Pain Milker

A grim contraption of switches, dials, and humming coils built to harvest suffering — push the wrong control and it overloads, lashing back with raw life and death energy.

Disable DC 33 Thievery (master) to deactivate the machine, or DC 38 Perception (expert) to decipher the proper order in which the switches and dials should be adjusted in order to power the device down harmlessly.

Agonizing Overload [Reaction] (divine, necromancy)

• Critical Success The creature is unaffected.
• Success The creature takes 4d10 positive or negative damage (whichever is more harmful).

Level 12 · Complexity Simple

Stealth DC 10

Disable

• Thievery DC 33 (master) — to deactivate the machine
• DC 38 (expert) — to decipher the proper order in which the switches and dials should be adjusted in order to power the device down harmlessly

AC 31

HP 60 · Hardness 22

Immunities critical hits, object immunities, precision damage

Trigger The pain milker is struck hard enough to take damage, or any of its dials and levers are adjusted carelessly

Effect The pain milker emits a shrill whine and exudes a blast of violet light. All creatures in area B2 must attempt a DC 30 Fortitude save. This DC is reduced by 2 if the machine is broken.

Reset If the augnagar still lives and at least one crystallized agony is still functional, the pain milker resets automatically in a number of rounds equal to 7 – the number of remaining crystallized agonies.