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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Lord Zardoz" data-source="post: 4025243" data-attributes="member: 704">My personal favoriteRocks fall.  Everyone dies.<a href="http://www.somethingpositive.net/sp05032002.shtml" target="_blank">http://www.somethingpositive.net/sp05032002.shtml</a>Now, if you do not think your players are up for that kind of ending, I suspect that you could have some fun by tweaking the scenario a bit.  Write out the artifact, go for a simple Prophecy.  "when freedoms child is born in chains, the The door to power shall open and the empire shall fall".  High priest type enacts his Evil Plan as noted, expecting that the resulting child will enable him to acquire some absurd amount of power and bring the Happy Human Empire to its knees.Due to a crappy translation, the prophecy really ought to read "if a child of freedom and tyranny is born and is permitted to draw breath, it will contravene the will of the gods.  This in turn will result in the reformation of Ultima Rex, the supreme power in the universe.  And then Ultima Rex will simply wreck up the place until the gods manage to unmake him.  Last time this took about 3 million years, and essentially destroyed the cosmos.  The gods can survive this, but they will kind of have to start over with the whole creation thing"Now, just let the players find out the truth, and then go ahead and let them try to stop it, knowing that the only way to prevent the end of the universe is to either kill a baby, or cause the evil priest to become a decent person, or to cause the good priest to become evil before the child is born.END COMMUNICATION</blockquote>

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