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Message: <blockquote data-quote="BlackMoria" data-source="post: 723709" data-attributes="member: 424">Party was going through the Return to White Plume Mountain.  Party goes into room with 8 magic windows (artifact level items) that looks into the heart of a volcano.  Party had run in with a major evil bad guy with two magma elementals and other minions.  All of the party except the wizard get 'subsumed' by the power of Keraptis.So wizard find himself fighting a evil bad guy, some evil minion gnome and drow and the rest of the party (the two magma elementals were destroyed in the battle).  Realizing he had no chance of survival, the wizard gambled on at least restoring his fellow party members to his side and level the playing field by casting a Mordenkain Disjunction from a scroll.Players were upset as item after item failed the saving throw.  While the resolution of the spell was wrapping up, some wag mentioned that it was a good thing the windows had saved.  DM:  Windows?  What?  oh......right, yes.  I had better check on that.  <checks spell description>  50% chance of artifact level items being disrupted.Silence.   Everyone looks at everyone else with the 'I think we going to get pumped up the rear' look.Me:  Oh.... my........godResult:  Four windows fail.  20d6 damage per round.....no end duration.  All of White Plume Mountain levels that are at or below magma level fill with lava, which is 3/4 of the dungeon.Bad news.....everyone dies.  TPK.   Good new.....we stopped Keraptis (the BBEG was below magma level)  <img src="https://cdn.jsdelivr.net/joypixels/assets/8.0/png/unicode/64/1f600.png" class="smilie smilie--emoji" loading="lazy" width="64" height="64" alt=":D" title="Big grin    :D"  data-smilie="8"data-shortname=":D" /></blockquote>

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