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Message: <blockquote data-quote="SethDrebitko" data-source="post: 5871714" data-attributes="member: 89074">Premise 1: My character is about to get the Awaken Sand spell.Premise 2: You're the DM.Scenario 1: PC travels to Celestia (we have Plane Shift available) and Awakens some sand from the beach there, which is heavenly in nature, and has been awash in holy water since time began?I'd make it an earth elemental with the celestial template that refused to leave the plane and became determined to be one of its eternal defenders.ORThe elemental would become essentially an inevitable of good.Scenario 2: PC travels to the banks of the River Styx, or someplace similarly associated with death, and Awakens some of the sand from the banks.<ol> <li data-xf-list-type="ol">The local ruler calls down the pain on the players as an act for taking some of its land.</li> <li data-xf-list-type="ol">The crazy evil chaotic fiendish earth elemental becomes a villain and tries to sprinkle grains of itself within places and people to corrupt them to itself...man I'm going to use this one specifically.</li> </ol>Scenario 3: PC travels to Hell and Awakens some of the sand from that place?<ol> <li data-xf-list-type="ol">The elemental knows its rightful place as the servant of the one who rules its level and becomes an eternal guardian.</li> <li data-xf-list-type="ol">The local ruler gets an awesome idea on how to make more loyal guards.</li> <li data-xf-list-type="ol">The ruler tries to gank the PC's to keep to keep the secret.</li> <li data-xf-list-type="ol">OR</li> <li data-xf-list-type="ol">The elemental realises itself as the only capable ruler of itself and hatches a plan to overthrow the local lord.</li> <li data-xf-list-type="ol">The local ruler tries to kill the pcs for being dicks.</li> </ol>Scenario 4: PC collects sand from several such sources and uses it to sculpt a form from wet sand, taking care about the placement of the sand, in terms of using Holy for the head and heart but Unholy for the limbs or extremeties, then Awakens the resultant form.The elemental is immensely confused and depressed about its overall purpose. It often has fits of rage killing entire towns but then suddenly will aid those in true need. In the end the elemental is destined to die a sad horrible death, and the players will feel like <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=":)" /><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=":)" /><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=":)" /><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=":)" /><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=":)" /><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=":)" /><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=":)" />s for causing it so much torment...thats not true they'll try again but use more good sand.</blockquote>

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