C7 Bottomless Hole

BOTTOMLESS HOLE

The floor of this area appears to be a vast pit. Four chests are fused to the ceiling in a 40’ circle, each with a different symbol etched into it and a painted line connecting them. The outer three chests are separately engraved with a Sun, Dagger, and Cockscomb. In the center is the fourth: a 10’ square chest with an engraved head of a Medusa. A door to a gallery is found here next to stairs up and a silver bell hanging from a hook.

• Medusa Chest: Illusionary. The largest of the four chests is actually a petrified Greater Basilisk wearing a Band of Gravity Reversal. When someone gets within 10’, the magic keeping it petrified is dispelled. It will focus on trying to petrify as many people as it can to make them fall through the bottomless hole.

• ▲Dagger Chest (Locked): Opens to the flooded pit [C8 Basking Pool]

• !Cockscomb Chest (Locked): The chest lets loose a Near Aura antimagic. PCs must pass [Will] or any magic affecting it is dispelled for 1 Minute.

• Sun Chest (Locked): A 10’ length of secured rope unravels from the chest. Those who climb in arrive in a pocket dimension containing a Djinn, then the portal closes. The Djinn will grant one wish comparable to increasing a PC’s Level by 1. Afterwords, the Djinn leaves and those within the pocket dimension are teleported to the stairs of this room.

• ▼Pit: Portal to R8 Alchemy Font, dropping them 20’ into the fountain.

• Door to a Gallery: Portal to R6 Hall of Doors.

• ▼Bell (Down): Calls the sarcophagus in C6 Upturned Graveyard to the platform.

• ▲Stairs (Up):C1 Impossible Foyer