F. Treasure room

A bronze beetle the size of a cow, set with rubies, erected on a carpet of gold and silver threads. Weeks' worth of carousing for a party of adventurers (carpet: 2,000 gp, beetle: 1,000 gp, 20 rubies: 150 gp ea.). Two hooded figures, stinking of death, apparently meditating on either side of the beetle.

• → Two silhouettes. Ssk and Zzk, two guardian ghouls. Attack immediately unless one of the hosts is undead. In that case, they ask to parley (decades of this is boring, they want a steady job at Dungeon, Inc.).

GHOUL. HD 3, ARM shriveled skin Δ4, ATT 2 x claw d6, SP paralyze (CON check or paralyzed for d4 turns), ML Δ6