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Into the Heart of Hell

Table of Contents

Introduction to the Dungeon ............................................................................................................................................ 3

Level Six .............................................................................................................................................................................. 13

Level Seven ........................................................................................................................................................................ 43

Level Eight .......................................................................................................................................................................... 75

Level Nine ........................................................................................................................................................................ 105

Level Ten .......................................................................................................................................................................... 125

Appendix A: Chaos Events ............................................................................................................................................ 148

Appendix B: The Nakthoti ............................................................................................................................................ 154

Appendix C: The Roster of Heroes .............................................................................................................................. 159

Appendix D: Vaedium ................................................................................................................................................... 161

Appendix E:

Stonehell Dungeon: Down Night-Haunted Halls

Errata .................................................................... 163

Stonehell Dungeon: Into the Heart of Hell

Design & Cartography:

Michael Curtis

Editor:

Tim Snider

Cover Art:

J.A. D’Andrea

Interior Art:

Luigi Castellani, Gary Dupuis, William McAusland, Bradley K McDevitt, Jeremy Mohler, Matt Morrow, Carl

Nash, Håkon Nordheim, and Ralph Pascucci

One Page Dungeon Concept:

David Bowman

One Page Dungeon Template:

Michael Shorten

In Memory:

Michael Rupert Curtis (1944-2014). Thanks, Dad.

Thanks to the following people who helped me change residences in the midst of this project oh so long ago:

Joseph

Bloch, Kristian Collins, DivNull Software, Michael Filan, Dion Kurczek, James Maliszewski, Paul Ramer, and Jason

Sholtis

Special Thanks To:

All

the patient fans of Stonehell Dungeon around the world. Thanks for waiting. It’s been a fun ride!

All artwork is copyright of the individual artists and is used here with their kind permission. Some artwork copyright

William McAusland, used with permission. Giant Spider © Jeremy Mohler, 2002. Jeremy Mohler Standard Stock Art: OE

Stock Art - Giant Spider by Outland Entertainment

Labyrinth

trademarks of Daniel

Proctor. These trademarks are used under the Labyrinth Lord™ Trademark License 1.2

available at

www.goblinoidgames.com.

Mutant Future™

Mazes™ are trademarks of Daniel Proctor.

These trademarks are used under the Mutant Future™

Trademark License 1.1 available at www.goblinoidgames.com.

Stonehell Dungeon

—

Introduction to the Dungeon

Greetings and welcome back to the ancient prison

known far and wide as Stonehell Dungeon. This is the

second and final book in the Stonehell series, a tome that

explores and details the crumbling

vault’s

deepest and

oldest levels. This book,

Stonehell Dungeon: Into the

Heart of Hell,

picks up where its predecessor,

Stonehell

Dungeon: Down Night-Haunted Halls,

left off. Material

covered in the first book, including portions of the

dungeon’s history, rules for restocking

and changing the

dungeon, and suggestions on using the megadungeon in

campaign play are not repeated in this book. Although it

is not impossible to utilize this second book alone,

possession of

Stonehell Dungeon: Down Night-Haunted

Halls

will greatly assist in running the dungeon and is

highly suggested by the author.

As in the previous book, this book is intended to

recapture the “Saturday Night Dungeon Crawl” of the

hobby’s earliest days. Referees and players looking for

complex details on overarching plots and other story

elements will not find them here—but

that doesn’t mean

they can be introduced! The Stonehell Dungeon series

concentrates on providing the Labyrinth Lord with the

basic and barest information necessary to use the

megadungeon as part of his or her campaign. Although

plot hooks and adventure seeds are suggested

throughout the book, it is up to the Labyrinth Lord to

flesh out and personalize the dungeon and to make

whatever changes and additions he or she finds

necessary to best implement Stonehell Dungeon into

their game world.

Like many things in life, the more effort you put into

Stonehell Dungeon, the more enjoyment and use you’ll

get out of it. This is not to say that the dungeon cannot

be used “as is” right from the book. However, by taking

the time to weave the loose threads given herein into

your campaign and to elaborate on the sparse details

provided for certain encounters and adversaries, you’ll

find the dungeon becomes a living part of the game

world, one the characters—and more importantly, the

players—become invested in and wish to return to time

and time again.

No matter what route you decide to utilize, know that

by ownership of this book, Stonehell Dungeon is now

yours to do with as you please. Make the most of it and

do with it what thou will!

space in the text, the former is abbreviated to

SD: DNHH

and the latter is abbreviated as

SD: BS.

Stonehell Dungeon Prior to the Prison Years

There are places in the world, both above and beneath

its surface, that attract evil and malignancy. These

locales exert an almost-magnetic pull upon maleficent

entities, calling them there like an oasis in a parched

desert. Whether these evil places attract evil due to mere

happenstance or a deeper, less quantifiable, mystical

reason has long been debated by scholars.

It should come as no surprise to those familiar with

Stonehell

Dungeon’s origins (see

SD: DNHH

pp. 4-5)

that the former prison sits upon one of these spots of

spoiled land. Long before the Sterling Potentate erected

his penitentiary, the caverns that predated the dungeon

were home to subterranean civilizations steeped in

treachery, callousness, and evil. Although these cultures

have vanished, the relics left behind by the chthonic

nations still linger in the dark, awaiting discovery.

