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
- Dream Theory. The target begins to doubt it is real. Attacking and defending against it is −2 DR (+2 DR for affected PCs).
- Total Matter Comprehension. Mends or breaks a normal-sized item, mundane or otherwise, including armor (increase/decrease one tier) and weapons.
- Ping the Shared Subconscious. You sense the presence of living creatures within 70 feet even in adjacent rooms.
- 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.
- Carno-Organic Speleophagy. Transmogrifies a child-sized rock into burnt, chewy meat. Feeds d4 famished people.
- 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.
- 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.
- 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.
- 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.
- 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.
Forgotten Mind-Cult, Valley of the Unfortunate Undead, Forlorn Philosopher, Powers, The Loathing of Vulark
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.