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Help me find logic in this thing I got myself into. (lemmy.world)

submitted 6 months ago* (last edited 6 months ago) by [email protected] to c/[email protected]

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Hey gang.

I'm running a campaign where the players are looking for eight magical items, once owned by eight powerful mages representing the eight schools of magic.

Right now – through the power of Plot™ – they're looking for those items for an influential but shadowy collector. They're supposed to deliver the first batch of three items together. When that happens they'll find out that they were inadvertently helping a criminal collector. A representative of a historical society will tell them that these artifacts belong in a museum.

And here's my problem: I want them to have these magical items, which of course have cool powers. And I don't know how to do that.

My plan right now is, that the museum isn't interested in the actual powers, they just want to display the items for their historical relevance. So they'll magically pull these items apart into two identical ones, where one retains the power and the other the history of the item (scratches/wear and tear).

I am not completely satisfied with that idea, because it seems far-fetched and I'd like to hear your ideas, if you have any, on how to resolve this.

Thank you and a thousand dm'ly kisses to you all.

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[–] [email protected] 2 points 6 months ago* (last edited 6 months ago) (1 children)

one of them is a librarian/protector of knowledge kinda cleric.

Is he/could he be associated with the museum somehow? Maybe if his Cleric (order? temple? organization?) is a major sponsor of the museum or something similar they might trust him with those items for that reason with the caveat that he brings them back for scheduled viewings or some sort of thing like that?

[–] [email protected] 2 points 6 months ago

I like the idea, but they actually have a very detailed backstory and connecting them to the museum would be somewhat unbelievable.

They were the very bookish librarian of a very small and remote monastery where they grew up and only left because they ran out of reading material.

I'll definitely stick a mental pin in your idea though, maybe we'll find a reason for that connection.