Grim Water Island

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Grim Water Island

Treasure

• Shell behind tower: Valuable pearl worth 50 gold
• Chest in the sewer: Jar of Monster Maggots – Eats through 5 ft. of organic material in 5 mins. Be careful this can include living creatures smaller than 5 ft. The affected creature needs the make a constitution saving throw of 14 to avoid being knocked out. Also, these are the most delicious snack for giant frogs and giant toads.
• Chest in the secret room in the sewer: Gloves of Protection – Gloves that protect one’s hands from magic spells, curses, and heat/cold.

Mechanics

• Pressure plate by gate opens the gate to Grim Water Pond. It needs something very heavy to open the gate. Above the gate are a rock and a metal pole. Players can leverage the rock off onto the pressure plate to open the gate.
• On the back-top of the tower is a rope hold. If player’s hold onto this, it will quickly and safely bring them to the ground, but it will not go back up.
• Sewer Entrance bars are very rusted, any amount of force like that of a rock being thrown at it will open it.
• All doors in the tower are unlocked
• The barrels on top of the tower contain flammable oil. They will explode with great force.

Grim Water Pond Functionality

• Turns anything that touches the water to gold, within a minute or two. Any item/s that are worth more than 100 gold pieces together, instantly are cursed and become too heavy to carry, pick up or hold.
• Individuals who cleverly take out only gold worth up to 100 gold pieces may keep that gold, for it will retain its regular weight. (This includes the value of any item that is turned to gold in touching the water.)
• Items retain their regular gold-like weight when in the Grim Water Pond.
• The Gloves of Protection are one way an individual may grab gold near the surface. With the gloves, the weight-curse is lifted when the individual is holding the item. If the individual lets go of the item/s and the combined worth is more than 100 gold pieces. The item/s retain their curse and become infinitely heavy.

Signage and Writings

• Book on the table in the tower:
  • Passage 1: “Riches untold, down below. I haven’t accessed them yet, as I was told to do. “
  • Passage 2: “The gold called… in my nightmares, then in sweet dreams. I broke my oath, reached in, and paid the price. Oh, my hand! My precious fingers are now valuable to all strangers for the shine it gives, but to me, they are as lead.
  • Passage 3: “I used the last of my magic to create gloves to help me to get what I desired, but my master is coming, so I hid them away to where only the nasty ones could get to.”
• Sign at Grim Water: “Dare not to touch the water.”

(Feel free to adjust characters, story, and/or items to best fit your group)