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Message: <blockquote data-quote="RUMBLETiGER" data-source="post: 5760040" data-attributes="member: 6674868">I bit more complicated than I was originally going for, but I think I like it!I hadn't thought to come up with a back story for why/how a dangerous mineral became imbedded into stone in the first place, or how Aberrations came to live amung it. "A demon did it" is as interesting or more so than "A wizard did it".I can do something with a variation of your idea. How did a deposit of a reactive element become imbedded into the ground? How did creatures end up living there? Planar shifts of the environment overlapping another environment sounds like a suitible answer. If I want to draw from a dangerous environment, a layer of The Abyss would be as good an explaination as any. a Demon banished along with a portion of his plane, perhaps the miles-long vein was a chunk of environment passed through a Gate spell. The demon prince, broken, trapped in the Material Plane under layers of earth, until eons of wear broke into his prison. Connect the Psionic Sinews to his remains somehow. Perhaps a series of Gate spells had been opened on his Abyssal layer and the demon was blasted towards it, the Gates sheared off a portion of his body along with miles of the landscape, plunging each extended cylinder of Potostone along with body parts to other planes. The Psionic Sinews are remains of his shreaded body that have taken up a weak sentience, trying to grow.Could be a fun twist. All the same, I don't really need this extended back story in order to have the mini-quest of the aqusition of Psionic Sinews. I just need a situation that makes for a 1 afternoon sit down adventure for my players. If it opens the opportunity to spawn a plot twist down the road, even better. But all I need is to know if a rock that blows up in water would work the way I was asking.</blockquote>

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