THE EYE OF BAINE

A Dungeons & Dragons Fifth Edition

adventure for level 6 characters

by Stephen Bull

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 A treasure of great value lies hidden in the wilderness, a
tool once wielded by a warlord to search for his enemies
wherever they might be hiding.

The Eye Of Baine remains hidden out in the wilderness,

waiting for a band of adventurers to stumble across it and
discover its secrets.

WRITTEN BY
STEPHEN BULL

ARTWORK BY
STEPHEN BULL

REVIEW AND TESTING

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Reading The Adventure
Running The Adventure
It is highly recommended that you read the entire
adventure before running it through with players.
You will need a copy of the Dungeons & Dragons
Fifth Edition Players Handbook, as well as the
Dungeons Masters Guide for rewarding your
players with treasure, and the Monster Manual,
Mordenkainen’s Tome Of Foes and Volo’s Guide
To Monsters for the creatures your players will
encounter.
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At some points along the module you will see an
entry marked similar to as follows:
† 3x Hill Giant (CR 5, MM115)
Medium encounter, 5400exp
This marks a combat encounter, and you refer to
the correct Monster stat block.
It tells you how many of what kind of monster take
part in the encounter, and in brackets their
individual Challenge Rating and the book they can
be found in.
Where the Challenge Rating is followed by the
note “Special”, the creature’s stat block can be
found in this module, usually shortly after the
encounter.
The bottom line denotes the difficulty of the
encounter, and the collective EXP reward for
completing it (which is shared amongst the party).
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Abbreviations
At some points through this module you will
encounter some abbreviations, especially in notes
for combat encounters. These are explained as
follows.
Their exact meanings are explained in the Players
Handbook.
EXP: Experience Points
HP: Hit Points
AC: Armour Class
DC: Difficulty Class
MM: Monster Manual
MTF: Mordenkainen’s Tome Of Foes
VGM: Volo’s Guide To Monsters
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Setting
This adventure is designed to fit into any setting,
any world, so long as it is in a mundane mortal and
physical plane of existence.
It is intended to be able to neatly slot into any
world you wish - Faerun, Dark Sun, Dragonlance,
or one of your own creation. It will work in any
world.
As such, feel free to make whatever adjustments
you feel necessary for the world you are using,
including altering names and locations to better fit
the world your players are used to travelling and
adventuring in.
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Game Balance
THE EYE OF BAINE has been designed and
balanced for four characters of level 6. If you have
any more or less player characters, or need to
make adjustments for levels, you are encouraged
to adapt whatever you need to.
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Reading
Any open text such as this paragraph can be read
allowed if you wish as it provides background and
game information, including descriptions of
people and locations which enhance the character
of the game the players are in.
Text in grey boxes such as this should not be read
aloud.
This text is DM only information which reveals
secrets and offers advice on what to do should
players choose certain avenues of exploration and
combat. It also provides combat tactics for monsters
which the players should be made aware of directly.
“Text in bordered yellow boxes such as this one is
dialogue – specific words to be spoken by specific
characters at various points in the game to bring
players deeper into the narrative by roleplaying
along with the Non-Player characters around
them.”
CHAPTER 1: Discovering The Eye
The Eye Of Baine takes a party of adventurers on a
simple mission into the wilderness of their world to
search for an ancient artifact.
It is a simple and short adventure designed to fit
neatly into the middle of any journey the party
might be on, and any setting they may find
themselves in.
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SETTING UP THE ADVENTURE
The setup of the adventure is left completely open,
as it is imagined that The Eye of Baine is
something that could be talked about as a legend
in any region, or even just stumbled upon whilst
travelling in the wilds.
The party could be directed to it, either as an
legend of intrigue that any bartender can describe
or as a valuable archeological discovery that any
scholar will pay good coin to find.
The legend of the Eye can also be presented as a
way to entice the party with the promise of magical
artifacts, however they assume those artifacts work
based on what the Eye was used for.
AT THE FEET OF MOUNTAINS
The Eye Of Baine lies at the far end of woodland,
at the bottom of a sheer surface under a mountain.
To get to it, the party must travel through a dense
treeline for at least a day, camping amongst the
foliage at least once as they search for the Eye’s
location.
Allow for a moderately easy (DC15) Perception or
Survival Check for the party to find the Eye or clues
towards it and make the search a little easier.
If they score a 20+ on the roll, allow for them to
reach the Eye by the end of the first day and camp
directly next to it as the sun sets on their arrival.
Through trees and bushes, the party will eventually
see the Eye, a large, smooth metal sphere roughly
40ft in diameter and etched with lines and arcane
runes over its surface.
The sphere rests on a large stone platform, both
partially overgrown by parts of the forest
encroaching upon it since the decision was made
to hide it away.

