Ideas for a Winter Collector on Triaxus

[Tamago]

My PCs are playing through The Frozen Stars right now (they are currently Level 11/Mythic Tier 3), and in order to tie the events of TFS more closely to the rest of the AP, I have decided to place a Winter Collector somewhere near Yrax's palace. (Thanks to Jeven on the GM reference thread for the idea!}

In my version, Elvanna created a series of new Winter Collectors in order to spread Irrisen's winter throughout Golarion. One of these was on Triaxus, and she paid off the white dragon Yrax to guard it. So it should be somewhere in or near his palace.

I'm looking for ideas on what exactly the Winter Collector is, and how it can be destroyed. I was thinking of something like a D&D-style skill challenge, but I'm open to suggestions. I do want its destruction to be more involved than just "hit it with the adamantine warhammer!"

(If it matters, I'm also having a simulacrum of Elvanna in the palace to keep an eye on Yrax and guard the collector. My players will be facing her next week, which should be very exciting!)

[Ayanzo]

From book 6, they kinda look like giant obelisks, black-grey evil version of the Washington monument but covered in thick glacial layers of white ice that flake off from time to time only to be replaced by more ice.

[Luna eladrin]

Perhaps they can do a nice ritual to destroy it. You can let them find objects, a rhyme consisting of various sentences, or someone who can teach them the ritual. Or a combination of all three.

[Voadam]

Tamago wrote:

My PCs are playing through The Frozen Stars right now (they are currently Level 11/Mythic Tier 3), and in order to tie the events of TFS more closely to the rest of the AP, I have decided to place a Winter Collector somewhere near Yrax's palace. (Thanks to Jeven on the GM reference thread for the idea!}

In my version, Elvanna created a series of new Winter Collectors in order to spread Irrisen's winter throughout Golarion. One of these was on Triaxus, and she paid off the white dragon Yrax to guard it. So it should be somewhere in or near his palace.

I'm looking for ideas on what exactly the Winter Collector is, and how it can be destroyed. I was thinking of something like a D&D-style skill challenge, but I'm open to suggestions. I do want its destruction to be more involved than just "hit it with the adamantine warhammer!"

You need something fey and appropriate to counter evil winter fey magic!

Hitting it with the warhammer just causes the ice to crack and reform, possibly trapping the hammer like that kid's tongue on a Christmas story.

You need true love or an act of hot blooded passion to heat up the cold heart of winter. Making a pact with summer fey is a good symbolic counter, or drawing out winter by summoning it and concentrating it elsewhere. This is something for the mythic PCs to come up with and for you to then say "Cool, that works".

Only then can the adamantine warhammer be used to smash it to pieces!

[Bellona]

Any ritual being used on the Winter Collector could include some combination of adamantium (my own term for adamantine) and cold iron. That way you get both anti-construct/item/hardness and anti-fey/magic elements. Maybe alternating blows from each weapon, or a specially-constructed weapon which includes both special materials?

[Tamago]

Ooh, I like the idea of true love or hot passion somehow being involved. Smashing it simultaneously with both a cold iron and an adamantine weapon would be a good end-cap for the ritual, but I think only after its plot-immunity is ended through some kind of ritual.

Thanks for the ideas! Keep 'em coming! :-)