> USE STONE OF FORTUNE
With a confident grin, you reach into your pack and retrieve the STONE OF FORTUNE. The SHADOWY FIGURES are taken aback, their eyes wide with awe. This object of power is the stuff of legend, known well in these lands for the great boons it has bestowed upon you. They know full well that you only invoke its magic when you truly need it, and they hold their breath as you cast the stone down into the RITUAL’S CENTER, its gleaming blue surfaces seeming to sparkle with energy on all twenty of its PERFECTLY POLISHED SIDES.
The STONE OF FORTUNE ricochets against one of the sinister RED BEADS unexpectedly, diverting its path back out of the RITUAL, off of the ALTAR, across the FLOOR, and carries it underneath a FILTHY COUCH. The DARKENED ROOM is stunned into silence. Has the STONE OF FORTUNE forsaken you in this desperate hour? All at once, the SHADOWY FIGURES rise and hurry towards the COUCH, scrambling to retrieve the STONE, so that all may know its decree. The house rules state, after all, that the cast of a stone is law, regardless of where it may lay.
A DISTRACTION! Luck is with you after all; all of the SHADOWY FIGURES are busy quarreling and trying to get the ritual back on track. The TABLE is unguarded and you have a chance to tip the odds in your favor with a clever action…
COMMAND?
> USE TOTEMS
> STEAL MYSTERIOUS TOME
> USE WISDOM SCROLL
> ROLL FOR BLUFF