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Night of Dissolution Overview

Illus. Yaner and Lockwood

Here's a sneak peek at the table of contents for the 96-page mid-level Ptolus adventure The Night of Dissolution. This series of linked adventures centers around the rirse of the Cults of Chaos in the city and is a great foundation for an epic campaign against the malevolent Galchutt.

Introduction: One Night of Dissolution,
Many Nights of Adventure

Running The Night of Dissolution
Before the Adventure Begins
The Flow of the Adventure
Using This Book

Other Ptolus Scenarios
Expanding This Adventure
The Investiture Option

Chapter 1: Pythoness House
Getting Started
The Hook
History of Pythoness House
The Chaos Spirit
The Chaos Spirit Key
Other Chaos Spirit Effects

Layout of Pythoness House
Outer Grounds
Level 1
Level 2
Level 3
Level 4
Level 5
Level 6
Level 7
Level 8
Subterranean Level

Leaving With the Goods
The Cultists

Chapter 2: Secret Meeting
Getting Started
The Hook
Confronting Iltumar
What Iltumar Knows
If the PCs Fail

Cultist Spies

On the Street
The Back Room
Entry
Meeting Room
Dilar

Bloodless Solution
Barbarian Invasion!

Chapter 3: The Surgeon in the Shadows
Getting Started
Iltumar Went Willingly
Iltumar Was Kidnapped
Tracking Down Lavis
The Lair
1. Front Entrance
2. Back Entrance
3. Storeroom
4. Holding Cell
5. Operating Room
6. Castor’s Room
7. Luth’s Chamber
Wrapping Up
What Iltumar Knows Now
More Rumors

Chapter 4: Temple of Deep Chaos
Rumors of War
The Apartment House
Environmental Hazards
Layout

The Sewer
1. Shaft Up
2. Ladder
3. Sentries
4. Congealed Pool

Temple Layout
Entrance Level
Lower Temple

The Long Passage
Next?

Chapter 5: The Mrathrach Machine
The Machine
Navigating on the Scaffolding
Entering the Machine
Harming or Destroying the Machine

Top Level
Mutated Thrall Level
1. Thrall Quarters
2. Gathering Hall
3. Empty Caves
Storage Level
4. Parts Storage
5. Chaos Storage Cubes
6. Supplies Storage
7. Guard Cave

Chaositechnician Level
8. Legire’s Chamber
9. Hao’s Chamber
10. Workshop

Bottom Level
11. Rhodintor Nests
12. The Machine Mage
13. Exit

Back in the City…
Erepodi
The Temple District
Still More Rumors

Chapter 6: The Final Ritual
The Invasion Begins
Return of the Vallis Moon
Knights of the Pale
Finding Wuntad
Temple of the Fifty-Three Gods of Chance
The Chambers Below
1. The Demon
2. Ibard and Saavia
3. Meeting Hall
4. Storehouse
5. Kitchen
6. Wuntad’s Bodyguard
7. Dark Mistress of Defense
8. Muallah’s Troops
9. Wuntad’s Chamber
10. Cloister
11. Eschaton Sanctuary
Stopping the Final Ritual
12. The Prison

Ending the War
Continuing the Adventure

Appendix: Handouts and More
Maquent’s Journal Handout
Cult Book Handout
New Monster: Venom-Shaped Thrall
Open Game License
Legal

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

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The adventures in The Night of Dissolution cover an arc that pits PCs against the darkest foes the city of Ptolus has ever faced.
 
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