(Last two months to go and we have also crashed through the 300 rooms/encounters/locations barrier. Woohoo! This month we return to the Found Tombs of Arvakaten to detail a slightly different dungeon level, a sort of level 0 or level -1 as it were.)
The Eyrie of Mount Gulugu
Mount Gulugu is the largest mountain in the rugged uplands from which flows the river Murab, and most of the Found Tombs of Arvakaten can be found tunneling within its stony depths. Above the Tombs proper, are a series of interlinked caves and caverns, nests and lairs, forming an Eyrie level of weird inhabitants, all scratching out a living in this rocky, boulder-strewn wilderness.
A Nest of Vultures (#1/30, #305/365)
"Up on a rocky outcrop you spy the sprawling nest of some large bird, a mess of guano-stained branches and sticks, and possibly even a few bones. You see the pink, wattled head and neck of a huge bird of prey of some sort, with a curved black beak, emerge from the nest and eye you warily."
Contents: This is the nest of a pair of GIANT VULTURES, who will attack anyone coming within ten metres of their domain. They will attack the most precariously positioned Heroes first, trying to get them to lose their footing and stumble down the mountain. Any dead or unconscious Heroes will be carried back to the nest to be eaten.
The nest is built against a flat cliff-face and scrabbling among the rocks will reveal a tight crawl-space tunneling into the mountain, with a successful Test for Awareness Special Skill roll. The crawl-space is large enough for a normal-sized human or smaller to enter; larger races, such as Half-Ogres, Half-Trolls, Rhino-Folk, Half-Giants, and so on, will be unable to gain access.
Stats:
2 GIANT VULTURES, SKILL 7 STAMINA 10, Large Claw.
Within the nest itself can be found 2 Giant Vulture Eggs worth 50GP each (see Encyclopedia Arcana: Volume 1, p. 95), 2-12 SP, 1-6 GP, a Sapphire (worth 15GP), and a Golden Holy Symbol of Glantanka in the form of a blazing sun, worth 25GP.
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