#and i threw in the animus bell 'do you want to live forever?' offer to mags too

[allgather]

the adventure zone sorta went off with their portrayal of power so great, so absolute, that it calls to you before it even enters your hands. wars fought across continents for even a taste of one of these relic so powerful they cause your very mind, your sense of self to shatter. mere proximity is enough to drive you to push your best friend off a cliff towards his death, to refuse to even listen to the woman you love as easy as breathing. just the prospect of such power is so corrupting it turns you mad, in an instant. and its portrayed so often as a sweet voice that offers you your greatest desires. and for the heroes, these things are good, they are deserved. the chance to make the tragedies of the past right and to live the life you have deserved all along. the chance to live forever, to be in love with your soulmate for all eternity. the chance for enough power to protect your friends, this world, from its untimely demise.

but as soon as you claim it, you’re engulfed in its power. so completely. in flames, in vines and deadly poison, in crystal, in a barrier too powerful for even time to penetrate. a conduit for the relic’s unknowable, dangerous power. not so much as person as a vessel.