A stone idol
Minor arcanum #61
Found at the back of some cave or grotto, obscured by roots and rubble, surrounded by desiccated, rotting offerings. A crude squat thing with a possum’s sneering face, a thorny tail, and flowers for its ears.
The idol is, in fact, a narcissistic little Fae, stuck (hiding? stubbornly ensconced?) in the form of a stone idol. To unlock its “mysteries” and benefit from its patronage, you must...
Requirements
- ☐ …restore the shrine, while suffering the abuse of its angry little god.
- ☐ …extract the idol from the stone and rubble in which it’s embedded, at the risk of damaging/insulting it.
- ☐ …trick the idol into accepting an offering that puts it in your lasting debt. A Surplus worth of food and/or whisky ought to be enough.
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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