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Tuesday, January 22, 2019

Loot of Lost City 7

Here is the loot from last session.


The PCs took home a hundred pounds or so of copper coin, at 250 coins to the pound, and $0.10 per coin.

They also found some jewelry, a ruby, and some other salable goods that came out to around 800 sp worth apiece.

The "special" stuff they found was:

- a Greater Healing Potion

- an Ebony Death Goddess - a statuette that summons/turns into one of these.* The PCs are already calling it Kali, who traditionally has four arms or eight plus, not six, at least not as I've usually seen her depicted.

- an Oil of Puissance

- Hjalmar's old, stolen silver small machete.

- a one-shot Luck amulet.

- a scroll.

The scroll was on snake-skin. Maybe. It's like snake-skin but not quite.

Lucky for Felix, Dryst insisted on using Analyze Magic on the scroll and rolled very well. It's cursed - any who read it becomes a snake-man.

That caused an uproar.

Bruce wants it, because he wants to change from human to - ahem - "snerson," which he insists is the correct way to describe snake-persons.

Gerry wants to use it on one of his skeletons, so he'll have a snake-man skeleton.

Someone suggested casting Gift of Letters on a captured orc, making him read it, killing him, and then using Zombie to get, eventually, a skeleton snake-man for Gerry.

Other people want to sell it.

Wyatt wanted to give it to the church to destroy, hopefully to build up some credit for having done good deeds. (I shot that down - the Church has no official negative position on wizards booby trapping magic items, only on evil/unholy items. They condemn sin and lawbreaking, Church law especially so, but don't adjudicate all magical conflicts or uses of magic.)

Right now, someone has it. I'm not sure who. Ditto with everything else. They sorted it out.



* A couple of the players had one of these in my last big GURPS campaign. I still have the mini, so naturally I resurrected the concept.**

** Hopefully this won't become a nuke. You know, "Let's just use the Ebony Death Goddess and win this whole fight!" or "We'll throw in the Ebony Death Goddess, lock the door, and then open it after she's killed all of the enemies!" It's not that powerful, merely very useful.

5 comments:

  1. It would have been somewhat tragic but also funny as hell if Felix had read that scroll, given that he finds snakes revolting and thinks that they are secret evil masterminds...snake persons doubly so. He'd have a lot of self-loathing if he turned into a snake person, or "Snaerson."

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    1. That would have been "I have a full-on Phobia now" worthy event.

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  2. I have a four armed celestial holy warrior if death, a descendant of a servitor of Kali in one of my groups. She just uses a spear that is pussiant vs demons and has handy charms like steal HT and eviscerate so she can eat their hearts.

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  3. I used a 6-armed "snerson" stone golem once. It did glorious things until the party ultimately beat it down with good tactics.

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