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World war 1 hospital · Large · Level 5 · Medium

Whistle Ward

A green lamp burns beyond the triage desk, and the handbell rings by itself.
Rooms
24
Foes
35, CR 1/8 to 5
Traps
2
Treasure
1,683 gp
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The party is in

1. Triage Hall

Seen

Something wanders by

At a glance

The threat

Surgeon-Major Varkel, now an undead commander, rules the deepest operating theater in room 19.

Wandering monsters (1d3)

  1. 1

    1d4× Night OrderliesCR 1

    When: Every 30 minutes, or when a character rings a bell or makes loud noise in a corridor.A patrol of dead hospital orderlies dragging a squealing supply cart.
  2. 2

    Bottle NurseCR 2

    When: When a character takes healing supplies from an unattended ward.A drifting specter in a nurse's veil, its hands full of empty medicine bottles.
  3. 3

    1d2× Corridor SentriesCR 1

    When: When the party spends more than ten minutes in one room or forces a locked door.A pair of skeletal sentries with helmets and bayonets, marching shoulder to shoulder.

Rooms

24
1

Triage Hall

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What they see

Read aloud

A cracked sign points toward triage, its painted arrows crowded by layers of later orders. A handbell on the reception desk rings once when anyone enters.

Features

  • Triage desk with damp intake cards
  • Green emergency lamp
  • Four exits lead into the upper wards

What the GM knows

Treasure

Triage Pouch25 gp

A medical pouch containing two healer's kits and a silver service badge.
Room secrets · GM only

Notes

The north and west doors are locked; picking either requires thieves' tools and a Dexterity check. The bell alerts room 4 after one minute.

1 door: N (normal)

The place

What it is

The Whistle Ward is a buried military hospital whose tiled corridors descend into sealed operating sanctums.

Atmosphere

The upper wards smell of carbolic, wet wool, and old smoke; deeper rooms carry a coppery blood scent.

The threat

Surgeon-Major Varkel, now an undead commander, rules the deepest operating theater in room 19.

History

Military engineers built the hospital during a grinding border war, excavating beneath an older infirmary whose name had worn down into the local word Whistle.

Rumors

1d4
Roll a rumor

  1. 1A green lamp shines under the hill on nights when distant guns are heard.
  2. 2The old hospital's pipes carry the voices of soldiers who have been dead for a hundred years.
  3. 3A brass whistle can make the dead stop moving, though nobody who tried it came back to prove it.
  4. 4The ward's surgeon was buried alive beneath the operating theater, still holding his instruments.

Plot hooks

3
InvestigationThe Name on the TagA patrol returned from the old front with a soldier's dog tag bearing the name of a relative who supposedly died decades ago. The party is asked to recover the matching medical record from the ward.From: A worried quartermaster from the nearby garrisonReward: A serviceable suit of half plate and a sealed letter from the missing soldier
Undead threatWater from the WardA village well has begun producing antiseptic-smelling water, and the dead are rising in its cemetery. The source appears to be a drainage channel beneath the hospital.From: The village gravediggerReward: A healer's kit that regains its supplies each dawn for seven days
RetrievalThe Missing LedgerA collector offers payment for the hospital's casualty ledger, which may prove that a celebrated general ordered the forbidden experiments.From: A discreet historianReward: A purse of 250 gp and a potion of greater healing

Corridors

3

  • Between rooms 0 and 1

    A speaking tube carries faint orders in a dead language whenever a door slams.

  • Between rooms 6 and 10

    Rusting stretchers are chained to the wall; one bears fresh handprints in dust.

  • Between rooms 14 and 15

    A line of cracked porcelain washbasins fills with dark water when the nearby shrines are disturbed.

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