My first introduction was the so fucking amazing load video for mechwarrior 4. God, they put so much cool shit in a three minute blast.
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Hmm, isn't scent one of those senses tied closely to memory and is permeable to a mattress?
Also, at OP, cleaning wouldn't be too difficult. Lift mattress, apply vacuum hose.
See, that's just idiocy. Sure, test the device to see if it suddenly gives you spiffy new armor, but ya'll are freaking adventurers, ready to cut and kill and slay anything in your path! SET UP A TRAP FIRST! Put a hot tub of holy water where the first spawn location was! Scatter circles of salt in eighteen strategic locations around the room! Write the verses of ancient positive energy across the walls! Summon the ancient daedra of yore, hallowed be their sigilic runes, and let fly the chaos of the universe into the demesnes of horror where cometh light's foe, wherein the bane of life finds new fears etched prebirth into the slaverings of its blasphemous mental cavity!
I mean, just look at their example. Level 17+ for the math? Holy shiiiiiit. At levels 15+, you're basically living legends that are about to start conquering kingdoms singlehandedly and fighting gods. That's not "a talented musician," that's the dude who leads month long rave parties that brings in all the nobility's children and starts a religion that is then used with said children to start coups in the continental region.
I mean, my best guess? Like chaotic neutral, players who "must" play halflings do it because they want to play to type... a very, very annoying type that doesn't make for a fun time at the table... and saying this weeds them out.