What lies beneath the mine at area 32. In my campaign i am having some of my players who grew up in Diamond Lake know of a childrens tale about a bogeyman called poxpanus that is said to dwell deep in the mine. The children dare each other to venture into the mine but they cant get far due to it being collapsed. Poxpanus is real and i am developing him as arecuring bogeyman that may well haunt the pcs throughout the campaign. They may never know what it is but the will certainly have an interesting time trying to find out.
What he is in my campaign is a Thrall of Jubilex similar to the black pudding out of the BOVD. This may well be developed further yet, it just depends on how my players deal with things.
Very nice! I will "steal" poxpanus in case I use #32 as an emergency exit for my players during 3FoE tomorrow night. Just to scare them - no thralls of Jubilex... yet.
I think Gygax may have used the name Poxpanus as one of several disease fiends (the Plaginate) who followed Anthraxus in the later Gord the Rogue books. Is that where you got the name, or is it from a mythological source?
--Erik
Well spotted Eric. The name Poxpanus does indeed come from the Gord books and was actualy a servant of Infestix/Nerull in a temple in the city of Dyvers. The book in question was City of Hawks. As a side note it seems a shame that all of the stuff to do with Infestix, Anthraxus and all the other demons (daemons?) of their ilk seems to have vanished from D&D lore. Their was always something unaturaly old and creepy about them from what i can recall from 1st edd.