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<p>The Spellscar Desert may be desolate, but it's far from monotonous; its rolling wastes house numerous geographical anomalies, unusual communities both violent and benign, and safe landmarks (by Mana Wastes standards, at least). The following locations are among the points of interest travelers can find in the wasteland.</p>
<p><strong>Ancren's Estate:</strong> One of the largest and most recent structures in the Spellscar Desert is an estate built by the Nexian transmuter Ancren (deceased N male human transmuter 9). Predicting a moment of intense earth magic, Ancren raised the stone of the fortified estate in a single night. After the magic departed, the estate remained, and Ancren soon outfitted it with sumptuous luxuries from his homeland. Although the estate's walls were wide and tall, Ancren dramatically underestimated how appealing such a fortification would be to Spellscar inhabitants. He was besieged in his estate within a month, and a mutated gnoll warlord named Kagati finally fought through his guards and defenses. Now known as Kagati Wizard-Eater (@UUID[JournalEntry.pf2ap17905thespe.JournalEntryPage.05factionsandn00]{Factions and NPCS}), the gnoll has entrenched her position in Ancren's Estate and turned the courtyard into something of an open market welcoming wasteland denizens.</p>
<p><strong>Baffled Lowlands:</strong> This lowland is covered in a silt with a dazzlingly bright yellow hue like no other colors in the area. The silt is never more than a few inches deep and appears to prevent anything other than a few low-lying succulents from growing. A number of small, amber-colored lizards flit among the silt, occasionally snapping at tiny insects or drinking from pools of yellow-tinged water. Sapient creatures who spend a long time in the silty region report hearing strange susurrations and seeing strange movement within the yellow silt, as though the substance itself were alive. This appears to be an entirely mental effect, as outside observers witness neither sound nor movement. Those gripped by this hallucination, however, never forget the shuddering fear imparted by the yellow silt.</p>
<section class="encounter">
<div class="header">
<h2 class="no-toc split"><span class="keepme">Yellow Silt Curse</span><span class="keepme">Curse 6</span></h2>
<span class="link"><strong>CURSE ENCHANTMENT FEAR MAGICAL MENTAL</strong></span>
</div>
<p>You never forget the eerie song and frightening movements of the yellow silt. You need to make this save after each full day you spend in the Baffled Lowlands, increasing the save DC by 1 for each consecutive day.
</p><p><strong>Saving Throw</strong> @Check[will|dc:22|traits:curse,enchantment,fear,magical,mental|name:Crack Combination]</p>
<p><strong>Effect</strong> Whenever you gain the @Compendium[pf2e.conditionitems.TBSHQspnbcqxsmjL]{Frightened} condition while in the Baffled Lowlands, increase the value of that condition by 1 (maximum frightened 4). If you can see anything yellow when you become frightened, you are also @Compendium[pf2e.spells-srd.LiGbewa9pO0yjbsY]{Confusion} for 1 round.</p>
</section>
<img class="float-right" src="modules/pf2e-ap179-cradle-of-quartz/assets/art/PZO90179_MOTHER_DUNFEATHER.webp" alt=" " style="shape-outside: url('modules/pf2e-ap179-cradle-of-quartz/assets/art/PZO90179_MOTHER_DUNFEATHER.webp');">
<p><strong>Burning Stone Mesa:</strong> Rising 200 feet above the Gritty River, the sides of this daunting mesa feature stripes of red and blue rock in strikingly contrasting horizontal bands. The side against the river is steep, requiring successful @Check[athletics|dc:25|traits:action:climb|name:Climb] checks to @Compendium[pf2e.actionspf2e.pprgrYQ1QnIDGZiy]{Climb}; the DC is only @Check[athletics|dc:18|traits:action:climb|name:Climb] on the mesa's other sides. The top of the mesa has a stunning view and is covered with thorny berry bushes and ruins reduced to scattered stones. A group of @Compendium[pf2e.pathfinder-bestiary.AuCC04X2AO8oFN75]{Harpies} and their trained falcons control the mesa and scour a huge area around it to feed themselves and grow their flock. These harpies are insular and suspicious, as commanded by their elder, Mother Dunfeather (LN female harpy leader 6) but they're less bloodthirsty than most harpies and are willing to negotiate with explorers who bring them food and colorful cloth with which to decorate their wings.</p>
<p><strong>Cloudreaver Keep:</strong> Built to guard Alkenstar's northern border, Cloudreaver Keep stands on the Ustradi River and is considered by many to be the easternmost outpost of civilization in Alkenstar. This makes Cloudreaver Keep the westernmost point of the Spellscar Desert. Its soldiers don't venture far into the desert, preferring instead to act as sentries who repel monsters from populated lands. Despite the soldiers' disinclination to leave Cloudreaver Keep, the fortified structure is the best place from which to launch most expeditions into the desert.</p>
<p><strong>Desperation Arroyo:</strong> This broad cleft in the ground runs north to south near Burning Stone Mesa. Its sides are dangerously unstable, accounting in most places as a @Compendium[pf2e.hazards.gFt2nzQrVgXM9tmJ]{Treacherous Scree} hazard. Parts of the arroyo's bottom are exposed patches of the same blue stone as Burning Stone Mesa. Scoured by the winds that blow through the arroyo and covered with pebbles from past landslides, these streaks of blue stone often resemble pools of water. Several travelers have ventured into the arroyo, eager for a drink, and found themselves trapped within by the unstable walls. The bones of these travelers (as well as the treasures they were carrying when they died) lie scattered in the arroyo near the deceptively enticing stone.</p>
<p><strong>Dinosaur Uplands:</strong> This region features sharp hills made of thick sections of layered sedimentary rock pushed up in haphazard angles through tectonic instability millennia ago. The rock faces are thus a striation of colorful layers dotted with fossilized leaves and petrified bones. Many of these bones belong to creatures that perished during Earthfall or even earlier; dinosaur bones mostly, but also bones of massive reptilian humanoids who died alongside the dinosaurs as well. Word of these bones have recently reached the academic centers of the Inner Sea region, causing an influx of scholars and excavators eager to pull bones - and knowledge - from the rocks. These scholars, collectively called Boneseekers, vie with each other as they race to make significant discoveries.</p>
<p><strong>Fireball Mesa:</strong> This large, pale mesa gets its name from the pattern of scorch marks along its sides. The area attracts mana storms on a frequent yet unpredictable basis, and its storms most often manifest with blasts of fire that make for dramatic displays visible from far away. A few canny wasteland dwellers, including the Children of the Fireball, live in the lee of the mesa, as they've learned that the mana storms aggregate at the mesa's top, making the region at its foot relatively tame. </p>
