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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Dannyalcatraz" data-source="post: 4974334" data-attributes="member: 19675">When I read this thread, I was reminded of a couple of things...Ever read any Douglas Adams?In one of his non-Hitchhiker's Guide books, one of the characters was the God of Rain...and didn't know it.  Wherever he went, the rain followed.  He had never, ever seen a sunny day.In some of the text, the clouds were anthropomorphized- they were described as being blissfully in love with him and wanting to share their rain with him, etc.  Hilarious stuff!There is also "The Rain King" episode of X-Files, in which one character's moods affect the weather.That said, one of the things that struck me about your campaign scenario is that weeks of torrential rain would essentially scour the land of life, either by flood or erosion or both.Perhaps, instead the rain has varying intensities, ranging from thunderstorm to a faint misty drizzle.  The intensity of the rain brought by the Orb varies due to some condition in the environment- someone's moods, someone's unsuspected divine/arcane nature, a ley-line flare, resonance with another magic item (possibly of the same kind), the stirrings of some local nature spirit that has been dormant for some time, or even the flickering weakness  of a failing barrier between the Prime Material and an extradimensional prison housing some uncaring quasi-demonic Outsider who is linked to the destructive power of weather & water (an Elemental Prince?  Something from the Far Realms?).If its that last one, perhaps the "fixer" failed deliberately- IOW, sabotaged the Orb- in order to free his master...and actually murdered the Wizard who owned it.</blockquote>

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