Turn 18
Our Hobbet Heroes return to the 'drip pit' and are greeted by the usual tirade from the Thing down the well. The party ignores the verbal abuse (as is their standard operating procedure). The northwest passage leads to a dead-end, cul-du-sac cave (area 30) that fills in an unexplored section of the map.
In the center of the cave is a large
treasure chest. It is the classic 'pirate treasure chest' type, wooden with iron reinforcing bands, and a big padlock with a keyhole.
Surrounding the chest is a ring of
5 Giant Dalek-Headed Mushrooms. The shrooms stand twice the height of a Hobbet, and their stems are thick around as a torso. Their caps are studded with distinctive, ring-shaped pitted holes, like sphincter muscles or a whale's blowhole. These orifices are gently, rhythmically opening and closing, and the gills underneath flutter correspondingly with each breath. The entire mushroom caps are expanding and contracting like a bellows, drawing air in and out with peaceful respiration.
[f=59]
Stern (
Strong Hero, MV 9′′, AC 3, HD 4, hp 20, FC 4 men/hero, SV F4, L)[/f]