<p><strong>Gritty River:</strong> This river is the primary source of water for the Spellscar Desert, flowing east into the Obari Ocean. Once occupying a wide riverbed, the river is now unreliable. In the late summer through the fall, long stretches of the river dry up, leaving large sections of marshy sand between worn boulders. These sections function as @Compendium[pf2e.hazards.C6nFe8SCWJ8FmLOT]{Quicksand}. Where water remains, it becomes stagnant until the river flows again. Creatures and wasteland gangs jealously guard this water. Even in late winter and early spring, the river is generally low and difficult to traverse except in a canoe or on a barge. The water's color, for the sections and seasons that see a steady flow, is a curious turquoise due to strange minerals leached from the worn boulders along the river's length. Rumors hold that these boulders are leftover ammunition from a skirmish along the long border between Nex and Geb - though it's unclear which side launched the boulders or what the minerals imbuing the stony ammunition were intended to do. </p>
<p><strong>Screaming Fields:</strong> The only sandy waste within the Spellscar Desert, this area is dotted with stands of sagebrush and little else. Burrowing insects of startling size prowl the hills, fighting with each other in titanic battles that shake the sands and reshape the dunes. When these colossal creatures clash above the surface, which is thankfully rare, their screeches echo across the landscape and instill strange psychic rages in creatures that hear them.</p>
<p><strong>Sixfists:</strong> This coastal area in the northeast corner of the Spellscar Desert is the domain of calikang tribes. Although the tribes aren't enemies with each other, they have restrictive social structures that prevent them from outright cooperation with one another. Sixfists is what outsiders call this area, as the calikang tribes refer to their own tribal territories individually.</p>
<p><strong>Stargazer's Tower:</strong> At the southern edge of the Baffled Lowlands rises a single, massive sandstone column. Roughly rectangular, the tower rises 200 feet above the silty floor. Narrow, shallow stairs rise in a steady run around the column's exterior, their chipped and rounded edges demonstrating their ancient age. Near the top is a small cave containing etchings of various constellations. A successful @Check[nature|dc:25] or applicable Lore check reveals that these star charts are predominantly of the Cosmic Caravan, the zodiac in Golarion's sky, but they also incorporate specific celestial events. These events aren't concurrent; for example, the meteors of Earthfall are depicted, but so are much more recent meteorological impacts. Other, unknown symbols might represent cosmological events yet to occur. Characters performing divination rituals within this cave gain a +1 circumstance bonus to their ritual skill checks or a +2 bonus if the divination ritual is connected to prophetic events heralded in the stars. </p>
<img class="float-right" src="modules/pf2e-ap179-cradle-of-quartz/assets/art/PZO90179_EROSIONS_EXHALATION.webp" alt=" " style="shape-outside: url('modules/pf2e-ap179-cradle-of-quartz/assets/art/PZO90179_EROSIONS_EXHALATION.webp');">
<p><strong>Stonewatcher Ridges:</strong> The southeast section of the Spellscar contains some of the most difficult yet spectacular features in the desert. Four nearly parallel ridges of sandstone pillars run through the area, separated by strips of uneven ground awash in sand and gravel. Bands of red, orange, and tan cover the naturally carved pillars. Most are connected, the thinner sandstone forming walls between the thicker pillars. Scrambling over these slippery ridges requires a successful @Check[athletics|dc:30|traits:action:climb|name:Climb] to @Compendium[pf2e.actionspf2e.pprgrYQ1QnIDGZiy]{Climb}. Most creatures traverse the channels between, though this can make them easy pickings for those who hunt at either end of the ridges. A large group of earth elementals revere the sandstone ridges with religious fervor. Anyone disturbing the ridges - including climbing over them without taking exceptional care to avoid scarring or chipping them - risks an attack by a small army of earth elementals, but those traveling between the ridges are generally safe. A xorn known as Erosion's Escalation (N xorn @Compendium[pf2e.npc-gallery.W9lhKuDeS670LzLx]{Prophet} 12) leads these elementals in their strange veneration.</p>

<p>The Spellscar Desert may be desolate, but it's far from monotonous; its rolling wastes house numerous geographical anomalies, unusual communities both violent and benign, and safe landmarks (by Mana Wastes standards, at least). The following locations are among the points of interest travelers can find in the wasteland.</p>
<p><strong>Ancren's Estate:</strong> One of the largest and most recent structures in the Spellscar Desert is an estate built by the Nexian transmuter Ancren (deceased N male human transmuter 9). Predicting a moment of intense earth magic, Ancren raised the stone of the fortified estate in a single night. After the magic departed, the estate remained, and Ancren soon outfitted it with sumptuous luxuries from his homeland. Although the estate's walls were wide and tall, Ancren dramatically underestimated how appealing such a fortification would be to Spellscar inhabitants. He was besieged in his estate within a month, and a mutated gnoll warlord named Kagati finally fought through his guards and defenses. Now known as Kagati Wizard-Eater (@UUID[JournalEntry.pf2ap17905thespe.JournalEntryPage.05factionsandn00]{Factions and NPCS}), the gnoll has entrenched her position in Ancren's Estate and turned the courtyard into something of an open market welcoming wasteland denizens.</p>
<p><strong>Baffled Lowlands:</strong> This lowland is covered in a silt with a dazzlingly bright yellow hue like no other colors in the area. The silt is never more than a few inches deep and appears to prevent anything other than a few low-lying succulents from growing. A number of small, amber-colored lizards flit among the silt, occasionally snapping at tiny insects or drinking from pools of yellow-tinged water. Sapient creatures who spend a long time in the silty region report hearing strange susurrations and seeing strange movement within the yellow silt, as though the substance itself were alive. This appears to be an entirely mental effect, as outside observers witness neither sound nor movement. Those gripped by this hallucination, however, never forget the shuddering fear imparted by the yellow silt.</p>
<section class="encounter">
<div class="header">
<h2 class="no-toc split"><span class="keepme">Yellow Silt Curse</span><span class="keepme">Curse 6</span></h2>
<span class="link"><strong>CURSE ENCHANTMENT FEAR MAGICAL MENTAL</strong></span>
</div>
<p>You never forget the eerie song and frightening movements of the yellow silt. You need to make this save after each full day you spend in the Baffled Lowlands, increasing the save DC by 1 for each consecutive day.
