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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Wofano Wotanto" data-source="post: 9343143" data-attributes="member: 7044704">I did a week of system-agnostic fantasy posts with nautical themes on my blog about three years back.  Most of them don't seem like they'd fit here very well, but take a look at the <a href="https://sanctumreconditesage.blogspot.com/2021/05/seven-days-at-sea-ring-of-sea-spouse.html" target="_blank">Ring of the Sea-Spouse</a> post.  You might find temple staff or visitors wearing one, but it would be more interesting if one or more worshippers who's currently stuck as an odd-looking fish were swimming around the place while awaiting an opportunity to get polymorphed back into humanoid form to avoid getting dinged by the penalty for "drowning" as a fish.  They could act as a surprise obstacle, either sounding an alarm by (say) leaping out of the water to slap a gong, or hurling themselves onto dry land and flopping around until they "die" and revive as a humanoid who coughs up a ring as they do so.  They'll come back with whatever they were carrying/wearing when they drowned the first time, so may not be well armed but armor and a sheathed backup weapon are quite possible, even likely.Add a bit of flavorful background weirdness, anyway.Of the other posts in that blog series the <a href="https://sanctumreconditesage.blogspot.com/2021/05/seven-days-at-sea-shipwreck-compass.html" target="_blank">Shipwreck Compass</a> might be the most interesting here.  The temple pool might or might not confuse the compass like a coastal swamp, but if it imprints on the inland pool it will point to the nearest wreck as usual.  That might guide the bearer to some long-forgotten (and possibly buried) hulk far inland from any modern sea, or to a crashed spelljammer on some mountain top, or to a wreck in some weird pocket dimension that's tangled up with the temple's own magic, or maybe there's a ship in some secret temple vault that was ritually "wrecked" here to establish the pool-gate in the first place, and messing with it de-consecrates the place (to everyone's annoyance).  So maybe worth trying to sneak in and dip in the pool to see what happens as long as you're doing a B&E job anyway?</blockquote>

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