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Iron Flask of Tuerny the Merciless: This artifact i s reported to be a small
and heavy urn, easily carried in o pack or by hand despite its weight. The
Flask is stoppered with a turnip-shaped plug, engraved and embossed with
sigils, glyphs, and runes of power so as to contain the spirit therein. The
possessor need but know 3 words to have the Flask function properly, i.e.
the word of OPENING, the word of COMMAND, the word of CLOSING AND
SEALING. Tuerny's Flosk i s rumored to imprison one of the following:

    a greater devil
    a groaning spirit
    a major demon
    a night hag
    a nycadaemon

It is generally conceded that the Servant of the Flask can be loosed only to
perform evil deeds, and it must always kill before it can be commanded to
return to its prison. In addition to the Servant, the flask has the following
powers/effects:

3 x 1:
1 x 111:
1 x v:
1 x VI:
 

3 x I	*	*	*
1 x III	***
1 x V	*****
1 x VI	******

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Originally Posted by Tewligan
(Blinks) Wow. That was a big damn post.

Gary, to get this back on the, y'know, Q&A theme, here's something that Edena's novella made me think of...

Which, if any, of the really big bad guys of D&D fame started life as actual PC's? For example, was Acererak ever an actual character who was eventually judged by the DM to be too much for a PC? What about Vecna and Kas? I seem to recall (and I could EASILY be wrong) that Kas got his name from Tim Kask - did you and Tim ever have a throw down in which he got a couple of lucky hits that left your wizard with one less hand and eye, and the whole thing passed into infamy?

None, unless you count Obmi the DWarf as a big bad guy. My players surely did,hated him thoroughly, aways did their utmost to finish him off.

When Brian BLume was bent on devising a load of artifacts he made up such items as that of Kas and Gax for Tim and me. Inspired thus, I ccreated the Iron FLask of Tourney the Merciless in honor of sone Ernie and his evil PC, Erac's Cousin.

The fact is that none of the DMs that were influential in regards to TSR's creative output ever had very high-level PCs in their campaigns, thus neither those figures nor the NPCs opposing them were of such notable prowess.

Cheers,
Gary