</p><p><strong>Saving Throw</strong> @Check[type:will|dc:22|traits:curse,enchantment,fear,magical,mental|name:Crack Combination]</p>
<p><strong>Effect</strong> Whenever you gain the @Compendium[pf2e.conditionitems.TBSHQspnbcqxsmjL]{Frightened} condition while in the Baffled Lowlands, increase the value of that condition by 1 (maximum frightened 4). If you can see anything yellow when you become frightened, you are also @Compendium[pf2e.spells-srd.LiGbewa9pO0yjbsY]{Confusion} for 1 round.</p>
</section>
<img class="float-right" src="modules/pf2e-ap179-cradle-of-quartz/assets/art/PZO90179_MOTHER_DUNFEATHER.webp" alt=" " style="shape-outside: url('modules/pf2e-ap179-cradle-of-quartz/assets/art/PZO90179_MOTHER_DUNFEATHER.webp');">
<p><strong>Burning Stone Mesa:</strong> Rising 200 feet above the Gritty River, the sides of this daunting mesa feature stripes of red and blue rock in strikingly contrasting horizontal bands. The side against the river is steep, requiring successful @Check[type:athletics|dc:25|traits:action:climb|name:Climb] checks to @Compendium[pf2e.actionspf2e.pprgrYQ1QnIDGZiy]{Climb}; the DC is only @Check[type:athletics|dc:18|traits:action:climb|name:Climb] on the mesa's other sides. The top of the mesa has a stunning view and is covered with thorny berry bushes and ruins reduced to scattered stones. A group of @Compendium[pf2e.pathfinder-bestiary.AuCC04X2AO8oFN75]{Harpies} and their trained falcons control the mesa and scour a huge area around it to feed themselves and grow their flock. These harpies are insular and suspicious, as commanded by their elder, Mother Dunfeather (LN female harpy leader 6) but they're less bloodthirsty than most harpies and are willing to negotiate with explorers who bring them food and colorful cloth with which to decorate their wings.</p>
<p><strong>Cloudreaver Keep:</strong> Built to guard Alkenstar's northern border, Cloudreaver Keep stands on the Ustradi River and is considered by many to be the easternmost outpost of civilization in Alkenstar. This makes Cloudreaver Keep the westernmost point of the Spellscar Desert. Its soldiers don't venture far into the desert, preferring instead to act as sentries who repel monsters from populated lands. Despite the soldiers' disinclination to leave Cloudreaver Keep, the fortified structure is the best place from which to launch most expeditions into the desert.</p>
<p><strong>Desperation Arroyo:</strong> This broad cleft in the ground runs north to south near Burning Stone Mesa. Its sides are dangerously unstable, accounting in most places as a @Compendium[pf2e.hazards.gFt2nzQrVgXM9tmJ]{Treacherous Scree} hazard. Parts of the arroyo's bottom are exposed patches of the same blue stone as Burning Stone Mesa. Scoured by the winds that blow through the arroyo and covered with pebbles from past landslides, these streaks of blue stone often resemble pools of water. Several travelers have ventured into the arroyo, eager for a drink, and found themselves trapped within by the unstable walls. The bones of these travelers (as well as the treasures they were carrying when they died) lie scattered in the arroyo near the deceptively enticing stone.</p>
<p><strong>Dinosaur Uplands:</strong> This region features sharp hills made of thick sections of layered sedimentary rock pushed up in haphazard angles through tectonic instability millennia ago. The rock faces are thus a striation of colorful layers dotted with fossilized leaves and petrified bones. Many of these bones belong to creatures that perished during Earthfall or even earlier; dinosaur bones mostly, but also bones of massive reptilian humanoids who died alongside the dinosaurs as well. Word of these bones have recently reached the academic centers of the Inner Sea region, causing an influx of scholars and excavators eager to pull bones - and knowledge - from the rocks. These scholars, collectively called Boneseekers, vie with each other as they race to make significant discoveries.</p>
<p><strong>Fireball Mesa:</strong> This large, pale mesa gets its name from the pattern of scorch marks along its sides. The area attracts mana storms on a frequent yet unpredictable basis, and its storms most often manifest with blasts of fire that make for dramatic displays visible from far away. A few canny wasteland dwellers, including the Children of the Fireball, live in the lee of the mesa, as they've learned that the mana storms aggregate at the mesa's top, making the region at its foot relatively tame. </p>
<p><strong>Gritty River:</strong> This river is the primary source of water for the Spellscar Desert, flowing east into the Obari Ocean. Once occupying a wide riverbed, the river is now unreliable. In the late summer through the fall, long stretches of the river dry up, leaving large sections of marshy sand between worn boulders. These sections function as @Compendium[pf2e.hazards.C6nFe8SCWJ8FmLOT]{Quicksand}. Where water remains, it becomes stagnant until the river flows again. Creatures and wasteland gangs jealously guard this water. Even in late winter and early spring, the river is generally low and difficult to traverse except in a canoe or on a barge. The water's color, for the sections and seasons that see a steady flow, is a curious turquoise due to strange minerals leached from the worn boulders along the river's length. Rumors hold that these boulders are leftover ammunition from a skirmish along the long border between Nex and Geb - though it's unclear which side launched the boulders or what the minerals imbuing the stony ammunition were intended to do. </p>
<p><strong>Screaming Fields:</strong> The only sandy waste within the Spellscar Desert, this area is dotted with stands of sagebrush and little else. Burrowing insects of startling size prowl the hills, fighting with each other in titanic battles that shake the sands and reshape the dunes. When these colossal creatures clash above the surface, which is thankfully rare, their screeches echo across the landscape and instill strange psychic rages in creatures that hear them.</p>
<p><strong>Sixfists:</strong> This coastal area in the northeast corner of the Spellscar Desert is the domain of calikang tribes. Although the tribes aren't enemies with each other, they have restrictive social structures that prevent them from outright cooperation with one another. Sixfists is what outsiders call this area, as the calikang tribes refer to their own tribal territories individually.</p>
<p><strong>Stargazer's Tower:</strong> At the southern edge of the Baffled Lowlands rises a single, massive sandstone column. Roughly rectangular, the tower rises 200 feet above the silty floor. Narrow, shallow stairs rise in a steady run around the column's exterior, their chipped and rounded edges demonstrating their ancient age. Near the top is a small cave containing etchings of various constellations. A successful @Check[type:nature|dc:25] or applicable Lore check reveals that these star charts are predominantly of the Cosmic Caravan, the zodiac in Golarion's sky, but they also incorporate specific celestial events. These events aren't concurrent; for example, the meteors of Earthfall are depicted, but so are much more recent meteorological impacts. Other, unknown symbols might represent cosmological events yet to occur. Characters performing divination rituals within this cave gain a +1 circumstance bonus to their ritual skill checks or a +2 bonus if the divination ritual is connected to prophetic events heralded in the stars. </p>
<img class="float-right" src="modules/pf2e-ap179-cradle-of-quartz/assets/art/PZO90179_EROSIONS_EXHALATION.webp" alt=" " style="shape-outside: url('modules/pf2e-ap179-cradle-of-quartz/assets/art/PZO90179_EROSIONS_EXHALATION.webp');">
<p><strong>Stonewatcher Ridges:</strong> The southeast section of the Spellscar contains some of the most difficult yet spectacular features in the desert. Four nearly parallel ridges of sandstone pillars run through the area, separated by strips of uneven ground awash in sand and gravel. Bands of red, orange, and tan cover the naturally carved pillars. Most are connected, the thinner sandstone forming walls between the thicker pillars. Scrambling over these slippery ridges requires a successful @Check[type:athletics|dc:30|traits:action:climb|name:Climb] to @Compendium[pf2e.actionspf2e.pprgrYQ1QnIDGZiy]{Climb}. Most creatures traverse the channels between, though this can make them easy pickings for those who hunt at either end of the ridges. A large group of earth elementals revere the sandstone ridges with religious fervor. Anyone disturbing the ridges - including climbing over them without taking exceptional care to avoid scarring or chipping them - risks an attack by a small army of earth elementals, but those traveling between the ridges are generally safe. A xorn known as Erosion's Escalation (N xorn @Compendium[pf2e.npc-gallery.W9lhKuDeS670LzLx]{Prophet} 12) leads these elementals in their strange veneration.</p>
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<h2 class="no-toc split"><span class="keepme">F5. Armory</span><span class="keepme">Low 7</span></h2>
<p>The northern door is locked with a @Compendium[pf2e.equipment-srd.JZXCTwoIWoGKjMX6]{Simple Lock}.</p>
<p class="read-aloud">
The walls of this room are covered in wooden racks filled with rifles, pistols, and other lethal weaponry. An
auspicious wooden chest covered completely in gold leaf sits against the eastern wall, next to an equally
unusual-looking clockwork construct armed with built-in guns. In the southwestern corner, two corridors head west and
south. The southern corridor ends in a stout wooden door.
