Advent Ghost #14: Mago Morto

Pat (@mountain_foot) has been taking my OSE statted ghosts and doing AD&D versions of them here on his Patreon over here: Foot of the Mountain Adventures AD&D stats of my Advent Ghost project. He offered a little assistance since I was dragging a little, and I said "sure" and was sent this entry. I'll come back around and just add some official OSE (and DCC) stats at a later point. Pat also did some awesome maps for the two adventures in the Forgotten Rites of the Moldering Dead by the way.

Mago Morto

(turned as Type 3)

Frequency: Rare 

No. Encountered: 1 

Size: M

Move: 120’

Armour Class: 9 

Hit Dice:  3-5

Attacks: 1

Damage: 1d4

Special Attacks: spell casting

Special Defences: Can only be hit by magical weapons, immune to mind-affecting spells like Charm, Sleep, etc.

Magic Resistance: Nil 

Lair Probability: 40%

Intelligence: High-Genius

Alignment: Neutral

Level/XP: varies

Name: AC 9; MV 120”; HD 3-5; hp 3-40; THAC0 17-15; #AT 1; D 1d4; SA spell casting as a 4-6 level Magic-user or Illusionist; SD Can only be hit by magical weapons, immune to mind-affecting spells like Charm, Sleep, etc.; SZ M;  Int High-Genius; AL Neutral; XP varies

Occasionally a magic-using adventurer will survive the rest of their party, only to die alone (and often in hiding) in a dungeon. (Roll a d10, on a 1-7 the mago morto will be a magic-user, on an 8-10 an illusionist.)

Their spirits remain, able to cast spells, paranoid, and defending their remains. They appear as a translucent image of themselves as they died. Their isolation and undeath leave them perceiving anyone encountered as monsters and they will attack calling for the “monsters” to die, or surrender. If the PCs attempt to parley, they may break through the mago morto’s misperception.

The ghost wants to have their remains (and treasure) taken to their heirs.  There is a 25% chance that those heirs are long dead.  If the party is able to fulfill the mago morto’s desire, it will inscribe a spell onto a scroll. This act will consume the last of its lifeforce and it will fade into the afterlife when the scroll is complete.