Upgrade your account to a Community Supporter account and remove most of the site ads.

Reply to thread

Message: <blockquote data-quote="Greenfield" data-source="post: 6255537" data-attributes="member: 6669384">HCL can only form if there's CL in the mix.  Seawater has it, fresh water doesn't.Geophysics and chemistry aside, I decided on another route for this one.They found that someone had apparently spent years inside the flume of the volcano, deep inside the mountain, chiseling out a shelf and narrow ledge all arount the perimeter of the opening, and then carving it with magic runes.  In essence, they turned the entire thing into a single magic item, one embued with the Rage spell.  Oddly, while many things are immune to mind affecting spells, magic items made with those same spells will work on them. <img src="https://cdn.jsdelivr.net/joypixels/assets/8.0/png/unicode/64/1f642.png" class="smilie smilie--emoji" loading="lazy" width="64" height="64" alt=":)" title="Smile    :)"  data-smilie="1"data-shortname=":)" />So the bad guys made the opening  giant "magic ring" to enrage the spirit of the volcano.And to stop it, the party had to blast their way through a few dozen feet of solid stone (just to get inside), peotect themselves from poison gas and horrible heat, fight through some guardians, then spend most of a day defacing the thing.  To deactivate it, they had to break the magic item.  Do you know how many hit points a volcanic rim has?  Particularly after its hardness and hit points have been enhanced by being enchanted?Yeah, takes time.The enemy will have to repair the damage then re-enchant it if they want it active.  Oh, and replace the guardians, of course.Plus, the PCs cast a couple of Forbiddance spells around the area, to make it hard for the opposition to even access it.And on that note, a Lyre of Building can chisel a lot of stone in a reasonable time frame, has no alignment, and isn't an extra-dimensional intruder. <img src="https://cdn.jsdelivr.net/joypixels/assets/8.0/png/unicode/64/1f642.png" class="smilie smilie--emoji" loading="lazy" width="64" height="64" alt=":)" title="Smile    :)"  data-smilie="1"data-shortname=":)" />At 300 man-days of work per half hour, it will be ready for re-enchantment in under two hours.  And with Rage being a fairly low level spell, the cost/time of the enchantment is fairly reasonable.</blockquote>

Verification