Tomb of Horrors: Finale

After one final strike, the floating skull shatters and falls to the floor motionless.

Could this be yet another trick from this cursed tomb?

Is it really destroyed?

After some time, the silence in the tomb and lack of motion from the skull seem to indicate that this was indeed the final enemy in this place.

Among the objects lying about the skull can be found the following:

Ninety-seven 10 gp gems and three huge gems (a 1,000 gp peridot, a 5,000 gp emerald, and a 10,000 gp black opal).

Gems set in the skull: two jewels set into the eye sockets (5,000 gp rubies) and 6 pointed (marquis cut) diamonds set as teeth in the jaw (each diamond worth 500 gp).

Three potions of cure serious wounds, one potion of heroism, two oils of keen edge, two potions of fly and a potion of greater magic fang.

Two scrolls of command, one scroll of slow, one scroll of arcane eye, one scroll of shatter, one scroll of scorching ray, one scroll of dispel evil, one scroll of Melf’s acid arrow, and one scroll of power word kill.

A ring of feather falling

A lesser rod of silent metamagic

A staff of fire

A +3 defending greatsword

A cursed backbiter spear that at first appears to magic identification to be a +3 spear

And two –2 cursed longswords that at first appear to identify as +3 longswords.

A pair of goggles of lifesight (see Libris Mortis, page 78).

A wrapped tower (see Libris Mortis, page 76).

And finally, a shadow pearl floating above a pedestal. Removing the pearl from the pedestal disrupts the field of wild magic, allowing all forms of magic to function as normal once again within the tomb but drains the one who removed it from the pedestal of 1d6 points of ability drain to each ability score, drains 1d6 spells of each spell level prepared (or slots for spontaneous casters), drains 50% of any remaining power points, unmelds 1d6 soulmelds, and the victim cannot use supernatural or spell-like abilities for one hour (there is no save against these effects and each drain effect can be restored by magic that restores drained ability scores). Any other actions against the pedestal (such as attempting to take the pedestal with the pearl intact or removing the pearl by a mage hand) also takes down the field of wild magic and drains the one doing so.

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