| This dismal space stinks of unwashed bodies.
Tiers of bloodstained
bunks line the chamber’s long walls. 12 half-naked people lie chained in the bunks, and several more stand or crouch in the aisle between the bunks, chained to rings in the floor. |
The bugbear taskmasters
Snikscab and Nubgrod split their time
between this chamber and area
20. If the party confronts the
bugbears here, they fight as noted in the
description for area 20.
However, if 1 bugbear is slain and the
other reduced to 8 HP or fewer while fighting in this room, the survivor
grabs the
nearest slave and threatens to kill him
or her unless the party backs
off. If the characters comply, the bugbear
unlocks the slave and
sidles out of the room, dragging the hostage,
and tries to make
his way to area 28
on the lower level (going down the stairs at
area 15).
The holding cell houses 18 slaves. If freed,
they are grateful but
in no condition to assist the PCs. Unlike
the slaves
in area 12, they
have not been in the guardhouse long enough
to learn the layout or routine, but they
can tell the party how they
came to be here (see the notes for area
12).
Human
Slaves (18): AC 9; MV 12”; HD 1; hp
3 each; #AT 0; D nil.
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