:
Skeletons and S a rcophagi. Twelve dwarf s keletons
mill aimlessly around three unmarked stone sarcoph-
agi in the middle of this crypt.
Lorlynn. The southern sarcophagus is missing its lid.
A female drow mage named Lorlynn Zmirth rests in-
side. She sits up when intruders enter the crypt.
Lorlynn came to Undermountain with her twin
brother Elvilac in hopes of finding useful spellbooks and
magic. Netherskull has chosen to leave her alone for the
time being. Her brother wasn't so fortunate (see area
11 ). Lorlynn doesn't know he's dead and is expecting
him to return any moment, but news of his death doesn't
upset her. So gloomy a creature was he that if Lorlynn
can recover and animate his corpse, it will be as though
he never died.
Lorlynn wears a tattered gray spider silk robe and
cowl that, coupled with her gaunt features, makes her
appear distinctly banshee-like. She abhors the company
of other humanoids except her brother. She is in a re-
laxing trance when the characters first arrive. Normally
indifferent toward adventurers, she turns hostile if she
finds that the characters have her brother's spellbook
and refuse to surrender it to her. If her skeletons are
turned or destroyed and she is reduced to half her hit
points or fewer, Lorlynn offers information in exchange
for her life. She knows one random Undermountain
secret, determined by drawing a card from the Secrets
Deck (see appendix C). She also knows how to deacti-
vate the pit traps and teleport traps on this level using
the wheel in area 12, but knows nothing of the living
unseen servant that Halaster recently put there.
Each sarcophagus sits atop a 1-foot-tall stone bier and
is 7 feet long, 3 feet wide, and 3 feet tall. A character
with a Strength score of 15 or higher can push off the lid
of a sarcophagus easily. The contents of each sarcopha-
gus are described below:- The northern sarcophagus has a gaping crack in
one of its sides, and four harmless rats have used
this crack to creep inside and make a nest among
the moldering bones of a sahuagin (placed here by
Halaster to confound grave robbers). Lifting the lid or
LEV.EL 15 I OBSTACLE COURSEtapping on the sarcophagus causes ld4 rats to emerge
in a panic. The detritus in the nest includes two ran-
dom trinkets, determined by rolling on the Trinkets
table in chapter 5 of the Player's Handbook.
The middle sarcophagus is full of cobwebs, hidden
under which is a right-handed iron gauntlet with six
fingers. Characters can use the gauntlet to activate the
gate in area 24c.- The southern sarcophagus (Lorlynn's bed) has a
secret compar tment in the bottom that can be found
with a successful DC 20 Wisdom (Perception) check.
Its contents are described in "Treasure" below.
Treasure. Lorlynn wears a black gold ring set with
bloodstones (250 gp) on the index finger of her right
hand and carries a bone wand (her arcane focus), a
pouch containing two bone dice (1 gp each), and a blood-
stained sackcloth doll with two jet eyes (100 gp per eye).
The secret compartment in Lorlynn's sarcophagus
holds her spellbook, which has covers made of stitched
elf flesh. It contains all the spells she has prepared plus
animate dead, arcane eye, and wal/ of stone.
15. R U I NED ARMORY
Chasm. The air is hot and dry. A crumbling ledge over-
looks a great chasm brightly lit by a bubbling pool of
lava 30 feet below. Visible from this location is a spec-
tral bridge that spans the chasm (see area 16).
Debris. What's left of the floor is strewn with broken,
corroded fragments of dwarf-sized chain mail and
plate armor.
Arch. Embedded in the middle of the south wall is
a stone arch made up of one hundred s tone jigsaw
pieces. This arch is one of Halaster's magic gates (see
"Gates," page 12).ARCH GATE TO LEVEL 20
Each of the arch's one hundred jigsaw pieces weighs 10
pounds. The rules of this gate are as follows:- Only one piece of the arch can be removed at any
given time. A detect magic spell reveals that one of the
pieces (determined randomly) is magical. When that
piece is removed from the arch, it disappears, and the
gate opens for 1 minute. When the gate closes, the
piece removed from the arch magically reappears in
its proper place, and a different piece becomes magi-
cal and must be removed to reopen the gate. - If a wrong piece is removed from the arch, an adult
white dragon magically appears in an unoccupied
space within 60 feet of the arch and attacks any crea-
ture it can see. The dragon disappears when it is slain
or after 1 minute. When the dragon disappears, the
piece that was removed from the arch magically reap-
pears in its previous place. - Characters must be at least 16th level or higher to
pass through this gate (see "Jhesiyra Kestellharp,"
page 10). The first creature to pass through the gate
triggers an elder rune (see "Elder Runes," page 12). - A creature that passes through the gate appears in
area 9b on level 20, in the closest unoccupied space
next to the identical gate located there.