Introduction

Hidden Shrine of the Massassi is a Star Wars 5th Edition conversion of the Dungeons and Dragons 5th Edition adventure The Hidden Shrine of Tamoachan, which is itself an adaptation of the Dungeons & Dragons 1st Edition adventure of the same name.

The adapted version of this adventure was released in the 5e sourcebook Tales from the Yawning Portal, which included a collection of adventures from previous D&D editions adapted into 5e's format. Other conversions of adventures from this sourcebook into SW5e can be found in the Tales from the Yawning Maw document.

Much like the original module, this adventure takes players through the underground catacombs of a lost tribal city - this time, with a distinctly-Star Wars flavour. Much of the content has been adjusted to match the official SW5e rules, but much of the adventure remains a flavourful conversion with minimal changes to the overall progression and difficulty.

This adventure is the second of the series outlined in Tales from the Yawning Maw. It is preceded by Forge of the Nightscales; the notes of a Sith alchemist who once inhabited the Mandalorian stronghold provide landmarks that lead to the hidden Massassi city once they have reached level 5.

It is followed by White Plume Installation, to which the players can be led to by carvings of an ancient Massassi warsword within the temple, and which has been taken from its most recent owner by a resurfaced mad scientist.

Opening Crawl

For Game Masters who wish to have an opening crawl before their adventure, consider using the read-aloud text below. You may edit it as necessary to fit the context of your party:

Setup

The ancient ruined city of Tamokhan on Yavin 4 is familiar to a select few scholars and fortune seekers, who know of it but not always exactly where it is. Even more secluded, lying somewhere within or beneath the ruins, is a hidden shrine said to be dedicated to an unknown god. Adventurers who catch wind of the place are likely to find its lure irresistible.

When arriving at Yavin 4, it is not recommended the party attempt to fly directly to the city; the city ruins are too cluttered with debris to land a ship, and the loud noises produced by a drop-off ship are likely to attract an excess of predators from the nearby jungle. Instead, the players can set down their ship in or be dropped off at an open clearing within an hour's walk of the city ruins, giving them a safe spot to rest if needed before venturing off.

Most of the city is toppled and almost completely covered in undergrowth. Intruders who enter the ruins will discover that the ancient streets now serve as overgrown "valleys" between the debris of the crumbled buildings. The largest of these valleys all lead to the central clearing where a great massassi temple stands.

In the south side of that clearing is a newly collapsed area, revealing a jagged hole with a debris-covered slide, leading down into darkness.

Following the Trail

The party may have heard of this location from a previous adventure (such as the notes of Lord Troja in area 49 of Forge of the Nightscales) or during some downtime research. These notes made mention of this particular massassi temple containing a veritable wealth of treasure and alchemical wonders from its massassi creators, created in honor of the deified planet of Yavin.

Documenting History

Though many know of the mutated massassi that once roamed Yavin 4's surface, what little is known of Tamokhan indicates that it was considered an unusual location amongst the moon's massassi tribes. Treasure aside, any history of Tamokhan and its inhabitants that can be extracted from its catacombs would be invaluable to galactic archeologists, especially if those who enter are fluent in the Sith language.

Legacy of the Sith

Though the massassi were but a warrior caste of the greater Sith society, their activity on Yavin 4 may be of interest to those who study or follow Sith teachings. Tamokhan is particular is highly valuable in this respect, as rumors of its legacy indicate that the massassi who built it had established a microcosm of traditional Sith society within and studied Sith alchemy like their predecessors.

Searching for the Lost

Of those who have traveled to Tamokhan in the past, few if any have managed to return. For those seeking closure on these adventurers' fates, delving into Tamokhan's depths like those before them may give them answers on what exactly happened to these lost souls and how to avoid their fate.

Placing the Adventure

Hidden Shrine of the Massassi is intended to be era-agnostic in relation to the wider Star Wars timeline. Here are some suggestions for existing eras in which to place this setting:

• The Old Republic: An era where Sith and Jedi fight for the equally matched powers of the Galactic Republic and Sith Empire, battling in a seemingly endless war between light and dark.

Key Event. After the immortal Emperor Vitiate is defeated, his remaining essence returns to a Massassi temple on Yavin 4 to recover. He is then resurrected from his slumber by his former prisoner Revan, who wished to kill him before he could return to full power, and only escaping thanks to the intervention of a Imperial-Republic coalition trying to stop his revival.

• The High Republic: By this time in history, the once-great Sith threat is very nearly eradicated, and the Republic and Jedi Order are at the height of their power, prioritizing expansion and exploration.
• Fall of the Jedi: Since their peak, the Republic and Jedi Order have fallen into decline, allowing corruption of both political and moral nature to seep into their midst as the galaxy launches into a civil war between clone and droid armies.
• The Empire: By the end of the Clone Wars, the Republic has been reorganized into an Empire and the Jedi outlawed by the machinations of the insidious Emperor Palpatine, opposed only by the steady unification of resistance cells into the Rebel Alliance.

Key Event. The Rebel Alliance's first major base of operations is set up on Yavin 4, in the ruins of a Massassi temple. From this base, the Alliance secures its first major victory against the Empire by destroying the Death Star battle station just moments before it could fire on the base.

• The New Republic: After the defeat of the Empire at the hands of the Rebel Alliance, many efforts are taken to recover knowledge lost under the reign of the Empire and to combat the outlying Imperial remnants.
• Rise of the First Order: The fledgling New Republic faces a resurgence of Emperor Palpatine's forces under the banner of the First Order, once again throwing the galaxy into turmoil and forcing the formation of a Resistance to oppose them.
  

As you head toward the pyramid temple, you tread across cracked and overgrown flagstones, stepping over fallen and shattered pillars, pushing aside vines and briars.

When you are nearly at the temple, the sound of creatures crashing through the underbrush comes from behind you. You turn around to see people moving through the jungle toward the clearing around the pyramid.

Then, suddenly, the earth shudders and gapes open beneath your feet, and you are falling amid the roar of collapsing masonry. Dust fills the air and the sunlight disappears as the darkness swallows you.

The Ruins of the Shrine

The maps provided show the layout of the shrine, and later sections of this adventure describe what can be found there.

The Ruins: General Features

The walls inside the ruins are constructed of blocks of unmortared stone covered by stucco. The ceilings are of the same material, supported by corbel arches.

Ceilings. Most of the hallways have 20-foot ceilings. Some rooms have ceilings of 20 to 40 feet in height.

Doors. Doors are made of beaten bronze or slabs of stone. While heavy, they can be opened without a check.

Unsafe Stonework. In some places, the arches that hold up the ceiling aren't structurally sound. As a result, some powers or equipment might have disastrous effects. A tech power like explosion, a force power like force current or equipment such as a fragmentation grenade has a 25 percent chance (5 or lower on a d20 roll) to cause a ceiling collapse within the power's area, dealing 16 (3d10) kinetic damage to creatures in the area. This collapse might block or bury objects or exits.

Poisonous Gas. The lower levels of the ruins, including the rooms and passages of encounter areas 1 through 38, are filled with poisonous gas. The gas is an amber color, and its area is lightly obscured. Anyone can tell that the gas is irritating, but it takes a successful DC 15 Intelligence (Nature) check to discern the gas's toxicity.

Flames in the gas sputter and glow redly, and any attempt to use natural means to ignite a fire has only a 50 percent chance (d20: 10 or higher) of success. Fire used as a light source has an effective radius only half normal.

A creature takes 3 (1d6) poison damage every hour it spends in the gas. The gas is light, so it accumulates closer to the ceiling. Inhabitants of the dungeon have immunity to the poisonous effect of the gas. The gas rises up and out of the ruins if the doors to area 39 are opened. It takes one month for the lower levels to clear completely. If the doors are closed again, the lower chambers refill with gas in two weeks.

Dried Mutagen. In some locations, characters discover the remains of a liquid mutagen (created from Sith alchemy) in the form of sediment in the bottom of a container. It is possible to mix this powder with water or alcohol and restore the mutagen. Alcohol creates a mutagen with full effect, but water shortens the mutagen's duration (if it has one) by half. If the powder is consumed by itself, there is a 1 in 8 chance (1 on a d8) that it acts as a malignant mutagen; otherwise, the powder has no effect.

Pressure Plates. Several areas have traps that are triggered by the operation of a pressure plate, which depresses when a certain amount of weight is put on it.

A character who succeeds on a DC 20 Wisdom (Perception) check can find a pressure plate. The plate can be blocked, preventing the trap from triggering, by wedging it in the upper position with pitons or similarly strong shims. Doing so takes one character at least 5 minutes, and the character must make a DC 15 Dexterity check using a security kit. If the check fails by 4 or less, the character knows the shims aren't properly placed. If the check fails by 5 or more, the character doesn't realize the shims will fail to hold up the plate.

Random Encounters

Each hour the party is in the ruins, roll a d12. On a roll of 1, an encounter occurs. Then roll a d10 and see the following table to determine which monsters show up.

These wanderers are extra and aren't from any of the areas in the ruins. If an indicated monster doesn't fit the situation, check again or choose a different result.

1. The Vault of Seven Caves

The poisonous gas is present here, affecting fire and breathing.

Relate the following information to the characters gradually as they examine their surroundings:

The figures of massassi and animals in all of the dioramas are loose and can be picked up and manipulated. If any of the people, and some of the animals, are removed from a display and placed on the floor of this vault, the item breaks apart as a swirling mist manifests into the shape of the being it represents. These beings are spirits, but otherwise function according to the statistics for a certain kind of creature, as noted below:

• Center Display. The diorama in the alcove holds six massassi warriors, one massassi scout holding a crooked staff, a tamed choku, and a howler. The runyip don't animate.
• Niche A. In a river scene, a dozen grotthu laborers (slaves) gather rushes, fish with nets, and carve a dugout.
• Niche B. Twelve grotthu laborers are engaged in farming, planting maize and harvesting wheat. Two massassi warriors stand guard, and a kissai priest in a bird costume is blessing the fields.
• Niche C. The display portrays a temple upon a tiered pyramid. Seven grotthu laborers are bringing small offerings of gold and jade. Before the temple stands a kissai priest handling a reel. Around him stand three costumed massassi warriors. One, dressed as a whisper bird, holds a lance; another is dressed as a skreeg (a bipedal mammal) with razor claws; the third represents a choku holding a torch. There are also several stone statues of Sith lords. The bits of gold and jade are worth 50 credits each, and there are fifteen such items.
• Niche D. A scene of tribal warfare involves six massassi warriors in combat. The three warriors of one side are painted black, while the three others are done in white. Warriors that are animated will fight animated enemy warriors first, but once they vanquish their foes they turn on the characters.
• Niche E. In the display that depicts the arrival of the massassi to Yavin 4, all the statuettes are heavily stylized. These figures can be removed, but they don't animate. A red-skinned man - a pureblood Sith - steps off a landing craft, followed by a contingent of ten unmutated massassi. The massassi are all looking upward, seemingly in awe at the centrepiece of the diorama - a large and imposing red orb, representing the gas giant Yavin. A successful DC 15 Intelligence (Lore) check reveals that the Sith the warriors are following must be Naga Sadow, an ancient Dark Lord of the Sith.
• Niche F. In a scene that shows various forms of crafting, twelve grotthu laborers are busy weaving rugs and baskets, carving totems, making pots, grinding stones for weapons, and making clothes.

The door is carved with a sun symbol and appears to open into the room; there are hinges on this side and scratches on the floor. There is no visible lock or handle on it, although a slight gap stretches across the top of the door. Eight holes seem to have been bored into the door; they are about an inch in diameter, but nothing can be seen in them. The door seems to be fairly thick. The lintel is arched, with a keystone at the top.

Pressure Plate

There is a pressure plate halfway down the hallway that triggers a trap when weight equivalent to that of three or four humanoids is on it. See "The Ruins: General Features" at the beginning of the adventure for details about pressure plates.

If the trap triggers, several of the logs swing out from either wall and buffet the party. Those in the plate's area when the trap triggers take 7 (2d6) kinetic damage and are pushed 5 feet down the slope toward the double doors. Once they swing out, the stone logs don't swing back and thus effectively block the passage, since they bar the way from ceiling to floor with only a 6-inch gap remaining between the logs.

This room is constructed of large stone blocks, buttressed in the corners. The walls are wet and slimy, and mud covers most of the floor in a thin coating. To the east and west may be seen stone doors recessed in the wall, and to the north a set of stairs leads down.

In the center of the chamber sits a large polished boulder amid a pile of smaller rounded rocks. The boulder is five feet tall and colored brown with dark streaks and spots. Leaning against it is what appears to be a bamboo staff.

In the mud around the base of the boulder is a moving shape, looking like an oversized crawlfish. It is facing you and seems to be aware of your presence.

Slippery Mud

The floor of the chamber is very slippery, counting as difficult terrain. Any sudden actions, including those necessary for combat, may result in the character taking a spill. A character who uses the Dash action or tries to fight within the room must succeed on a DC 10 Dexterity saving throw or fall prone. The saving throw should be made before attacks are made. Creatures encountered here are unaffected by the mud.

Guardian

The creature at the base of the boulder is a giant crawlfish. If it is approached, it will advance waving its claws in an aggressive manner and speak. If any member of the party can understand Sith, the crawlfish will be heard to say in an archaic dialect, "Who is this? Who dares to enter the chamber of the guardian? You had better go, or I will have to discharge my sacred duty! Be off with you before I lose my temper!"

If the party retreats, the crawlfish will not follow, but will take to marching back and forth in front of the boulder and will continue to threaten the party if they approach again. If the crawlfish is attacked, it will immediately call forth its companion.

Creature

The boulder is in reality a huge shell inhabited by Kailla (Kay-lah), a giant stonecrab. The bamboo staff is one of its legs; a successful DC 15 Intelligence (Nature) check enables a character to discern this fact and get a hint as to Kailla's nature before the stonecrab moves.

When the characters enter the room, Kailla is asleep and will not awaken unless the crawlfish is attacked. Once it is awake, it may attack or bargain. Like the crawlfish, it speaks Sith in an archaic manner.

Southern Approach

If the characters come upon the doorway from the south, read:

Any attempts to open the door will meet with failure until the blockage is removed. Probing the silt will reveal its depth to be about 18 to 24 inches and its consistency as tenacious as quicksand. The silt can be scooped out of the stairwell, but it is semi-liquid and will quickly flow back. If water is forced, in quantity, through the silt, it will wash the silt under the door jamb and down the hall beyond, alleviating the blockage.

Northern Approach

If the characters come upon the doorway from the north, read:

The door can be forced open only a few inches, enough to see it is blocked on the other side by a mass of silt.

The walls of this corridor are wet and slimy. The stucco covering has become saturated with water and is decomposing and sloughing off in spots on the southern wall, exposing the seams of one of the large stone blocks from which this structure was built.

Wet Lime

Any flesh that comes in contact with the lime will take 1 acid damage per round. The lime must be removed from the skin to stop the damage, and it can either be wiped off or washed away.

If polymer or natural armoring is used to protect flesh from contact with the wet lime, the lime will soak through in 2 rounds. Unenhanced light armor won't absorb the lime, but each hour of contact with it reduces the armor's AC by 1, making the armor useless if its AC becomes 10. The lime can't be removed from the stone, since it isn't a coating.

Moving the Block

After the stucco is scraped away from the seams, the block can be pushed inward by the combined effort of up to four characters with a total Strength of 48 or higher. The stone is about 6 feet tall, 3 feet wide, and 3 feet thick. It takes 1 minute to push the plug 10 feet, after which it can be circumvented.

