01-21-2014, 09:17 PM | #21 |
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Re: Treasure from the Sheikh of the Grinning Skull Oasis
Salts of Hospitality: Exceptionally pure, but otherwise identical to normal salt, this seasoning afflicts the consumer with the Lesser Geas spell. Specifically, the consumer must abide by traditions of hospitality for the duration of a visit (typically not harming, siding against, disgracing or betraying the hosts confidence). This item originates in cultures were offering of salt is a sign of accepting the host/guest bond, and in those cultures a significant resistance penalty applies to those who accept food or water seasoned with the salts, as their participation in the ritual opens them mentally. While there is no compulsion on the host, if the host breaches hospitality himself, the guest is, by the traditions of hospitality, released from obligation. This does not "break" the geas, but would count as having completed its scope.
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01-21-2014, 09:18 PM | #22 |
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Re: Treasure from the Sheikh of the Grinning Skull Oasis
Venom of Wadd: Wadd, as patron of snakes, has the most potent venom. When a single drop of this translucent bluish fluid is placed in whine, it acts as a potion of Friendship.
Sand of Oblivion: Tossing this black sand upon an enemy causes them to whither and disintegrate. If enough is used, all that's left is a pile of ashen powder.
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01-21-2014, 09:27 PM | #23 |
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Re: Treasure from the Sheikh of the Grinning Skull Oasis
Oh, perfect. Not very well something you can leave lying around, but what can you do with it? I suppose it should be indestructible. Or, if it's destroyed while charged, all the lions in the desert get a taste for the target's blood. Hehe. Yeah. Hunted by men or beasts? Your choice. I suppose you could hide it away, pray nobody ever finds it, live the rest of your days in fear - but I suppose you're going to do that anyway, and why not be a coward? Haha.
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01-21-2014, 10:02 PM | #24 |
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Very good.
Unquestionably something Abu Jafar would make using his Herbalism and Quick and Dirty enchantment. Do you imagine that it is something they found in old ruins, stole through raiding or something constructed by Al-Warrakh or Abu Jafar? Sounds like a useful scouting item and well within Al-Warrakh's scope to enchant. Quote:
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If it was made by a dark genie, demonic power or some unholy servant of a wicked deity, however, that doesn't necessarily apply. In that case, it would be able to 'see' through all known illusions, scryguard, scryfool and similar spells.
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At least one of whom is unaccounted for... I think I'll put a limitation on the duration of the Winged Flight. Most of the PCs have Boots of Dragonflight, constructed from the remains of a Great Red Dragon they slew by the Red Wizards, and those allow up to eight hours of Flight per day or two hours of Hawk Flight, in any combination (with time in Hawk Flight counting as x4 for the purposes of expending Flight time). I guess the Vulture Cloak would just grant Flight, but the lesser Cloaks might grant at least four hours and the greater one could, I suppose, be limited only by the wearer's stamina. Quote:
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Side-effects more like than a taste of carrion, as such, would be a need to slay something regularly for no other reason than to dedicate its death to the Lord of Murder and/or Compulsive Lying, Jealousy or Delusions about the supremacy of Cyric and the falseness of all other gods.
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Sheikh Jarir is likely to keep this where he can offer it to favoured guests. Most 'guests', of course, do not receive the kind of treatment at his hands that there would be any point to giving them bread and salt, but he was a most inconsistent and temperamental man; sometimes struck with wild impulses of generousity and honour. He would certainly have fed salt to Salif Kwal, for example.
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01-22-2014, 06:55 AM | #28 |
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Hmm... that also sounds appropriate.
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In this corner of the world, Abu Jafar was feared, but he was only about equal in power to Esarheddon Fireheart of the Enclave, the friendly wizard the PCs have with them, and he's decidedly inferior to some of their wizardly and priestly allies back in Unther and Thay.
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