No impediment should be put in the way of the

party actually finding the Eye Of Baine, though
once the party do come across it the danger can
be apparent and imminent.
The Eye
Of Baine
The Eye Of Baine itself, the monument, is a magical
device built by ancient arcane spellcasters at the
behest of a Warlord – Silus Baine.
A toll of both espionage, it was claimed that the Eye
could be used to observe events far away. So
powerful was it that it could peer through walls and
over seas to look into and observe events in war-
rooms on the other side of the world.

For a Warlord it was an invaluable tool, allowing
Baine to know the plans of his enemies, but for some
reason it was lost. Baine himself turned away from
its use and made sure that its location became a
close guarded secret, and eventually an unconfirmed
myth.
What little information survives suggests that the Eye
houses powerful magic items, amplifying their power
in order to achieve its purpose. If someone were able
to find the Eye Of Baine, they would be able to
access its power or take the key components which
allow it to function.
As they approach, the party will quickly become
aware that creatures are nesting in the foliage at
the base of the Eye. They are not intelligent, and
will be immediately hostile as soon as they are
aware of intrusion into its territory, rising up out of
their nest and standing ready to attack.
Any character can try to get the drop on them with
a DC15 Stealth check for Advantage in the first
round of combat, but any characters who fail will
alert the creatures and begin the combat.
† 1x Grick Alpha (CR 7, MM173)
† 1x Grick (CR 2, MM173)
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The party encounter two medium sized creatures
with long, snake-like bodies, one of them slightly
larger and featuring spikes down its back – clearly
the more dominant of the two. Hungry, snapping
beaks roar at them from behind four barbed
tentacles which unfurl as the party approach.
Grick will attack the nearest target, aiming to
incapacitate a victim before dragging them back
to their nest to feast.
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THE NEST
After the Grick are defeated, their bodies will lie
slain and immobile on the ground. They have
nothing on them, but a search of their nest at the
feet of the monument will uncover recent human
remains, still with some small amount of flesh on its
bones, and wrapped in a few scraps of clothing.
Looking through this body will turn up 2d6ep.
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THE EYE
The immediate danger dealt with, the party are
free to inspect the monument itself.
The main sphere is a single solid piece of metal
with a smooth surface covered in some areas by
vines and moss. Recesses in the metal hold fine
lines of a faintly shinning, silvery material. In some
places, the lines over its surface form spheres
which house glass orbs, through which the party
can only see darkness within.
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DC15 Arcana Check: the silver substance in the
recesses over its surface has magical properties,
often used as a focusing agent in magical
artificing.
DC15 Investigation Check: knocking against it
makes it clear that the sphere is hollow, and light
turned into the glass orbs gives an impression of
space within but no details can be discerned.
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The Eye sits on top of a small platform designed
like a stepped pyramid. Like the sphere above it
appears to be made from a single piece, carved in
place. It too has been overgrown in places.
DC18 Investigation Check: a search of the stone
platform reveals a collection of small vents, thin
holes roughly two inches in diameter at various
points around the surface which go deep into the
stone platform.
Looking through the Grick nest, the party finds a
single large hatch about four foot squared,
overgrown, rusted shut and covered by the mud,
sticks and bones used by the Grick to make their
bed. This appears to be the access tunnel for a
space beneath the sphere, and will need to be
access by the party with some effort. If they resort
to brute strength after clearing the way to the
vent, then the hatch can be opened with a DC18
Strength Check.
CHAPTER 2: Inside The Monument
Beyond the hatch the party find a five foot squared
vent ramping down into the rock beneath the Eye
of Baine. The tunnel is wide enough for even bulky
