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| == Banewarrens (8-10) ==
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| See [[Dissolution Notes Banewarrens]]
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| == The Malady (10-12) ==
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| See [[Dissolution Notes Malady]]
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| {{ #ifeq: {{CURRENTUSER}} | Wordman |
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| == Goth Gulgamel (12-14) ==
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| === Aggah-Shan's Journals ===
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| In the final room of the White House catacombs is Aggah-Shan's main living quarters. It is filled with research, concealed as the ledgers of the White House. (This is an elaborate head fake. The idea is that using the ledgers explains why there is tight security around them, but doesn't call attention to their true contents.) Centuries of ledgers are held in a shelf in the final room. In one of them is a bookmark made of lead covered in runes. When placed in one of the books, the pages "turn inside out" and reveal [[Aggah-Shan's journals]]. It is long reading, but contains the following:
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| * He knows that Praemal is a prison. Originally a good wizard, he sought ways to break the prison open. His obsession drove him to more and more extreme acts, turning him evil and, ultimately led to his seeking of lichhood. It wasn't until becoming a lich that he learned ''why'' Praemal is a prison.
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| * Details for the design of chaos machine
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| * References to the Fallen, the Dark Reliquary and Lilith. Mention of the powerful demons on the surface, but fairly lax security underneath. Need to plant seeds for future here.
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| * A lot of information about Goth Gulgamel, including a plan to penetrate it.
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| * Details of getting the Banewarrens key from House Vladim.
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| * Details of the three artifacts he wanted from the Banewarrens. Enough description such that locate object might work on the ''osseous redoubt''.
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| * Design of his phylactery (enough for locate object, even though that won't work).
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| * Hints in books leads to Goth Gulgamel, where Aggah-Shan has taken up residence, with the malady case.
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| === Hit on the Knights of the Pale ===
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| Even from within the Dark Reliquary, Lilith realizes that the Malady presents some unique opportunities, opportunities the Raguel would neither recognize nor sanction. She has thrown together a number of quick projects to take advantage of the chaos. Top of the list involves a strike to destroy some historical foes, the Knights of the Pale. Though she has long worked at crippling the organization with stealth and subterfuge, the Malady provides a chance to use brute force instead. With the Knights spread thin helping to protect people from the shambling hordes, their headquarters, Bladechapel, is largely undefended. Coincidentally, this happens to come at a time where a prior effort had just bore fruit.
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| During the Vallis Moon fiasco, the Knights captured an ally of the Dark Reliquary, a fiendish stone giant, attempting to convert an abandoned building in the Temple District into a temple to Ochremeshk. The Knights have imprisoned this giant in Bladechapel, interrogating him about his plans. Shortly after, Lilith heard that one of the servants in Bladechapel was cheating on his wife with a chaos cultist and, from this servant, information about the building was extracted. Lilith sent an imp to try to penetrate the building. It managed to get into the catacombs beneath it, but couldn't find where the giant was being held. It did, however, manage to overhear the password to the building's ''[[pfsrd-spell:f/forbiddance|forbiddance]]'' spell: "Lothian". Speaking this word on entry allows one to avoid damage (though teleportation is still prevented).
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| Now that the Malady is running rampant, Lilith has assembled a group of demons, dæmons and devils to attack Bladechapel. They have several goals:
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| * Make it clear to everyone that the Knights can't protect the people who have taken shelter from the Malady there.
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| * Kill as many knights as possible.
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| * Corrupt the temple to Lothian.
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| * Break into the armory and steal or destroy ''holy'' and ''outsider bane'' weapons.
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| * Dismantle the chamber in the armory known to be able to destroy chaositech and other chaotic magic.
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| * Rescue the stone giant.
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| * Replace the drain plug on the personal bathtub of Dierna Hillerchaun with one on which is inscribed with a permanent ''[[pfsrd-spell:s/symbol-of-insanity|symbol of insanity]]'' which triggers any time it gets wet or is read.
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| * Destroy as much of the house as possible.
