I wrote previously about using puzzles and about playground rooms. This is another playground room for fantasy heroes to explore. I used a basic version of this in the Spirit Maze predicament.

The Temple Ruins

There are two sheets of parchment, a quill pen, and a corked ink pot on a table. The ink in the ink pot is dry an unusable, but adding water or other liquid to it will make it usable.

The ink is ink of praise; anything written with the ink will be sung by spirits of the place in the voices of the long-lost monks (that’s you, GM). There is only enough ink for 8 simple sentences or roughly 32 words.

Variations

Later in the dungeon, the heroes learn that the trapped gate to the treasure vault may be broken open only with great difficulty and peril or it may be opened very simply by speaking the name of its creator Xichny’alchulyscw, but this must be pronounced correctly. This is quite easy for the spirits of the monks, if it is written down with the ink of praise, but virtually impossible for the heroes. So… good luck if you used up all the ink making the GM sing about farts.