Part 8 - Durlag's Tower Catacombs Level 3

There's a recurring fireball blast that appears out of the entry room. On the bodies in the entryway, you can find potions of freedom and healing, darts of wounding, darts of stunning, arrows +1, arrows of ice. The exit to the southeast leads to some natural caverns haunted by some greater ghouls, while the exit to the southwest leads to a group of skeletons armed with arrows of fire. The exit to the northwest leads to a giant cavern with the remains of an ancient wyrm as well as three very live greater wyverns.

The natural caverns have a few traps (three difficult ones along the passageway immediately to the right of your party upon entering the area, and another in the middle of the caverns, and one on the statue in the middle of the cavern). The statue contains healing potions and one of master thievery, darts of stunning, mage scrolls of hold monster and domination, and a battle axe (Bala's Axe). In a dead end, trapped passageway near the far eastern corner of this level, there is an invisible ashirukuru. Cast detect invisibility or invisibility purge in this area to avoid being backstabbed by the ashirukuru. There are several more ashirukuru, and they tend to target lightly armored members in your party, where they can do maximum damage. Casting area-of-effect spells such as grease, stinking cloud and web can also help you to ferret them out.

The body of a dead, giant wyrm dominates this level. Unfortunately, there are some very real and dangerous greater wyverns in that cavern.

The area south of the giant fern plant is trapped, as is the dead-end passageway directly north of the fern, where another ashirukuru awaits. Another ashirukuru lurks to the southwest of the caverns in the exit. Don't go around the south route to the exit, unless you have a capable thief that can disarm the formidable trap that guards that route.

West through the exit from the natural caverns, you'll find a room full of sculpted heads. There are some arrows of fire on the floor, but the floor nearby is trapped.

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