Test

Ugly triggered a pressure-plate dart trap in the entry corridor and took 9 poison damage before the party even reached the first door — then looted the dead treasure hunter slumped nearby and found a note revealing the medallion was worth 500 gp, ten times what the Elder offered. The party agreed on the spot to keep it.

Two giant cave spiders dropped from the webbed ceiling directly onto Ugly, biting him twice for 18 piercing damage in a single round and leaving him barely standing. He kept himself alive by eating glowing marble eyes looted from the stone guardians — a makeshift healing solution that somehow worked.

Craig couldn't complete the triumph-pose pedestal because the puzzle demanded a defeated enemy underfoot — so he dragged the dead treasure hunter's gore-spilling corpse from the spider cave and planted his boot on it. All three pedestals lit up and the sealed door ground open.

Malakar the Grey rose from his sarcophagus, candles ignited blue-white across the chamber, and the ancient undead wizard delivered exactly one line of menace before Healy rolled a natural 20 on a Level 2 Guiding Bolt and hit him for 50 radiant damage. The candles went out, the room went dark, and Malakar was simply gone.

Attempting to pick the lock on the second iron door, Ugly failed his Dexterity save and was blasted by a hidden fire-pipe trap for 19 fire damage, dropping unconscious mid-crouch. Healy stabilized him, and Ugly came back around, picked up his tools, and cracked the lock on his very next attempt.