party members to get through as it descends as a
smooth angle before coming in a room directly
beneath the sphere.
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ANTECHAMBER
1 not a simple process. There is a trick to the levers
2 3 So for example, if all are in the upwards position,
1 At the end of the vent, the party find
themselves in a hexagonal chamber roughly forty
feet in diameter, the floor tiled with smooth stone
slabs, the walls neatly carved from the same stone
but with some iron components inlaid into it.
Plates, sealed panels and pipes through which the
party can make out the sound of moving fluid (or
air) are inlaid in specifically carved recesses in the
stone.
The room is old and dusty, but everything metal
appears to be well maintained, oiled and cared for.
Rust is extremely minimal, and no plant life has
managed to encroach into this area.
The centre of the room is dominated by a large
tube of thick glass which reaches from the floor
into the ceiling above. Within the glass a beam of
light fires upwards, particles within clearly
indicating an upward motion coming from
chambers below and shooting up into the sphere
above.
Panels around the base of the tube at this level
seem to indicate a level of power at full capacity,
and in shifting arcane runes demonstrate the
energy being poured into the sphere and keeping
it sealed.
The party should be encouraged here to make the
correct assumption that the beam of light has
something to do with the sphere being sealed, and
that stopping it will open the sphere.
Looking down through the pipe is difficult because of
the beam of light, but they can tell that there are
more chambers below, and that the beam is being
fired up from the bottom level.
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2 On the far side of the room from the
access vent, a large iron door stands blocking the
only corridor out of this antechamber.
An examination of it suggests an intricate locking
mechanism inside the wall designed to pull the
door into the wall.
On the smooth stone surface to the right is an iron
panel with five levers, all in an upright position.
They must all be pulled down and set in the
downward position for the door to open, but it is
which serves to keep the simple-minded out.
Every time a lever is pulled, it also reverses the
position of any levers next to it.
and one is pulled down, two will also move down.
Likewise is all are up and two is pulled, both one and
three will also move down.
However, if three is down but four and five are up,
and four is pulled, three and five will still be
reversed. Five will go down, but three will go from
down to up.
The party will have to solve the levers puzzle in
order to get through the door.
This is a fairly simple puzzle, and it is possible that
players may have encountered something like it
before and will be able to solve it easily. It is equally
possible that they haven’t and will massively
overthink things and make mistakes. It is equally
possible a player with an intentionally dumb
character will make a mess of things to really
complicate matters. Encourage all of this, but feel
free to add a Master Reset button (found after an
Investigation Check) if things get really complicated.
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The solution from the all upwards starting position is
simple. The order to pull down levers is:
ONE, TWO, FIVE and ONE.
This does also work the other way around:
FIVE, FOUR, ONE and FIVE.
If the party can solve this, they will hear a loud
clank of metal on metal from within the wall, and
the large iron door will start to slide across into the
wall beside it, grinding along the stone floor and
leaving a score across it. As the door opens it
releases a hiss of stale air which suggests to the
party that it has not opened in a very long time.
 and as they look around they see a collection of
Lever Puzzle Solution small metal creatures resembling mechanical
spiders moving about and working on the metal.
They appear to maintaining and cleaning the
chamber, scraping at any rust they find.
A mechanic spider approaches the first party
member who reaches the bottom and observes it
for a moment.

If the characters were descending together, one at a

time, then the mechanical spider will observe long
enough for the second character to reach the bottom.

After observing, the mechanical spider will react

with hostility, others from the local area joining it.