This staircase goes up for only a few steps, and then it seems that the rest is filled in with clay and stone rubble.

Beyond the plug is a small foyer holding three sealed urns on the east and west sides. To the south are double doors of bronze with glyphs worked into their faces.

Multiple Sothils

As each new leader of Tamokhan came to power, they would discard their old name and take on the mantle of Sothil, the first Mass'ari, hoping to carry his legacy all the way to godhood. There were fourteen Sothils in total, with the last being executed by Exar Kun after the fall of Tamokhan.

Trapped Doors

The doors are locked (DC 15 Dexterity check to pick with a security kit) and trapped. Opening the lock disables the trap. Forcing the doors open can be done with a successful DC 20 Strength (Athletics) check, but the act causes a glass sphere on the other side of the doors to break. This sphere is attached to the doors just above the lock, and opening the lock pushes the sphere aside, putting it out of harm's way.

Behind the doors is a chamber cut out of the rock with a veil of calcite and stalactites covering the walls. Buttresses rise from the corners, brown shot through with black, and triangular stone pillars support the high ceiling. Occupying the center of the chamber is a colossal monument resembling a giant's table, covered on all sides with intricate carvings and glyphs. Engraved on the floor in front of the entrance is a seal that displays more glyphs. Opposite the entrance, a weapon similar to a battleaxe is embedded in the wall, six feet above the floor.

The block beneath the slab is hollow, and inside is a crumbling skeleton decked out in decayed finery. It appears to have been a human of taller than average stature, obviously of great importance. Gems and other small adornments of obvious value lie on and around the body, including a length of tubing with an attached spile and an ornate bowl. Covering the skull is a mask of jade with cowrie-shell eyes and obsidian pupils. About the corpse's neck is a jade pendant carved with the face of a human-like bat.

This room is wet, and the walls are covered with a slimy, white buildup. There is about an inch and a half of water and mud blanketing the floor. Many overturned pedestals and pieces of broken statuary lie on the floor, partially buried in the mud. Opposite the entrance to this room is another door.

Only one pedestal remains standing, in the northwest corner. On it sits a small, metallic, three-sided pyramid. Overhead in the shadow-draped ceiling are inlaid colored tiles depicting a starry sky and forming strange patterns in the areas above the pedestals.

Caustic Lime

The walls of this room are heavily coated with caustic lime. Any flesh that comes in contact with this lime will take 1 acid damage per round. The lime must be removed from the skin to stop the damage, and can be either wiped off or washed away.

Treasure

The small pyramid is made of silver (worth 50 credits). It represents a massassi god of lightning, Chwûq-Itsu ('Ember-Chain') - an avatar of the force lightning often used by their Sith masters. The fallen statuary was made of stucco and depicted other massassi 'gods', mostly powerful allies of Tamokhan from across the galaxy. These include figures of a shistavanen, a sauvax, a trandoshan, a riishi, and a cathar.

The walls and ceiling of this hallway are coated with slime, and the floor of the passage is covered with a layer of mud. Through this muck a steady stream of water trickles northward. The stucco on the walls is flaking off, and there are glowing silver tracks in the slime crisscrossing the walls and ceiling.

Along the east wall of the passage stands a twelve-foot-tall stone statue of a pureblood Sith outfitted in fine clothing and holding a stone tray in his raised arms. Its eyes appear to be black gemstones; the right one droops out of its socket, balancing on the statue's cheek. From behind the left shoulder protrudes the hilt of a weapon, most likely a sword. The stone tray, as well as the forehead and the nose of the statue, are chipped and scratched.

Treasure

The eyes of the statue are pieces of polished obsidian worth 100 credits each. The sword is an ancient massassi machete made of laminated wood, inset with jagged teeth of obsidian. The sword comes free easily, if any character pulls it up and out.

Water beads collect upon the walls of this narrow passage, and the flooring is cold and damp. A low ceiling, only five feet tall, further cramps this dank place.

The doors to this room are made of bronze and are tinted blue from oxidation. Just inside the doorway are two small alcoves. Each space contains an old fountain, cracked and crusted with lime. Around the fountain in the eastern alcove, a heap of rubbish litters the floor. The fountain in the western alcove still holds some green scummy water, in which something moves.

A short hall ending in descending steps leads to the central chamber, which is flooded. A dark, foul pool covers the entire floor. A central hall, flanked by narrow aisles, is defined by two rows of massive square columns. The walls are coated with slime, and there are glowing silver lines etched across them. From what you can see of the chamber's walls, the stone appears to be crudely worked.

Two corroded bronze braziers stand in the pool. Toward the middle of the room, two broken urns, each apparently once about four feet tall, poke up out of the water. In the darkness on the eastern wall appears to be an enormous growth of an overall greenish hue that gives off the same silvery gleam as the slime trails.

Moat

The 10-foot-wide section of floor that runs along the east, west, and north sides of the room is 10 feet lower than in the rest of the room, creating a 12-foot-deep moat. Characters who don't probe ahead will be unable to detect the drop-off until it is too late.

Lime

The walls are heavily coated with lime, which also pollutes the water. If a character stands in this water for more than 30 minutes, the soaked portions of the character's clothing begin to rot away.

Creature

The phosphorescent glow on the eastern wall is actually a mutated swamp slug named Tecu'ari, the Supreme Slug. Tecu'ari is highly intelligent and quite the boaster. In Tamokhan's lore, it was considered to be related to the planet Yavin itself, a fact of which it is quite proud. During combat, the slug will detail, in Sith, what it has in store for the characters and how hopeless their situation is.

If it begins to lose the combat, the slug will either "surrender" and after bargaining agree to help the party, or else it will flee and conceal itself in the moat. If the characters allow themselves to be helped, the slug will precede them to the north side of the moat and stretch its body across the gap, making it appear to be solid ground. Those who step on the slug without taking precautions will plunge into the moat.

The slug will lead the party toward the Tomb of the Flood God (area 12) and instruct them to open the door. Once the door is open, Tecu'ari will flee from the party and hide in the bottom of the moat.

Eastern Alcove

The eastern fountain has a small amount of concentrated lime solution near the bottom (dealing damage as the lime in area 5). It looks like cloudy water. A small amulet lies beneath the caked lime. The amulet (worth 650 credits) is made of brass and chrysoprase, engraved with the words "Supreme Slug" in Sith. It is possible to use the amulet as a bargaining tool with the swamp slug, which will accept it in return for allowing the characters passage to the Tomb of the Flood God.

In the southeast corner of the eastern alcove, a swarm of diseased stintaril nests in the rubbish.

Western Alcove

The western fountain is filled with algae, and some spined pucs are raising a brood of tadpoles in the water.

This passageway is slime-covered, and a stream of water trickles away from the door. There is condensation on the walls, door, and ceiling, some of which drips down on you. A quiet sound of dripping and splashing echoes in the corridor. This door is tightly sealed and appears to be warped outward or wedged shut. The door's hinges are mounted on this side.

This hall is strewn with mud and flotsam. Water accumulates in the center of the corridor and flows westward to where a stone block in the southern wall has shifted out of place. The corridor turns north, and the flow of water follows it, then goes under a door made of bronze-bound wood. The door has a handle and a keyhole.

A faint, melodious sound comes from ahead. It is difficult to tell whether it is someone singing or the echoing of dripping water in a great cavern.

The room is lit by a soft light that reveals a section of rocky beach. Beyond the beach is a pool of glowing water, filling half the room and framed by a crystal cavern. Green fronds can be seen in the pool. Light seems to flow from everywhere, the pool and walls glistening like soft moonlight. On the far side of the pool is a set of doors carved with a symbol of Yavin.

Sitting on the beach in front of the crystalline pool is a humanoid woman, young and slim, with long golden hair and pale skin. She wears fine white clothing and archaic jewelery, including a obsidian-black band around her neck. She is singing a strange melody in an unrecognizable language. After finishing her song, she enters the water in a long, arching dive.

Creatures

The young woman is actually a melodie named Crescendo. Whether startled or not, eventually the melodie surfaces and a silvery laugh is heard. This creature is a servant of Yavin, mutated by Sith alchemy to freely move between land and water. Unlike most other melodies, she is chaotic dark in alignment, and she speaks Basic, Melodese and Sith. She possesses an insidious and clever mind, concealed beneath her alien beauty and seeming naiveté. She retreats from close combat and conceals herself in the water.

The melodie has a pet named Cento, a giant armored electroeel. If she calls to Cento for aid, she does so on her turn when she uses Water Lash. The waters begin to heave and boil, and the watery form of a massassi with an monstrous head, wearing an elaborate headdress and holding a trident, rises up. The electroeel comes near the surface and strikes when the watery "god" levels its trident at a character.

Treasure

If seriously threatened, such as by her collar being taken away, the melodie might reveal the location of her treasure. At the deepest part of the pool is a grotto hidden behind a bed of kelp. In this cave are six golden statuettes (worth 500 credits each) and a golden mask (worth 2,500 credits). Also lying in the cache are two crystal scroll cases (worth 250 credits apiece), though water has destroyed the scrolls in them; a silver idol (worth 150 credits), which is actually a bottle holding a dried mutagen of clairvoyance; and a pair of gloves of suspension.

This hallway is twenty feet wide and has piles of rubble and debris scattered along its length. The walls are covered with frescoes. The south wall displays scenes of a battle between the Sith Lords and the Jedi Order.

The north wall depicts the massassi on a great battleship traveling to Yavin 4; their experiences during the journey include skirting dangerous nebulae, concealing themselves from Republic search parties, and communing with the dark side in their battles to keep their home free from Jedi invasion. In the center of the wall is a painting of a pyramid with a temple atop it and Yavin looming over the land.

Double bronze doors stand in the eastern end of the south wall. Down the hall to the west is an archway carved in the form of twining serpents. Beyond it, the corridor continues on into shadow.

Yavin Painting

The painting of the pyramid and Yavin conceals a secret door. A character who makes a successful DC 15 Wisdom (Perception) check discovers that the portion of the work that depicts Yavin is separate from the rest and can be depressed. Pushing it inward reveals and opens a secret door in the wall. The floor of the passage that leads north is 8 feet above the floor of the great hall. Accessing this secret exit causes any bars over the niches to retract into the walls and the pressure plates to reset.

The wall at the end of this corridor has a bas relief sculpture of a warrior armed with a massassi sword and shield. The shield, which rests on the floor, resembles a sundial, complete with a marker standing out from the wall. Etched on the shield's surface are runes in Sith script.

This corridor is high-ceilinged and decorated with sculptures mounted on the walls. Two corridors branch off from the main hall, a narrow one to the east and another to the west. The statuary that adorns the walls consists of four sculpted heads of animals. Each one is six feet above the floor and two to three feet in diameter. Opposite the passage that leads east is the stylized head of a reptilian howler, and across from the hallway going west is the head of a grinning ape-like mamien. Near the south end of the corridor, the head of a beaked mawgax is mounted on the east wall.

At the north end of the area, on the west wall, is what appears to be the head of a whisper bird, with its beak open. Something shines from within the bird's mouth.

Snapping Trap

Disturbing the bracelet in any way will cause the beak to snap shut instantly. Whatever was inserted into the mouth will be pinned, and the hinge of the mechanism will jam.

The hinge can be loosened with oil, after which the beak opens easily, or the beak (AC 16, 25 hit points) can be broken off by dealing kinetic damage to it that reduces it to 0 hit points. If a character's arm is caught in the beak when the beak is struck, that character takes one-quarter of the damage dealt to the beak and the beak takes the remainder.

Treasure

The golden bracelet is a bracelet of carbon-freezing, an unusual creation worn as jewelry by its creator.

Along both sides of the corridor, deep in shadows, humanoid figures appear to be floating above the floor. As you approach, you see that the figures seemingly suspended in the air are actually withered massassi corpses standing upright on a ledge two feet above the floor.

Creatures

Once the lead character in the party reaches the midway point of the east–west passage, fifteen sith zombies animate and attack. These corpses don't register as enhanced to a casting of sense force or force sight until after they animate, at which point they appear to have a red hue to those using force sight.

Disease

After combat with the zombies is finished, each character who took damage from the monsters must succeed on a DC 11 Constitution saving throw or contract sithspit plague, a disease often contracted by unwary explorers of Korriban's tombs.

At the end of the corridor is a small alcove holding a three-foot-tall stone pedestal on which rests a small silver coffer. Fifteen feet in front of the alcove, there is a single small step up in the stone floor. Inside the alcove, the floor is elevated an additional two feet.

Hinged Floor

A character who examines the base of the 2-foot step along the edge of the raised floor and succeeds on a DC 15 Wisdom (Perception) check notices a metallic glint coming from a hinge that runs across the full width of the floor. The hinge can be dismantled by someone who uses a security kit, takes 5 minutes to do so, and succeeds on a DC 15 Dexterity check. On a successful check, the trap (see below) is prevented from triggering. On a failed check, the character hasn't managed to dismantle the hinge but can try again.

Shifting Slab Trap

If the hinge in the floor isn't dismantled, a trap is triggered if more weight is placed on the floor of the alcove than on the space immediately in front of the step up. The floor inside the alcove sinks 10 feet. At the same time, the 15-foot slab of floor north of the alcove (as shown on the map) rises up, pivoting along its south edge. The northern side of the slab now seals off the passage to the north, while the southern side slopes down toward the alcove. Those who were on the slab when it pivoted fall prone and roll to the bottom of the slope on the alcove floor, 13 feet below where the coffer sits on its pedestal. Each creature that falls in this way takes 3 (1d6) kinetic damage.

When the slab finishes moving, it locks into place, so the floor remains steeply sloped and the passage north remains blocked. The locking mechanism is hidden by the northern (elevated) edge of the floor, and it's in a very narrow space. The stone around it can be chipped away over several hours of tedious labor until the edge of the slab no longer holds in place. A release tech power can also defeat the locking mechanism.

Treasure

The silver coffer is unlocked, but it is latched, so the lid will not come open unless the characters touch the box.

The runes are in a script similar to Sith and spell out the name "Askelkwyer" . Deft fingers will be able to open the small panel, revealing a hollow inside which is a wall of lighted, colored beads.

Touching any of the beads will cause the panel to close. A few seconds thereafter, the figurine will rise into the air and start to fly about the alcove, hovering at times and avoiding being touched by characters or projectiles. Once an exit is available, the figure will fly from the party and move randomly through the ruins, stopping at doors and pausing for a minute. This floating statuette serves no purpose and is more or less a false lead.

The silver coffer weighs 15 pounds and is worth 1,500 credits due to its fine workmanship. The copper figure is worth 500 credits and weighs 5 pounds.

A massive bronze door opens into this grand chamber. The place is filled with rubble and life-sized statuary, much of it broken. Standing in ranks is an army of clay statues, in what must have once been an impressive array. Now, half of them are fallen and crumbled. Near the door are lance-wielders, perhaps twenty of them, outfitted only in scraps of leather now. At their feet lay obsidian lanceheads and bits of rotted wooden shafts. Behind these figures are marksmen, in a scattered formation. Few of them remain standing. Their arrows are gone, but they hold laminated wooden bows, dried and worm-eaten.

