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Preface Contents Campaign Chunk Preface ...... 2 Volume 5 Credits & Legal ...... 2 A Campaign Chunk is an item, place or something else that can fit into any campaign or story with little or no modification, Campaign Chunks ...... 3 although some will be more suited to certain genres than others. Ankh of Tiumautef ...... 3

They have no stats and can help provide “Demon Blood” Arrow ...... 4 starting grounds for adventures or help fill in the gaps when your players go off exploring and you need something for them to do. Each Funerary Mask ...... 5 have several hooks or rumour that can be used. Which of these are true and which are Highbourne Observatory ...... 6 false?

Originally first published on the blog/website Lanterns of Landium ...... 7 of Ennead Games, some of these Chunks have been compiled into a handy volume. Their Lost Automata of DeMerch ...... 8 details may have been cleaned up and more hooks or rumours added to them, but they Lost Book of prophecy ...... 9 basically the same.

Mobius-Strip Roller Coaster ...... 10

Credits & Legal Niavon Numbers Station ...... 11 Sample file Northern Goat-Antelope...... 12

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Campaign Chunks Properties

 When grasped firmly, the ankh feels Ankh of Tiumautef like it has faint vibration running through it, almost electrical.

 If placed against metal, the ankh will Introduction stick as if magnetic

 The ankh is the most well-known symbol to Anything within 2 meters that is come out of ancient Egypt. An ankh is a cross sensitive to magnetism reacts badly or like object, with a loop on the top arm. In they shuts down. This includes computers were/are used to symbolise “life” or “eternal and pacemakers. life” and are often depicted being held by the  Those with neurological or mental gods by the top loop or one in each hand, diseases and disorders, find they arms crossed over the chest. They come in become lucid and the symptoms go various sizes and materials, with the more away whilst the ankh is being held fanciful ones belonging to nobles and other important people. Hooks & Rumours Tiumautef was a priest of Anubis and, rather unusually, not many records of his life remain.  There are some who believe that Even the tomb in which the ankh was found Tiumautef was in fact a woman – If was largely empty and had no decorations this is the case, who was she and why apart from the sarcophagus and the simple did she use a male name? hieroglyphs that, when translated read “Here  The metal the ankh made from is a Lies Tiumautef, Priest of Anubis. Banished form of steel that cannot be from the Two Fields for….” The translation replicated, even with today’s here is debated, due to the hieroglyphs being technology. damaged and broken.  A few scholars think that the writing on the ankh to have been Sample file mistranslated and is in fact a plea to Description Anubis and Thoth to keep a watch on the body this item was placed with This particular ankh is 4 inches wide and and to prevent it’s ascension. approximately 8 inches long. On the surface, it  Not long after the ankh was placed in appears to be quite plain, made from a dark a museum, many dead bodies started wood like material. Picking it up reveals this to to be found in the same building, be not true as the ankh is rather heavy for its hundreds, if not thousands of years size. Simple tests show that the ankh is made old. from a heavy metal alloy that resembles steel  The ankh is being examined by top and is magnetic. It has a gold covering and scientists to understand the almost small hieroglyphs that praise Anubis, Thoth, healing like properties and guards are and Ra etc. and ask for forgiveness to the needed to escort it to the next bearer. location that is examining it.

“Demon Blood” Arrow

Introduction Hook & Rumours

An arrow is a shafted projectile that is shot  A batch of Demon Blood arrows has with a bow. It is something that is common to been found buried under a very almost every culture. They consist of an important civic building undergoing arrow-head, with a shaft of a typical flexible renovation. material such as softwood, and fetching at  Some believe that in the legend that one end with the arrowhead at the other end using a Demon Blood Arrow drains of the shaft. The arrowhead can range from the life of the user to kill the target the blunt type to the narrow target points.  A batch of 10 DBAs on display has gone missing. Two days later a The so-called “Demon Blood” arrow is a rare prominent yet unlike politician was type of arrow in that it is composed mostly of found dead, with one of these obsidian. The fetching and binding agents are imbedded in their face. Two days the only parts not made of obsidian. The later, another, under similar name Demon Blood Arrow comes from the conditions, but with a note saying fact that the first recorded mention of them “More to come….” comes from an ancient text, which, loosely  Legends say that the mere act of translated said “..soon the archers drew forth holding a DBA condemn your soul to a from their pouches the arrow of darkness, as long-lasting torment, unless you are if demon blood was made solid. The arrows holding it with the purpose of screamed across the battlefield seeking their destroying it, in which case you will be target and killing them with one shot”. rewarded.  Testing on the arrowheads has When fired a DBA is surprisingly accurate. revealed a hallucinogenic, still potent Also given the correct conditions and skill of after hundreds, if not thousands of the user, the arrows can be made to sound years. like a screaming demon as they fly towards  A few cultures ban the possession of their intended target, so even if they miss,Sample the file these arrows without a licence and damage to morale can sometimes be enough the players are tasked with retrieval to turn the tables in battle. of some from an unlicensed user.  An archer of some repute has stated Modern weapon makers have tried to they have duplicated the screaming duplicate the demon blood arrow, but so far effect of the infamous arrow and is have failed. A few have come close with a about to give a public demonstration. form of hardened darkened glass, but have Local religious leaders are staging a yet to duplicate the infamous screaming protest. effect.