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Defective Aether Core

Environments Designed by Geoff Nori

At a glance

Tier
1
Type
Event
Difficulty
13
Impulses
Exhaust itself

Environment overview

A defective aether core that was primarily used to fuel a clank's life force. Wear and tear has reduced it to a defective state where it's more dangerous than useful.

Potential adversaries

Elementals

Features

Passives

passive
  • Instability

    Stopping the core requires exhausting the magical energy that it's outputting by completing a Progress Countdown (12). It ticks down according to the following criteria when a PC makes a spellcast roll:

    - Critical Success: Tick down 3
    - Success with Hope: Tick down 2
    - Success with Fear: Tick down 1
    - Failure with Hope: No advancement
    - Failure with Fear: Tick up 1

    A success this way grants advantage on the PCs next spellcast roll.

Actions

action
  • The Pulse

    The core pulses unstable magical energy. All characters within Close range must make an Instinct Reaction Roll. On a failure, they take 1d6+1 magical damage as their own aether is damaged by the pulse. On a success they must mark a Stress.

    Questions
    • What does it feel like as the pulse passes through them?

Reactions

reaction
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About this environment

Defective clank cores are usually disposed of by proper authorities. Those that are not become a dangerous object that attracts other planar entities hungering for aether. In order to exhaust a defective core one must drink from the leaking aether until it has been fully consumed which can be a friend or a foe.

Defective Aether Core

Tier 1 Event

A defective aether core that was primarily used to fuel a clank's life force. Wear and tear has reduced it to a defective state where it's more dangerous than useful.

Impulses: Exhaust itself

Difficulty: 13

Potential Adversaries: Elementals

Features

Instability - Passive: Stopping the core requires exhausting the magical energy that it's outputting by completing a Progress Countdown (12). It ticks down according to the following criteria when a PC makes a spellcast roll:

- Critical Success: Tick down 3
- Success with Hope: Tick down 2
- Success with Fear: Tick down 1
- Failure with Hope: No advancement
- Failure with Fear: Tick up 1

A success this way grants advantage on the PCs next spellcast roll.

The Pulse - Action: The core pulses unstable magical energy. All characters within Close range must make an Instinct Reaction Roll. On a failure, they take 1d6+1 magical damage as their own aether is damaged by the pulse. On a success they must mark a Stress.

  1. What does it feel like as the pulse passes through them?

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