# [[The Gauntlight Level 3 - Ghouls]] ## Map ```leaflet id: gauntlight-level-minus-2 image: gauntlight-level-minus-2.png height: 450px width: 600px minZoom: 6 maxZoom: 10 defaultZoom: 9 zoomDelta: 1 unit: feet scale: 1 ``` %%[[gauntlight-level-minus-2|🖋 Edit in Excalidraw]], and the [[The Gauntlight 2022-09-29.dark.png|dark exported image]]%% ```leaflet id: golarion-gauntlight-l3-drawn image: golarion-gauntlight-l3-drawn.png height: 450px minZoom: 6 maxZoom: 10 defaultZoom: 8 zoomDelta: 1 unit: feet scale: 1 ``` ## Locations ### Hallway to the mist [[The Gauntlight Level 3 - Ghouls#Map|Back to map]] - North: [[The Gauntlight#Contractual Prison]] - South: [[The Gauntlight#Mist Room]] ### Contractual Prison [[The Gauntlight Level 3 - Ghouls#Map|Back to map]] - 10x10 room with a door to the west leading to a prison - The western door is made of iron, with a barred window. There is a large but open padlock hanging on the door's latch. - [[Korlock]] stands guard here, proudly. ### Mist Room [[The Gauntlight Level 3 - Ghouls#Map|Back to map]] - 15x15 foot room - The [[Mist Stalker]] *was* here until we killed it. - Door to a [[The Gauntlight#Hallway to the east|hallway going east]] ### Hallway to the east [[The Gauntlight Level 3 - Ghouls#Map|Back to map]] - 35 feet long - splintered wood - in the middle of the hallway, on the north and the south, there is a pair of stairways leading up. ### Hallway out of the mist [[The Gauntlight Level 3 - Ghouls#Map|Back to map]] - Two doors: left and right (east and [[The Gauntlight#Room of the Red Eye|west]]) - East door has green light under it. - Proceeds 4 more squares (8 squares long) and another door at the end (south) ### Room of the Red Eye [[The Gauntlight Level 3 - Ghouls#Map|Back to map]] - ancient sofa with stuffing coming out sitting on the west wall of the room - 10x10 foot room - probably homey in the past, but it's been torn open - red eye that opens in the centre of the western wall. *Will* save, or *frightened* 1. ### Room of the Roseguard Confession [[The Gauntlight Level 3 - Ghouls#Map|Back to map]] - Ancient tattered sofa on the east wall of this room. - 10x10 room - South wall was shimmering in green light, and then it revealed the sentence: *Belcorra fell to the Roseguard, but we never knew of these vaults below.* Then, the light raced out of this room! ### Stairs up from the mist (north) [[The Gauntlight Level 3 - Ghouls#Map|Back to map]] - The light from [[The Gauntlight#Room of the Roseguard Confession]] went up here, then went right back down. - Stairs from [[The Gauntlight#Hallway to the east]], going up. ### Stairs up from the mist (south) [[The Gauntlight Level 3 - Ghouls#Map|Back to map]] - Stairs from [[The Gauntlight#Hallway to the east]], going up. ### Library of the Canker [[The Gauntlight Level 3 - Ghouls#Map|Back to map]] - Had green light underneath the door - Connects to [[The Gauntlight#Hallway to the east]] on the west. - massive room - Hundreds of stone shelves, 15-foot-wide hallway. many gaps but there are books, scrolls, folios intact. - signs hanging above doors - *faint blue glow* flickers beneath the sign to the south. - line moves north and then east - It's a reverse L hallway. - circular area to the south of it - some areas to the north: - 7 doors total - north is where the green light went - We killed four ghouls here in [[022_20221008 Flesh for the Canker]] - We can spend 8 hours here to find out what books are here. We would get a +1 item bonus to checks to research: - regional history - arcane topics - occult topics ### Tattoo Parlour [[The Gauntlight Level 3 - Ghouls#Map|Back to map]] - Used to be a writing studio, but it was turned into a sick tattoo parlour by the [[Senior Ghoul]] - Dessicated skin with different tattoos are strewn about the place. The tattoos are writings, applied post-mortem to different types of skin. - A swathe of pale skin spread out on the desk, with half-completed image of a woman. - 3x3 ### The Butchery [[The Gauntlight Level 3 - Ghouls#Map|Back to map]] - Messy butcher's block - Shiny silver hatchet wedged in at the top of the desk - Bits of decaying flesh - 4x4 - Room to south - Used to be an office room ### The Meat Locker [[The Gauntlight Level 3 - Ghouls#Map|Back to map]] - Heaps of slowly decaying bodies, hung and stacked here. - Used to be a bedroom but now it's a meat locker. - 5 dead moorlocks are stored here. No skin, missing some body parts. Would not count as monster parts. - Lightly chilly ### Long corridor from tattoo parlour [[The Gauntlight Level 3 - Ghouls#Map|Back to map]] - 35-foot corridor south, ending in a door ### Bookbinder's repose [[The Gauntlight Level 3 - Ghouls#Map|Back to map]] - Skeleton wearing a light blue librarian's robe lies in a heap near the only stool here. - 3 Workbenches. Each one is specialized for repairing parchment, binding books, etc. - Librarian's workroom. - [[Jarelle Kaldrian]]: Slight blue female