Spider Stomper
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Joined: Thursday, 16th July 2015, 21:47
Wanted: Hand of Gozag
The artifact is not literally the hand of Gozag the god, of course, but the still technically living hand and forearm of a _follower_ of Gozag who unfortunately stumbled into a room permanently filled with petrification dust (as per a catoblepas), where over the years it got snapped off. If it can be arranged, it might be cute to actually have this room as a dungeon feature, with the Hand and a few random items strewn around next to living petrified adventurer statues in the room full of dust. In order to get the Hand, you have to rush into the dust, grab it, and make it back out before you petrify ... or else you're not coming back. Or you can apport it. Or teleport out, even after petrifying? Hmmm, does stasis work? - I don't know.
Yeah, giving adventurers a big boost to cash income probably has destabilizing effects ... does it? I mean, how often are you really unable to buy the stuff you want? Usually there are no shops with anything good, and you end up buying random blue items in the hope they might be something cool, but rarely is it so. I think that if the artifact (and room it comes in, if you do this) is rare, its effect isn't too much to have, and I think it would be cool.