</p>
<p>
This is the Gilded Gunners' armory and weapon storage area. Each weapon is secured to the racks with a simple lock. A
character can break the racks (Hardness 5, 20 HP, 10 BT) or @Compendium[pf2e.actionspf2e.SjmKHgI7a5Z9JzBx]{Force them
Open} with a successful @Check[athletics|dc:20|traits:action:force-open|name:Force Open the Rack] check, but
doing so risks breaking the delicate weapons; for each rack so destroyed, a player character must attempt a
@Check[reflex|dc:20|name:Save the Weapon] save. On a failure, the weapon in the rack becomes broken.
</p>
<section class="encounter">
<div class="header">
<img src="modules/pf2e-ap179-cradle-of-quartz/assets/mini/cradle_hazard_token_mini.webp" />
<h2 class="no-toc split">
<span class="keepme">Hallucination Powder Trap</span><span class="keepme">Hazard 6</span>
</h2>
<span class="link">@Compendium[pf2e.hazards.uEZ4Jv2wNyukJTRL]{Hallucination Powder Trap}</span>
</div>
<p><strong>Hazard</strong>:The golden chest is rigged with a hallucination powder trap.</p>
</section>
<section class="encounter">
<div class="header">
<img src="modules/pf2e-ap179-cradle-of-quartz/assets/mini/quartz-clockwork-gunner-token-mini.webp" />
<h2 class="no-toc split"><span class="keepme">F5. Armory</span><span class="keepme">Low 7</span></h2>
<span class="link">@Compendium[pf2e.outlaws-of-alkenstar-bestiary.o2nLVCZVOacqkWus]{Clockwork Gunner}</span>
</div>
<p>
<strong>Creature</strong>: The clockwork construct in the eastern corner isn't for decoration. It lies in standby
mode until one of three criteria is met: it's attacked, the golden chest is opened by someone not wearing gold, or
someone not wearing gold tries to leave the area.
</p>
</section>
<p>
<strong>Treasure</strong>: @UUID[Actor.y6p3GrCBmRSHXsAf]{Weapon Racks} @UUID[Actor.9ehvd8qgflMdh6Oi]{Golden Chest} (Weapons have been chosen for this module, in case you don't want to choose your own)</p>
<p>The racks hold six common simple weapons, four uncommon simple
weapons, and three uncommon martial weapons; three of these weapons are outfitted with +1 weapon potency runes.
Include whatever weapons you think your party would like best, including firearm weapons from page 151 of Pathfinder
Guns &amp; Gears. The @Actor[9ehvd8qgflMdh6Oi]{golden chest} contains a bevy of specialized Gilded Gunner equipment,
including a vial of alchemist's damper, two golden branding irons, 10 golden-cased bullets, a golden silencer, two
vials of liquid gold, and a gyroscopic stabilizer. See
@UUID[JournalEntry.pf2ap17906advent.JournalEntryPage.06gildedgear0000]{Gilded Gear} for details on these items.
</p>

<h2 class="no-toc split"><span class="keepme">F5. Armory</span><span class="keepme">Low 7</span></h2>
<p>The northern door is locked with a @Compendium[pf2e.equipment-srd.JZXCTwoIWoGKjMX6]{Simple Lock}.</p>
<p class="read-aloud">
The walls of this room are covered in wooden racks filled with rifles, pistols, and other lethal weaponry. An
auspicious wooden chest covered completely in gold leaf sits against the eastern wall, next to an equally
unusual-looking clockwork construct armed with built-in guns. In the southwestern corner, two corridors head west and
south. The southern corridor ends in a stout wooden door.
</p>
<p>
This is the Gilded Gunners' armory and weapon storage area. Each weapon is secured to the racks with a simple lock. A
character can break the racks (Hardness 5, 20 HP, 10 BT) or @Compendium[pf2e.actionspf2e.SjmKHgI7a5Z9JzBx]{Force them
Open} with a successful @Check[type:athletics|dc:20|traits:action:force-open|name:Force Open the Rack] check, but
doing so risks breaking the delicate weapons; for each rack so destroyed, a player character must attempt a
@Check[type:reflex|dc:20|name:Save the Weapon] save. On a failure, the weapon in the rack becomes broken.
