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Unfinished PortalrenderHazard 13

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Complex Magical Trap 
Source Pathfinder #184: The Ghouls Hunger pg. 26
Complexity Complex
Stealth +27 (master)
Description A sphere of concentrated agony harvested from a qlippoth begins pulsing with violet light as it blasts the room with otherworldly agony.
Disable DC 37 Thievery (master) to dismantle the housing and refocus the agony inward so it consumes itself harmlessly, DC 33 Arcana or Occultism (master) to vent the agony in a controlled way that causes the portalrender to become inert after 1 minute (during which it can still be triggered normally), or dispel magic (7th level; counteract DC 31)
AC 34, Fort +26, Ref +20
Hardness 22, HP 88 (BT 44)
Agonizing Pulse [reaction] (emotion, enchantment, mental, occult) Trigger The unfinished portalrender takes any damage or is moved (the portalrender is Bulk 5); Effect The central sphere of concentrated agony flashes bright violet, filling the mind's of the room's inhabitants with overwhelming mental sensations of pain and hallucinations that the world around them is being torn away and replaced by a demon-haunted apocalypse. All creatures in area B4 must attempt a DC 33 Will save, then the trap rolls initiative.

Critical Success The creature is unaffected.
Success The creature takes 4d6 mental damage from the pain.
Failure The creature takes 8d6 mental damage from the pain and is confused until the end of their next turn.
Critical Failure The creature takes 16d6 mental damage from the pain, is stupefied 1, and is confused for 1 minute.
Routine (1 action) The unfinished portalrender continues to flood area B4 with agony, and everyone in the room must attempt a DC 33 Will save against its Agonizing Pulse. At the end of its turn, the unfinished portalrender attempts a DC 6 flat check. On a failure, its stores of agony deplete and it deactivates, causing the central orb of agony to fade away permanently