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OK, here's a room I made for an area with
an adjacent Monastery and Nunnery. It's full of secret
passages between the two convents and in one of those
passages is a cache, with a hidden choice object. To get the
object the players have not only to find the key to the
cache, but also to know the true name of the key to be able
to get it from where it is hidden. To find the name of the
key they have to read the extra keyword descriptions in this and
other rooms. I dropped a hint about the special item at the
entrance of the area. So far nobody has found it, though some
have tried...
*evil grin*
Molly O'Hara of 4Dimensions
Room:
Name: Study
Description:
This is a small room, but well furnished and well lit,
from a large leaded window in the north wall and a smaller one in the
west, that stands slightly ajar. There are also
some oil lamps, burning with a slightly smoking
wick. You sense the fragrance of the perfumed
burning oil, lingering in the air like the scent of
incense. The walls are covered with floor to
ceiling shelves, all filled and overflowing with ancient
looking, leather bound volumes and yellowish parchment
scrolls. There is a mahogany door in the south
wall, and a simpler, oaken door in the east.
Extra Descriptions:
- Keyword: scrolls
Description:
Most of the scrolls are very old and fragile, almost
falling to pieces in
your hands. Since they have been used as
palimpsests, the parchment is worn thin as spider web in
some places. The text is in Latin, so you can't
understand a word of what is written on them.
- Keyword: window
Description:
It is a leaded, stained window, showing an image of The
Good Shepherd. Appropriately enough, you can see real
sheep grazing outside, through the panes.
- Keyword: message
Description:
The message reads: "The true name of the Key is
Unholy". How strange...
- Keyword: book
Description:
As you take the book to get a closer look at it, it falls
open by itself.
On the front fly-leaf someone has scribbled a message
with a feather pen.
- Keyword: volume
Description:
Most of the books are very old and very dusty. It
seems they don't get opened very often. However you
notice one book, that is completely free from dust. Strange...
- Keyword:volumes
Description:
Most of the books are very old and very dusty. It
seems they don't get opened very often. However you
notice one book, that is completely free from dust. Strange...
- Keyword: button
Description:
When you push the button, the bookshelf slides silently
to one side, revealing a secret trap-door underneath
it.
- Keyword: object
Description:
The object is a small stone, shaped like a scarab.
- Keyword: shelves
They look like ordinary shelves to you, but curiously
enough you notice that one shelf is half empty. You
catch a glimpse of what looks like a button behind the
remaining books.
Directions:
- North:
Description:
Through the leaded window you can see a pastoral scene,
with grazing sheep under large oak trees. The window is fixed
though, so you can't open it.
- East:
Keywords: oaken door
- South:
Keywords: mahogany door
- West:
Description:
Outside the west window you see Convent Road. The
drop down to it is about three meters though, so I'd be
careful if I were you.
Keyword: window
- Down:
Description:
You see a secret trap door, leading down into
darkness.
Keyword: trap
Mob:
Short Description: Brother Assar
Aliases: Brother Assar
Long Description: Brother Assar winks at you.
Look Description:
Brother Assar is a young and rather skinny novice.
This isn't because
the novices don't get enough to eat in this monastery,
though. On the
contrary, all the novices get the same good and
nourishing food as the rest of the Brothers. The
trouble with brother Assar is, that he's got tapeworm.
object
Name: book
Short Description: a small book
Long Description: A small and evil looking book has been left here.
Extra Description:
Keyword: book
Description:
Beware! This book contains some ancient magic
formulas, that are forbidden for mankind to read.
Only the Immortals and the highest and most holy of the
Cleric Class, are able to deal with the information given
in this book.
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