"You enter a high vaulted chamber, whose many archways are festooned with yet more cobwebs. Suddenly, four hideous creatures shamble into view - their upper half a bestial snarling armoured humanoid waving a scimitar, their bottom half eight scuttling giant spider legs. They advance towards you, clattering across the floor."
Contents: These ISHKARIM are demonic guardians of this part of the temple. They will attack anyone not successfully disguised as a cultist.
Stats:
4 ISHKARIM, SKILL 8 STAMINA 9, Scimitar, Leather Cuirass and Shield. Successful hits only cause 1 STAMINA damage due to their strong bony frame.
Idol of Veracna (#27/31; #208/365)
"This long chapel ends in the horrible gigantic statue of an immense black hairy spider. Eight rubies gleam like fireballs in the eyesockets of the creature's head."
Contents: This is a shrine to Veracna the Spider Queen, and consort to Arhallogen the Spider God. The rubies in the statue's eyes are trapped; removing each one causes a jet of poisonous gas to Test for Luck to avoid or sleep for 10-60 minutes. Worse, if the final ruby is removed, an avatar of Veracna ("a huge grotesque bloated body supported on eight hairy legs, clicking its mandibles and staring at its prey with cold black eyes") will materialize in the chamber and attack whoever has stolen the rubies.
Each ruby is worth 50GP.
Stats:
VERACNA, SKILL 9 STAMINA 10, 2 Attacks, Large Bite, Medium Armour. Causes fear in opponents who must reduce their Attack Strength by 2. Bite is poisonous and does double damage for each hit.
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