Evidence shows that at least four civilizations formerly

existed in the hypogeal realm under the prison in the

long millennia prior to its construction. These cultures

include the Kion, a four-armed humanoid race that

settled the region in antiquity, the Eaul, human refugees

that briefly occupied the dungeon in the wake of

calamity, the

Sai’tehlim, subterranean giants who

enlarged a portion of the halls for their own use, and a

fourth, unidentified civilization responsible for the

construction of the Machine (see

Level 8E).

Of this

mysterious fourth culture, only the sentient pool of

Helfaraferath remains, the sole survivor and repository

of knowledge (see

SD: DNHH

pp. 114-115). All four of

these vanished cultures established holdings around the

Majusek Sulcus (see below), perhaps due to the rich

ecosystem that great chasm sustained. Each subsequent

occupant built upon and extended the excavations they

discovered, turning the dungeon’s lowest levels into a

hodge-podge of construction styles and techniques.

The Kion were the oldest settlers in the subterranean

expanses

beneath Stonehell’s present location.

This race

settled in the area both above and below the surface.

Atop the mountain peaks, the Kion built observatories to

view the stars. The ruins of these stellar workshops can

still be discovered perched on foreboding cliffs and atop

lonely summits. Below the mountains, deep under their

stony roots, the Kion constructed strongholds and

sepultures, including a tomb to inter travelers from the

distant stars (see

Level 8A).

Eventually, the Kion

departed, their fate unknown, and their subterranean

holdings fell vacant and forgotten.

A Note on Abbreviations

From time to time, this book references material found

in both

Stonehell Dungeon: Down Night-Haunted Halls

and

Stonehell Supplement Two: Buried Secrets.

To conserve

Stonehell Dungeon Prior to the Prison Years

Stonehell Dungeon

—

Introduction to the Dungeon

Stonehell Dungeon Timeline

The following timeline lists important events in

Stonehell’s history, both prior to the prison’s construction

and afterwards. Most dates are approximate, and the

Labyrinth Lord can alter or ignore them as befits his

campaign.

5000 years ago:

The Kion settle the region, building

observatories on the mountain peaks above and erecting a

sepulture and stronghold beneath the mountain’s roots.

2000 y.a.:

An unidentified culture occupies and expands

the now-vacant Kion holdings. They construct The

Machine.

1600 y.a.:

The Sai’tehlim, a race of underworld giants,

occupies a small portion of the halls, constructing a

stronghold suitable to their great stature.

1300 y.a.:

The wyrm, Lightning Reflected in Terrified

Eyes, drives the Sai’tehlim from their halls and claims

them for its lair.

800 y.a.:

The Eaul flee a great catastrophe that laid waste

to the region and drove them from their home. They seek

security underground, discovering the excavations left

behind by the Kion, the Sai’tehlim, and others. The Eaul

slay the wyrm, Lightning Reflected in Terrified Eyes, and

occupy halls and chambers around the Majusek Sulcus.

700 y.a.:

The Eaul disappear, victims of the Host of the

Last Revel.

600 y.a.:

The Vrilya discover the Majusek Sulcus and

establish Tanna-T’liev.

350 y.a.:

The mountain trolls, descendants of the

Sai’tehlim’s servants, build their halls beneath the

mountains. They come into contact with the Vrilya soon

afterwards.

195 y.a.:

The Sterling Potentate assumes his throne.

187 y.a.:

Construction of Stonehell Dungeon begins.

183 y.a.:

The nixthisis manifests in Stonehell and begins to

grow powerful on the feast of emotions it finds there.

148 y.a.:

The Sterling Potentate is driven from his throne,

and the prison is liberated. Few prisoners are freed as

most have become acclimated to their subterranean life.

The prison becomes a shunned place.

147 y.a.:

Stonehell Dungeon becomes a destination for

adventurers, treasure-seekers, and thralls of the nixthisis.

Three thousand years later, the former excavations of the

Kion became home to an unidentified race. These

mysterious occupants

expanded the Kion’s diggings,

extending the chambers and corridors deeper and

broader. In addition, the unknown settlers constructed

the weird device known as “The Machine.”

After

roughly four centuries, these unknown residents

vanished, but a strange relic of their occupancy remains:

Helfaraferath, the mind and personality residing in the

Pool of Wisdom. Helfaraferath was once a member of

this ancient civilization and could shed much light on

their identity and achievements if he could be enticed to

reveal what he knows.

A few centuries after this civilization disappeared, a

tribe of subterranean giants known

as the Sai’tehlim

discovered the forgotten holdings around the Majusek

Sulcus and took up occupancy. Several of the halls and

chambers were enlarged to accommodate their titanic

bodies. The Sai’tehlim became the masters of the

dungeon for three centuries, lording over several

(comparatively) smaller servant races, including ogres

and the ancestors of the mountain trolls.

Unfortunately, the giants’ rule came to an end when the

great wyrm, Lightning Reflected in Terrified Eyes,

discovered both the Sai’tehlim’s

home and the

tremendous wealth they had accumulated. The dragon

slew the giants and drove their servants from their

masters’ halls.

Lightning Reflected in Terrified Eyes then

claimed the holdings for its lair, and no other creature

Stonehell Dungeon Prior to the Prison Years

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