For the 4 clustered around the scales you can feel a link with a single scale...

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Each scale is a mini artifact CL19. Each PC may choose a single effect...
  • Alter self 3/day
  • Resist energy (Cold or Elec only 3/day)
  • Align weapon (good only) 3/day
  • levitate on column of mist 3/ Day





Even as the party begins to gel Flash advances on the spider corpse some 50ft distant. As he gets within 10ft the corpse seems to wriggle and 4 massive bloated maggots wrigge forth, each the size of a size pony...

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Corpse of spider is 10ft from flash, 50 from everyone else

4 giant maggots wriggled forth.
Players may begin.