Farther into the room are figures of warriors with knucklers and lanvaroks, wearing scraps of lacquered leather, sandals, and caps. Beyond all of this in the north end of the chamber are a group of statues that must have been an honor guard. These warriors wear feathered robes and headdresses and are armed with pitted bronze staves. Each of these figures wears a breastplate of shells. They are standing near a domed structure. The stuccoed dome has no apparent openings.

On the east wall of the room are two carved stone columns flanking the remains of a covered sedan or litter, with statues of attendants standing nearby.

A large block of stone obstructs the corridor ahead. It doesn't seem to have been a part of the original construction, for its composition is more sandy than the stones that make up the walls of these ruins. Furthermore, a gap of several inches is visible along the sides of the block and between the stone and the ceiling.

All the doors bordering this lozenge-shaped room are made of heavy bronze. Colorful glyphs are scribed on the western wall. There are two sideboards against the walls to the east.

In the middle of the chamber are two stone divans, each with a human figure stretched out on it. Between the divans is a low stone table holding a flask and two goblets, all made of crystal. In the bottom of the crystal flask is a quantity of silvery dust.

The figures on the divans are an unmutated massassi male and female, each about middle-aged and perfectly preserved. They are very still, dust-covered, and apparently dead. Their bodies are covered with dry snakeskin. The female wears a silver bracelet and holds what looks to be an ivory wand. The male has an amulet of electrum resting on his chest, inset with a red stone of considerable size.

Poison Dust

Mixing the silvery powder in the flask with any liquid will create a special potion. A creature that drinks it must succeed on a DC 20 Constitution saving throw or become poisoned for 5,000 years. While poisoned in this way, a creature is also unconscious but semi-aware of its surroundings, and it is unaffected by the passage of time or other poisons. If enhanced items or powers are used to cure the poisoned condition, the recipient becomes immune to the poison's effect for 1 hour. A casting of force suppression at 7th level or higher can also end the effect.

Creatures

The two bodies are massassi monks in suspended animation, both adherents of Typhojem, the Left-Handed God of Sith legend. The male is named Kipact, and the female is Oksom. They used the potion that the flask once contained to feign their death. If either is disturbed, they both instantly awaken and stand. Oksom says, first in Sith and then in an ancient dialect of Basic, "You have broken our glorious sleep; for this you must atone."

The two then slip bladed knucklers onto their left hands and assume fighting stances, and if either is threatened or harmed, they attack. If the party negotiates, the two demand payment of 5,000 credits or equivalent treasure, or one premium or prototype enhanced item. If they aren't paid, the monks attack.

If the monks are questioned about the ruins, they know nothing to tell, except that they can translate the message on the western wall. They will not leave their chambers.

Treasure

The ivory "wand" that Oksom holds is actually a folded fan worth 500 credits, and her platinum bracelet is worth 2,500 credits. Kipact's amulet, made of electrum and garnet, is worth 1,000 credits.

As you peer down the corridor, a faint flickering light becomes visible. The light begins to move through the hallway away from you, sputtering and wavering just at the edge of your perception.

23A. Triangular Stone

If the characters approach from the south, read:

The pit is 10 feet deep and contains several humanoid skeletons.

The triangular pillar's apex points toward the pit. Scratches on the floor and ceiling, scribing short arcs on either side of it, are easy to see. Someone who examines the pillar notices that it can be pivoted to either the left or the right, which will open a passage 2 feet wide that offers access to the north. If the characters move through this opening, they once again see the light of the lesser derriphan in the distance.

If the characters approach from the north, read:

If the wall is hammered on, it will sound solid. A character who examines the floor or the ceiling finds scratches that scribe an arc from one corner to the other. Pushing on one side of the apparent dead end causes the triangular pillar to pivot as noted above. If the characters move through the opening, they discover the pit. If they proceed to the south, continue with area 23.

Pressure Plate

The 10-foot-square section of floor marked on the map is the location of a pressure plate (see "The Ruins: General Features" at the beginning of the adventure). If an amount of weight equivalent to that of three or four humanoids is placed on it, the trap described below is triggered.

Falling Door Trap

If the characters set off the trap by activating the pressure plate in the floor, they hear a click and then a crash as both portcullises, made of timber bound in copper, come crashing down, sealing off the indicated area. These barriers are a foot thick; each has an AC of 15 and 100 hit points. Lifting a door requires a successful DC 25 Strength (Athletics) check, and any such check is made with disadvantage, since getting a good grip is difficult. If a door can first be pried up slightly with a crowbar or similar lever, requiring a successful DC 20 Strength (Athletics) check, someone not using the lever can get a grip on the bottom of the door, eliminating the disadvantage.

After 5 rounds, characters confined by the trap hear the sound of stone slowly grating on stone. Small panels near the ceiling move to expose four holes the size of a human fist on each wall. Dust trickles from the holes. After another 5 rounds passes, golden sand starts to pour rapidly through the holes. The floor is swiftly covered by the sand, which builds up at a rate of 2 feet per minute. Therefore, it takes 10 minutes for the sand to completely fill the hallway.

The area becomes difficult terrain after 1 minute. After 3 minutes of accumulation, a creature that moves through the sand must make a DC 10 Strength or Dexterity saving throw, becoming restrained on a failed save. (A creature that crawls need not make the saving throw, and creatures that have more than two legs have advantage on the saving throw.)

A creature can end the restrained condition on itself by using an action and succeeding on a DC 10 Strength or Dexterity check. Another creature can use an action to make the check and pull a restrained creature free. After 5 minutes of accumulation, the DC of the saving throw increases to 15. Once the sand is flowing, it must be scooped away from a closed door for someone to try to lift that door, and the sand flows through open doorways.

The dust that fills the air as the sand falls causes choking. Unless it need not breathe, a creature in the dust must make a DC 13 Constitution saving throw at the start of its turn. On a failed save, the creature spends its turn coughing, able only to move at half speed or to make a check (with disadvantage) to free itself from the restrained condition.

Creature

As soon as the sand begins flowing, the lesser derriphan that frequents this part of the ruins (see area 23), if it remains alive, moves through one of the doors into the trapped area. It harries those who are having the most success at escaping the trap.

A bitter stench assails the senses as you lay eyes on the room ahead. Inside, amid a pile of rubbish, offal, and bracken, ghostly lights move across the floor.

Closer observation reveals that the light is emitted by giant beetles. There seem to be around a dozen of these creatures in the room, each about three feet in length. They don't appear to take notice of you. From within the largest pile of trash, where most of the beetles are clustered, come glints of something shiny.

Creatures

The garbage-infested room is home to thirteen ember beetles. They lack the two light-emitting glands behind the eyes that are normal for such creatures. They do give off a soft glow that emanates from their abdomens but doesn't provide significant illumination. The beetles are non-aggressive unless their nest is threatened. Any sudden noise will bring a beetle or two to investigate. They examine any strange object with their feelers, and if it is edible, they bite it. Other beetles move toward the sound of their comrades fighting.

Treasure

The shiny objects in the beetles' nest are odd pieces of metal, polished rocks, broken crystal, three large turquoises (worth 200 credits each), and a kissai dagger that looks like junk. When it is used, its grip frays, its blade chips, and it flakes rust. If a character wielding this weapon gets a natural 1 on an attack roll, the dagger breaks and becomes unenhanced.

26. Ramp

If the characters approach from the north, read:

If the characters approach from the south, read:

27. Stairs

This corridor ascends from south to north in a series of short, gently sloped staircases.

28. The Arc of Yavin

As the area is further penetrated, it is discerned that this was once a processional hall. Little remains to identify its past purpose except for a carving etched in the center of the worn floor that depicts a silver sun with a single eye. The beast that lairs here will not attack until the party sights it.

29. The Tomb of Chwita

At the place where the corridor bends is a capstone that seemingly covers a hole in the floor. Etched into the top of the slab are several glyphs obscured by a layer of dust. This writing, in Massassi, reads, "Dare not open this pit unless you be willing to meet the challenge of chwita." Those translating the writing can recognise that the term 'chwita' derives from the Sith word for 'to throw'.

Five feet above the capstone in the southern wall is a hemispherical depression 1 foot in diameter.

Lifting the capstone requires the application of leverage and the combined effort of up to two characters with a total Strength of 25 or higher. Beneath the stone lid is a pit filled with the skeletal remains of the losers of a previous game of chwita in this area. Atop the bones rest several figurines and a plaque, all made of jade, and a glistening black ball 1 foot in diameter and 2 inches thick at its centre.

Alternative Chwita Rules

The game presented here is a direct adaptation of the pelota challenge in the original adventure. An alternative version of this game with a changed ruleset is provided in appendix C, under "Alternative Chwita", which separates the rules of the game into a more focused context.

This oddly shaped room is decorated in a feline motif. The center of the southeastern wall is carved to resemble the face of a snarling feline predator with hollow eyes. Near the center of the room is a stuffed manka cat, posed as if on the prowl. The cat's left ear has been torn off, leaving a jagged scar on the head. Also near the middle of the room stands a stone statue of a male cathar holding a massassi lance.

In several other spots on the floor are stuffed cats of varying species in various poses: sitting, stalking, pouncing, and one is begging, pawing the air. One of these cats in the center of the room has been knocked over and chewed on; its stuffing is falling out.

Hung on the walls are several skins of various wild cats, saber cat heads, and a 'cat-of-nine-tails' flogging implement. Along the northwest edge of the chamber a large calendar stone is mounted on the wall above a stone table or altar.

The statue of the cathar depicts a tall, maneless male with two extra sets of nipples. He seems to be roaring and is clad only in a loincloth. A jagged scar runs across the left side of his chest, above the heart, and his chest is sunken and bony. The lance is stone-hafted, but bears a silvery head.

Creature

The statue is a petrified cathar warrior named Jagurr Lu, a servant of Yavin with ferocious primal power. If the altar is molested or any of the room's contents are abused, the cathar becomes aware and seizes the first opportunity to attack with surprise. It can turn to flesh as a bonus action and then shift into a feral stance, dropping its lanvarok. (The sith alchemy on the creature renders it strongly related to earth and stone with regard to the curse on the bracelet of carbon-freezing). Its first choice of targets is always the weakest member of the party. If the cathar is reduced to 0 hit points, it reverts to humanoid form and becomes petrified again.

The cathar's heart has been removed by alchemical surgery and is hidden in the head of the stuffed manka cat (hinted at by the scars on cathar and manka cat). Therefore, the cathar might take damage or even die, but unless its heart is destroyed, it is reborn again whole in one day's time. If the cathar's heart (AC 10, 2 hit points) is destroyed, the creature dies and turns to dust.

Treasure

In the belly of the stuffed tiger is a pile of gold piles, altogether worth 5,000 credits.

Eye of the Tiger

A secret door is concealed in the mouth of the wall carving. The catch to open it is hidden in the hollow of the right eye. The door and the catch each require a successful DC 20 Wisdom (Perception) check to find.

The calendar, a great wheel of stone, is carved from limestone. In the center of the calendar is a symbol of Yavin's sun surrounded with various sigils depicting seasons of the year. The stone is ten feet across and is mounted five feet above the floor over a stone altar. On the altar rests a ceremonial dagger of flint and a jade statue of a cat. At the foot of the altar is a stuffed cat, posed as if begging or attempting to catch something in the air.

Secret Passage

The calendar stone covers a door and a secret passage to a hidden tomb. A character who examines the calendar and succeeds on a DC 15 Wisdom (Perception) check can see that it is held onto the wall by a smaller rod of stone behind it. The gap between the calendar and the wall is a few inches wide, so characters looking at the calendar in a specific way might notice the unusual mounting without making a check. In order to open the door, the sun symbol must be pushed into the wall. The calendar stone and the wall behind it then swing to one side on a set of hinges.

Treasure

The sacrificial knife on the table is a kissai dagger. The jade statue is worth 2,000 credits and weighs 9 pounds. In the tail of the stuffed cat is a scroll of feline warding.

Behind the concealed entrance is a narrow tunnel that slants down and away. The passage is barely four feet in diameter, and the walls are carved with a profusion of ancient and weird glyphs. The floor of the tunnel is slick with a molten, glassy glaze.

The tunnel opens out two feet above the floor of a corridor running north and south. Three exits are visible, one at either end of the hallway and a set of double doors on the midpoint of the western wall.

The door to the north is barred, though it seems to have no latch. The image of a hairy beast holding a disk of obsidian is set in its face. The lintel of the door is carved in the form of entwined serpents.

The southern door is plated in bronze. Etched on it is a symbol of two circles joined. The path leading up to it has a depression in the stone floor, as though it has been worn smooth by the passage of countless feet.

The floor in front of the central doorway is sunken and glazed. Affixed across the double doors is a golden seal one foot in diameter with ancient glyphs scribed into it. To open this door, it appears that the golden seal must be broken. Ancient glyphs are scribed on the seal. To either side on the lintel of the door are barely discernible scratches, and brown stains stipple the wall and floor.

Beyond the door is a pillared porch overlooking a chamber that contains a model of a city. Arrayed on the porch are numerous clay statues of guards holding bronze-headed lances. The face of each statue is different, as if they were modeled from different subjects. Next to each statue is a small, glazed clay pot. The walls are decorated with brightly colored frescoes depicting a royal court in ceremonial garb and a Mass'ari arrayed with his armies.

There is a chill in the chamber beyond, like that of a brisk winter morning. In the center of the room is an enormous, tarnished copper raft, crafted to resemble a hssiss, bearing a copper coffin. The raft is afloat on a sea of silvery-white, flowing metal, fed by several rivers that trail along the floor of the room. The flowing liquid appears to be cool.

Between the waterways, stepped pyramid-temples rise skyward in mute paean to Yavin. Three of the pyramids appear to have tops that can be removed. In the rest of the area, a royal complex sprawls across verdant fields, and courtyards and ringed marketplaces dot the miniature countryside. There is a blight on this spectacle, however, for several of the models have been smashed and melted.

Fire Trap

On the floor just inside the doorway is a primitive fabricate trap power (save DC 17). The first character to step through the door and onto the glyph causes a greater pyrokinesis power to spring up in the doorway, with the damaging side facing away from the character who entered. The wall remains in place for 1 minute.

Creature

Within the copper coffin is a sithspawn double. The creature emerges from the coffin through a hole in the side facing away from the entrance as soon as the trap is triggered. It assumes the form of any character trapped alone in the room and tries to attack with surprise. If it succeeds in slaying the character before the greater pyrokinesis expires, then it hides the body in the coffin.

The double is unfamiliar with the rest of the ruins but tries to act like the character it has killed until it is discovered. If the double is forced to fight the party, it assumes the shape of a creature of molten metal that shrouded in flames. The fire is an illusion and doesn't burn.

Liquid Fire

The first time a creature or an object enters or touches the silvery liquid metal of the sea or the rivers on a turn, or a creature starts its turn in such a place, the creature or object takes 3 (1d6) fire damage. If any of this fluid is carried out of this room, it evaporates in 1 minute. The ships and the coffin floating on the liquid deal similar fire damage if they are touched.

In an alcove framed by pillars stands a stone bench on which a shriveled corpse huddles. Scattered around its feet are various trinkets.

The passage leads toward a set of double bronze doors bearing the engraved face of a cathar. Both walls of the corridor are carved to represent two lines of warriors in profile, holding lanvaroks and facing the western doors. These figures are painted with vivid, lifelike colors: red, black, white, green, and yellow.

Pressure Plate

Near the midpoint of this corridor is a 10-foot-square pressure plate (see "The Ruins: General Features" at the beginning of the adventure) that triggers if more than 30 pounds is placed on it.

