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Nothing like defusing a magical world-ending bomb to raise the stakes for your campaign or season finale.

Yona (FS): Yona going down to save Headmare pony!
DM: Uh, you sure you want to charge ahead?
Sandbar (AJ): Just stay out of the magic circle. It’ll grab you.
Yona (FS): Yona was not forgetting. Yona was just… testing.
Silverstream (PP): Soooooo… anyone got any ideas?
Smolder (RT): We’re the only ones who can stop it, so we’re going to have to investigate it ourselves. Let’s see if we can learn its inner workings.
DM: Well said. Those of you who are proficient, roll Arcana. The rest can roll Investigation.
Sandbar (AJ): <roll> 4.
Smolder (RT): <roll> 16.
Ocellus (TS): <roll> 23.
Silverstream (PP): <roll> 10.
Yona (FS): <roll> 6.
Gallus (RD): <roll> 21.
DM: Based on your lessons, you think it is theoretically possible to remove the artifacts in such a way that all the magic is safely released back into the world. But this is a LOT of magic, at a very high rate of flow. It would be all too easy to mess something up and cause a chain reaction that detonates the catacombs and the entire school above.
Gallus (RD): So what’s the downside?