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| To that end:
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| * 2 Hezrou - property damage
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| * Shadow Demon - plant the symbol of pain
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| * Bearded Devil - go where needed
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| * Barbed Devil - go where needed
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| * 2 Carnage daemon - kill and terrorize civilians.
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| * 3 Mezzololth - corrupt temple
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| * 2 Babau: Go after weapons
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| * Imp: Led demons in. Necklace of fireballs.
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| * Fomorian Painbringer - wants to rescue prisoner? Open vault.
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| * Rhodintor (Sarycal) - destroy the anti-chaositech machine
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| * Stone Giant - prisoner?
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| === The Pactlords of the Quaan ===
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| Two events related to the return (and later disappearance) of the Vallis moon have jolted the Pactlords of the Quaan into action. The first was the opening of the Banewarrens and subsequent location of (but failure to retrieve) the ''black grail''. The second was failure of the magic powering several potent traps within a section of Ghul's Labyrinth, leading to the Pact's discovery of the mural room allowing teleportation into Goth Gulgamel (see ''Ptolus'', pg. 421).
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| The primary backer of the mission into the Banewarrens, a scylla named Iariono, took a massive hit to her credibility and power within the Pact. Further, the death of the beholder leading the mission has left a power vacuum which ambitious pactlords are rushing to fill. As this struggle plays out, loyalties are shifting, old scores are being settled and the Pact in general is in turmoil.
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| Meanwhile, having long sought a way into that particular section of Ghul's Labyrinth, a high ranking pactlord named Dronnmos (an advanced neothelid) discovered the mural room, and has since centered his operations around it. When the reports of the scouts sent into Goth Gulgamel reached Dronnmos, Iariono and several other pactlords, a mad dash erupted to get boots on the ground within the fortress.
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| Iariono largely won this race, tapping a gug priest of the demon-god Ochremeshk named Quiral to lead blood troll and hellfire giant members of his flock into the fortress to secure it and begin explorations of the Utterdark with the help of a moon-beast. At least, that is the story told to the rest of the Pact. Iariono is really hoping to find the ''staff of the magi'' floating in some detached room within the Utterdark. Also part of this mission is Vendarlik, the only survivor of the Banewarrens mission. Knowing the location of where the ''black grail'' was within the Spire relative to the apparent position of Goth Gulgamel, the mind flayer believes that it may be possible to get back to the ''grail'' from within the fortress. Vendarlik has enlisted the aid of Chrindurn, an intellect devourer, whose blindsense allows it to "see" in the Utterdark. Chrindurn has already stolen the body of one of the hellfire giants.
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| Not willing to be muscled out of his own discovery, Dronnmos has attached a Zavayss, a noble salamander, and his followers to the mission, using the argument that they share the religion and love of fire with Quiral's flock. Zavayss watches Quiral and the exploration, reporting back to Dronnmos regularly. The salamander quite likes the environment within Goth Gulgamel and secretly plots to take Quiral's position.
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| Dronnmos also convinced a pair of blue dragon allies (Usieth and Okthun) to donate a dozen [[dvontoi]] to the endeavor. The dragons insisted on entering the fortress themselves to "oversee" the operation. Unbeknownst to Dronnmos or Iariono, the dragons couldn't care less about the mission, instead intent on mating and hatching their brood within the confines of the fortress.
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| While Aggah-Shan was none too pleased to see the Pact's intrusion into Goth Gulgamel, the lich has come to an understanding with the Pact presence. They have provided the lich an occasional minion to probe the Ageless Titan for information. Meanwhile, the pact is cheering on the [[Malady]] for removing so many humanoids, but otherwise giving the lich a wide birth.
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| === The Cult of Ochremeshk ===
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| The cultists being employed by the pact have their own agenda outside the pact. Dedicated to Ochremeshk (see ''Ptolus'', pg. 623), they seek to free him from his prison, then present him with a Goth Gulgamel already prepared for his use. So far, they have converted an alter room within the fortress to the demon prince, but have no real leads on how to free him.