</p>
<section class="encounter">
<div class="header">
<img src="modules/pf2e-ap179-cradle-of-quartz/assets/mini/cradle_hazard_token_mini.webp" />
<h2 class="no-toc split">
<span class="keepme">Hallucination Powder Trap</span><span class="keepme">Hazard 6</span>
</h2>
<span class="link">@Compendium[pf2e.hazards.uEZ4Jv2wNyukJTRL]{Hallucination Powder Trap}</span>
</div>
<p><strong>Hazard</strong>:The golden chest is rigged with a hallucination powder trap.</p>
</section>
<section class="encounter">
<div class="header">
<img src="modules/pf2e-ap179-cradle-of-quartz/assets/mini/quartz-clockwork-gunner-token-mini.webp" />
<h2 class="no-toc split"><span class="keepme">F5. Armory</span><span class="keepme">Low 7</span></h2>
<span class="link">@Compendium[pf2e.outlaws-of-alkenstar-bestiary.o2nLVCZVOacqkWus]{Clockwork Gunner}</span>
</div>
<p>
<strong>Creature</strong>: The clockwork construct in the eastern corner isn't for decoration. It lies in standby
mode until one of three criteria is met: it's attacked, the golden chest is opened by someone not wearing gold, or
someone not wearing gold tries to leave the area.
</p>
</section>
<p>
<strong>Treasure</strong>: @UUID[Actor.y6p3GrCBmRSHXsAf]{Weapon Racks} @UUID[Actor.9ehvd8qgflMdh6Oi]{Golden Chest} (Weapons have been chosen for this module, in case you don't want to choose your own)</p>
<p>The racks hold six common simple weapons, four uncommon simple
weapons, and three uncommon martial weapons; three of these weapons are outfitted with +1 weapon potency runes.
Include whatever weapons you think your party would like best, including firearm weapons from page 151 of Pathfinder
Guns &amp; Gears. The @Actor[9ehvd8qgflMdh6Oi]{golden chest} contains a bevy of specialized Gilded Gunner equipment,
including a vial of alchemist's damper, two golden branding irons, 10 golden-cased bullets, a golden silencer, two
vials of liquid gold, and a gyroscopic stabilizer. See
@UUID[JournalEntry.pf2ap17906advent.JournalEntryPage.06gildedgear0000]{Gilded Gear} for details on these items.
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<h2 class="no-toc">F1. Smithy</h2>
<p>
An unassuming workshop operated during the day by Sharkosa's trusted minion Koreole
(@UUID[JournalEntry.pf2ap17904theste.JournalEntryPage.04forge000000000]{area F11}) obscures the entrance to the Gilded
Halls. A player character can locate the trapdoor hidden under a dusty carpet in the corner of the smithy (marked with
an "F" on the map) with a successful @Check[perception|dc:20] check.
</p>
<p>
If the characters arrive late at night, the blacksmith Koreole has retired to the hideout below (area F11), leaving
the smithy unattended.
</p>
<p>
<strong>Alarm</strong>: The trapdoor rings alarms in the complex below if opened without being disarmed. A character
who @Compendium[pf2e.actionspf2e.BlAOM2X92SI6HMtJ]{Seeks} around the trapdoor and succeeds at a
@Check[perception|dc:25|traits:secret,action:seek] check notices a hidden catch on the trapdoor's handle that
disables the alarm. Opening the trapdoor without pressing the catch sounds alarms in areas
@UUID[JournalEntry.pf2ap17904theste.JournalEntryPage.04meetingroom000]{F3},
@UUID[JournalEntry.pf2ap17904theste.JournalEntryPage.04barracks000000]{F4}, and
@UUID[JournalEntry.pf2ap17904theste.JournalEntryPage.04sharkosaslai00]{F7}. If any gunners escaped the Steaming
Kingdom, they warned their boss and raised the alarm. The rest of the text assumes the alarm was raised, but
suggestions are included for enemies' locations in case the player characters managed to sneak in.
</p>
<section class="encounter">
<div class="header">
<img src="modules/pf2e-ap178-180-outlaws-of-alkenstar/assets/art/mm_logo_blue.svg" />
<h2 class="no-toc split"><span class="keepme">SCENE NOTES</span><span class="keepme">FOUNDRY</span></h2>
<span class="link">@Macro[oTvn7p4Pnke1ufr2]{Pull Rug} @Macro[7ryHZHIhls8LFlya]{Open Trap Door}</span>
</div>
<p>
<strong>Macro:</strong> You can click on the macros above when the rug gets pulled, and when the trap door gets
opened.
</p>
<p>The <strong>Rug Pull</strong> macro will hide the rug tile, revealing the trap door beneath.</p>
<p>
The <strong>Open Trap Door</strong> macro will show the trap door as opened, but also prompt you if the alarm has
been disabled. If it hasn't, the macro will also play an alarm sound. This will also enable a teleport region.
</p>
</section>

<h2 class="no-toc">F1. Smithy</h2>
<p>
An unassuming workshop operated during the day by Sharkosa's trusted minion Koreole
(@UUID[JournalEntry.pf2ap17904theste.JournalEntryPage.04forge000000000]{area F11}) obscures the entrance to the Gilded
Halls. A player character can locate the trapdoor hidden under a dusty carpet in the corner of the smithy (marked with
an "F" on the map) with a successful @Check[type:perception|dc:20] check.
</p>
<p>
If the characters arrive late at night, the blacksmith Koreole has retired to the hideout below (area F11), leaving
the smithy unattended.
</p>
<p>
<strong>Alarm</strong>: The trapdoor rings alarms in the complex below if opened without being disarmed. A character
who @Compendium[pf2e.actionspf2e.BlAOM2X92SI6HMtJ]{Seeks} around the trapdoor and succeeds at a
@Check[type:perception|dc:25|traits:secret,action:seek] check notices a hidden catch on the trapdoor's handle that
disables the alarm. Opening the trapdoor without pressing the catch sounds alarms in areas
@UUID[JournalEntry.pf2ap17904theste.JournalEntryPage.04meetingroom000]{F3},
@UUID[JournalEntry.pf2ap17904theste.JournalEntryPage.04barracks000000]{F4}, and
@UUID[JournalEntry.pf2ap17904theste.JournalEntryPage.04sharkosaslai00]{F7}. If any gunners escaped the Steaming
Kingdom, they warned their boss and raised the alarm. The rest of the text assumes the alarm was raised, but
suggestions are included for enemies' locations in case the player characters managed to sneak in.
</p>
<section class="encounter">
<div class="header">
<img src="modules/pf2e-ap178-180-outlaws-of-alkenstar/assets/art/mm_logo_blue.svg" />
<h2 class="no-toc split"><span class="keepme">SCENE NOTES</span><span class="keepme">FOUNDRY</span></h2>
<span class="link">@Macro[oTvn7p4Pnke1ufr2]{Pull Rug} @Macro[7ryHZHIhls8LFlya]{Open Trap Door}</span>
</div>
<p>
<strong>Macro:</strong> You can click on the macros above when the rug gets pulled, and when the trap door gets
opened.
