The Verdant Vault of Malakum

The Verdant Vault of Malakum is An OSRIC(tm) module designed for 4-6 adventures of levels 8-10. Well over 2,000 years ago, Malakum ruled his jungle kingdom with a stern hand and possessed a pitiless, cruel nature. He enjoyed performing magical experiments on his own people in which he grafted onto their bodies various plant parts, in most cases killing his victims outright and at other times producing hybrid abominations. It was therefore no surprise that Malakum’s people tired of his harsh rule and mounted a rebellion, assassinating him and almost all his advisers virtually overnight. Fortunately for Malakum, his tomb had been completed several years before his death. Immediately after the mage-king’s demise a few surviving members of his priesthood smuggled his body out of the palace for internment and placed Malakum’s mummy in his tomb. Their grisly task done, the priests fled into the jungle and the tomb of Malakum has remained inviolate all these centuries…