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Pain MilkerHazard 12

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Environmental 
Source Pathfinder #184: The Ghouls Hunger pg. 23
Complexity Simple
Stealth DC 10
Description An eerie machine made of levers, crystals, and glowing bits of metal that, as one draws near, causes unsettling aches and pains.
Disable DC 33 Thievery (master) to deactivate the machine, or DC 38 Perception (expert) to decipher the proper order in which the switches and dials should be adjusted in order to power the device down harmlessly
AC 31, Fort +24, Ref +18
Hardness 22, HP 60 (BT 30); Immunities critical hits, object immunities, precision damage
Agonizing Overload [reaction] (divine, necromancy) Trigger The pain milker is struck hard enough to take damage, or any of its dials and levers are adjusted carelessly; Effect The pain milker emits a shrill whine and exudes a blast of violet light. All creatures in area B2 must attempt a DC 30 Fortitude save. This DC is reduced by 2 if the machine is broken.

Critical Success The creature is unaffected.
Success The creature takes 4d10 positive or negative damage (whichever is more harmful).
Failure The creature takes 8d10 positive or negative damage (whichever is more harmful) and is enfeebled 1.
Critical Failure As failure but 16d10 damage and enfeebled 2.
Reset If the augnagar still lives and at least one crystallized agony is still functional, the pain milker resets automatically in a number of rounds equal to 7 – the number of remaining crystallized agonies.