</p>
<p>The <strong>Rug Pull</strong> macro will hide the rug tile, revealing the trap door beneath.</p>
<p>
The <strong>Open Trap Door</strong> macro will show the trap door as opened, but also prompt you if the alarm has
been disabled. If it hasn't, the macro will also play an alarm sound. This will also enable a teleport region.
</p>
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<h2 class="no-toc">F10. Vault</h2>
<p>
The door is made of iron (Hardness 18, HP 72, BT 36) and locked with a
@Compendium[pf2e.equipment-srd.byKAxLyN7AXySmw7]{Good Lock} (requiring five successful
@Check[thievery|dc:30|traits:action:pick-a-lock|name:Pick a Lock] checks to pick). Only Sharkosa has the key to
the vault.
</p>
<p class="read-aloud">
Shelves line the walls of this small stone chamber. Each shelf contains a number of small boxes, coffers, and
containers, each engraved with a golden symbol and rigidly organized. A small wheelbarrow leans against the wall near
the door. Several larger chests sit on the floor under the shelving.
</p>
<p>
The Gilded Gunners keep their most precious treasures here, as well as the raw ore and gold bullion they use to gild
their namesake weapons. The coffers contain gang members' personal shares, while the two chests on the floor are used
to store gold and lead items, respectively (to be melted down and crafted into items in
@UUID[JournalEntry.pf2ap17904theste.JournalEntryPage.04forge000000000]{area F11}). All coffers and chests are locked
with @Compendium[pf2e.equipment-srd.JZXCTwoIWoGKjMX6]{Simple Lock}.
</p>
<p>
<strong>Treasure</strong>: @UUID[Actor.xGicqx2ttWS4tZim]{Coffers} @UUID[Actor.QPNpUkJHtYq5NlCL]{Vault Chest}</p>
<p>The locked coffers contain 120 gp worth of gems, precious
jewelry, silver coins, and other valuables. The gold inlay on the coffers is worth an additional 20 gp. The chest of
lead has little value except for making bullets or fishing weights, but the other @Actor[QPNpUkJHtYq5NlCL]{chest}
contains 300 gp in gold items: rings and other jewelry, candlesticks, religious symbols, and even a few raw chunks of
gold ore.
</p>

<h2 class="no-toc">F10. Vault</h2>
<p>
The door is made of iron (Hardness 18, HP 72, BT 36) and locked with a
@Compendium[pf2e.equipment-srd.byKAxLyN7AXySmw7]{Good Lock} (requiring five successful
@Check[type:thievery|dc:30|traits:action:pick-a-lock|name:Pick a Lock] checks to pick). Only Sharkosa has the key to
the vault.
</p>
<p class="read-aloud">
Shelves line the walls of this small stone chamber. Each shelf contains a number of small boxes, coffers, and
containers, each engraved with a golden symbol and rigidly organized. A small wheelbarrow leans against the wall near
the door. Several larger chests sit on the floor under the shelving.
</p>
<p>
The Gilded Gunners keep their most precious treasures here, as well as the raw ore and gold bullion they use to gild
their namesake weapons. The coffers contain gang members' personal shares, while the two chests on the floor are used
to store gold and lead items, respectively (to be melted down and crafted into items in
@UUID[JournalEntry.pf2ap17904theste.JournalEntryPage.04forge000000000]{area F11}). All coffers and chests are locked
with @Compendium[pf2e.equipment-srd.JZXCTwoIWoGKjMX6]{Simple Lock}.
</p>
<p>
<strong>Treasure</strong>: @UUID[Actor.xGicqx2ttWS4tZim]{Coffers} @UUID[Actor.QPNpUkJHtYq5NlCL]{Vault Chest}</p>
<p>The locked coffers contain 120 gp worth of gems, precious
jewelry, silver coins, and other valuables. The gold inlay on the coffers is worth an additional 20 gp. The chest of
lead has little value except for making bullets or fishing weights, but the other @Actor[QPNpUkJHtYq5NlCL]{chest}
contains 300 gp in gold items: rings and other jewelry, candlesticks, religious symbols, and even a few raw chunks of
gold ore.
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<h2 class="no-toc">E11. Office</h2>
<p>This lavishly appointed chamber is ostensibly Ramslay's office, and it's the room to which she brings important clients and customers. In actuality, the entire affair is a farce, and Ramslay rarely spends time here. More often, she uses her inner sanctum to plan her far-reaching schemes, the secret door to which is hidden behind a sliding bookcase on the north wall (which a player character can locate by @Compendium[pf2e.actionspf2e.BlAOM2X92SI6HMtJ]{Seeking} and succeeding at a @Check[perception|dc:24|traits:secret] check).</p>

<h2 class="no-toc">E11. Office</h2>
<p>This lavishly appointed chamber is ostensibly Ramslay's office, and it's the room to which she brings important clients and customers. In actuality, the entire affair is a farce, and Ramslay rarely spends time here. More often, she uses her inner sanctum to plan her far-reaching schemes, the secret door to which is hidden behind a sliding bookcase on the north wall (which a player character can locate by @Compendium[pf2e.actionspf2e.BlAOM2X92SI6HMtJ]{Seeking} and succeeding at a @Check[type:perception|dc:24|traits:secret] check).</p>
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<h2 class="no-toc">E9. Storage</h2>
<p>
Spare furniture, crates of perishable foodstuffs, and other basic supplies for the Steaming Kingdom are stored in this
room. The pervasive steam throughout the complex doesn't reach this room or any of the rooms beyond (areas
@UUID[JournalEntry.pf2ap17904theste.JournalEntryPage.04privatesuite00]{E10} to
@UUID[JournalEntry.pf2ap17904theste.JournalEntryPage.04vault000000000]{E13}), removing the penalty to Perception
checks.
</p>
<p>
One of the tables in here is stacked on its end with its legs out; it's actually part of a secret door, which a
character can detect with a successful @Check[perception|dc:24|traits:secret] check while
@Compendium[pf2e.actionspf2e.BlAOM2X92SI6HMtJ]{Seeking}. When triggered, the table swings outward to the right,
revealing a doorway to a private suite (@UUID[JournalEntry.pf2ap17904theste.JournalEntryPage.04privatesuite00]{E10}).
</p>
<p>
The Steaming Kingdom's two @Compendium[pf2e.outlaws-of-alkenstar-bestiary.RqV8n5CxdDQ6ZahH]{Clockwork Disposers} are
stored in this closet, in standby mode, until business dies down or a significant mess needs cleaning up.
