16. Beehives
The door
of this room is stuck, but will
open with normal
door opening rolls.
Above each door is hung a wooden bucket,
suspended by a rope
and pulley attached to
a stay beside the door. The buckets are
full
of sugary syrup and the room is full of
bees.
The bees feed on the sugary syrup in the
buckets and will be swarming over it. When
a door is forced open it will catch the
bottom
of the bucket and tip it over, spilling
its
contents over the doorway. If the door
is
opened gently, the rope may be pulled down
to raise the bucket and allow access to
the
room. Because the trigger is the door itself,
there is no trap to detect.
There are 2 enormous, conical, clay
hives in the west end of the room. The
bees
attack anyone disturbing their feeding
and
sting them, causing 0-2 points of damage
per round. They sting anyone drenched in
syrup for double damage. Once a character
leaves the room he or she will be stung
for
1/2 damage for 1 round, and then the
stinging will stop. There is no physical
defense against the bees and they automatically
hit. A character wearing a suit made of
cheesecloth may be protected from the bees
at the DMs discretion. Burning
hands will
kill all insects in its AREA of effect,
and a
sleep, stinking
cloud, or pyrotechnics spell
will immobilize all bees in area of effect.
Steam will kill the bees on the characters
if
they run back into the steam-filled cavern.
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