† 3x Iron Spider (CR 1)

Easy encounter, 600exp

3 The short corridor leads into a similarly
styled stone walled chamber with metal pipes and
panels inlaid. Glass tubes laid into the wall
alongside the metal appear to contain a burning
flame fueled by gas coming from a small pipe in
their rear.
As soon as the party get through the metal door,
they should make a DC18 Perception Check. Any
character who succeeds catches sight of a small
creature, possibly an oversized insect or spider
scuttling across the floor and down a circular hatch
at the far end. Any character who passes by 25 or
higher also picks up a metallic clanking as it
moves, and realizes that the creature is made of
metal.
Any character with any sort of Danger Sense should
be given Advantage on this roll.
The hatch the creature disappears down is round
with a metal rim, hosting an iron ladder which goes
down a shaft roughly thirty feet before ending on a
tiled stone floor below. Looking down, it appears
to be lit in a similar style to the room they are in,
the faint flicker of light suggesting more flames
inside glass tubes.
4 The ladder descends into another stone
and metal room, this one containing a series of
larger (but still too small for a person to fit through)
vents which exhale steam at regular intervals,
churned up from the machinery below.
As soon as the first character sets foot in the room,
they become aware of metal chinking all around,
The Iron Spiders use the rules for the Giant Spider
(CR 1, MM328). Except that their type is changed to
Small Construct. Their Web Sense/Walker abilities
instead work on any Metal surface, and their Bite
attack instead deals Lightning damage.
Besides the ladder, a single passage leads off from
this chamber and into a corridor lined with iron
pipes which are hot to the touch.
5 To the right, in a side room off the pipe
lined corridor the party find piles of wooden planks
and small boxes of nails. On a DC15 Investigation
Check, the party can work out that the planks were
once crates, which were long ago dismantled and
their materials carefully stacked here.
6 The party come to a dead end, a pipe filled
room as before, this time with a large metal hatch
covering another downwards shaft, this time into
darkness. As soon as the first character enters
though, they are ambushed by another Iron Spider.
† 1x Iron Spider (CR 1)
Easy encounter, 200exp
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IS IS
IS
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7 The shaft drops down into a room with no
light source, the party’s feet hitting a shaky metal
grate which lines the entire floor. There are gas
vents behind glass covers as before, but these are
all inactive. A single door leads out into an unlit
corridor.

A successful DC18 Investigation Check at

disadvantage because of low light will reveal a
series of small cranks which, when turned, activate 10
the flaming lights. IS IS IS
8 The corridor leads into a large room lit by IS
the glow of the beam of light encased behind thick 9 IS
glass. This chamber is lined with large pipes and
vents which release an occasional jet of hot steam,
and each pipe if touched is extremely hot to the 8
touch (dealing 1d4 damage to the touch).
The room is also occupied by a collection of
metallic spiders like those the party have already
encountered. As the party enter they are working
near an empty vent to the north of the room,
bending metal and repairing what looks like small
explosion damage.

† 5x Iron Spider (CR 1)

Easy encounter, 1000exp

9 Once the Iron Spiders are defeated, the

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party find a single door in the north-west of the
room, but it like the one above is a large iron slab
which appears designed to move aside into a wall.

On a panel at the base of the glass cover over the Once the final shard is pushed into place with a
beam of light the party discover five slots, small click, the iron door will bang and then grind along
rectangular holes alongside each other which the floor as it is pulled into the wall, revealing
appear designed to fit something specific in order another corridor beyond.
to activate.
On examination, the slots have numbers etched 10 The corridor leads around to another
into the iron above them. They read 0, 0, 0, 0, 1. completely dark room.

