The Staff Of Re-Configuration. A campaign ending Magic Item.
The Staff Of Re-Configuration
Many of our earliest one-shots centered around this terrifying Artifact. The Staff was eventually dropped from the Campaign as it progressed.
Within the esoteric orders of the 18 Arahants of The Metal Mountains, it is taught that PRAXIS once wielded a mighty bio-mechanical staff, formed from the enlightened sentience of fictional metal. More powerful than all the gods. It was the power and knowledge contained within this staff that allowed him to overcome and consume the lesser deities. But the staff was lost to PRAXIS after his ascension and transmutation into the Ultimate.
The staff would later be found by an ancient alien race. It's power explored, it's wisdom corrupted and lesser versions of it's design re-created. Thus giving rise to the powerful and destructive devices known as Ruathian. Devices that the Delnoch, the creators, would eventually lock their sentience into to prevent the coming extinction of their race.
The Staff and it's potential Campaign ending effects can be accessed by any Archanic who both wields it and is attuned to it.
When activated the rings on this device start to whirl, configuring themselves into various geometrical shapes, tearing open the very fabrics of reality.
d6 Results
1. 1st Configuration Spawning Of a Primordial Guardian
2. 2nd Configuration Distant Shores, Tides of shadow
3. 3rd Configuration Preservation in the color purple
4. 4th Configuration Discourse of a Dying Star
5. 5th Configuration Moon Rose, drop of life
6. 6th Configuration Gateway of the thousand armed
Servitor
1. The Arcanics body enlarges to titanic proportions, ripping apart giving birth to the spawning of a Primordial Being from the depths of emptiness. All attacks against the party suffer -4 for the remainder of the combat. Afterwards the Primordial being dissipates back within the re-combining body of the Archanic healing him.
2. A deafening sound as if fabric tearing is heard causing all orifices to bleed. The tearing has torn open a breach into the realm of shadow pouring it's vast tidal ocean into this realm. The world is drowned in 30ft of shadow. Those that survive the tides of shadow stand sentry to the vast horrors that now emerge from it. The PC's included.
3. Each party member is turned into hardened purple, gelatinous like substance. All bodily systems go into hibernation preserving the life force. The effects end after 10 years. Those that approach the stasised party hear the sounds of a heavenly orchestras and witness purple halos above their heads. Some even worshipping them as Saints.
4. A total eclipse occurs plunging a triad of dying stars towards the casters location. As the stars break the atmosphere the secrets of their untold power are communicated for all to hear through a chanted discourse that expands the limitations of the mind. Giving witness to the true power of consciousness. Know that your life has not been it waste for your mind has been liberated. All PC's attack each other until only one stands.
5. Untold beauty that brings tears of bliss and devotion forms in a sky glimmering gold, giving formation to a 5th dimensional geometrical shape that resembles a flower. It's dew rains down on the party restoring all to full health and granting an additional point to constitution and a permanent 6 HP increase.
6. The ground shakes, and the very earth itself wrenches in fear as its torn apart for a 100 miles lying waste to all within it's path. A 1000 arms that blot out the sun embrace all in their path. Thrust forth grasping and swallowing at everything as though as a mere appetizer for the untold hunger that desires to share the secrets of the great below. Cities crumble and great civilizations fall. All captured in the Servitors grip, pulled down into the deepest darks of the fathomless depths. Know that their was pain in these events.
All PC's must pass a saving throw or they too fall into the grip of the 1000 Armed Servitor never to be seen again......
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