Pain Vault - Traps

Pain Vault
Trap
Level 20 Warder
XP 2800

This highly complicated vault's lock looks like it's a pain to pick . . . and it is, in more ways than one.

Trap: This complex lock takes a skill challenge to unlock, and each wrong move has dire consequences for those attempting to open it as well as those nearby.Perception✦     No check is necessary to notice that this is a complicated vault-style lock, with numerous devices that need to be picked or disabled before the door can be opened.✦     DC 22: The character notices that some of the lock's devices are adorned with magical runes.Thievery✦     DC 22: Six separate locks need to be disabled in the right order before the door can be opened.Arcana✦     DC 27: Once the runes are spotted, they can be identified as Abyssal symbols of pain, terror, and death.TriggerThe trap is a complexity 2 skill challenge (6 successes before 3 failures) that requires a DC 22 Thievery check for each success. With each failed check, the trap makes the following attack. Each attempt to disable a lock takes a standard action. With each success or failure, another attempt to disable a lock must be made before the end of the attempting creature's next turn, or a failure in the challenge is accrued. On the third failure all the locks reset, requiring the skill challenge to be performed anew, but ending the immediate threat.Attack * Necrotic, PsychicImmediate Reaction      Close blast 5
Target: Each creature in blastAttack: +21 vs. FortitudeHit: 2d6 + 7 necrotic damage, and the target takes ongoing 10 psychic damage and a –2 penalty to ability checks and skill checks (save ends both).Countermeasures✦     Arcana DC 22: A character can ready a standard action to make a check when someone fails a Thievery check during the skill challenge to open the pain vault. On a successful Arcana check, the failure in the challenge is still accrued, but the succeeding character negates the blast attack.
✦     The lock has AC 20, Reflex 20, Fortitude 25, and hp 400. If it is destroyed, the trap is disabled.

Published in Dungeon Master's Guide 2, page(s) 72.