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| === Motivations ===
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| Summing up the above, here are the movers and shakers in and about Goth Gulgamel:
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| * [[Aggah-Shan]], [[pfsrd:bestiary/monster-listings/templates/lich|lich]] (CR 16): Wants the ''entropy sphere'', so needs to get past the titan. Also exploring the Utterdark. | |
| * Quiral, savant [[pfsrd:bestiary/monster-listings/aberrations/gug|gug]] cleric (CR 16): Secure Goth Gulgamel and protect the exploration of the Utterdark. Support Iariono's interests. What he really wants, though, is to free Ochremeshk, and is preparing Goth Gulgamel to be the demon's seat of power. | |
| * Zavayss, [[pfsrd:bestiary/monster-listings/outsiders/salamander/salamander-noble|noble salamander]] (CR 12): Supervise exploration of the Utterdark. Support Dronnmos's interests. Though intended to act as a check on Quiral, he also worships Ochremeshk, and is helping Quiral prepare the site for him. | |
| * Vendarlik, mind flayer (CR 8): Wants to gain entrance to the Banewarrens to get the ''black grail''. Secondarily, he is ambitious, having already claimed most of the beholder's clout for himself and trying to keep Iariono from falling.
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| * Chrindurn, intellect devourer (CR 8): Wants to get back into the good graces of the Pactlords, which Vendarlik has promised; however, Chrindurn's past transgressions are such that many of the Pactlords would kill Chrindurn on sight, and slay Vendarlik for helping him. | |
| * Thanss, [[pfsrd:bestiary/monster-listings/aberrations/moon-beast|moon-beast]] (CR 11): find the ''staff of the magi'' within the Utterdark, as Iariono has promised much for it. | |
| * Dronnmos, advanced [[pfsrd:bestiary/monster-listings/aberrations/neothelid|neothelid]] (CR 18): Not present, but looking to exploit Goth Gulgamel and his control of the mural leading to it for all he can. As a Pactlord, ultimately wants to destroy all humanoids. Would like to see Iariono eliminated. | |
| * Iariono, advanced [[pfsrd:bestiary/monster-listings/aberrations/scylla|scylla]] (CR 18): Not present, but looking to use Goth Gulgamel to restore her prestige within the Pact. As a Pactlord, ultimately wants to destroy all humanoids. Would like to see Dronnmos eliminated. | |
| * Ochremeshk, demon prince (CR 20): Unaware any of this is happening. | |
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| === Adrift Rooms ===
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| ''Some old school random table action for the rooms cut loose into the utterdark.''
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| When anyone casts out into the Utterdark, there are 1d3 rooms floating near them, each d100 feet away. Rooms have their own gravity, but may be oriented differently compared to a universal frame of reference. Roll a d6; the room is oriented as the d6 is, where the 1 face is the floor.
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| Room map chosen from among a set of room battlemaps.
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| == Dark Reliquary (15-18) ==
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| * Hint somehow leads to dungeons under Dark Reliquary. Probably journal entries about the sleeping gods and how what the Fallen want to do about them doesn't match what Aggah-Shan wants.