The exact component which is missing can be found
in each of the five defeated Iron Spiders. A small
metal shard can be found in each body which fits
perfectly, but must be in the correct order.
Each shard has a number etched into its top. They
read 3, 7, 1, 2, 7.
When inserted, the etched numbers on panel and
shard line up to be directly next to each other.
The solution is that these are Prime Numbers, but the
1s are designed to trick the party. The 1 shard does
not go at the beginning, but rather in the final slot to
complete the number 11.
The correct order is 2, 3, 5, 7, 1.
A successful DC18 Investigation Check at
disadvantage because of low light will reveal a
series of small cranks which, when turned, activate
the flaming lights.
In the south-west corner of the room is an open
hatch which any character could accidentally fall
down while they are searching the room without
light. Once they have light the party can make it
out, and look down a twenty foot shaft into yet
more darkness.
This shaft has no ladder again, and ends after
twenty feet with complete darkness below. Not
even a floor can be seen directly below, so if there
is one it is a little distance away.

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11 The twenty foot shaft opens into the
ceiling another twenty feet off the stone and metal
ground barely seen in the small amount of light
coming from the hatch above.
If the first character down has a light source they
can make a large metal cylinder at the centre of
the room and metal grating crossing along the
floor. On the far walls, large iron tubes stand from
ground to ceiling.
As soon as the first character through the shaft
reaches the bottom and their feet touch the
ground a gentle hum will start building in the walls,
and with a loud grinding the metal cylinder at the
room’s centre will descend into the floor below,
revealing another thick glass tube similar to the
one found above, again housing the beam of light
which illuminates the entire chamber and gives the
party a better view of its high, arched ceiling.
As soon as the light flood the room, the six tubes
at the edges of the room will also grind and start
to turn. Each rotates 180*, revealing a recess on
their other side from which emerges a suit of
armour – animated through arcane means. These
suits will advance on the party immediately, swords
raised sand intent of defending the chamber.
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† 6x Animated Armour (CR 1, MM19)
Hard encounter, 1200+exp
The animated suits will advance with hostility from
the moment they emerge, but are not the only danger
in the room.
As DM you should keep note of which suit of
Animated Armour comes from which tube, because
as they fall they will return. On each suits Initiative
step, if it has fallen, the tube it came from will turn
again and conceal its recess. On the initiative step
after that, the tube will turn again, this time
releasing another suit of Animated Armour to
replace the one which fell.
This way, the suits of Animated Armour will continue
to respawn endlessly until the party are able to work
out a way to put a stop to them.
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There is no way to stop the endless spawning of
Animated Armour. In order to progress the party
need to find the way out of this chamber and into the
room below.
To do this, they must get into one of the tubes at the
edge of the room and remain inside as it turns to
fetch a new defender.
Inside, the character will become aware of noise
above them, like something heavy is dropping
towards them from up a long chute, but before it
arrives the bottom of the tube will move away,
dropping the character into a tube which drops
beneath the large chamber they were in.
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It is very possible that the players will never work
out that they need to get into the tubes. If they don’t
after some time, try dropping subtle hints to set them
on the right path. When a new defender steps out of
their tube, be sure to reference (subtly) that it leaves
its tube standing empty behind it.
12 The levers will work as they did before, each time a
13 will require some additional though.
12 Characters who find their way through one
of the reinforcement tubes will slide down at least
thirty feet before emerging out of one of the holes
in the walls of this final chamber at the bottom of
the structure. A small hexagonal room, it is again lit
by the beam of light, but here it is not encased in
thick glass. The beam is open, but touching it
causes great harm.
Any character who does touch the beam suffers 2d8
Radiant Damage.
13 The beam of light emanates from the top
of a pyramid shaped device at the centre of the
room, its aesthetic design mirroring that of the
sphere above. Made from the same solid metal,
lines in its surface glow with silver light which pulse
upward through its structure in a large lens at its
top, from which the beam of light fires.
On three sides of the device, the party finds panels
very much like the one in the uppermost room of
this underground structure which opened the large
iron door. Each of these is different though.
The eastern panel has only three levers, but the
