Poledevk: переводы

→Once the characters have correctly guessed at least one of Kalakia’s riddles, they are free to go. Whatever lies beyond the sphinx’s chamber is up to you. If the characters fail to guess any of the riddles and are all knocked out in this chamber, the sphinx may eject them from the dungeon or devour them mercilessly, depending on the tone and lethality of your game.

→Alternatively, you could have her offer her supernatural power as a reward, casting spells like remove curse, dispel magic, or legend lore instead of granting a magic item.

→horseshoes of a zephyr

→3 javelins of lightning

→ring of animal influence

→skyblinder staff

→If the characters want to stay, she has up to four magic items that award them with for more successful guesses. Once they’ve solved one riddle, however, they only have one chance to get each riddle right. Kalakia won’t return to the start of her list of five riddles anymore after this point. These further rewards can be magic items of your choice. Some examples include:

→Once the characters solve one riddle, the sphinx yawns and flicks her paw, causing the doors to unlock. She grumbles and says, “You’re free to go… but I am terribly bored. I’ve guarded this door for so long, and you’re the first entertainment I’ve seen in gods-forsaken eons. I have some trinkets collected here. Stay a while longer and riddle with me some more?”

→Correct Guesses

→After each incorrect guess, one additional manticore swoops down (so the second incorrect guess provokes two manticores to attack, and so forth). Manticores at full health attack first, but even wounded ones start attacking as the crowd gets more and more riled up.

→The manticore has no desire to kill, only to entertain its brethren and prove that it is stronger than the characters. If it reduces a character to 0 hit points with a melee attack, it checks its blow and merely knocks the character out. The manticore retreats to the stands to lick its wounds after being reduced to half its hit point maximum.

→If a character answers a riddle incorrectly, Kalakia says, “Oh, that’s not quite it” (or something similar) and the manticores start to taunt and jeer the characters. One of them even swoops down and attacks the characters, roaring “Enough highbrow rubbish! Give us blood!” The manticores roar in approval and Kalakia makes a halfhearted attempt to restrain them. She swipes one paw lethargically and wearily mumbles, “Stop, wait, come back.”

→Incorrect Guesses

→DC 25: You have heard stories of javelins that transform into bolts of lightning, created to emulate the lightning bolts thrown by the great god Zeus (Keranos, if playing in Theros). These are called javelins of lightning.

→DC 15: Whatever this is, it was wielded by both warriors and athletes. Javelins are weapons used in both war and sport.

→Riddle 5: “Javelin of Lightning”

→DC 10: This is likely a magic item, perhaps a throwing weapon enchanted with the power of lightning.

→Riddle 4: “The Underworld”

→DC 25: You know that the final destination of all souls is the Underworld, whose gates are guarded by the three-headed dog Cerberus, and to reach it one must cross the River Styx.

→DC 15: The phrase about one guard with six eyes could mean that the guardian has three heads, each with one pair of eyes.