It’s the end of the year and I managed to do one last, albeit small and insignificant thing, before the clock strikes twelve: an entry to the Onegeon Game Jam.
Pool of the Hydra
A fifty-headed hydra lives in the pool. It is hostile, except to the priestesses of Libuwho bear sacred water in silver evers to fill the pool.
Twice a year, the sun appears directly above the pool. At this time, the High Priestess performs a ceremony that allows a chosen, if any, to pass into the pool, unharmed by the hydra, and cross into the Underworld. They have until midnight of that night to return.
The accumulated litter at the bottom of the pool constitutes a significant hoard. However, the water is perilous— a strong current pulls downwards towards the center where, at the bottom of the pool, is a maelstrom that connects the pool to the elemental plane of water.