Powers

Slithering Strangulation

Effect. D4 rainbow-coloured ethereal boa constrictors emerge from the ground and capture one creature each for d8 rounds, dealing d2 damage each round. Attacking a constricted creature in melee comes with a 50% risk of the snake changing target to the attacker.

The scroll is found among the dirty rags in Ueth the Scalehunter's chamber — Ueth's gospel on one side, this Power on the other. It does not appear on the Bare Bones d10 table; it is unique to the Sepulchre and to the Strange Serpent Drug Cult whose visions birthed it. The constrictors are the colours nature forgot: jale, dolm, and ulfire, the same hues that bloom in the eye of someone bitten by an Emerald Serpent.

Gaps / Expansion Notes

Whether the constrictors are summoned from nowhere or pulled out of the wielder's blood (Ueth's permanent venom-high) is left open. The Power's transcription as part of Ueth's gospel suggests a doctrinal use — sacrifice by snake — that the scenario never quite shows on the page.