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SUMMARY

3 Setting the Stage

3 Background

3 Clues

3 Scaling the Encounter

4 The Grave

5 1, Entrance

6 2, Antechamber

6 3, The Crypt

8 Monsters

8 Ice Keyguardian

9 Ice Warrior

10 Icelord

11 Map

12 Battlemaps

16 Battlemaps Checklist

In this small encounter you will meet three hideous undeads

featured in Øone Game’s adventure: “Deadly Ice”. These

monsters will provide an interesting challenge because some

of them have abilities that require more than just brute force

to defeat them. If your referee plans to run “Deadly Ice”

please note that this encounter could spoil some fun aspects

of the adventure for a player.

against dark elves. For over a year, Anhaeym claimed to

be making diplomatic missions in the newly discovered

friends all the while bringing treasures and information to

the priestess. Eventually the entire dwarven army was lured

into an underground ambush and exterminated by the dark

elves. The dwarven kingdom was conquered and the priestess

proclaimed herself queen.

Setting the Stage

You can place this encounter in your ongoing campaign. It

is suitable for a standard party of 4-5 level but can easily be

scaled up. Since all the monsters are undead, a cleric or a

character with turning ability would prove useful; a rogue

would also be useful for detecting trap.

From that day forward. the surviving dwarven people called

Anhaeym “The Prince of Lies”. Years later, the dwarves

gathered an army and regained their stolen land. In the last

few moments of the battle, The Prince of Lies was betrayed

and killed by the priestess herself who then committed

suicide. A proper burial was denied to the Prince of Lies and

his men. Their bodies were thrown in a glacier and forgotten

as the shame of their people, forever branded as traitors.

This encounter is set in a cold environment; if you don’t have

this feature in your dungeon you may assume the entire area

is enveloped in magical cold.

This three-room encounter can be plugged into an existing

dungeon or placed in a cave complex. If you wish to expand

the adventure you will ind useful information in the

background below.

Many years later an evil necromancer named Zhamyl

found the frozen bodies. He discovered the prince and his

bodyguards had transformed into a rare form of undead. The

necromancer, through his art, discovered Anhaeym’s story

and decided to use the powerful Icelord and his dreadful Ice

Warriors to protect his own treasure. He then built the Grave

of the Prince of Lies.

Background

The Prince of Lies was a renegade dwarf who lived about

two centuries ago. The dwarf, named Anhaeym, was, in the

beginning, considered a great warrior. His father, the king,

ruled over a wealthy underground kingdom, which knew no

rivals.

Clues

The referee may want to scatter some clues or hints before the

encounter takes place. These clues can be found in another

part of the dungeon or during a previous game session.

A vicious dark elf priestess who dwelled with her minions

far below the dwarven realm, was bent on conquering all

the realm. But she knew meager minions could not face the

awesome force of the entire dwarven army. Treachery and

deceit were going to be necessary for her to succeed. Using

all the means at her disposal she studied all the royal family

members, looking for a candidate for her subtle plan. She

discovered that Anhaeym was not the bold warrior the people

said: the dwarf was a coward and a luxury slave. The priestess

returned in her hideout and organized her plan. She sent one

of her minions, polymorphed as dwarf, to be ambassador

to the king. He claimed a peaceful realm of dwarves, their

kingdom deep in the earth, would like to discuss an alliance

between the two people. The dwarven fraud requested the

sending of a bold and noble warrior to return with them as

an ambassador.

-The party inds the body of a former adventurer with a

scratched note in his pocket which reads:

“Find the Grave of the Prince of Lies but beware its guardians,

they protect an evil but valuable treasure: the keys lie.”

-The party inds a spellbook in the treasure hoard of a

defeated enemy. The spellbook is bound in black leather and

contains a number of irst level arcane necromantic spells.

Seamed under the cover of the book (Search DC 20) there is

an old map. The map shows a location (the referee can place

the grave wherever it best its into his campaign) which is

labeled : the Grave of the Prince of Lies. A sidenote, written

in a different script than the map, says: Great treasure, but you

must be afraid of the lies.

-The party inds a stone box during their journey into a

dungeon. The box lid is engraved with: “Six Keys, Six Lies

for the Prince Of Lies” . Inside the box there is a sheet of blue

velvet with the discolored outlines of six large keys.

The king, hoping to break his son of his cowardly ways,

sent Anhaeym himself with a number of loyal guards.

The group was quickly overwhelmed by the dark elves. All

but Anhaeym were slain. The dwarf was taken before the

priestess. She knew of Anhaeym’s weaknesses and took

advantage of them. In a brief time, the dwarf became a willing

slave of the priestess. He returned to his kingdom weaving

a tale of a powerful dwarven realm who needed assistance

Scaling the Encounter

Scaling this encounter is quite easy since two of the monsters

presented here (the Icelord and the Ice Warrior) probably

won’t be defeated by simply bashing them with weapons.

Magic, especially ire-based, will be more effective but

ultimately sound reasoning is the key to success in this

encounter. To make it suitable for a 6-7 level party add a +2

turn resistance to the Ice Keyguardians (you may assume that

the area is cursed and the undeads gain beneit from ancient

evil magic). Add a +2 turn resistance and a Spell Resistance 18

to the Ice Warriors (and eventually pump up their hit points).

Add a Spell Resistance 20 to the Icelord.

To downgrade the encounter to a party level 2-3, halve

the number of Ice keyguardians and the Ice Warriors and

eliminate the turn immunity of the Icelord. Then consider

the magical traps on the false door already discharged or

substitute them with less damaging magical traps.

to surround a PC and kill him.

Ice Keyguardian (Dwarves) (6): CR 2; Medium-Size

Undead (cold); HD 3d12; hp 20, 19, 13, 21, 18, 25; Init +6

(+2 Dex, +4 Improved Initiative); Spd 20 ft.; AC 15 (+ 2 Dex,

+3 natural); BAB +1; Grp +2; Atk Keyring slam +3 melee

(1d8); Full Atk Keyring slam +3 melee (1d8); SA Blocking

Ice; SQ Undead, immunities, cold subtype; AL N; SV Fort

+1, Ref +3, Will +3; Str 12, Dex 14, Con -, Int -, Wis 10,

Cha 8.

Skills and Feats: Exotic Weapon Proiciency (keyring),

Improved Initiative, Weapon Finesse.

The Grave

The Keyguardians are the tireless guardians placed by the evil

necromancer to protect his treasure. Each carries a rusty key

ring he uses as a weapon. One of the keys on the key ring is

different from the other, being bigger and made of bronze.

These keys each it into a different keyhole of the bronze

door.

If the Icelord in room 3 is not destroyed, these Keyguardians

reform in 1d4 days.

1-Entrance

As the PCs approach the area where the door is situated, they

begin to feel colder; a Listen check (DC 20) could reveal an

unnerving ice-on-ice noise.

Six hideous Ice Keyguardians lurk in the shadows here, they

attack at irst sight using their blocking ice ability, then trying

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