A vellum scroll
Minor arcanum #45
A remarkably supple scroll, given its age, found in an ivory tube. It bears writing in a strange alphabet, penned in a dark red ink. There are diagrams, too. You think it might be some sort of recipe? Or spell? Maybe both?
To unlock the secrets of this scroll, you must…
Requirements
- ☐ …determine the scroll’s origin and be able to read the author’s language.
- ☐ …break the cipher in which the recipe is encoded.
- ☐ …acquire the recipe’s unusual and unsavory ingredients (Value 1).
- ☐ …spend a few days practicing the incantation, risking a mistake on your first attempt, with potentially disastrous results.
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
The app deals arcana face-down; the GM flips them when the fiction says so.