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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Raven Crowking" data-source="post: 3616744" data-attributes="member: 18280">Don't forget, then, to have the magic item fail the day after the warantee is up.   <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" /> "You face the ruins of fabled Shanthopal, where once long ago magical artisans create many strange and wondrous things.  Then, one day, a race of blue-skinned giants set up shop.  Calling themselves the Arcane, they opened a MagicMart.  All who entered their doors were greeted by a lowly kobold worker, who had but a few coppers in his pouch.  Soon, the Arcane MagicMart was able to undercut the local artisans.  Folk flocked to the MagicMart to save a silver piece or two.  But, Lo!  That money they saved put the magical artisans out of business, and it was the magical artisans who supplied the gold to the coffers of the Prince, and who brought traders from far and wide.  "While the MagicMart brought traders as well, the money they spent was taken far away, and to strange places, by the Arcane.  When the Prince tried to tax the MagicMart, the Arcane threatened to remove Shanthopal's only remaining industry.  At long last, the townsfolk who had, through poverty, agreed to work at a kobold's wages sought to band together, and by so doing force the Arcane to give tnem better pay and benefits."But the Arcane were not deterred.  They simply closed that MagicMart, and opened a new one a thousand leagues away, where the ruins of another city now sprawl."And so it came to pass that once-shining Shanthopal fell into decay, and then ruin.  Still, hardy bands of adventurers stop here from time to time, to search the streets and the once-stocked aisles of the MagicMart for what may by chance have been left behind, and to struggle with the kobolds and debased humans who now make the ruins their home."Your party has assembled on the outskirts of the ruined city.  You hope that, through courage, intelligence, and luck, you may yet roll back a profit from this once-proud place."</blockquote>

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