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title: Ice sickle
subtitle: Cold steel
author: Seth
date: 2019-02-25 01:00 
publish_date: 2019-02-25 01:00

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A valuable item (adjust the price in gold pieces to whatever appropriately entices your players) is trapped in a block of magical ice. 
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The ice melts as normal if heated, but the loss of weight triggers the release of a suspended pendulum (a sickle) made of magical ice. This swings down at any creature standing immediately before the ice block, and deals 1d12 (half slashing, half cold) damage.
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<a href="https://unsplash.com/photos/J8R34suxfRU?utm_source=unsplash&utm_medium=referral&utm_content=creditCopyText" target="_blank">Snowflake</a>
by Aaron Burden, modified by Seth in <a href="http://gimp.org">GIMP</a> on <a href="http://fedoraproject.org">Fedora Linux</a>.
<a href="https://unsplash.com/license" target="_blank">Unsplash License</a>.
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