Toxic Crystals

A cluster of glittering crystals that look like a treasure waiting to be claimed — until they resonate with a sickening pulse and flood the air with poison.

Disable DC 30 Thievery (expert) to create a chain reaction among the crystals by striking them in precise spots that cause them to shatter and harmlessly discharge their energy, or DC 27 Performance (expert) to use a musical instrument or singing to resonate the crystals and discharge their toxic energy harmlessly

Nauseating Pulse [Reaction] (poison)

Critical Success The creature is unaffected.

Success The creature takes 2d8 poison damage.

Level 7 · Complexity Complex

Stealth DC +13 (trained)

Disable

• Thievery DC 30 (expert) — to create a chain reaction among the crystals by striking them in precise spots that cause them to shatter and harmlessly discharge their energy
• Performance DC 27 (expert) — to use a musical instrument or singing to resonate the crystals and discharge their toxic energy harmlessly

AC 25

HP 60 · Hardness 15

Immunities critical hits, object immunities, precision damage · Weaknesses sonic 10

Trigger A living creature comes within 20 feet of the green crystals

Effect The crystals pulse with nauseating light. All creatures in area **E14** or within the first 10 feet of either passage leading out of this area must succeed at a DC 25 Fortitude save or become sickened 1 (or sickened 3 on a critical failure).

Reset The toxic crystals become dormant once no living