Quote Originally Posted by Lord Torath View Post
Nah, it'd never get through the planet's magnetosphere. Plus, the solar wind would push it out into interstellar space before it could do any harm.

I suppose it depends on what cosmology you're using. If you're using something like real world cosmology, there's nothing up there to corrupt. And the "background" cosmic radiation is worse than anything a nuclear weapon can unleash. If you're using spelljammer-esque cosmology, detonating the device three-quarters of the way to the crystal sphere directly below the sun's "south pole" would put it in such a location that, even assuming the cloud of corruption was the size of the entire earth, the odds of anything ever going through it are infinitesimal. All the traffic, and thus all the activity of space denizens that prey on that traffic, occurs near the ecliptic, which is where all the planets are. Of course, depending on the DM, Probability has been known to service Drama on occasion.

Still, it sounds like things turned out more or less according to plan. Well, your plan, anyway.
Well there is stuff living in the dark corners of space that are best left alone:

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Eldritch abominations are bad enough the way they are. They don't need to become mutant eldritch abominations.