Shocking Blades

If the pressure plate is depressed, two of the carved warriors pivot out from the walls in front of the party, crossing their metal lanvaroks before them to bar the way to the northern doors. The blades spark and hum when they are brought together. A creature that touches either of the blades takes 5 (2d4) lightning damage and must succeed on a DC 15 Constitution saving throw or become paralyzed while it is in contact. A paralyzed creature takes the damage again at the start of each of its turns.

There is barely enough room for a Medium humanoid to crawl under the crossed polearms and between the statues. Doing so without touching the blades requires a successful DC 10 Dexterity check.

When the door comes open, a rush of warm, fetid air greets you. The room is lit with a sanguine glow. On the wall opposite the door are tacked several massassi skins. A flogging whip hangs beside them.

To the west the room widens to accommodate a statue that towers almost to the ceiling. The statue is a misshapen figure resembling a gen'dai, outfitted in flayed skins and adorned with skulls, with tendrils splaying off in all directions. It is seated atop a huge basin of red-hot coals, more than ten feet in diameter.

Around the statue is a pile of splintered bones, skulls with cracked pates, and broken weapons. In front of the display crouches a howler, deathly still, facing away from the statue.

To the east the walls are highly polished. They loosely enclose an intricately carved well that seems to be illuminated from within. Beyond the well, mounted on the wall, is a blackened mirror with a richly ornamented frame. Directly above the well, in the twenty-five-foot-high ceiling, a five-foot-wide opening can be discerned in the red light of the room.

Statue Guardian

If the characters approach the statue, the howler will stand and stalk menacingly in their direction... and then continue on past them. The howler has a mental block that prevents it from being able to see Sith species such as purebloods or massassi, which initially applies to other humanoids and human-like droids as well. It likewise ignores tracker droids, but it attacks any beast companion or other non-humanoid present with the party.

If the howler is not attacked and is unable to find a target, it takes to pacing in front of the door. If the party attacks the reptile, its mental block regarding other humanoids fails, and the panther attacks any such creature it can see. If it can see no target, the bewildered howler resumes its pacing.

Treasure

Almost all the weapons around the statue are useless, though the head of a techaxe (fine) attached to a broken haft can be found.

Well of Light

The illumination inside the well comes from liquid light, a fluid that clings like oil if touched to a given surface and in the presence of other light eventually spreads to cover the entire surface.

If a creature falls into the well and is pulled out, the liquid light clings to a small portion of its body, then spreads to cover an additional 5 percent of the body every round. Eventually the liquid covers its eyes, nose and mouth. If this happens, the character can't breathe until the liquid is removed by immersion in water. In the absence of a light source, the liquid light doesn't spread, and any enhanced darkness renders it inert for 1 hour.

If anything is tossed into the well, brilliant light flashes upward and a bellowing voice fills the chamber. The voice belongs to Jeoch, and he asks (in Sith) who has come and for what purpose. Nothing else happens, for Jeoch is restrained by dark power and cannot leave his lair to investigate.

Ceiling Tunnel

The hole in the ceiling leads to Jeoch's lair. If the characters try to climb the walls, they discover the walls are too slick to be ascended in this way.

A surefire way of getting in is to launch a weapon-mounted or handheld grappling hook up through the hole. This method never fails to anchor the hook on something, for Jeoch grabs the cable once it is launched through his front door. If a creature then decides to climb the cable up into the lair, Jeoch starts to reel in the climber when it has ascended halfway.

A creature being hauled up into the tunnel can release the rope and drop into the well, taking no immediate damage (other than being covered in the liquid light), or it can swing its body outward and drop onto the floor, taking falling damage. Otherwise, Jeoch pulls the climber into his lair in 1 round.

The floor of this room is covered with a layer of fine gray dust and ash, three inches deep. Across the room, opposite where you entered, is another set of double doors. There are two empty alcoves to the north and south. On small ledges in each corner of the room are pieces of what appear to be broken pottery.

As you move into the room, your steps send motes of dust and ash swirling into the air, and these clouds form into shapes.

First, from the ash, a dusty phantom assumes the shape of a massassi woman. Her face is forlorn and tear-streaked. She throws up her hands in despair, rushes into one of the alcoves, and disappears.

Immediately afterward, two more dusty phantoms emerge — mighty massassi warriors armed with jagged-edged swords and bearing fierce countenances. They move to block the doorway opposite where you entered.

In the center of this room is a withered tree that looks like a leafless willow, rooted in a terraced depression. The bottom of this hollow is filled with oily water, a few inches deep. Across the room, beyond the dead tree, is another door. Around the sides of the room, a five-foot-wide ledge encircles the tree. The walls of the room are beaded with condensation.

Creature

The "tree" is Siqsadzu, a semisentient (Int 2), gigantic variety of polyp, similar to a sea anemone, once revered as the a goddess of the harvest. The polyp initially appears inanimate, but is very hungry and seeks to lure intruders closer before trying to restrain them. Its mouth is concealed among a nest of flailing tentacles and protected by sharp spines.

Treasure

Within the polyp's gut are twelve pieces of blue jasper (worth 100 credits each) and a silvery Sith talisman, actually a copper-nickel alloy, which is a talisman of force lightning.

The walls of the passage glow magenta, bathing the corridor with a ghastly hue. After fifteen feet, the floor drops away to a pit that fills the hallway ahead. The pit is twenty-five feet deep. Eight large, spidery bushes with thorny stems, white leaves, and enormous yellow blossoms grow across its bottom.

Five feet beyond the nearest edge of the pit is a bronze bar, set level with the floor and embedded in the pit walls to either side. Farther out over the pit can be seen other similar bronze rungs, set at five-foot intervals. On the floor by the edge of the pit is a scattering of broken, rotting wooden planks.

Bridge of Bars

A character can attempt to cross this pit by leaping from one bar to the next. There are a total of eight bars and 45 feet of pit. Moving across the bars is akin to moving across difficult terrain; moving 5 feet onto a bar, or between two bars, costs 10 feet of movement. If a creature attempts to move more than half of its base walking speed on any of its turns, it must make a DC 10 Dexterity (Acrobatics) check. On a successful check, the creature can keep moving. On a failed check, the creature stops moving to regain its balance and can move no farther on that turn. If the check fails by 5 or more, the creature falls into the pit.

The third and sixth bars along the way are corroded. When a character moves onto one of these bars, roll a d20. On a roll of 5 or lower, or 2 or lower for a Small character, the bar breaks. If the bar doesn't break and the roll is 10 or lower, some obvious sign of the bar's weakness becomes evident, such as chipping or bending.

This enormous chamber is thirty feet tall with mighty buttressing and a vaulted ceiling. Parts of the ceiling and walls have collapsed, and raw earth has spilled down from a gaping hole in the east wall. Crushed beneath a fallen block in the center of the room are humanoid remains. Elsewhere around the floor are the chewed and decayed corpses of woolamanders. Through a hole in the eastern ceiling, daylight and fresh air filter in. Above, through this gap, can be seen four woolamanders. They jump around the hole and and scream in agitation, and as they do, dirt begins to slide down the banks and rocks in the walls shift slightly.

Treasure

The bones crushed beneath the fallen block belonged to two treasure hunters. This block can be moved by the combined effort of up to three characters with a total Strength of 30 or higher. A pouch tied on the waist of one corpse holds 200 credits. One of the humans wore a brooch of bronze and green quartz in the shape of a lizard (worth 250 credits). A silver and beryl-emerald ring (500 credits) is worn on a bony finger. A silvery dagger, actually made of a copper-nickel alloy and worth 100 credits, is stuck in the left boot of one figure. A scroll case holds a map of the territory in which these ruins are located. Finally, a crystal sphere, cracked in the catastrophe, has rolled into the shadow of some nearby rubble. It is made of polished quartz, 3 inches in diameter, and is worth 450 credits.

Crumbling Exit

If characters attempt to climb up the dirt embankments to the hole in the ceiling, they discover that the surface supports only 50 pounds. More weight than that on any space along the slope causes further collapse — each climber must succeed on a DC 13 Dexterity saving throw or be buffeted by dirt and rubble, taking 7 (3d4) kinetic damage. If the save fails by 5 or more, the rubble engulfs the digger completely, and the trapped character can't breathe until dug out. Getting out on one's own requires a successful DC 15 Strength (Athletics) check, and doing so takes 1 minute.

If any characters escape the dungeon through here, they emerge on the south-eastern corner of the clearing, just beyond area 54. From here, they can move directly to the temple ruins.

Serpent Doors

The southeast exit from this chamber is a set of double bronze doors in the north wall at the end of a short corridor. Above them hangs a plaque inlaid with jade (worth 250 credits). The plaque depicts a two-headed serpent, much like the reel found in this room.

40. Hssiss Breath

When the party reaches the bottom of the stairs, read:

The second 10-foot square along these stairs is warded by sorcery like that of a fabricate trap power (save DC 17). If the trap is triggered, nothing happens until a creature moves onto the uppermost 5 feet of the stairs. When that occurs, a stone statue of a hssiss, hidden in the secret room at the top of the stairs (see the "Second Tier" portion of the map), pops out and rolls forward to the head of the steps.

As soon as it stops after emerging, it opens its mouth and breathes a gust of steam 30 feet long and 10 feet wide. Those in the area must make a DC 15 Constitution saving throw, taking 7 (2d4 + 2) fire damage on a failed save, or half as much damage on a successful one. Thereafter, the statue breathes the next three times someone moves into or through the warded area. After four breaths, the statue retreats to its room and the door closes. (The statue's resting place is connected to a hot water geyser in the bedrock, through which it replenishes itself.)

Though the statue is not considered a creature and does not provide XP, it is considered a Large construct (unaligned) with the following statistics:

• Armor Class 17 (natural armor)
• Hit Points 178 (17d10+85)
• Ability Scores STR 22 (+6) | DEX 9 (-1) | CON 20 (+5) | INT 3 (-4) | WIS 11 (+0) | CHA 1 (-5)
• Damage Immunities poison, psychic; kinetic and energy from unenhanced attacks
• Condition Immunities charmed, exhaustion, frightened, paralyzed, petrified, poisoned
• Senses darkvision 120 ft., passive Perception 10

The statue also possesses the following traits:

• Immutable Form. The statue is immune to any power or effect that would alter its form.
• Power Resistance. The statue has advantage on saving throws against powers (tech and force) and other enhanced effects.
• Enhanced Strikes. The statue's weapon attacks are enhanced.

Slippery Steps

After the statue breathes for the first time, the condensing steam makes the stairs slippery difficult terrain. A character who moves on the stairs must while they are slippery must succeed on a DC 10 Dexterity (Acrobatics) check or fall prone.

Secret Door

If the characters get to the top of the stairs without triggering the glyph, someone can discover the secret door here with a successful DC 20 Wisdom (Perception) check. The door can't be opened from the outside, however.

41. Free Gold

This apparent pile of gold is covered with a pale yellow dust. The entire pile of coins is actually a mass of poisonous yellow mold covered by a permanent force illusion similar to a greater hologram power (save DC 15). The bones, spider, and vibroblade hilt are real.

Beyond the secret door, the passage bends around to the left. At the end of a narrow corridor hangs an ornate mirror, and a door is set in the eastern wall next to it.

Magick Mirror

The first creature to come within 10 feet of the mirror at the end of the corridor must make a DC 15 Wisdom saving throw. On a failed check, the creature believes that it is in deadly combat with a feathered massassi warrior that has emerged from the mirror. This effect is like that of a hallucination force power, with the character battling a warrior that deals 3 (1d6) psychic damage, as described in the power. The effect ends if the affected creature deals the imaginary warrior a total amount of damage equal to the creature's own hit point maximum.

While under the effect of this sorcery, the creature is actually paralyzed, appearing to others as if it were just standing there staring into the mirror. If someone disturbs the affected creature, that creature can repeat the saving throw, ending the effect on a successful save.

The Door

When anyone get close to the door, read:

The glyphs on the door tell a story in ancient Sith of a journey to find truth and light, which ended in failure and imprisonment in the land of the dead.

The door opens outward. When the characters pass through the doorway, read:

Trapped Mask

The mask (worth 250 credits) is the trigger to a trap. If the mask is taken off the wall, the lever it hangs on pivots up and three sets of iron bars drop, caging whoever is in the square in front of the mask. The bars are old, and they can be bent or lifted away from the floor with a successful DC 20 Strength (Athletics) check.

Trapped Treasure

If any of the items on the shelves (worth a total of 4,500 credits) are touched, the exit door seals with an effect like that of a lock tech power, requiring the use of powers or a successful DC 25 Strength (Athletics) check to force the door open.

Creature

Trapped within the enhanced walls of the crystal cylinder is the force ghost of a being imprisoned by Sothil IX long ago. Because of her especially potent Shielded Mind trait, she is effectively invisible, but does not initially notice the party as she tries to conserve her strength.

If the characters disturb any of the items on the shelves, the force ghost (a diathim named Cuexakoutl) notices their presence and speaks to the party in Basic, its voice seeming to come from everywhere in the chamber.

There is actually no poison gas in the room, but the cage created by Sothil prevents Cuexakoutl from directly asking for help or providing explicit instructions. As the characters spend time in here trying to get to the cure, describe how they seem to be getting weaker and weaker. They should feel as if time is running out.

Aura

A sense force or detect enhancement power reveals an aura of enhancement emanating from inside the crystal cylinder.

The Right Path

To reach the "cure," the characters must first face the challenge of ascending the northern steps, where the warrior statue stands. The warrior, a petrified dashade guardian, turns to flesh and attacks when it is approached. Once the assassin is defeated, the characters can proceed to the center of the dais.

"So you have reached my altar, but your time is nearly exhausted and the cure is just beyond your reach. Trust your souls to the light of the Force, foolish mortals."

An amber haze drifts in this room, which is unoccupied. Strangely shaped and colored mirrors hang on the walls, and a large, oblong stone basin stands in the middle of the floor. The basin is about ten feet long, five feet wide, and three feet tall. It is filled with a steaming golden liquid.

The red mirror on the eastern wall seems to be composed of fiery glass and framed in bronze. Light beams are broken by the mirror into myriad flames, and ghostly shapes seem to flicker in its depths.

On the northern wall are two mirrors: a striking black one of obsidian framed in lacquered wood, and a stark white mirror with a wrought iron frame. The black mirror has a distinctive earthy odor and the blackness of subterranean caverns, but it seems of crude construction and reflects objects only when they are close to it. The white mirror has a pungent odor of nutmeg and spice, and its depths are gelid and smoky.

The mirror that hangs on the western wall is in a stone frame and is blue in color. Reflections in this mirror ripple as if the viewer were looking into a pool of water.

Red Mirror

A creature that looks into the red mirror sees a ghostly white form next to its own reflection. This mirror falsely predicts the viewer's death. The ghostly image takes on the appearance of a monster or a trap from this adventure. The image then assaults and kills the viewer's reflection. The mirror functions only once per character; after a character has this vision, the mirror becomes a normal mirror for that individual.

A creature that touches the red mirror for the first time on a turn takes 2 (1d4) fire damage.

Black Mirror

A creature that looks into the black mirror sees its reflection blur and then reappear in the robes of an ancient massassi leader as if depicting a previous incarnation. The image says, in Sith, "Command me to answer, and I shall."

The image of a former ruler of Tamokhan is superimposed on the character's reflection. Expending two force, tech or focus points and telling the spirit to "answer" can cause the spirit to answer three yes-or-no questions. The spirit answers only questions spoken in Sith, and nods or shakes its head in response.