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| == Dreaming Realm (15-18) ==
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| * Go with the idea that Harrow Elves are created by severing an Elder Elf's connection to dreaming. Maybe the entropy sphere is involved somehow?. | |
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| == Jabel Shammar (19-20) ==
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| ! colspan=7 | # of creatures needed to provide EL…
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| ! Occupant
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| | unoccupied
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| | [[pfsrd:bestiary/monster-listings/undead/banshee|banshee]]
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| | [[pfsrd:bestiary/monster-listings/oozes/ooze-carnivorous-crystal|carnivorous crystal]]
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| | [[pfsrd:bestiary/monster-listings/oozes/carnivorous-blob|carnivorous blob]]
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| | align="center" | 1
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| | [[pfsrd:bestiary/monster-listings/outsiders/chaos-beast|chaos beast]], [[pfsrd:bestiary/monster-listings/templates/advanced-creature-cr-1|advanced]]
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| | align="center" | 3
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| | [[pfsrd:bestiary/monster-listings/outsiders/chaos-beast|chaos beast]], [[pfsrd:bestiary/monster-listings/templates/advanced-creature-cr-1|advanced]] [[pfsrd:bestiary/monster-listings/templates/shadow-creature-cr-1|shadow]]
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| | [[pfsrd:bestiary/monster-listings/undead/dybbuk|dybbuk]]
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| | [[pfsrd:bestiary/monster-listings/magical-beasts/frost-worm|frost worm]]
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| | [[pfsrd:bestiary/monster-listings/humanoids/giants/giant-true/giant-frost|giant, frost]]
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| | [[pfsrd:bestiary/monster-listings/aberrations/ghorazagh|ghorazagh]], [[pfsrd:bestiary/monster-listings/templates/shadow-creature-cr-1|shadow]]
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| | [[pfsrd:bestiary/monster-listings/constructs/golem/golem-bone|golem, bone]]
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| | [[pfsrd:bestiary/monster-listings/constructs/golem/golem-brass|golem, brass]]
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| | [[pfsrd:bestiary/monster-listings/constructs/golem/golem-iron|golem, iron]]
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| | [[pfsrd:bestiary/monster-listings/constructs/golem/golem-stone|golem, stone]]
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| | [[pfsrd:bestiary/monster-listings/aberrations/moon-beast|moon-beast]]
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| | [[pfsrd:bestiary/monster-listings/undead/nightshade/nightwing|nightwing]]
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| | [[pfsrd:bestiary/monster-listings/outsiders/protean/protean-imentesh|protean, imentesh]]
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| | [[pfsrd:bestiary/monster-listings/outsiders/protean/protean-keketar|protean, keketar]]
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| | [[pfsrd:bestiary/monster-listings/outsiders/protean/protean-naunet|protean, naunet]]
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| | align="center" | 12
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| | [[pfsrd:bestiary/bestiary/monster-listings/constructs/retriever|retriever]], [[pfsrd:bestiary/monster-listings/templates/shadow-creature-cr-1|shadow]]
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| | align="center" | 1
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| | [[pfsrd:bestiary/monster-listings/outsiders/shadow-mastiff|shadow mastiff]], [[pfsrd:bestiary/monster-listings/templates/advanced-creature-cr-1|advanced]]
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| | align="center" | 12
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| | [[pfsrd:bestiary/monster-listings/undead/shadow|shadows]], led by one [[pfsrd:bestiary/monster-listings/undead/shadow|greater shadow]]
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| | [[pfsrd:bestiary/monster-listings/undead/shadow|shadows, distorted]], led by one [[pfsrd:bestiary/monster-listings/undead/shadow|greater shadow]]
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| | [[pfsrd:bestiary/monster-listings/undead/shadow|shadows, greater]], [[pfsrd:bestiary/monster-listings/templates/advanced-creature-cr-1|advanced]]
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| | [[pfsrd:bestiary/monster-listings/undead/spectre|spectres]]
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| | [[pfsrd:bestiary/monster-listings/undead/winterwight|winterwight]]
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| | [[pfsrd:bestiary/monster-listings/undead/wraith/wraith-dread|wraith, dread]]
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| ! Contents
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| | connection to Prime Material Plane
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| | empty
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| | 42-75
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| | trap
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| | [[pfsrd:magic-items#Table-Random-Magic-Item-Generation|random treasure]]
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| | Pit of Insanity
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| | artifact:<br/> 1 = ''[[pfsrd:magic-items/artifacts/minor-artifacts/knucklebone-of-fickle-fortune|knucklebone of fickle fortune]]''<br/> 2 = ''[[pfsrd:magic-items/artifacts/minor-artifacts/runeslave-cauldron|runeslave cauldron]]''<br/> 3 = ''[[pfsrd:magic-items/artifacts/minor-artifacts/hourglass-of-shadows|hourglass of shadows]]''<br/> 4-5 = card from the ''[[pandemonium deck]]''<br/> 6 = ''[[pfsrd:magic-items/artifacts/minor-artifacts/staff-of-the-magi|staff of the magi]]''
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