You crack open the beholder and find scrolls.

[xnosipjpqmhd]

If they looked like normal, if weird smelling candles, I could see a cultist keeping candles and supplies in the bathroom. Easy to clean up circles of blood or whatnot. People are used to weird smells. Lots of water available. Some people keep candles in their bathrooms.

It's not so much that there were candles in the bathroom (or even that there were magic candles in the bathroom, necessarily)... it was just the complete feeling of randomness to it made the discovery anti-climactic. Almost as if no matter where we were, the macguffin artefact we needed to continue the story would've been found there. We thought we'd need to do more, you know, find a secret compartment, solve a riddle, something...

To this day we use the terms "magic candles in the bathroom" to mean "an important and powerful item is being conveniently handed to the players without much work being done because the GM wants the game to progress." ;-)

ironregime

 

[MummyKitty]

Note to self: move magic candles out of the bathroom.