Items

The Tablets of Ochre Obscurity

Made from the clay of the Valley of the Unfortunate Undead, these Ochre Tablets are relics of a forgotten mind-cult so rare they can be sold for 100 silver. Each tablet counts as a normal-sized item. If a PC fumbles an attack/defense, one tablet breaks. Otherwise they follow the same usage rules as scrolls. The coded glyphs are challenging to comprehend — PCs wielding their Power must have Presence +3 (minimum) or be a Forlorn Philosopher.

The Ten Tablets

  1. Dream Theory. The target begins to doubt it is real. Attacking and defending against it is −2 DR (+2 DR for affected PCs).
  2. Total Matter Comprehension. Mends or breaks a normal-sized item, mundane or otherwise, including armor (increase/decrease one tier) and weapons.
  3. Ping the Shared Subconscious. You sense the presence of living creatures within 70 feet even in adjacent rooms.
  4. Logical Prognostication. Using Pure Logic you can deduce the nature of any traps or mechanisms within 30 feet or of any Powers used within 60 feet.
  5. Carno-Organic Speleophagy. Transmogrifies a child-sized rock into burnt, chewy meat. Feeds d4 famished people.
  6. Time-Locked Pneumotoxin. This cracked tablet can be crushed to a coarse powder. If strewn upon a creature it takes d6 damage — on a 6 it chokes and dies. The tablet reappears each morning in its owner's possession. The Presence test is harmless to the wielder, determining only whether the powder finds the target.
  7. Induced Irrelevance. Removes a creature's essential meaning for d4 rounds. Enemies will not attack it during that time, even if it attacks them first.
  8. Structural Cryocondensation (Freezing Moon). Water freezes from the air, forming a 15-foot bridge — or all water within 150 feet (excluding that within living creatures) freezes.
  9. Meta-Alchemy. Transform a container of liquid one of three ways: into two doses of Red or Black Poison; into The Loathing of Vulark (imbiber rolls Toughness DC16 or jumps from great heights); or transform poison into water or wine.
  10. Memetic Cognitive Palpitation. Near-imperceptible body shifts transmit a simple mind-plague which causes one creature to dance madly for d4 rounds (choreomania) — they may neither attack nor defend.
Gaps / Expansion Notes

The Forgotten Mind-Cult who made the Tablets is named only as forgotten — see lore entry. Vulark — origin of the named "Loathing" — is otherwise unknown. Whether the clay of the Valley produces other artifacts beyond the Tablets is open.