ghost sitting on an imaginary stool on one of the benches. Her hands are moving like she's doing something on the bench, but she's not actually touching anything and her hands are going through the table. - old rotting tables, a chair, and rusted unusable tools. ### Library Storeroom [[The Gauntlight Level 3 - Ghouls#Map|Back to map]] - 5x10 cramped storeroom. - Simple wooden case with a closed lid is attached to the back of the door. - The supplies kept here (large barrels) were probably used to extinguish fires. Now they only hold mildew. The case has a wand though! - We found a wand in the case: *Quench*, a second level spell. But nobody can use it! ### Librarians' Quarters [[The Gauntlight Level 3 - Ghouls#Map|Back to map]] - 2x4' room with three beds. - Single low table with foul-smelling chunks of flesh and stone. It's a bitten-off morlock head. ### Bookbinding tool vault [[The Gauntlight Level 3 - Ghouls#Map|Back to map]] - 10x15 foot room - Shelves on the wall contain iron sorting racks and bookbinding tools. - No books ### Airlock [[The Gauntlight Level 3 - Ghouls#Map|Back to map]] - Office that's brightly lit by several low lights on a chandelier above a desk and chair - Mirrors on north and south wall but both of them are badly cracked. - Door on the opposite (western) wall - Lockplate engraved with a stylized open book - The rusted ring of keys has two keys. One is decorated with a lighthouse and the other is decorated with a book. We use the book key! - Looks like nobody's been here for a while. - Everburning torch that we gave to Karsh. - 10x15 ### Book Key Room [[The Gauntlight Level 3 - Ghouls#Map|Back to map]] - [[Lurker in light]] was here. - 15 x 15 - Doors: N and S - Looks exceptionally comfortable, thick carpet - bright light from a glowing chandelier and soothing incense. - Center: Two overstuffed chairs sit opposite a table stacked with books - W: More books are on a set of shelves to the west. - NW: Softly gurgling fountain resembling a mossy skull leaks water in the northwest corner. - Most of the books here are about sacrifice, incorporeal undead, extinguishing living creatures and souls to create powerful magic items, famous hauntings throughout the inner sea region. If we wish to research on these topics, we can research here and get a +1 bonus. ![[golarion-025.png]] ### Abandoned guardpost [[The Gauntlight Level 3 - Ghouls#Map|Back to map]] - Stool with a whetstone - South: staircase going down. ### Book key commode [[The Gauntlight Level 3 - Ghouls#Map|Back to map]] - bathtub and commode ### Bathroom of shame [[The Gauntlight Level 3 - Ghouls#Map|Back to map]] - 10x10 - Bathroom's commode and tub ### Octagonal antechamber [[The Gauntlight Level 3 - Ghouls#Map|Back to map]] - 35 feet wide but with cut edges. We don't see the end of the room yet. - Rows of bookshelves but some are tipped over or damaged. - Some books have been moved to other shelves - Double door to north: made of stone, carved with a strange feminine shape rising from a mist in a ghostly graveyard. ([[Nhimbaloth]]) - East: door - South: door - Ghouls here! ### Under the lighthouse [[The Gauntlight Level 3 - Ghouls#Map|Back to map]] - Sees low divans with books and rotting, decayed flesh. Twisting ribbon of pale blue light between bare floor and the ceiling like it's conducting electricity. Its points of contact sends creepers like twisting flesh out a few feet ### Altar of the Desecrated God [[The Gauntlight Level 3 - Ghouls#Map|Back to map]] ![[uu-map-altar-of-the-desecrated-god.png]] ### Chilling room [[The Gauntlight Level 3 - Ghouls#Map|Back to map]] - This is where the zombies were just "chilling" when we happened upon them. - There are low divans with books and some rotting, decayed flesh that zombies were snacking on - Twisting ribbon of pale blue light between the bare floor and ceiling, like it's conducting electricity. Its points of contact sends creepers like twisting flesh out a few feet. Ghouls that stand in this light are healed. Living creatures that stand in this light are damaged by The Gauntlight... and might eventually turn undead? - ### Shrine of Many Mouths [[The Gauntlight Level 3 - Ghouls#Map|Back to map]] - People who enter have to make a Fortitude save because of the smell. - Looks like a horrific shrine. - Rotting fleshy material: eyes, mouth, skin -- lie in a stinking mound - 15x15' - No light source. - Two dozen tiny human effigies made of bone and knotted hair. - Smells awful - [[The Gibbering Mouther]] corpse ### The Violet Fungus Planter [[The Gauntlight Level 3 - Ghouls#Map|Back to map]] - Fortitude save to enter; otherwise you are sickened. - Where the fungus creatures were - 10x30' room. - dark mound of soil in southern part - door on the northern side of the room. ### [[The Gauntlight Level 3 - Ghouls#Map|Back to map]] ### [[The Gauntlight Level 3 - Ghouls#Map|Back to map]] ### [[The Gauntlight Level 3 - Ghouls#Map|Back to map]]