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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Psion" data-source="post: 1252676" data-attributes="member: 172">Anyaways, onto artifact stories.Inspired by the Rhinegold myth, I made a cursed gold in my game called the faegold. Extremely potent magic, but cursed.A fallen solar who fell because of his lust for gold was cursed by his god to never be able to near gold again... all gold in the vicinity turned to lead.Except, you guessed it, the faegold.So when some hapless PCs release him from his prison, he goes about gathering all the faegold (by means of geasing the PCs...).Long story short, the PCs of the time manage to slay the solar (with the help of a sorceress with ulterior motives). But they never deal with the faegold.Years later, a powerful wizard possessed by a lovecraftian entity gathers the faegold and forges it into a staff that can be used to cause cataclysms. A later group of PCs destroys the wizard in a cataclysm that causes destruction for hundreds of miles.But, guess what - artifacts aren't easily destroyed, and the faegold staff is no exception. A third group of PCs stumble onto the fact that the staff has been recovered by an enemy empire, or rather, its leading priesthood. The head priest starts a ritual with the staff that will basically involve calling down a comet on the world, sacrificing the world so that his deity can shift a plane of frozen ancient (pre-baatezu) devils to his own and take control of them in his mad quest for power.My intent at this point was that the PCs would have to seek out the one woman who could wield the one sword that can destroy the faegold staff to prevent the cataclysm.But you can't really predict what PCs are going to do, can you. The PCs had a deck of cards that let them jaunt about a number of places, opening gates to other worlds. So they start chucking cards at the staff until it gets pulled into another plane, the elemental plane of water to be exact.So the destruction of the world was abated, but it probably caused some cataclysms on the watery plane where it went. You can bet this is a bit of backstory that I have been waiting to use.</blockquote>

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