Puzzle Generator
The party arrives into a room that is about 20’ wide in all directions. It is dark, made of stone walls, floors and there is an unlit brazier up against the entrance wall near the door. There look to be randomly constructed shelves or alcoves that are about 5’ deep, protruding from both the left and right walls.
There is a statue of a man in the middle who looks to be wearing heavy armor. He is looking directly at a statue of a Basilisk who is standing in one of the alcoves on the wall. There is a necklace of keys around his neck.
If the party can block his gaze to the basilisk, he’ll turn into himself again. He will tell the party to get out, to abandon their pursuit of what lays in this dungeon, and then he will die of shock and trauma. His keys will work on the door.
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There is a shallow water well with stone walls in a small round room, only one way in, the room is about 10-15 feet across. At the far side of the well, a stone statue stands with one arm raised in a fist, index finger pointing to the ground. The other hand holds a tablet with runes translating to: 'Be humbled, trespasser... you believe your destination is beneath you but you mustn't miss the point.' In the water, about 2 feet down, a metal gauntlet hovers magically, glowing blue in the clear water, fingers outstretched toward the statue. The gauntlet is immovable unless worn. The water level rests 1.5 feet above the gauntlet.
The door mechanism is activated by placing a hand in the gauntlet. Once a hand is placed into the gauntlet, and any motion is made with the hand or fingers, it rotates freely in 360 degrees, but clasps the wrist of the wearer, unable to remove their hand. The floor of the well starts mechanically dropping and filling with water, pulling the gauntlet and the wearer with it. The wearer must solve the door puzzle before drowning.
The wearer must mimic the hand gesture of the statue, pointing down. The clue is in the runes. The hand gesture activates the door, which stops the flow of water, reverses bottom of the well, releases the hand of the wearer, and then starts to drop the floor of the entire room, well included, into another room below. The entire room acts as the point of entry.
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