</p>

<h2 class="no-toc">E9. Storage</h2>
<p>
Spare furniture, crates of perishable foodstuffs, and other basic supplies for the Steaming Kingdom are stored in this
room. The pervasive steam throughout the complex doesn't reach this room or any of the rooms beyond (areas
@UUID[JournalEntry.pf2ap17904theste.JournalEntryPage.04privatesuite00]{E10} to
@UUID[JournalEntry.pf2ap17904theste.JournalEntryPage.04vault000000000]{E13}), removing the penalty to Perception
checks.
</p>
<p>
One of the tables in here is stacked on its end with its legs out; it's actually part of a secret door, which a
character can detect with a successful @Check[type:perception|dc:24|traits:secret] check while
@Compendium[pf2e.actionspf2e.BlAOM2X92SI6HMtJ]{Seeking}. When triggered, the table swings outward to the right,
revealing a doorway to a private suite (@UUID[JournalEntry.pf2ap17904theste.JournalEntryPage.04privatesuite00]{E10}).
</p>
<p>
The Steaming Kingdom's two @Compendium[pf2e.outlaws-of-alkenstar-bestiary.RqV8n5CxdDQ6ZahH]{Clockwork Disposers} are
stored in this closet, in standby mode, until business dies down or a significant mess needs cleaning up.
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<h2>E7a. Private Bath</h2>
<p>This is one of two private baths, often used by Ramslay for personal meetings. The steam vents in the floor can be opened with a hidden catch (@Check[perception|dc:22|traits:secret] to notice while @Compendium[pf2e.actionspf2e.BlAOM2X92SI6HMtJ]{Seeking}), allowing access into the steam-filled tunnel below in case of emergency.</p>
<section class="encounter">
<div class="header"><img src="modules/pf2e-ap178-180-outlaws-of-alkenstar/assets/art/mm_logo_blue.svg">
<h2 class="no-toc split"><span class="keepme">SCENE NOTES</span><span class="keepme">FOUNDRY</span></h2>
<span class="link">@Macro[zTXu1zQ78E17PwGP]{Steaming Kingdom Trapdoor}</span></div>
<p><strong>Macro:</strong> You can click on the macro above when the steam vent is opened.</p>
<p>This will reveal the tile, showing the vent as opened.</p>
</section>

<h2>E7a. Private Bath</h2>
<p>This is one of two private baths, often used by Ramslay for personal meetings. The steam vents in the floor can be opened with a hidden catch (@Check[type:perception|dc:22|traits:secret] to notice while @Compendium[pf2e.actionspf2e.BlAOM2X92SI6HMtJ]{Seeking}), allowing access into the steam-filled tunnel below in case of emergency.</p>
<section class="encounter">
<div class="header"><img src="modules/pf2e-ap178-180-outlaws-of-alkenstar/assets/art/mm_logo_blue.svg">
<h2 class="no-toc split"><span class="keepme">SCENE NOTES</span><span class="keepme">FOUNDRY</span></h2>
<span class="link">@Macro[zTXu1zQ78E17PwGP]{Steaming Kingdom Trapdoor}</span></div>
<p><strong>Macro:</strong> You can click on the macro above when the steam vent is opened.</p>
<p>This will reveal the tile, showing the vent as opened.</p>
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<h1 class="no-toc">The Steaming Kingdom</h1>
<p>The Steaming Kingdom occupies what was once a half-dozen disparate cellars of buildings long-since demolished, but few would notice its modest heritage. Ramslay oversaw the excavation and renovation of the subterrane into a large common space for her new bar. As they dug, the work crew broke into a natural hot spring near the back of one of the cellars. Never one to see an obstacle as anything other than a new business opportunity, the imaginative Ramslay added steam baths and saunas to her business plan, and the Steaming Kingdom took shape.</p>
<p>Accessible only by members and their escorted guests, the steam baths are often used as a safe territory for complex negotiations between powerful rivals and allies alike. The club's no-weapon policy is often violated in the common rooms, but even concealed weapons don't make it into the baths, where clients enter only in the flesh in which they were born.</p>
<aside class="sidebar float-right">
<h1 class="no-toc">Weapons and Armor</h1>
<p>Weapons are forbidden in the Steaming Kingdom, though few customers actually abide by this rule; just about everyone in the establishment carries a dagger or discreet pistol. Weapons with the concealable trait (Pathfinder Advanced Player's Guide 248) and one-handed firearms in a @Compendium[pf2e.equipment-srd.3fHdvyWq5A9jvT9W]{Concealed Holster} are easy to sneak in; player characters can bring in such weapons unchallenged. They can bring in a weapon of light Bulk by succeeding at a @Check[stealth|dc:24|traits:action:conceal-an-object|name:Conceal an Object] check to @Compendium[pf2e.actionspf2e.qVNVSmsgpKFGk9hV]{Conceal an Object} from the guard at the speakeasy's front door. A player character can get contraband through the door by bribing the door guard with at least 50 gp.</p>
<p>Armor is allowed within the Steaming Kingdom, but it attracts attention.</p>
</aside>
<p>As Ramslay's enterprise flourished, her rivals suffered, but none more than Mugland, whose own crime-friendly taverns saw substantial drops in revenue as his highest-paying customers abandoned their old haunts for the luxurious Steaming Kingdom. While their rivalry has never spilled into outright violence, the ever-vindictive Mugland has long sought a way to put Ramslay out of business - permanently.</p>
<p>Ramslay doesn't view Mugland as a true threat, and she underestimates her rival's pettiness and thirst for revenge. Perhaps now that Mugland has a working pyronite formula, he can turn up the pressure on their long-simmering standoff.</p>
<p><strong>Environment</strong>: The ceilings of the Steaming Kingdom are 10 feet high, often with a tangle of pipes or steam conduits filling the top foot of space. Walls are wooden panels over stone foundations, and all spaces are lit by oil-fueled lamps mounted on the walls and that hang from the ceiling. Doors are simple wooden affairs except for the entrance (@UUID[JournalEntry.pf2ap17904theste.JournalEntryPage.04entrance000000]{area E1}) and in areas @UUID[JournalEntry.pf2ap17904theste.JournalEntryPage.04storage0000000]{E9} through @UUID[JournalEntry.pf2ap17904theste.JournalEntryPage.04vault000000000]{E13} (see those areas for details). Due to the thick, sweet-smelling steam that wafts through the air in much of the establishment (areas @UUID[JournalEntry.pf2ap17904theste.JournalEntryPage.04southeastcom00]{E2} to @UUID[JournalEntry.pf2ap17904theste.JournalEntryPage.04kitchen0000000]{E8}), characters take a -2 circumstance penalty to Perception checks that rely on vision or scent in these areas.</p>
<p>The following areas correspond to the map of the Steaming Kingdom. Because the party isn't expected to face the creatures or hazards associated with each area - it's more likely the characters will use these creatures and hazards against their enemies during the Gilded Gunners' attack - the threat level for such dangers isn't included next to the name of each area. For suggestions on which stats to use for Steaming Kingdom staff and customers, see the Staff and Clientele sidebar @UUID[JournalEntry.pf2ap17904theste.JournalEntryPage.04partyprepara00]{here}.</p>

