What is the Runecarved Key for?

[gustavo iglesias]

I've recently bought Race for the Rune Carved Key, to addapt it for my Rise of Runelords/Shattered Star non-PFS campaign. It's nice.

However, unless I'm missing once and again something, I still don't know what is the Rune Carved key for. Is it used in some other different PFS scenario? What can you use it for? Or is it just a McGuffin, without real value, other than the historical one?

[ArcGygas]

Just a MacGuffin. But, if you're running it as part of an overarching story, you could easily have it be the key for the front (or even back!) door.

[Galnörag]

Spoiler:

The rune carved key is temporal McGuffin, but it is incomplete, the dwarven king divided it up, and his three heirs each took one of the quarters and spread out across the Inner Sea Region after the fall of his kingdom. The remaining pieces are found during various season 6 scenarios, include one in Scions of the Sky Key Part 1,, Part2, and part 3; Tapestrys Toil; and Return to sky

Once accumulated, the parts are combined, and the results revealed in: The Sky Key Solution

I haven't had a chance to play them all, but it is a pretty good execution of a metaplot in the PFS space, which presents challenges.

[TriOmegaZero]

Galnorag, that's the Sky Key.

The Rune-Carved Key was a Lissalan artifact used to open the way to a secret vault of the faith. Race for the Rune-Carved Key was a two-part special, the second of which was only run one time. The descriptive text, minus the stat blocks, can be found here. The full adventure is not planned on being released to the public for the foreseeable future due to the exclusive nature of the scenario.

[Muser]

It was used in Race part II to open a gateway to a demiplane with an intact Thassilonian temple housing some - far less intact - sleeping elite of Xin-Haruka slumbering away the years, waiting for the re-establishment of the ancient kingdom.

It was never meant for proper release and was con-only.

Edit: Oh, forgot about this: DEATH BY BOXTEXT!

[Kalindlara]

I believe Michael Brock was kind enough to release a rough version of the text somewhere on these forums.

I remember it having a pretty cruel time limit...

[gustavo iglesias]

Thanks!
Well, the stuff about sky citadels doesn't work that well in my campaigns, but hey, nothing can stop me to change it for something else :P

EDIT: oh, I see. I was answering to the sky citadel comment, before I read the rest of stuff. It's ok, the key used to open some stuff for the return of Krune, then. Thanks

[Galnörag]

Steven Schopmeyer wrote:

Galnorag, that's the Sky Key.

The Rune-Carved Key was a Lissalan artifact used to open the way to a secret vault of the faith. Race for the Rune-Carved Key was a two-part special, the second of which was only run one time. The descriptive text, minus the stat blocks, can be found here. The full adventure is not planned on being released to the public for the foreseeable future due to the exclusive nature of the scenario.

Durrrr right, my brain is a little fogged today, but I guess using the same McGuffin two seasons in a row presents some confusion, so I'm only going to take 75% blame on this one :)

[Muser]

Jävla Galnörag just confused the two McGuffins.

I'd just have the Runecarved Key open the Runeforge or some other relevant ruin. There's a ton of those in the new Belkzen book, btw.

[UndeadMitch]

Can anyone that has a chronicle from part two post the text from the replicas found during Race part two? Or at least fire me off a PM with the relevant info? I'm getting some notes together about it for when I run Shattered Star in the future.

[TriOmegaZero]

I would also be interested in such information!

[Kalindlara]

Found it!

EDIT: The adventure text, not the Chronicle sheet. Sorry. ^_^