#absolute power

Challenge #04915-M166: As You Wish

A traveler comes upon an incredible find, a Djinn’s bottle! The traveler eagerly rubs the enchanted vessel, only to discover that the bottle is empty. Good news, the vessel is accepting new entrants with all the powers that implies. Bad news, the vessel is in the middle of nowhere and not very large on the inside… -- Deathshead419

Something had turned a once-great city into ruins, but the drifting sands and bones of the buildings gave no clues. The plants that still thrived had conquered many streets, and had dominated the palace. Wildlife hunted each other where markets had once thrived.

This was the exact kind of place that Hazoreth Smith loved to investigate.

If anywhere was going to house a dangerous magical artifact that desperately needed to be kept away from the forces of malice, it was this place. Of course, such a thing would be at the other end of a set of ingenious and mysteriously functional traps. The biggest mystery being how they could remain efficacious after centuries of neglect.