Book of Boiling Blood
a tome you may open once a day, if your enemy lets you
An Esoteric Hermit may open and read from this book once a day. The Hermit's enemy must pass a dr12 test to prevent the reading. On failure, d2 Berserker-Slayers are torn out of a forgotten dimension of blood and arrive in the room. On a d6: 1–4 they fight beside the reader. 5–6 they turn on the reader and the book, intent on destroying both. After the battle, they return to imprisonment.
The cover is warm. The pages are wet. The book does not bleed when struck, but it bleeds when read.
The forgotten dimension of blood is named only here — a prison-realm the book reaches into. Who first bound the Berserker-Slayers there, and who wrote the book to call them up, is unwritten. If the book is destroyed in the 5–6 outcome, presumably the dimension closes — and a new book begins forming somewhere wet.