Shearphorus, Part 2 (Sarenith (VI) 30th, 4710 AR)

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The Emerald Graveyard. The mohrgs and zombies attacked until destroyed.

The heroes noticed that the bones are all moving, albeit extremely slowly. A well-disguised section of the ceiling was actually a 20-foot-diameter plug of living plant material blocking access to the green dragons’ ceremony chambers above. The plug was 6 inches thick.

Tears of the Forest. This vast stone chamber is reminiscent of a canopied forest. Sturdy, irregularly spaced columns rise along the walls and branch out into interlocking arches to form the ceiling more than eighty feet above. Shadowy light speckles the damp, uneven floor and knotted walls. The chorus of rivulets cascading down the walls mimics the rustling of leaves. Inset in the far wall of the chamber, at least one hundred-twenty feet away, stand a pair of stone doors, thirty feet in height and twenty feet wide, engraved with a leaf-and-vine motif. The chamber’s walls and floors resemble petrified wood.

The lighting in the chamber is equivalent to shadowy illumination. The environment otherwise changes as the funeral ceremony of the green dragons progresses, as detailed below. Even casual examination of the chamber reveals many small holes in the floor and walls, roughly one inch in diameter. These holes serve as root-anchors for the animated plants that facilitate the ceremony. The doors have the saying “and I shall end Death” written in Draconic worked into the leaf-and-vine décor of the door.

Lephrelourge, an undead green dragon, initiated a ritual as soon as he was aware of the heroes. Where a typical green dragon is muscular and robust, Lephrelourge is emaciated and sallow, his scaly gray-green skin hanging in folds from his shoulders and legs. He spoke to the intruders in Draconic, informing them of their great honor in playing a small role in the 537th funeral ceremony for the greatest of green dragons.

The effects of the ritual follow:

  1. Tendrils shot forth from the root-anchors, attempting to wrap around the heroes. The entire chamber is considered difficult terrain for the purposes of movement. Rather than entangling Lephrelourge, the plants lift him 15 feet off the floor and provide him concealment without limiting his mobility.
  2. Acid showers begin to rain down throughout the chamber. The showers render the walls and floor slick. The acid damages the plants faster than they can regrow, such that escaping and breaking through them is easier.

Lephrelourge watched the heroes struggle against the tendrils of the burial ritual until they freed themselves, at which point he used his breath weapon attack. He is surrounded by an invisible but tangible field of force.

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