A metal puzzle box
Minor arcanum #64
A 6” cube of dull gray metal, covered in hinges, knobs, dials, sliders, levers, and the like. A thing of mad genius, resisting all attempts to open it by brute force.
To unlock its mysteries, you must...
Requirements
- ☐ …roll +INT to open the box: on a 10+, it takes a few days of fiddling; on a 7-9, it takes a few obsessive weeks; on a 6-, it’s beyond you.
- ☐ …spend a season deciphering the symbols etched along the inside
- ☐ …risk never being able to decipher the symbols, and/or developing some mental quirk as you do so
- ☐ …commune with a primordial spirit and learn the Silent Words from it.
- ☐ …spend a few weeks practicing the spell, risking all sorts of harm and collateral damage.
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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Put it in a player’s hands
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