Any creature that touches the black mirror must succeed on a DC 13 Charisma saving throw, or all valuable metals and gems in its possession are transmuted into lead and glass.

White Mirror

Reflections in the white mirror are blurred by what looks like a fine mist. Any creature that steps before this mirror and looks into it must make a successful DC 13 Wisdom saving throw or be stunned until the end of the creature's next turn. If the saving throw fails, the mirror, which is really a sithspawn gel, comes out of the frame and falls upon the character. Behind this false mirror is a door, which can be opened once the gel is removed.

Blue Mirror

The mirror on the western wall is actually a window of force-enhanced glass that offers a view of a pool of water. Any character who touches the glass must succeed on a DC 13 Charisma saving throw or be drawn through the glass, becoming submerged in the water. Weapons can be used to break the glass (AC 15, 20 hit points). If the glass is destroyed, the water in the pool and those trapped in it spill out into the room.

Golden Liquid

Any unenhanced object immersed in the basin reacts with the fluid inside, which turns the object into gold for 1 hour. If any of the golden liquid is removed from the basin, it becomes colored water.

In the center of this diamond-shaped room is a dais on which a weirdly formed altar rests. The altar is made to resemble a many-armed octopus-like creature called a rathtar with a large purple-red stone its forehead. The altar and floor are covered with dust. The walls of the room are decorated with paintings of the sun and moon in motion. Other images show people standing about a temple making sacrifices of flesh and blood, while the figure of a priest holds the heart of his latest victim above his head.

This room is decorated with a bizarre diorama depicting the land of the dead. Small, brightly painted clay statues have been placed about the room to represent the inhabitants of this realm and the unfortunate people they have taken into their care.

In the center of the room, the floor rises to form a small hill. A group of small figures seem to be struggling to roll a boulder up the hill, while a demon drives them on. Above the hill in the ceiling is a glowing spot that illuminates the entire chamber with an eerie silver light.

A cobblestone path leads from the western door to the foot of the hill. A similar path runs eastward and then veers south. Sections of the diorama around the perimeter of the room depict different environments in the land of the dead.

In the western end of the room is a region of burning sands. There, demons torture those who have been unfortunate enough to fall into their hands.

Along the southern side is a grassy plain, where people frolic and hunt herbivores.

North of the grassy plain and south of the hill, the floor opens into a model of a canyon. A river of lava flows down it while flames lick the walls.

East of the hill, in a side area of the room, is a counterpart to this fiery canyon — an icy waste.

To the north of the hill is a putrid, bubbling marsh where figures strive to keep their heads above the surface.

From out of the marsh a black, torpid river wends its way past the northern edge of the hill and flows west to pour over the lip of a steam-filled chasm in the northwest corner of the room. Within this dark chasm, worms pursue the fleeing forms of naked massassi.

In the south corner of the room on the eastern wall is a barred door.

Beyond the door is a modest-sized room with a lumpy pile of earthy material in the middle of the floor. Across from the door in the southeast corner, a glazed flask rests on a small shelf. In the northwest and northeast corners are two more shelves on which rest a small urn and a thin stone cylinder.

Creature

When any character starts into this room the pile of earth, which is a sithspawn anomaly, opens one eye, and then another and another, until many eyes of different shapes and sizes stare at the party. All about the eyes are fanged, drooling mouths that begin a cacophony of babbling. The creature attacks until destroyed but doesn't leave the room.

Treasure

The flask contains a dried mutagen of mogu strength. The stone cylinder is a sith sorcerer's rod.

The urn holds the dried heart of a revered kissai that radiates enhancement if sense force or detect enhancement is used on it. Any character who eats the entire thing gains the permanent ability to understand the Sith language and its dialects, as well as the literal meaning of sithspawn communication.

Creature

In a web-covered opening in the wall of the steeply inclined chute, 30 feet above the where the lower end meets the ceiling of area 45, lurks an adult chitterweb. The adult chitterweb's lair is 10 feet long, 4 feet wide, and 4 feet tall. A character must succeed on a DC 17 Wisdom (Perception) check to notice the tunnel or its occupant before the adult chitterweb attacks. If the adult chitterweb paralyzes its prey, it retreats into its lair with the prey to feed.

In the Chute

The cramped quarters of the tunnel impose disadvantage on weapon attack rolls.

Also, a creature in the chute struck by the adult chitterweb must succeed on a DC 11 Dexterity or Strength saving throw (player's choice). On a failed save, the creature slips down the chute 5 feet for every point by which the saving throw failed. If a creature falls 30 feet, it plummets out of the chute, taking falling damage accordingly and rolling in a random direction (roll a d4) after landing prone in area 45. The adult chitterweb pursues prey into the chute, but is unlikely to emerge to fight in an open area.

Upper End

The top of this passage is covered with a pewter basin, which requires a successful DC 10 Strength (Athletics) check to move.

48. Hound of the Bat

The description below assumes that the characters entered the room by traveling through the chute and pushing aside the pewter cover. The tunnel comes out at the bottom of a stone ring that, from inside the room, resembles a well. (If they entered from the west, the pewter cover is still in place.)

To the west, stairs lead up out of the room, and to either side of the stairs along the west wall are narrow, dust covered ledges.

49. Sacred Guardian

50. Jade Wall

This wall, which is 7 feet wide and 7 feet tall, is a trap for those attempting to break into the ruins. If any tampering is done to the wall, it falls west out into the anteroom. If the wall falls on a creature, the creature must make a DC 10 Dexterity saving throw. On a failed save, the creature takes 9 (2d8) kinetic damage and is knocked prone under the wall, restrained. A successful DC 15 Strength (Athletics) check is needed to lift the stone wall off any trapped beneath it.

51. Wind Tunnel

The walls of this chamber are painted flat black, while the floor is inlaid with a colorful mosaic of strange beings cavorting and leaping around the planet Yavin. An alcove in the center of the eastern wall is masked by a curtain of shells and beads.

Behind the curtain is the chalky form of a statue seated on a stone throne with its surface carved to depict feathers. The statue is wearing a feathered headdress and a feathered robe. Lying across its lap in its open palms is a scepter of gold and silver with a whisper bird's head crafted on one end and the talons of a bird holding a blazing sun on the other.

Creature

The figure on the throne is a clawdite servant of Tamokhan named Orra Snal. Through the power of the scepter, it possesses the memories of the petrified character and tries to convince the party that they are the character themselves, having been merged with the mind and body of an ancient massassi priest. Given a chance, the clawdite leads the party to their deaths with false information gained from the "memories" of the priest.

The clawdite must be slain and the scepter touched to the clawdite's corpse to restore the petrified character. An improved restoration force power also works, before or after the clawdite has been slain. The scepter no longer reads as enhanced once the clawdite is slain.

Before you is a foyer, ten feet wide and twenty feet long. A narrow hall connects with this area on the south side, and on the north end a five-foot-wide staircase leads up.

A wheel is set horizontally half into the wall in the southwest corner. This wheel appears to be a crank. Above the wheel, a bronze lever is set in the wall, angled downward.

Open and Shut

The stairs lead up to a blank wall that is the location of a secret door. This door can be opened by turning the wheel in the foyer. The wheel turns only after the lever is pushed up, and then only in one direction. Rotating the wheel opens the secret door, but it also opens the floor in front of the wheel to reveal a 10-foot-square pit, at the bottom of which can be seen a pale shimmer of bones. There is a 1-foot-wide ledge along the west edge of the pit for someone to stand on while working the wheel, and a 6-inch-wide footbridge of polished marble spans the center of the pit from west to east.

Crossing this beam, which is difficult terrain, requires a DC 10 Dexterity (Acrobatics) check. On a failed check, the character can't move farther during that turn. If the check fails by 5 or more, the character falls off the beam 30 feet to the bottom of the pit.

If the crank is released once the secret door is open, it unwinds quickly, pulling the door shut. To prevent this, the lever can be pulled down to lock the wheel in place — but doing so causes a portcullis to fall across the entrance to the stairs. The portcullis can be lifted by a character who succeeds on a DC 20 Strength (Athletics) check.

Easy Way Out

If the characters search the walls beside the portcullis, a keyhole can be discovered. The key from room 48 fits the lock, enabling the portcullis to be opened like a gate.

Hard Way Out

In the ceiling directly above the pit, a thin slab that looks like ordinary stonework conceals a sloping tunnel that leads upward. The slab can't be detected or manipulated from this side.

54. Temple Ruin

What if the party gets here early?

If the party takes measures to escape the dungeon early, such as by avoiding the rockfall that leads them to area 1 (if you, the GM, allow it) or by escaping via the exit in area 29, the party may decide to simply head toward the temple ruins. Though this is not restricted, the temple shrine itself contains enough treasure that the party may see no further reason to enter the dungeon again.

If you would prefer to use the rest of the dungeon where possible, consider adding additional steps to opening the space beneath the altar. For example, there may be a locking mechanism keeping the altar in place, which can only be deactivated by fitting specially-shaped depressions with matching sigils, which are carried by powerful servants of Yavin such as Jeoch or Orra Snal.

Next Tale from the Yawning Maw

If you would like to connect the end of this adventure onto White Plume Installation, consider implementing the following aspects.

As the party explores the temple ruins in area 54, they find a part of a display on what remains of the eastern wall. The display appears to be meant for holding a long object of some kind, but the iron hooks on which the object would hang lay bare. An inscription in Massassi is carved next to the empty display - though portions of the script are worn, the following can be made out:

Next to the inscription is a faded drawing of an ancient sword. A successful DC 15 Intelligence (Lore) check reveals that the sword matches the designs of Sith war swords used in ancient conflicts.

After discovering this information, the party later receives information (whether from a contact or from overhearing it at a cantina such as the Yawning Maw) that three powerful weapons have been stolen from the vaults of wealthy collectors across the galaxy - one of which is an ancient Sith war sword dubbed 'Darkrazor'. Whether or not the party recognizes that this sword and the one intended for display in Tamokhan are the same, this should serve as an effective continuation between the tales.

A collection of enhanced items found across the adventure.

Variant: Worn

When you roll a natural 1 on an attack roll with a worn kissai dagger, the blade breaks and the weapon becomes unenhanced.

Swarm of Diseased Stintaril

Nomadic, tree-dwelling rodents with an exceptional metabolism that forces them to feed every few hours, often hunting in swarms to overwhelm targets. A terrible disease has recently spread amongst the stintaril surrounding Tamokhan, overworking their immune systems and forcing them to hunt larger prey just to survive.

Swarm of Stonebats

As is common for bats across the galaxy, stonebats congregate and nest in dark caves. They can commonly be found in old massassi temples due to their relative security from the wilds.

Ember Beetle

Small beast, unaligned

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• Armor Class 13 (natural armor)
• Hit Points 4 (1d6+1)
• Speed 30 ft.

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STR	DEX	CON	INT	WIS	CHA
8 (-1)	10 (+0)	12 (+1)	1 (-5)	7 (-2)	3 (-4)

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• Senses blindsight 30 ft., passive Perception 8
• Languages -
• Challenge 0 (0 or 10 XP), PB +2

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Illumination. The beetle sheds bright light in a 10-foot radius and dim light for an additional 10 ft. If the beetle dies, its corpse continues to emit this light for 1d6 days before fading.

Actions

Bite. Melee Weapon Attack: +1 to hit, reach 5ft., one target. Hit: 2 (1d6-1) kinetic damage.

Appears in: Random Encounters, Area 25

Woolamander

Small beast, unaligned

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• Armor Class 12
• Hit Points 3 (1d6)
• Speed 30 ft., climb 30 ft.

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STR	DEX	CON	INT	WIS	CHA
8 (-1)	14 (+2)	11 (+0)	4 (-3)	12 (+1)	6 (-2)

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• Senses passive Perception 11
• Languages -
• Challenge 0 (0 or 10 XP), PB +2

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Pack Tactics. The woolamander has advantage on an attack roll against a creature if at least one of the baboon's allies is within 5 feet of the creature and the ally isn't incapacitated.

Actions

Bite. Melee Weapon Attack: +1 to hit, reach 5 ft., one target. Hit: 1 (1d4-1) kinetic damage.

Appears in: Random Encounters, Area 39

Swarm of Crystal Snakes

Medium swarm of Tiny beasts, unaligned

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• Armor Class 14
• Hit Points 36 (8d8)
• Speed 30 ft., swim 30 ft.

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STR	DEX	CON	INT	WIS	CHA
8 (-1)	18 (+4)	11 (+0)	1 (-5)	10 (+0)	3 (-4)

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• Damage Resistances kinetic and energy
• Condition Immunities charmed, frightened, grappled, paralyzed, petrified, prone, restrained, stunned
• Senses blindsight 10 ft., passive Perception 10
• Languages -
• Challenge 2 (450 XP), PB +2

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Translucent. While under bright light, the swarm has advantage on Dexterity (Stealth) checks made to Hide.

Swarm. The swarm can occupy another creature's space and vice versa, and the swarm can move through any opening large enough for a Tiny snake. The swarm can't regain hit points or gain temporary hit points.

Actions

Bites. Melee Weapon Attack: +6 to hit, reach 0 ft., one target in the swarm's space. Hit: 7 (2d6) kinetic damage, or 3 (1d6) damage if the swarm has half of its hit points or fewer. The target must make a DC 10 Constitution saving throw or be poisoned for 1 hour. Until this poison ends, the target is unconscious. Another creature can use an action to shake the target awake.

Appears in: Random Encounters

Giant Puc

Medium beast, unaligned

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• Armor Class 11
• Hit Points 18 (4d8)
• Speed 30 ft., swim 30 ft.

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STR	DEX	CON	INT	WIS	CHA
12 (+1)	13 (+1)	11 (+0)	2 (-4)	10 (+0)	3 (-4)

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• Skills Perception +2, Stealth +3
• Senses darkvision 30 ft., passive Perception 12
• Languages -
• Challenge 1/4 (50 XP), PB +2

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Amphibious. The puc can breathe air and water.

Standing Leap. The puc's long jump is up to 20 feet and its high jump is up to 10 feet, with or without a running start.

Actions

Bite. Melee Weapon Attack: +3 to hit, reach 5 ft., one target. Hit: 4 (1d6 + 1) kinetic damage, and the target is grappled (escape DC 11). Until this grapple ends, the target is restrained, and the puc can't bite another target.

Swallow. The puc makes one bite attack against a Small or smaller target it is grappling. If the attack hits, the target is swallowed, and the grapple ends. The swallowed target is blinded and restrained, it has total cover against attacks and other effects outside the puc, and it takes 5 (2d4) acid damage at the start of each of the puc's turns. The puc can have only one target swallowed at a time. If the puc dies, a swallowed creature is no longer restrained by it and can escape from the corpse using 5 feet of movement, exiting prone.

Appears in: Random Encounters

Howler

Medium beast, unaligned

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• Armor Class 12
• Hit Points 13 (3d8)
• Speed 40 ft.

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STR	DEX	CON	INT	WIS	CHA
14 (+2)	15 (+2)	10 (+0)	3 (-4)	14 (+2)	7 (-2)

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• Skills Perception +4
• Damage Immunities sonic
• Condition Immunities deafened
• Senses passive Perception 14
• Languages -
• Challenge 1/4 (50 XP), PB +2

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Aggressive. As a bonus action, the howler can move up to its speed toward a hostile creature it can see.