<h1 class="no-toc">The Steaming Kingdom</h1>
<p>The Steaming Kingdom occupies what was once a half-dozen disparate cellars of buildings long-since demolished, but few would notice its modest heritage. Ramslay oversaw the excavation and renovation of the subterrane into a large common space for her new bar. As they dug, the work crew broke into a natural hot spring near the back of one of the cellars. Never one to see an obstacle as anything other than a new business opportunity, the imaginative Ramslay added steam baths and saunas to her business plan, and the Steaming Kingdom took shape.</p>
<p>Accessible only by members and their escorted guests, the steam baths are often used as a safe territory for complex negotiations between powerful rivals and allies alike. The club's no-weapon policy is often violated in the common rooms, but even concealed weapons don't make it into the baths, where clients enter only in the flesh in which they were born.</p>
<aside class="sidebar float-right">
<h1 class="no-toc">Weapons and Armor</h1>
<p>Weapons are forbidden in the Steaming Kingdom, though few customers actually abide by this rule; just about everyone in the establishment carries a dagger or discreet pistol. Weapons with the concealable trait (Pathfinder Advanced Player's Guide 248) and one-handed firearms in a @Compendium[pf2e.equipment-srd.3fHdvyWq5A9jvT9W]{Concealed Holster} are easy to sneak in; player characters can bring in such weapons unchallenged. They can bring in a weapon of light Bulk by succeeding at a @Check[type:stealth|dc:24|traits:action:conceal-an-object|name:Conceal an Object] check to @Compendium[pf2e.actionspf2e.qVNVSmsgpKFGk9hV]{Conceal an Object} from the guard at the speakeasy's front door. A player character can get contraband through the door by bribing the door guard with at least 50 gp.</p>
<p>Armor is allowed within the Steaming Kingdom, but it attracts attention.</p>
</aside>
<p>As Ramslay's enterprise flourished, her rivals suffered, but none more than Mugland, whose own crime-friendly taverns saw substantial drops in revenue as his highest-paying customers abandoned their old haunts for the luxurious Steaming Kingdom. While their rivalry has never spilled into outright violence, the ever-vindictive Mugland has long sought a way to put Ramslay out of business - permanently.</p>
<p>Ramslay doesn't view Mugland as a true threat, and she underestimates her rival's pettiness and thirst for revenge. Perhaps now that Mugland has a working pyronite formula, he can turn up the pressure on their long-simmering standoff.</p>
<p><strong>Environment</strong>: The ceilings of the Steaming Kingdom are 10 feet high, often with a tangle of pipes or steam conduits filling the top foot of space. Walls are wooden panels over stone foundations, and all spaces are lit by oil-fueled lamps mounted on the walls and that hang from the ceiling. Doors are simple wooden affairs except for the entrance (@UUID[JournalEntry.pf2ap17904theste.JournalEntryPage.04entrance000000]{area E1}) and in areas @UUID[JournalEntry.pf2ap17904theste.JournalEntryPage.04storage0000000]{E9} through @UUID[JournalEntry.pf2ap17904theste.JournalEntryPage.04vault000000000]{E13} (see those areas for details). Due to the thick, sweet-smelling steam that wafts through the air in much of the establishment (areas @UUID[JournalEntry.pf2ap17904theste.JournalEntryPage.04southeastcom00]{E2} to @UUID[JournalEntry.pf2ap17904theste.JournalEntryPage.04kitchen0000000]{E8}), characters take a -2 circumstance penalty to Perception checks that rely on vision or scent in these areas.</p>
<p>The following areas correspond to the map of the Steaming Kingdom. Because the party isn't expected to face the creatures or hazards associated with each area - it's more likely the characters will use these creatures and hazards against their enemies during the Gilded Gunners' attack - the threat level for such dangers isn't included next to the name of each area. For suggestions on which stats to use for Steaming Kingdom staff and customers, see the Staff and Clientele sidebar @UUID[JournalEntry.pf2ap17904theste.JournalEntryPage.04partyprepara00]{here}.</p>
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<h2 class="no-toc">D15. Chamber of the Orb</h2>
<p class="read-aloud">The ceiling of this hexagonal chamber comes to a pyramidal point nearly eighty feet above the black stone floor. The most striking feature of the room, however, is front and center: a massive hemisphere of dazzling sandstone forty feet across. The orb - only half of which is visible above the stone floor in which it's set - is impossibly smooth, like a massive ball bearing or glass marble.</p>
<p>This spherical amalgamation of quartz dust would be a wonder of the natural world even if it weren't a tremendous geode. When Harcourt the Fisher came upon the orb, he claimed he felt a supernatural compulsion to get close to it.</p>
<p><strong>Secret Door</strong>: Examining the exterior of the sphere shows no way into the hollow wonder. The entrance is below the stone floor: a player character who succeeds at a @Check[perception|dc:25|traits:action:seek] while @Compendium[pf2e.actionspf2e.BlAOM2X92SI6HMtJ]{Seeking} around the stone tiles of this room discovers one of the tiles can be pried up and pushed aside. Below the tile is a stone compartment just big enough for an average human. From this compartment, one can access the spectacular interior of the geode.</p>

<h2 class="no-toc">D15. Chamber of the Orb</h2>
<p class="read-aloud">The ceiling of this hexagonal chamber comes to a pyramidal point nearly eighty feet above the black stone floor. The most striking feature of the room, however, is front and center: a massive hemisphere of dazzling sandstone forty feet across. The orb - only half of which is visible above the stone floor in which it's set - is impossibly smooth, like a massive ball bearing or glass marble.</p>
<p>This spherical amalgamation of quartz dust would be a wonder of the natural world even if it weren't a tremendous geode. When Harcourt the Fisher came upon the orb, he claimed he felt a supernatural compulsion to get close to it.</p>
<p><strong>Secret Door</strong>: Examining the exterior of the sphere shows no way into the hollow wonder. The entrance is below the stone floor: a player character who succeeds at a @Check[type:perception|dc:25|traits:action:seek] while @Compendium[pf2e.actionspf2e.BlAOM2X92SI6HMtJ]{Seeking} around the stone tiles of this room discovers one of the tiles can be pried up and pushed aside. Below the tile is a stone compartment just big enough for an average human. From this compartment, one can access the spectacular interior of the geode.</p>
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