Enc: 6	IS: -	Aura:	XP: 3k	GP: 30k
Rods	-	-	-	DMG

Each time a charge is expended, this item creates a
non-dimensional space, a “pocket paradise,” where the rod’s possessor
and as many as 199 other creatures are able to stay in complete
safety and security for a period of time, the maximum being 200
days divided by the number of creatures affected.

Thus, one creature
(the rod’s possessor) can stay for 200 days; four creatures can stay
for 50 days; a group of 60 creatures can stay for 3 days. (All fractions
are rounded down, so that a group numbering between 101 and 200
inclusive can stay for one day only.) While the recipients of the rod’s
power are within this “paradise,” they do not age (except from magical
causes such as the casting of a wish spell), and natural healing
and curing takes place at twice the normal rate. Fresh water and food
(fruits and vegetables only) are in abundance; the climate is comfortable
for all creatures involved, so that protection from the elements is
not necessary. Activation of the rod simply causes the wielder and as
many creatures as were touched with the item to be removed from the
place where they are and transported instantaneously to the paradise.
(Members of large groups can hold hands or otherwise touch
each other, and thus all be “touched” by the rod at one time. When
the dweomer is cancelled or expires, all of the affected creatures instantly
reappear in the location they occupied when the rod was activated.
If something else occupies the space that a traveller would be
returning to, then his or her body is displaced a sufficient distance to
provide the space required for “re-entry.” The rod can be recharged
by the joint efforts of a cleric of 16th or higher level and a magic-user
of 18th or higher level.