Actions

Bite. Melee Weapon Attack: +3 to hit, reach 5 ft., one target. Hit: 5 (1d6+2) kinetic damage.

Howl (Recharge 6). The howler lets out a piercing screech in a 60 foot radius. All creatures in the area must make a DC 12 Constitution saving throw or be stunned until the end of their next turn.

Appears in: Random Encounters, Area 1, Area 34

Chitterweb, Juvenile

Medium beast, unaligned

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• Armor Class 13
• Hit Points 11 (2d8+2)
• Speed 40 ft., climb 40 ft.

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STR	DEX	CON	INT	WIS	CHA
12 (+1)	16 (+3)	13 (+1)	3 (-4)	12 (+1)	4 (-3)

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• Skills Perception +3, Stealth +7
• Senses blindsight 10 ft., darkvision 60 ft., passive Perception 13
• Languages -
• Challenge 1/4 (50 XP), PB +2

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Spider Climb. The chitterweb can climb difficult surfaces, including upside down on ceilings, without needing to make an ability check.

Web Sense. While in contact with a web, the chitterweb knows the exact location of any other creature in contact with the same web.

Web Walker. The chitterweb ignores movement restrictions caused by webbing.

Actions

Bite. Melee Weapon Attack: +3 to hit, reach 5 ft., one target. Hit: 4 (1d6 + 1) kinetic damage, and the target must make a DC 11 Constitution saving throw, taking 7 (2d6) poison damage on a failed save, or half as much damage on a successful one. If the poison damage reduces the target to 0 hit points, the target is stable but poisoned for 1 hour, even after regaining hit points, and is paralyzed while poisoned in this way.

Appears in: Random Encounters

Tamed Choku

Medium beast, unaligned

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• Armor Class 12
• Hit Points 5 (1d8+1)
• Speed 40 ft.

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STR	DEX	CON	INT	WIS	CHA
13 (+1)	14 (+2)	12 (+1)	3 (-4)	12 (+1)	7 (-2)

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• Skills Perception +3
• Senses passive Perception 13
• Languages -
• Challenge 1/8 (25 XP), PB +2

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Keen Hearing and Smell. The choku has advantage on Wisdom (Perception) checks that rely on hearing or smell.

Actions

Bite. Melee Weapon Attack: +3 to hit, reach 5 ft., one target. Hit: 4 (1d6+1) kinetic damage. If the target is a creature, it must succeed on a DC 11 Strength saving throw or be knocked prone.

Appears in: Area 1

Reel

Large beast, unaligned

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• Armor Class 12
• Hit Points 13 (2d10+2)
• Speed 30 ft., swim 30 ft.

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STR	DEX	CON	INT	WIS	CHA
15 (+2)	14 (+2)	12 (+1)	1 (-5)	10 (+0)	3 (-4)

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• Senses blindsight 10 ft., passive Perception 13
• Languages -
• Challenge 1/4 (50 XP), PB +2

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Actions

Bite. Melee Weapon Attack: +4 to hit, reach 5 ft., one target. Hit: 5 (1d6+2) kinetic damage.

Constrict. Melee Weapon Attack: +4 to hit, reach 5 ft., one target. Hit: 7 (1d8+2) kinetic damage, and the target is grappled (escape DC 14). Until this grapple ends, the creature is restrained, and the reel can't constrict another target.

Appears in: Area 1

Chitterweb

Large beast, unaligned

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• Armor Class 14 (natural armor)
• Hit Points 26 (4d10+4)
• Speed 30 ft., climb 30 ft.

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STR	DEX	CON	INT	WIS	CHA
14 (+2)	16 (+3)	13 (+1)	3 (-4)	12 (+1)	4 (-3)

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• Skills Perception +3, Stealth +7
• Senses blindsight 10 ft., darkvision 60 ft., passive Perception 13
• Languages -
• Challenge 1 (200 XP), PB +2

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Spider Climb. The chitterweb can climb difficult surfaces, including upside down on ceilings, without needing to make an ability check.

Web Sense. While in contact with a web, the chitterweb knows the exact location of any other creature in contact with the same web.

Web Walker. The chitterweb ignores movement restrictions caused by webbing.

Actions

Bite. Melee Weapon Attack: +5 to hit, reach 5 ft., one target. Hit: 7 (1d8 + 3) kinetic damage, and the target must make a DC 11 Constitution saving throw, taking 9 (2d8) poison damage on a failed save, or half as much damage on a successful one. If the poison damage reduces the target to 0 hit points, the target is stable but poisoned for 1 hour, even after regaining hit points, and is paralyzed while poisoned in this way.

Web (Recharge 5–6). Ranged Weapon Attack: +5 to hit, range 30/60 ft., one creature. Hit: The target is restrained by webbing. As an action, the restrained target can make a DC 12 Strength check, bursting the webbing on a success. The webbing can also be attacked and destroyed (AC 10; hp 5; vulnerability to fire damage; immunity to ion, poison, and psychic damage).

Appears in: Area 47

Massassi Warrior

Medium aberration (massassi), neutral dark

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• Armor Class 13 (thick hide)
• Hit Points 15 (2d8+5)
• Speed 30 ft.

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STR	DEX	CON	INT	WIS	CHA
16 (+3)	12 (+1)	16 (+3)	7 (-2)	11 (+0)	10 (+0)

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• Skills Intimidation +2
• Senses passive Perception 10
• Languages Sith
• Challenge 1/2 (100 XP), PB +2

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Aggressive. As a bonus action, the warrior can move up to its speed toward a hostile creature that it can see.

Actions

Lanvarok. Melee Weapon Attack: +5 to hit, reach 5 ft., one target. Hit: 9 (1d12+3) kinetic damage.

Disk. Ranged Weapon Attack: +5 to hit, range 30/120 ft., one target. Hit: 6 (1d6+3) kinetic damage.

Appears in: Area 1

Massassi Scout

Medium humanoid (massassi), neutral dark

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• Armor Class 13 (combat armor)
• Hit Points 16 (3d8+3)
• Speed 30 ft.

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STR	DEX	CON	INT	WIS	CHA
13 (+1)	14 (+2)	12 (+1)	11 (+0)	13 (+1)	11 (+0)

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• Skills Nature +4, Perception +5, Stealth +6, Survival +5
• Senses passive Perception 15
• Languages Sith
• Challenge 1/2 (100 XP), PB +2

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Keen Hearing and Sight. The scout has advantage on Wisdom (Perception) checks that rely on hearing or sight.

Actions

Multiattack. The scout makes two melee attacks or two ranged attacks.

Sith Blade. Melee Weapon Attack: +4 to hit, reach 5 ft., one target. Hit: 5 (1d6 + 2) kinetic damage.

Sith Lanvarok. Ranged Weapon Attack: +4 to hit, range 100/400 ft., one target. Hit: 5 (1d6 + 2) kinetic damage.

Appears in: Area 1

Grotthu Laborer

Medium humanoid (sith), any alignment

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• Armor Class 10
• Hit Points 4 (1d8)
• Speed 30 ft.

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STR	DEX	CON	INT	WIS	CHA
10 (+0)	10 (+0)	10 (+0)	10 (+0)	10 (+0)	10 (+0)

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• Senses passive Perception 10
• Languages Sith
• Challenge 0 (0 or 10 XP), PB +2

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Actions

Improvised Weapon. Melee or Ranged Weapon Attack: +2 to hit, reach 5 ft. or range 20/60 ft., one target. Hit: 2 (1d4) kinetic damage.

Appears in: Area 1

Kissai Priest

Medium humanoid (sith), neutral dark

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• Armor Class 13 (combat armor)
• Hit Points 33 (6d8+6)
• Speed 30 ft.

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STR	DEX	CON	INT	WIS	CHA
11 (+0)	14 (+2)	12 (+1)	11 (+0)	13 (+1)	14 (+2)

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• Skills Deception +4, Persuasion +4, Religion +2
• Senses passive Perception 11
• Languages Sith
• Challenge 2 (450 XP), PB +2

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Dark Devotion. The priest has advantage on saving throws against being charmed or frightened.

Forcecasting. The priest is a 4th-level forcecaster. Its forcecasting ability is Charisma (force save DC 12, +4 to hit with force attacks). The priest has the following force powers:
At-will: enfeeble, pyrokinesis, sound trick
1st level: malacia, sanctuary (DC 11), wound
2nd level: animate weapon, stun (DC 11)

Actions

Multiattack. The priest makes two melee attacks.

Dagger. Melee or Ranged Weapon Attack: +4 to hit, reach 5 ft. or range 20/60 ft., one target. Hit: 4 (1d4+2) kinetic damage.

Appears in: Area 1

Massassi Monk

Medium humanoid (massassi), lawful dark

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• Armor Class 16 (unarmored defense)
• Hit Points 60 (11d8+11)
• Speed 40 ft.

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STR	DEX	CON	INT	WIS	CHA
11 (+0)	17 (+3)	13 (+1)	11 (+0)	10 (+0)	16 (+3)

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• Skills Acrobatics +5, Deception +5, Stealth +5
• Senses passive Perception 13
• Languages Sith
• Challenge 3 (700 XP), PB +2

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Unarmored Defense. While the monk is wearing no armor and wielding no shield, its AC includes its Charisma modifier.

Actions

Multiattack. The monk makes three unarmed strikes or three dart attacks.

Unarmed Strike. Melee Weapon Attack: +5 to hit, reach 5 ft., one target. Hit: 7 (1d8+3) kinetic damage. If the target is a creature, the monk can choose one of the following additional effects:
- The target must succeed on a DC 13 Strength saving throw or drop one item it is holding (monk's choice).
- The target must succeed on a DC 13 Dexterity saving throw or be knocked prone.
- The target must succeed on a DC 13 Constitution saving throw or be stunned until the end of the monk's next turn.

Dart. Ranged Weapon Attack: +5 to hit, range 20/60 ft., one target. Hit: 5 (1d4+3) kinetic damage.

Reactions

Deflect Missile. In response to being hit by a ranged weapon attack, the monk deflects the missile. The damage it takes from the attack is reduced by 1d10+3. If the damage is reduced to 0, the monk catches the missile if it's small enough to hold in one hand and the monk has a hand free.

Appears in: Area 22

Lesser Derriphan

Tiny aberration (sithspawn), chaotic dark

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• Armor Class 19
• Hit Points 22 (9d4)
• Speed 0 ft., fly 50 ft. (hover)

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STR	DEX	CON	INT	WIS	CHA
1 (-5)	28 (+9)	10 (+0)	13 (+1)	11 (+0)	14 (+2)

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• Damage Vulnerabilities acid, cold, fire, necrotic, sonic; kinetic and energy from unenhanced attacks
• Damage Immunities lightning, poison
• Condition Immunities exhaustion, grappled, paralyzed, poisoned, prone, restrained, unconscious
• Senses darkvision 120 ft., passive Perception 10
• Languages Sith
• Challenge 2 (450 XP), PB +2

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Enter Host. As a bonus action, the derriphan attempts to enter the body of a living creature within 5 feet. The creature must succeed on a DC 10 Constitution saving throw or become a host of the derriphan, which enters their body and is granted total cover and immunities to any effects outside of the host.

The first time they enter a host and every hour afterward, the derriphan deals 10 (3d6) necrotic damage to the host, regaining hit points and reducing the target's maximum hit points by an amount equal to the damage dealt. The derriphan cannot take any action while inside a host except for leaving. The host's hit point maximum can only be restored by taking a long rest after the derriphan is expelled.

When the derriphan deals damage in this way, the host can attempt another DC 10 Constitution saving throw. On a successful save, the derriphan is expelled to an unoccupied space within 5 feet and the former host is immune to this trait for 24 hours. The derriphan is also expelled if the host dies.

Ephemeral. The derriphan can't wear or carry anything.

Incorporeal Movement. The derriphan can move through other creatures and objects as if they were difficult terrain. It takes 5 (1d10) force damage if it ends its turn inside an object.

Variable Illumination. The derriphan sheds bright light in a 5 to 20-foot radius and dim light for an additional number of ft. equal to the chosen radius. The derriphan can alter the radius as a bonus action.

Actions

Shock. Melee Power Attack: +4 to hit, reach 5 ft., one target. Hit: 9 (2d8) lightning damage.

Invisibility. The derriphan and its light become invisible through the Force until it attacks or uses its Enter Host trait, or until its concentration ends (as if concentrating on a power).

Appears in: Random Encounters, Area 23, Area 24

Tecu'ari

Large aberration (sithspawn), neutral balanced

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• Armor Class 13 (natural armor)
• Hit Points 102 (12d10+36)
• Speed 30 ft., climb 30 ft., swim 30 ft.

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STR	DEX	CON	INT	WIS	CHA
17 (+3)	10 (+0)	16 (+3)	15 (+2)	16 (+3)	13 (+1)

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• Skills Deception +3, Stealth +2
• Damage Resistances kinetic from unenhanced sources
• Damage Immunities acid
• Senses blindsight 30 ft., passive Perception 13
• Languages Sith
• Challenge 4 (1,100 XP), PB +2

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Amphibious. Tecu'ari can breathe air and water.

Flexible. Tecu'ari can enter a space large enough for a Medium creature without squeezing.

Glowing. Tecu'ari sheds dim light within 20 feet of itself.

Spider Climb. Tecu'ari can climb difficult surfaces, including upside down on ceilings, without needing to make an ability check.

Actions

Multiattack. Tecu'ari makes two pseudopod attacks.

Pseudopod. Melee Weapon Attack: +5 to hit, reach 10 ft., one target. Hit: 12 (2d8 + 3) kinetic damage.

Spit Acid (Recharge 4–6). Tecu'ari exhales acid in a 30-foot line that is 5 feet wide. Each creature in that line must make a DC 13 Dexterity saving throw, taking 18 (4d8) acid damage on a failed save, or half as much damage on a successful one.

Appears in: Area 11

Giant Armored Electroeel

Large aberration (sithspawn), neutral balanced

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• Armor Class 13
• Hit Points 42 (5d10+15)
• Speed 5 ft., climb 30 ft.

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STR	DEX	CON	INT	WIS	CHA
11 (+0)	17 (+3)	16 (+3)	2 (-4)	12 (+1)	3 (-4)

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• Damage Resistances lightning
• Senses blindsight 60 ft., passive Perception 11
• Languages -
• Challenge 3 (700 XP), PB +2

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Sith-born Beast. Dark forcecasters and members of the Sith Pureblood or Massassi species have advantage on Animal Handling checks against the electroeel.

Water Breathing. The electroeel can breathe only underwater.

Actions

Multiattack. The electroeel makes two bite attacks.

Bite. Melee Weapon Attack: +5 to hit, reach 5 ft., one target. Hit: 10 (2d6+3) kinetic damage plus 4 (1d8) lightning damage.

Lightning Jolt (Recharge 5–6). One creature the electroeel touches within 5 feet of it outside water, or each creature within 15 feet of it in a body of water, must make a DC 12 Constitution saving throw. On a failed save, a target takes 13 (3d8) lightning damage. If the target takes any of this damage, the target is stunned until the end of the electroeel's next turn. On a successful save, a target takes half as much damage and isn't stunned.

Appears in: Area 13

Sith Zombie

Medium aberration (sithspawn), unaligned

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• Armor Class 8
• Hit Points 22 (3d8+9)
• Speed 20 ft.

