If This Doesn’t Give You Ideas

I read this article and after finishing it realized that it sounds like a situation that a bunch of PCs would be put in. Okay switch around a few of the names and what the medals are for and you have a game all ready to go. If you never heard of Aqua Regia (latin for royal water) there are rules for it in the Player’s Handbook.

Bonus points if your players decide to precipitate the gold back out of the liquid and then have it cast back into the awards that it originally was.

In a setting that uses gold as currency, the players may have to hide loot. Have them dissolve it.

Just a thought.