Stonetop Companion

A… key?

Minor arcanum #24

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Secreted away in some Maker’s trove is a gleaming white thing, like a key, I guess, but not a specific key, more like the idea of keyness. Hurts to look right at it; makes you aware of your own dying flesh.

You don’t unlock this key’s mysteries, so much as it unlocks you. But only if you…

Requirements

  • …master your fear and force yourself to touch it.
  • …hold tight as it wracks your mind and soul, refusing to let go.
  • …spend a few weeks dealing with terrible migraines and flashes of color, learning to calm and control your mind’s new eye.

The rest is discovered in play. Every arcanum has a hidden back — what it becomes, what it wants, what it costs. That’s for your table to find out, so it isn’t published here.

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