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STR	DEX	CON	INT	WIS	CHA
13 (+1)	6 (-2)	16 (+3)	3 (-4)	6 (-2)	5 (-3)

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• Saving Throws Wis +0
• Damage Immunities poison
• Condition Immunities poisoned
• Senses darkvision 60 ft., passive Perception 8
• Languages understands Sith but cannot speak it
• Challenge 1/4 (50 XP), PB +2

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Undead Fortitude. If damage reduces the zombie to 0 hit points, it must make a Constitution saving throw with a DC of 5 + the damage taken, unless the damage is radiant or from a critical hit. On a success, the zombie drops to 1 hit point instead.

Actions

Slam. Melee Weapon Attack: +3 to hit, reach 5 ft., one target. Hit: 4 (1d6+1) kinetic damage.

Sithspit Plague

When a humanoid creature is bitten by a creature that carries the disease, or when it comes into contact with filth or offal contaminated by the disease, the creature must succeed on a DC 11 Constitution saving throw or become infected.

It takes 1d4 days for sithspit plague's symptoms to manifest in an infected creature. Symptoms include fatigue and cramps. The infected creature suffers one level of exhaustion, and it regains only half the normal number of hit points from spending Hit Dice and no hit points from finishing a long rest.

At the end of each long rest, an infected creature must make a DC 11 Constitution saving throw. On a failed save, the character gains one level of exhaustion.

On a successful save, the character's exhaustion level decreases by one level. If a successful saving throw reduces the infected creature's level of exhaustion below 1, the creature recovers from the disease.

Appears in: Random Encounters, Area 18

Sith Wight

Medium aberration (sithspawn), neutral dark

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• Armor Class 14 (fiber armor)
• Hit Points 45 (6d8+18)
• Speed 30 ft.

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STR	DEX	CON	INT	WIS	CHA
15 (+2)	14 (+2)	16 (+3)	10 (+0)	13 (+1)	15 (+2)

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• Skills Perception +3, Stealth +4
• Damage Resistances necrotic; kinetic and energy from unenhanced attacks
• Damage Immunities poison
• Condition Immunities exhaustion, poisoned
• Senses darkvision 60 ft., passive Perception 13
• Languages Sith
• Challenge 3 (700 XP), PB +2

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Sunlight Sensitivity. While in sunlight, the wight has disadvantage on attack rolls, as well as on Wisdom (Perception) checks that rely on sight.

Actions

Multiattack. The wight makes two sith sword attacks or two sith rifle attacks. It can use its Life Drain in place of one sith sword attack.

Life Drain. Melee Weapon Attack: +4 to hit, reach 5 ft., one creature. Hit: 5 (1d6+2) necrotic damage. The target must succeed on a DC 13 Constitution saving throw or its hit point maximum is reduced by an amount equal to the damage taken. This reduction lasts until the target finishes a long rest. The target dies if this effect reduces its hit point maximum to 0.

A humanoid slain by this attack rises 24 hours later as a Sith zombie under the wight's control, unless the humanoid is restored to life or its body is destroyed. The wight can have no more than twelve zombies under its control at one time.

Sith Sword. Melee Weapon Attack: +4 to hit, reach 5 ft., one target. Hit: 6 (1d8+2) kinetic damage, or 7 (1d10+2) kinetic damage if used with two hands.

Sith Rifle. Ranged Weapon Attack: +4 to hit, range 105/420 ft., one target. Hit: 6 (1d8+2) energy damage.

Appears in: Area 20

Sithspawn Spore

Large plant, unaligned

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• Armor Class 5
• Hit Points 1 (1d10-4)
• Speed 0 ft., fly 10 ft. (hover)

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STR	DEX	CON	INT	WIS	CHA
5 (-3)	1 (-5)	3 (-4)	1 (-5)	1 (-5)	1 (-5)

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• Damage Immunities poison
• Condition Immunities blinded, deafened, frightened, paralyzed, poisoned, prone
• Senses blindsight 30 ft. (blind beyond this radius), passive Perception 5
• Languages -
• Challenge 1/2 (100 XP), PB +2

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Death Burst. The spore explodes when it drops to 0 hit points. Each creature within 20 feet of it must succeed on a DC 15 Constitution saving throw or take 10 (3d6) poison damage and become infected with a disease on a failed save. Creatures immune to the poisoned condition are immune to this disease.

Spores invade an infected creature's system, killing the creature in a number of hours equal to 1d12 + the creature's Constitution score, unless the disease is removed. In half that time, the creature becomes poisoned for the rest of the duration. After the creature dies, it sprouts 2d4 Tiny sithspawn spores that grow to full size in 7 days.

Eerie Resemblance. The spore resembles an oversized orange fruit. A creature that can see the spore can discern its true nature with a successful DC 15 Intelligence (Nature) check.

Actions

Touch. Melee Weapon Attack: +0 to hit, reach 5 ft., one creature. Hit: 1 poison damage, and the creature must succeed on a DC 10 Constitution saving throw or become infected with the disease described in the Death Burst trait.

Appears in: Area 28

Sithspawn Double

Medium aberration (sithspawn), neutral dark

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• Armor Class 14
• Hit Points 52 (8d8+16)
• Speed 30 ft.

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STR	DEX	CON	INT	WIS	CHA
11 (+0)	18 (+4)	14 (+2)	11 (+0)	12 (+1)	14 (+2)

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• Skills Deception +6, Insight +3
• Condition Immunities charmed
• Senses darkvision 60 ft., passive Perception 11
• Languages Sith, Basic
• Challenge 3 (700 XP), PB +2

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Shapechanger. The double can use its action to transform into a Small or Medium humanoid it has seen, or back into its true form. Its statistics, other than its size, are the same in each form. Any equipment it is wearing or carrying isn't transformed. It reverts to its true form if it dies.

Ambusher. In the first round of a combat, the double has advantage on attack rolls against any creature it surprised.

Surprise Attack. If the double surprises a creature and hits it with an attack during the first round of combat, the target takes an extra 10 (3d6) damage from the attack.

Actions

Multiattack. The double makes two melee attacks.

Slam. Melee Weapon Attack: +6 to hit, reach 5 ft., one target. Hit: 7 (1d6 + 4) kinetic damage.

Read Thoughts. Using the Force, the double reads the surface thoughts of one creature within 60 feet of it. The effect can penetrate barriers, but 3 feet of wood or dirt, 2 feet of stone, 2 inches of metal, or a thin sheet of lead blocks it. While the target is in range, the double can continue reading its thoughts, as long as the double's concentration isn't broken (as if concentrating on a power). While reading the target's mind, the double has advantage on Wisdom (Insight) and Charisma (Deception, Intimidation, and Persuasion) checks against the target.

Appears in: Area 33

Siqsadzu

Large plant, unaligned

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• Armor Class 20 (natural armor)
• Hit Points 93 (11d10+33)
• Speed 10 ft., climb 10 ft.

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STR	DEX	CON	INT	WIS	CHA
18 (+4)	8 (-1)	17 (+3)	2 (-4)	16 (+3)	6 (-2)

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• Skills Perception +6, Stealth +5
• Senses blindsight 60 ft. (blind beyond this radius), passive Perception 16
• Languages -
• Challenge 5 (1,800 XP), PB +2

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False Appearance. While Siqsadzu remains motionless, it is indistinguishable from a withered tree.

Grasping Tendrils. Siqsadzu can have up to six tendrils at a time. Each tendril can be attacked (AC 20; 10 hit points; immunity to poison and psychic damage). Destroying a tendril deals no damage to Siqsadzu, which can extrude a replacement tendril on its next turn. A tendril can also be broken if a creature takes an action and succeeds on a DC 15 Strength check against it.

Spider Climb. Siqsadzu can climb difficult surfaces, including upside down on ceilings, without needing to make an ability check.

Actions

Multiattack. Siqsadzu makes four attacks with its tendrils, uses Reel, and makes one attack with its bite.

Bite. Melee Weapon Attack: +7 to hit, reach 5 ft., one target. Hit: 22 (4d8 + 4) kinetic damage.

Tendril. Melee Weapon Attack: +7 to hit, reach 50 ft., one target. Hit: The target is grappled (escape DC 15). Until the grapple ends, the target is restrained and has disadvantage on Strength checks and Strength saving throws, and Siqsadzu can't use the same tendril on another target.

Appears in: Area 37

Thorn Slinger

Large plant, unaligned

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• Armor Class 11
• Hit Points 32 (5d10+5)
• Speed 10 ft.

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STR	DEX	CON	INT	WIS	CHA
13 (+1)	12 (+1)	12 (+1)	1 (-5)	10 (+0)	1 (-5)

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• Condition Immunities blinded, deafened, frightened
• Senses blindsight 60 ft. (blind beyond this radius), passive Perception 5
• Languages -
• Challenge 1/2 (100 XP), PB +2

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Adhesive Blossoms. The thorn slinger adheres to anything that touches it. A Medium or smaller creature adhered to the thorn slinger is also grappled by it (escape DC 11). Ability checks made to escape this grapple have disadvantage.
At the end of each of the thorn slinger's turns, anything grappled by it takes 3 (1d6) acid damage.

False Appearance. While the thorn slinger remains motionless, it is indistinguishable from an inanimate bush.

Actions

Thorns. Melee or Ranged Weapon Attack: +3 to hit, reach 5 ft. or range 30 ft., one target. Hit: 8 (2d6 + 1) kinetic damage.

Appears in: Area 38

Battle Reel

Huge aberration (sithspawn), unaligned

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• Armor Class 12
• Hit Points 60 (8d12+8)
• Speed 30 ft., swim 30 ft.

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STR	DEX	CON	INT	WIS	CHA
19 (+4)	14 (+2)	12 (+1)	1 (-5)	10 (+0)	3 (-4)

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• Skills Perception +2
• Senses blindsight 10 ft., passive Perception 13
• Languages -
• Challenge 3 (700 XP), PB +2

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Two Heads. The reel has advantage on Wisdom (Perception) checks and on saving throws against being blinded, charmed, deafened, frightened, stunned, and knocked unconscious.

Sith-born Beast. Dark forcecasters and members of the Sith Pureblood or Massassi species have advantage on Animal Handling checks against the reel.

Actions

Multiattack. The reel makes two Bite attacks. The reel can replace one Bite attack with a Constrict attack.

Bite. Melee Weapon Attack: +6 to hit, reach 10 ft., one target. Hit: 11 (2d6+4) kinetic damage.

Constrict. Melee Weapon Attack: +6 to hit, reach 5 ft., one target. Hit: 13 (2d8+4) kinetic damage, and the target is grappled (escape DC 16). Until this grapple ends, the creature is restrained, and the reel can't constrict another target.

Appears in: Area 39

Dashade Guardian

Medium humanoid, lawful evil

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• Armor Class 14 (natural armor)
• Hit Points 60 (8d8+24)
• Speed 30 ft.

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STR	DEX	CON	INT	WIS	CHA
18 (+4)	13 (+1)	16 (+3)	10 (+0)	10 (+0)	10 (+0)

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• Skills Perception +4, Intimidation +2
• Damage Resistances kinetic and energy from unenhanced attacks
• Damage Immunities force, necrotic
• Senses passive Perception 14
• Languages Sith, Dashadi
• Challenge 4 (1,100 XP), PB +2

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Force Resistance. The dashade has advantage on saving throws against force powers and force-based enhanced effects.

Force Immunity. The dashade is immune to the following force powers chosen by its master:
- force throw (2nd-level universal force power)
- stun (2nd-level light force power)
- force lightning (3rd-level dark force power)

Actions

Multiattack. The dashade makes two war sword attacks.

War Sword. Melee Weapon Attack: +6 to hit, reach 5 ft., one target. Hit: 8 (1d8+4) kinetic damage, or 9 (1d10+4) kinetic damage if used with two hands.

Appears in: Area 42

Sithspawn Gel

Medium aberration (sithspawn), unaligned

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• Armor Class 8
• Hit Points 45 (6d10+12)
• Speed 10 ft., climb 10 ft.

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STR	DEX	CON	INT	WIS	CHA
15 (+2)	6 (-2)	14 (+2)	2 (-4)	6 (-2)	1 (-5)

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• Damage Resistances acid
• Damage Immunities lightning, energy
• Condition Immunities blinded, charmed, deafened, exhaustion, frightened, prone
• Senses blindsight 60 ft. (blind beyond this radius), passive Perception 14
• Languages -
• Challenge 2 (450 XP), PB +2

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Amorphous. The gel can move through a space as narrow as 1 inch wide without squeezing.

Spider Climb. The gel can climb difficult surfaces, including upside down on ceilings, without needing to make an ability check.

Actions

Psuedopod. Melee Weapon Attack: +4 to hit, reach 5 ft., one target. Hit: 9 (2d6 + 2) kinetic damage plus 3 (1d6) acid damage.

Reactions

Split. When a gel that is Medium or larger is subjected to lightning or energy damage, it splits into two new gels if it has at least 10 hit points. Each new gel has hit points equal to half the original gel's, rounded down. New gels are one size smaller than the original gel.

Appears in: Area 43

Sithspawn Anomaly

Medium aberration (sithspawn), unaligned

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• Armor Class 9
• Hit Points 67 (9d8+27)
• Speed 10 ft., swim 10 ft.

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STR	DEX	CON	INT	WIS	CHA
10 (+0)	8 (-1)	16 (+3)	3 (-4)	10 (+0)	6 (-2)

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• Condition Immunities prone
• Senses darkvision 60 ft., passive Perception 10
• Languages -
• Challenge 2 (450 XP), PB +2

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Aberrant Ground. The ground in a 10-foot radius around the anomaly is doughlike difficult terrain. Each creature that starts its turn in that area must succeed on a DC 10 Strength saving throw or have its speed reduced to 0 until the start of its next turn.

Gibbering. The anomaly babbles incoherently while it can see any creature and isn't incapacitated. Each creature that starts its turn within 20 feet of the anomaly and can hear the gibbering must succeed on a DC 10 Wisdom saving throw. On a failure, the creature can't take reactions until the start of its next turn and rolls a d8 to determine what it does during its turn. On a 1 to 4, the creature does nothing. On a 5 or 6, the creature takes no action or bonus action and uses all its movement to move in a randomly determined direction. On a 7 or 8, the creature makes a melee attack against a randomly determined creature within its reach or does nothing if it can't make such an attack.

Actions

Multiattack. The anomaly makes one Bite attack and, if it can, uses its Blinding Spittle.

Bites. Melee Weapon Attack: +2 to hit, reach 5 ft., one target. Hit: 17 (5d6) kinetic damage. If the target is Medium or smaller, it must succeed on a DC 10 Strength saving throw or be knocked prone. If the target is killed by this damage, it is absorbed into the anomaly.

Blinding Spittle (Recharge 5–6). The anomaly spits a chemical glob at a point it can see within 15 feet of it. The glob explodes in a blinding flash of light on impact. Each creature within 5 feet of the flash must succeed on a DC 13 Dexterity saving throw or be blinded until the end of the anomaly's next turn.

Appears in: Area 46

Muscous Mutant

Large aberration (sithspawn), unaligned

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• Armor Class 13
• Hit Points 58 (9d10+9)
• Speed 0 ft., swim 60 ft.

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STR	DEX	CON	INT	WIS	CHA
17 (+3)	16 (+3)	13 (+1)	11 (+0)	10 (+0)	10 (+0)

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• Damage Resistances fire; kinetic and energy from unenhanced attacks
• Damage Immunities poison
• Condition Immunities exhaustion, grappled, paralyzed, poisoned, prone, restrained, unconscious
• Senses blindsight 30 ft., passive Perception 10
• Languages -
• Challenge 3 (700 XP), PB +2

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Invisible in Water. The mutant is invisible while fully immersed in water.