party come to it with the middle lever already in
the downward position.
The southern panel has four levers, all except the
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second in the upwards position.
Finally the western panel has five levers, all
currently in the upwards position.
The northern side of the device has shifting arcane
runes appearing like an illusion above the surface,
seeming to indicate levels of power flowing
through the device at almost their maximum
strength. It also appears to show representations
of the levers found around the surface, showing
the power to be interrupted by the few levers
currently in their downwards position.
The implication to stress based on these images is
that having all levers down will shut the device off,
just as the opened the door on the top level.
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lever is changed position also changing the position
of any levers besides it (on its own panel only).
The difference is that on these panels, some of the
levers are already in the downwards position, so this
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For the eastern panel, with three levers, the correct
sequence from its starting configuration is:
ONE, then THREE.
The southern panel with four levers has the same
solution from its starting position:
ONE, then THREE.
The western panel with five levers has this solution:
THREE, TWO, FIVE, then THREE.
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It is very possible that only one or some of the party
will make it down to this chamber whilst the fight
above continues for the rest. If this is the case, allow
the triggering of three switches in a single panel for
each action taken. A character would still need to
move between panels to get to them.
Yu may also need to move time on at your discretion
and advance to the next character in order if they
take some time to work out the next lever to pull.
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An optimistic character may decide to simply try to
destroy the device, or the lens at its top, rather than
trying to shut it off. This should be allowed if that is
what the character feels they have to do.
If they do, take the device as having AC19 and 32 Hit
Points. Any character who does strike the beam
emitting device however will be hit by the energy
shooting out of it, taking 2d8 Radiant damage.
Deactivation the beam has the effect of shutting
down the entire structure and all of the machinery
within. As the beam of light and energy shuts off,
the entire structure drops into darkness, making
visibility difficult without a light source.
Every creature within, being automated, will shut
off and fall to the ground lifeless, no longer a
threat to the party.
Safe from attack, they will then have to make their
way out again. Those in the bottom chamber will
have to climb out with a DC16 Athletics Check,
crawling their way back up the pipe they fell
through until they reach the pipe back into the
large chamber.
Here, a DC18 Strength Check can be used to force
the pipe to turn, though doing so will break it and
leave the pipe open for anyone to climb through.
From there the party can get back into the shaft in
the ceiling, and then climb back out until they
reach the vent leading back to the outside world.
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OUTSIDE
Crawling back through the access vent, the party
re-emerge under the open sky.
It is immediately apparent when they do step out
into the fresh air that something has changed – the
sphere has shifted slightly on its axis, and a section
has depressed inwards but gotten stuck in place. A
DC16 Strength Check will help shift the panel the
rest of the way, leaving an opening which leads
into the sphere itself.
The interior of the sphere houses a stable
unmoving platform onto which has been mounted
a series of table with open surfaces, and chairs are
fixed into the ground in front of each. Gears and
bearings mounted on the outside appear to
suggest that the sphere moves about, reflecting at
points the light which once came from below and
flowed through a focusing lens into a glass orb,
and then reflected further out onto the silver-lined
walls of the sphere.
Of the three chairs found within, two are occupied
by bodies preserved over many long years. A third
body lies upon the floor, its arm outstretched as
though reaching for the door.
A DC15 Medicine Check can confirm that these
people died of natural causes, likely malnutrition,
and were preserved having been tightly sealed
within the sphere. It would seem that they were
trapped here without food or supplies, and
eventually died at their posts.
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Finally, at the centre of the platform within the
sphere is a raised podium. Halfway up its height, a
recess reaches in and reveals a hole which travels
much further down into the ground from which
the light beam shone into a small talisman which
rests on a stand.
On top of the podium, sitting over the top of the
hole on a ring of metal, sits a small clear orb.
Both talisman and orb appear to have magical
properties, and are the artifacts which allowed the
Eye Of Baine to work.
A search of the bodies reveals them to be wearing
