Miska Fredman

The Tainted Mausoleum

Added 2016-12-25 23:00:49 +0000 UTC

At first look the The Tainted Mausoleum doesn't look like much. It is a building made out of stone and its outer walls are mostly covered in vines and moss. Behind those the walls are decorated with statues and engravings that depict various human-like figures in stoic poses and below these figures, behind the thick grass and bushes that go around the building, there are other figures lying down at the feet of the standing figures and these have clearly human features. Their facial expressions are distorted by anquish and pain. Some of them look dead.

For inside the building looks unassuming and mirthless. The floors and walls are made out of stone. The stonework is good, but the air smell damp and moldy, and everything is covered with either dust or mold. In some corners there are small patches of various strange looking fungi growing out of the crack in the walls and floor tiling. If there ever was anything of value in the main floor, it has been robbed already long time ago.

But the building is not as empty and uninhabited as it might look. There are stairs leading downstairs into two different locations. One leads to a cave that is now inhabited by some underground dwelling creatures. It is unclear if the cave has ever been in use.

The other underground part of the mausoleum is the lair of a small brood of undead creatures that are now lying dormant in their sarcophagi. The creatures have fed recently and especially during the daytime they do not wake up very easily. But if disturbed, waking up even one of the creatures will alarm all the other creatures as well.

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So, that was a short introductory story slash adventure hook for this map. I hope it gives some ideas how to use this map.

The map comes in three different versions that are attached with this post, and as usual, can be also downloaded from Dropbox, HERE .

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