I've started the AoW a few weeks ago, and our group is loving. I have to say the team at Paizo is doing a great job.
The group has been very creative with the encounters. I'll give you a brief over view so you can understand what has happened with the water elemental and mold.
The group consists of:
Brother Gabriel, Paladin of Heironeous
Dak (Human Slang for a long winded elven name), Transmuter
Van-ro, elvish druid of the Bronzewood Lodge
and Marq, a goblin wannbe assasin (specializing in Orcs), under the care of Brother Gabriel
The story behind the brown mold is easy. I allow creative manipulation of spells in my campaign with a succesful spellcraft checks. Dak was abble to shape Tensor's floating disk to have an edge and spout. This allowed him to scoop up the Brown mold in the Cairn and place it within a metal container.
They are now using it to cool their cold storage section of their new basement within the old manager's offive. Marq has been busy burrowing new chambers for the group on his off time, and one of these has be come thier freezer.
Can Brown Mold be stored in Metal Containers, and for how long?
And they've been throwing in bread every so ofter, do you think it's enough to sustain the mold?
As for the Water Elemental. When they encountered it, they were succesful at defeating it. But unknown to them, the creature had been reduced to 0 hps and was disapated within the water. Brother Gabriel was able to detect the undead future within the complex, so the group decided to pump out the chamber before going into combat.
After some very lucky rolls, they were able to acquire a foot action, mine pump from Dak's employer, Ellival Moonmeadow. They also aquired a large amout of piping and paided a pretty penny.
And so they sucked out the water, draining the room over the course of a day or so, to the point where the ghoul attacked them.
During the time they were pumping, the elemental regained concesious and was sucked through the tube. The Paladin detected it at the last second. The Druid was the only one that had a chance at stopping it, but a poor roll let it slip by.
Here's the kicker, in my campaign, the cairn is only a short walk from town, 10 or so minutes, its also fairly close to the house. The PC's aquired enough tubing to run the hose from the cairn to thier garben at the mine manager's office. They wanted to jump start Dak's herb garden.
The garden is now permeated with the essence of the evil water elemental.
Weeds continously grow, about a foot a day. What would yousuggest would be the means for them to remove it? The more complex or interesting, the better.
Can Brown Mold be stored in Metal Containers, and for how long?
Yes, the mold can be kept in a metal container, or even a wooden one like in the Lucky Monkey, in the Shackled City AP.
I think that brown mold is considered a magical mold (as opposed to mold found on cheese or bread) that feeds itself on ambient heat, so there should be no reason that the players should need to feed it with bread or any other type of germinated food.
As for how long... I believe it simply lasts until it is destroyed, so it should last forever (or at least the length of the campaign) unless for some reason the box gets attacked by a cone of cold or something.
Van-ro, elvish druid of the Bronzewood Lodge
Shouldn't that be druish elf? Hee hee.
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The group has been very creative with the encounters. I'll give you a brief over view so you can understand what has happened with the water elemental and mold....Brother Gabriel was able to detect the undead future within the complex, so the group decided to pump out the chamber before going into combat.
After some very lucky rolls, they were able to acquire a foot action, mine pump from Dak's employer, Ellival Moonmeadow. They also aquired a large amout of piping and paided a pretty penny.
And so they sucked out the water, draining the room over the course of a day or so, to the point where the ghoul attacked them.
That's very resourceful of them. Kudos to your players and to you for running with the idea.
As for exorcising the elemental... perhpas if the Wizard could summon it from a pool of water in the effected area, thereby extracting it into its elemental form (Summon Monster III) - and from there find a way of confining it. An iron flask would do nicely - or a small Bowl of Commanding Water Elementals? (Craft Wondrous Item as well + some thaumaturgic triangle grown into the weeds)
The story behind the brown mold is easy. I allow creative manipulation of spells in my campaign with a succesful spellcraft checks. Dak was abble to shape Tensor's floating disk to have an edge and spout. This allowed him to scoop up the Brown mold in the Cairn and place it within a metal container.They are now using it to cool their cold storage section of their new basement within the old manager's offive. Marq has been busy burrowing new chambers for the group on his off time, and one of these has be come thier freezer.
Can Brown Mold be stored in Metal Containers, and for how long?
And they've been throwing in bread every so ofter, do you think it's enough to sustain the mold?As for the Water Elemental. When they encountered it, they were succesful at defeating it. But unknown to them, the creature had been reduced to 0 hps and was disapated within the water. Brother Gabriel was able to detect the undead future within the complex, so the group decided to pump out the chamber before going into combat.
After some very lucky rolls, they were able to acquire a foot action, mine pump from Dak's employer, Ellival Moonmeadow. They also aquired a large amout of piping and paided a pretty penny.
And so they sucked out the water, draining the room over the course of a day or so, to the point where the ghoul attacked them.
During the time they were pumping, the elemental regained concesious and was sucked through the tube. The Paladin detected...
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Well Brown mold requires heat to grow, but beyond that it should require almost no care or feeding. One can assume that a little dissolved soil would maintain it indefinately.
As for your water elemental, it seems you went a little crazy with the interpretive part ofyour campaign. At 0 HP, elementals don't dissapate or anything.
However, thats cool. I'd say that you assume that the water elemental got killed in the pumping and your garden was watered with magically-charged water. You know what that means?
Mudmen!
Yes, these classic DnD monsters are formed when magical mud/run-off collects in a single place. Ambient magical radiation from the Cairn and the dead elemental has created a ticking time bomb in the garden.
I'd prime the trap for a heavy rain. Then, when the garden turns muddy from the rain, have 2-3 mudmen rise and attack the nearby house. You can even give treasure for this encounter by having a rare or magical plant grow in the mud after the fight (your druid will be able to identify these as treasure).
Unfortunately, no one loves mudmen as much as me, so they are not statted up in 3.0/3.5. I'd recommend using the stats for Earth Elementals and replace the Push special attack with Improved Grapple.
That's why you've got Creature Catalogue:
www.enworld.org/cc/converted/elemental/mudman.htm