identical uniforms with military insignia.
Each carries 1d6sp of a very old design, and one
wears a collection of antiquated medals which might
be of some value to the right buyer (approximately
120gp to someone who knows of their historical
value).
On the body on the floor, the party find a roll of
parchment upon which is a letter written by its
holder.
SPHERE OCCUPANT’S LETTER
“They left us.”
“I sincerely believe that they have left and
abandoned us.”
“The design was flawed, and they did not see. The
energy needed to power the Eye, to allow it to
see over great distances, was too great. It flows
from below and into the sphere, but also serves to
lock the sphere, and us within.”
“But the design is flawed. The power can only be
activated or deactivated from below, and we have
no means to contact them. There is nobody
outside to contact, only us within.”
“Ironic I guess, that we can see the whole world
from within here, but nobody can see us inside it.”
“They can’t possibly know what is wrong. Nor can
they access it. We have no means to send a
message either, the properties of the sphere
blocking all attempts at sending magic out.”
“By the gods we are trapped, and doomed to die
in here.”
“If ever they find a way, please remember us. Tell
our loved ones that we died at our positions. That
we were loyal servants of the lord Sirus Baine, and
did as he commanded.”
“Signed honourably.”
“Maxamillian Cole.”
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REWARDS AND ARTIFACTS
For completing the adventure, each party member
should be awarded 600exp on top of what they
also earned from combat encounters.
Within the sphere, the party also find two magical
artifacts built into the machinery in the centre of
the sphere. Both can be lifted out and taken, and
used separately from the Eye device.
In the space within the podium, the party find a
small talisman – an enchanted jewel set into a
golden ring fashioned like a star. It is attached to a
chain and can be worn like a necklace, conferring
its power on its wearer.
This talisman requires attunement, and contains
one charge of the spell Hunter’s Mark (PHB251),
which recharges at dawn.
Hunter’s
Talisman for that reason – to advance the hunt for a creature
On top of the podium the party finds a small clear
orb roughly three inches in diameter. At first
glance it appears to be made of glass. On closer
examination, it becomes clear that it has been
enchanted to allow for spying on people and
creatures over great distances. It contains a single
charge of the spell Scrying (PHB273), which also
recharges at dawn.
The orb is not perfectly made however, and should
the subject of its gaze succeed at their Wisdom
saving throw, the orb will crack at its centre. Each
crack adds +2 to each subsequent target’s Save
modifier, and after the third crack the orb will
shatter and become useless.
Orb Of
Scrying
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ATTEMPTING TO USE THE EYE
It is likely inevitable that a party member will
suggest using the monument for its intended purpose.
This IS theoretically possible, but should be down to
your discretion as a DM whether you want to allow
them to use that power freely.
Reactivating the Eye Of Baine will require them to
venture back within the underground structure and to
restart the light beam by turning all of the levers
below to the upwards position.
If they do, the Eye will seal up again, but anyone
within will be able to make use of its functions. With
talisman and orb in place, they can effectively use
the spell Scrying (PHB273) at their leisure, however
it is suggested that they be limited to creatures or
persons they are familiar with or have an interest in
finding.
If your party have been hunting for someone for
example, or have a backstory which involves a quest
for revenge, this might be a good opportunity to
advance that story and give them the location of
their target or prey.
You may even want to use this adventure specifically
or person the party need to get hold of (so long as
they are on the same plane and not able to magically
hide themselves.
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When the eye is active, the inside of the sphere shines
with blue light. The light beam passes through the
talisman and into the orb, where it is then reflected
onto the walls. The silver lines crossing the surface
of the Eye glow, and illusions fill the empty spaces in
the tables creating an interface with which the party
can identify their targets. By placing personal items
within the illusions, or giving accurate enough
descriptions, the walls create light images which
show the targets in their current state, able to be
observed.
Note that this is as the spell Scrying, so they will get
a Wisdom save against the intrusion. A success
prevents the Eye from focusing onto them for 24
hours.
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When the light beam is active, the rest of the
structure becomes active again as well, including its
defenders. The Animated Armour returns to life and
begins respawning as before, and Iron Spiders start
to drop down the bottom tunnels to remove the
intruders in the bottom chamber.
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