Sith-born Beast. Dark forcecasters and members of the Sith Pureblood or Massassi species have advantage on Animal Handling checks against the mutant.

Water Bound. The mutant dies if it leaves the water to which it is bound or if that water is destroyed.

Actions

Constrict. Melee Weapon Attack: +5 to hit, reach 10 ft., one creature. Hit: 13 (3d6+3) kinetic damage. If the target is Medium or smaller, it is grappled (escape DC 13) and pulled 5 feet toward the mutant. Until this grapple ends, the target is restrained, the mutant tries to drown it, and the mutant can't constrict another target.

Appears in: Area 48

Tuk'ata

Large aberration (sithspawn), lawful dark

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• Armor Class 14 (natural armor)
• Hit Points 59 (7d10+21)
• Speed 40 ft.

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STR	DEX	CON	INT	WIS	CHA
16 (+3)	11 (+0)	16 (+0)	10 (+0)	11 (+0)	4 (-3)

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• Saving Throws Wis +2
• Skills Perception +2
• Senses darkvision 60 ft., passive Perception 12
• Languages Sith (telepathy)
• Challenge 1 (200 XP), PB +2

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Keen Hearing, Sight, and Smell. The tuk’ata has advantage on Wisdom (Perception) checks that rely on hearing, sight, or smell.

Telepathy. The tuk’ata can communicate telepathically with other creature within its line of sight.

Sith-born Beast. Dark forcecasters and members of the Sith Pureblood or Massassi species have advantage on Animal Handling checks against the tuk'ata.

Actions

Multiattack. The tuk'ata makes two attacks: one with its bite and one with either its claws or poisonous stingers.

Bite. Melee Weapon Attack: +5 to hit, reach 5 ft., one target. Hit: 7 (1d8+3) kinetic damage.

Claws. Melee Weapon Attack: +5 to hit, reach 5 ft., one target. Hit: 6 (1d6+3) kinetic damage.

Poisonous Stingers. Melee Weapon Attack: +5 to hit, reach 5 ft., one target. Hit: 5 (1d4+3) kinetic damage, and the target must succeed on a DC 13 Constitution saving throw or become poisoned.

Appears in: Area 54

Sothil VII

Medium aberration (massassi/anzat), neutral dark

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• Armor Class 16 (thick hide; 19 with bracers of shielding and ring of heightened reflexes)
• Hit Points 82 (11d8+323)
• Speed 30 ft.

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STR	DEX	CON	INT	WIS	CHA
16 (+3)	16 (+3)	16 (+3)	11 (+0)	10 (+0)	12 (+1)

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• Saving Throws Dex +7, Wis +4
• Skills Perception +3, Stealth +6
• Damage Resistances necrotic; kinetic and energy from unenhanced attacks
• Senses darkvision 60 ft., passive Perception 13
• Languages Sith
• Challenge 6 (2,300 XP), PB +3

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Special Equipment. If they are not removed before he awakens, Sothil wears bracers of shielding and a ring of heightened reflexes. Additionally, the demon's lanvarok is attuned to him and the attunement cannot be broken or overwritten until he dies. If he loses these items, he drops to CR 5 (1,800 XP) and cannot use the Demon's Lanvarok or Disk actions.

Pulseless. Sothil has advantage on Dexterity (Stealth) checks and Charisma (Deception) checks to feign death.

Regeneration. Sothil regains 10 hit points at the start of his turn if he has at least 1 hit point.

Soup Addiction. Sothil must feed on sentients using his tools (described in area 7) to sate his addiction to life essence. For every 1d4 days that Sothil does not feed on life essence, his exhaustion level increases by 1 and cannot be removed by any means except for consuming life essence.

Actions

Multiattack. Sothil makes two attacks.

Unarmed Strike. Melee Weapon Attack: +6 to hit, reach 5 ft., one creature. Hit: 7 (1d8 + 3) kinetic damage. Instead of dealing damage, Sothil can grapple the target (escape DC 13).

Stun. Sothil chooses one target within 60 feet that can see him. The target must succeed on a DC 14 Wisdom saving throw or become paralyzed for up to 1 minute. At the end of each of the target's turns, they can make another Wisdom saving throw. The effect ends once the target succeeds on the saving throw or Sothil loses concentration (as if using a power).

Demon's Lanvarok. Melee Weapon Attack: +8 to hit, reach 5 ft., one target. Hit: 11 (1d12+5) kinetic damage.

Disk. Ranged Weapon Attack: +8 to-hit, range 25/75 ft., one target. Hit: 8 (1d6+5) kinetic damage.

Appears in: Area 7*

Sothil Prime

Medium aberration (massassi/anzat), neutral dark

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• Armor Class 17 (thick hide; 20 with bracers of shielding and ring of heightened reflexes)
• Hit Points 144 (17d8+63)
• Speed 30 ft.

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STR	DEX	CON	INT	WIS	CHA
18 (+4)	18 (+4)	18 (+4)	15 (+2)	14 (+2)	16 (+3)

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• Saving Throws Dex +9, Wis +7, Cha +8
• Skills Perception +3, Stealth +6
• Damage Resistances necrotic; kinetic and energy from unenhanced attacks
• Senses darkvision 120 ft., passive Perception 13
• Languages Sith
• Challenge 15 (13,000 XP), PB +5

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Special Equipment. If they are not removed before he awakens, Sothil wears bracers of shielding and a ring of heightened reflexes. Additionally, the demon's lanvarok is attuned to him and the attunement cannot be broken or overwritten until he dies. If he loses these items, he drops to CR 13 (10,000 XP) and cannot use the Demon's Lanvarok or Disk actions.

Cunning Action. On each of his turns, Sothil can use a bonus action to take the Dash, Disengage, or Hide action.

Hidden Feeders. Sothil can retract or uncoil his proboscises as a bonus action. While retracted, Sothil is indistinguishable from a normal massassi, but cannot take the Proboscis action.

Legendary Resistance (3/Day). If Sothil fails a saving throw, he can choose to succeed instead.

Pulseless. Sothil has advantage on Dexterity (Stealth) checks and Charisma (Deception) checks to feign death.

Regeneration. Sothil regains 20 hit points at the start of his turn if he has at least 1 hit point.

Soup Addiction. Sothil must feed on sentients using his Proboscis action to sate his addiction to life essence. For every day that Sothil is not satiated from life essence, his exhaustion level increases by 1 and cannot be removed by any means except for consuming life essence.

Actions

Multiattack. Sothil makes two attacks, only one of which can be a Proboscis attack.

Unarmed Strike. Melee Weapon Attack: +9 to hit, reach 5 ft., one creature. Hit: 8 (1d8 + 4) kinetic damage. Instead of dealing damage, Sothil can grapple the target (escape DC 18).

Proboscis. Melee Weapon Attack: +9 to hit, reach 5 ft., one willing creature or a creature that is grappled by Sothil, incapacitated, or restrained. Hit: 7 (1d6 + 4) kinetic damage plus 10 (3d6) necrotic damage. The target's hit point maximum is reduced by an amount equal to the necrotic damage taken, and Sothil regains hit points equal to that amount. The reduction lasts until the target finishes a long rest. The target dies if this effect reduces its hit point maximum to 0.
Additionally, if Sothil has any levels of exhaustion caused by his Soup Addiction trait, he recovers one of those exhaustion levels.

Demon's Lanvarok. Melee Weapon Attack: +11 to hit, reach 5 ft., one target. Hit: 12 (1d12+6) kinetic damage.

Disk. Ranged Weapon Attack: +11 to hit, range 25/75 ft., one target. Hit: 9 (1d6+6) kinetic damage.

Hypnotize. Sothil targets one humanoid it can see within 30 feet of it. If the target can see Sothil, the target must succeed on a DC 17 Wisdom saving throw against this effect or be charmed by Sothil. The charmed target regards Sothil as a trusted friend to be heeded and protected. Although the target isn't under Sothil's control, it takes Sothil's requests or actions in the most favorable way it can, and it is a willing target for Sothil's Proboscis attack.
Each time Sothil or his companions do anything harmful to the target, it can repeat the saving throw, ending the effect on itself on a success. Otherwise, the effect lasts 24 hours, or until Sothil is destroyed or takes a bonus action to end the effect.

Legendary Actions

Sothil can take 3 legendary actions, choosing from the options below. Only one legendary action can be used at a time and only at the end of another creature's turn. Sothil regains spent legendary actions at the start of his turn.

Move. Sothil moves up to his speed without provoking opportunity attacks.

Unarmed Strike. Sothil makes one Unarmed Strike attack.

Proboscis (Costs 2 Actions). Sothil makes one Proboscis attack.

Appears in: Area 7, Aftermath*

Object Hit Points and Armor Classes

While the D&D 5e Dungeon Master's Guide provides expected armor classes for most materials, many locations in the Star Wars universe, even ancient strongholds, are liable to make use of more advanced compound materials than simple iron or wood. This is particularly important to consider with the addition of the Shatterpoint weapon in this adventure, which actively encourages object destruction.

As such, here is an updated version of the DMG's Object Armor Class table for use with this adventure, alongside an accompanying hit point table:

Refer to the "Objects" section in part 4 of the D&D Basic Rules for further guidance on running attacks against objects and dealing with Huge and Gargantuan objects.

Ancient Weaponry

The weaponry wielded by humanoid creatures in this adventure is split between equivalents and near-equivalents to existing SW5e weaponry. The direct equivalents can be found below:

Force Tunnel (5th-level universal power)

Casting Time: 1 action

Range: 30 feet

Duration: 1 hour

A passage appears at a point of your choice that you can see on a composite, metal or ceramic surface (such as a wall, a ceiling, or a floor) within range, and lasts for the duration. You choose the opening's dimensions: up to 5 feet wide, 8 feet tall, and 20 feet deep. The passage, which appears as a luminescent corridor, creates no instability in a structure surrounding it.

When the opening disappears, any creatures or objects still in the passage created by the power are safely ejected to an unoccupied space nearest to the surface on which you cast the power.

Used by: Demon's Lanvarok

Force Gale (2nd-level universal power)

Casting Time: 1 action

Range: Self (60-foot line)

Duration: Concentration, up to 1 minute

A line of strong wind 60 feet long and 10 feet wide blasts from you in a direction you choose for the power's duration. Each creature that starts its turn in the line must succeed on a Strength saving throw or be pushed 15 feet away from you in a direction following the line.

Any creature in the line must spend 2 feet of movement for every 1 foot it moves when moving closer to you.

The gust disperses gas or vapor, and it extinguishes candles, torches, and similar unprotected flames in the area. It causes protected flames, such as those of lanterns, to dance wildly and has a 50 percent chance to extinguish them.

As a bonus action on each of your turns before the power ends, you can change the direction in which the line blasts from you.

Used by: Demon's Lanvarok

Dream-Walking (5th-level universal power)

Prerequisite: Farseeing (see Expanded Force Powers)

Casting Time: 1 minute

Range: Self

Duration: 8 hours

This power allows you to reach through the Force and shape a creature's dreams. Choose a creature known to you as the target of this power. Creatures that don't sleep, such as droids, can't be contacted by this power. You, or a willing creature you touch (that is not a droid or construct), enters a trance state, acting as a messenger. While in the trance, the messenger is aware of his or her surroundings, but can't take actions or move.

If the target is asleep, the messenger appears in the target's dreams and can converse with the target as long as it remains asleep, through the duration of the power. The messenger can also shape the environment of the dream, creating landscapes, objects, and other images. The messenger can emerge from the trance at any time, ending the effect of the power early. The target recalls the dream perfectly upon waking. If the target is awake when you cast the power, the messenger knows it, and can either end the trance (and the power) or wait for the target to fall asleep, at which point the messenger appears in the target's dreams.

You can make the messenger appear monstrous and terrifying to the target. If you do, the messenger can deliver a message of no more than ten words and then the target must make a Wisdom saving throw. On a failed save, echoes of the phantasmal monstrosity spawn a nightmare that lasts the duration of the target's sleep and prevents the target from gaining any benefit from that rest. In addition, when the target wakes up, it takes 3d6 psychic damage.

Used by: Cuexakoutl
Author: HugeHuman, Expanded Force Powers

29. The Tomb of Chwita

The ball, made of rubber wound around a wooden core, is used in the game of chwita, a ball game played by the Tamokhan massassi to develop athletic and cooperative skills. It is the same width as the depression in the wall, which is one of the goals on this playing field. The ball is cool to the touch, and does not react or move until someone physically grabs it, as described below. Attempting to remove the ball from the hall entirely causes it to wrench itself free at the doorway and fly back to its hovering position at the midway point.

Five feet up the southern wall is a hemispherical depression 1 foot in diameter. Anyone who can clearly see the other side of the corridor can spot an identical depression on the opposing wall. The door to area 30 from here is sealed shut until the game of chwita is complete.

At the midpoint of the corridor, just below the hovering ball, is a capstone that seemingly covers a hole in the floor. Etched into the top of the slab are several glyphs obscured by a layer of dust. This writing, in Massassi, reads, "Dare not seek to delve further unless you be willing to meet the challenge of chwita." Those translating the writing can recognise that the term 'chwita' derives from the Sith word for 'to throw'.

Lifting the capstone requires the application of leverage and the combined effort of up to two characters with a total Strength of 25 or higher. Beneath the stone lid is a pit filled with the skeletal remains of the losers of a previous game of chwita in this area. Atop the bones rest several figurines and a plaque, all made of jade.

Multiple Goals/Games

If desired, the number of goals required to succeed can be increased to heighten the stakes of the game. If the party is instead satisfied with the single goal but express an interest in playing again, one way to encourage further games would be to split up the rewards listed in 'Spoils of Victory' into multiple tiers, which become available as more games are won. You may also choose to increase the challenge posed by the spectral athletes on subsequent runs, granting them a higher bonus to Strength (Athletics) checks or increasing their movement speed.

Content

The Hidden Shrine of Tamoachan (5e) - Tales from the Yawning Portal, Wizards of the Coast, 2017.

Official SW5e Content - Steev and all other contributors

Power Ciphers Enhanced Item - Aziz, 'Power Ciphers'

Expanded Force Powers - HugeHuman, 'Expanded Force Powers'

Howler Statistics - Vesh, 'Vesh's Holodex' (adaptation of the Howler)

Tuk'ata Statistics - BaelishPasta, 'Scum & Villany'

Sothil VII, Sothil Prime & Raemus Vokk Statistics - Aeryn, 'Updated Aeryn Statblocks' (adapations of the Anzat Hunter)

Crescendo Statistics - El Mike, 'Mike's Menagerie of Stat Blocks for SW5e'

Jeoch Statistics - Aeryn, 'Updated Aeryn Statblocks' (adapation of the Psychotic Gen'Dai)

Orra Snal Statistics - Vesh, 'Vesh's Holodex' (adaptation of the Shifty Shapeshifter)

Alternate Chwita - Based on the following blog post: https://chaoticneutraldm.com/2020/01/31/playing-pelota-in-the-hidden-shrine-of-tamoachan/

Images

Massassi Temple Render (Cover/pg 1) - https://spitfire51.artstation.com/projects/83abO

Hidden Shrine of Tamoachan Maps (pg 7) - Tales from the Yawning Portal, Wizards of the Coast, 2017.