Watchman’s Water
Price 10gp;
Weight -
Watchman’s water can help find old bloodstains. A single dose is enough to spray a 5 ft. square; one bottle typically contains 10 doses. Any part of the surface that has been in contact with blood within the past year glows faintly purple. The alchemical ingredients are very sensitive, and no amount of washing is sufficient to hide any traces. This grants a +4 alchemical bonus on checks to spot such stains, such as a Perception check when looking for clues or a Survival check when following a wounded creature.
Protective Parasol
Aura faint evocation; CL 3rd
Price 4,360 gp; Slot none; Weight 2 lbs.
This parasol is made of shiny black leather secured with a silver latch, with a handle ending in a small clasp. The clasp is generally attached to one’s shoulder and allowed to hang freely.
If the bearer is exposed to sunlight they may take an immediate action unlatch the parasol, causing it to instantly open and shade the bearer, protecting them from the effects of sunlight (such as a vampire’s weakness to sunlight) for 1 minute. The parasol works for a total of up to 10 minutes per day. This duration need not be continuous, but it must be used in 1 minute increments.
While open the parasol makes an easy target, and has a hardness of 0 and 5 hit points.
CONSTRUCTION
Requirements Craft Wondrous Item, protective penumbra[SUP]UM[/SUP], open/close; Cost 2,180 gp
Skulker’s Skullcap
Aura faint (no school); CL 7th
Price 800 gp; Slot head; Weight -
A skulker’s skullcap is made of scraps the skin of cave-dwelling creatures, typically bats, rats and moles - crudely sewn together - and covers the top of the head. Up to three times per day, the wearer of the skullcap may apply the effects of the Silent Spell feat, the Still Spell feat, or both, when casting a spell with the darkness descriptor. This does not change the spell’s casting time or effective spell level.
CONSTRUCTION
Requirements Craft Wondrous Item, Silent Spell, Still Spell; Cost 400 gp
Blood Vault
Aura moderate necromancy; CL 5th
Price 8,500 gp; Slot none; Weight 8 lbs.
A blood vault is a jar made of undecorated blackened clay filled with a thick, oily liquid, and stands 8 inches tall. A vampire may attune themselves to a blood vault as a full-round action, provided the vault is empty. Thereafter, whenever the vampire would gain temporary hit points through their vampire fangs ability they may instead allocate any number of those temporary hit points to the blood vault, provided that the jar is within 1 mile of the vampire it is attuned to (the vampire does not gain those hit points and they do not count towards her feeding requirements). A vampire touching the blood vault to which they are attuned may withdraw any number of temporary hit points from it as a full-round action that provokes attacks of opportunity, up to the normal cap imposed by her vampire fangs ability.
Storing part of one’s essence in the blood vault is not without risk; if it is destroyed (hardness 3, 2 hit points), the vampire attuned to the blood vault suffers an amount of untyped damage equal to the temporary hit points currently in the jar.
CONSTRUCTION
Requirements Craft Wondrous Item, false life, vampiric touch; Cost 4,250 gp
Devil’s Luck
Aura strong necromancy; CL 20th
Slots neck; Weight 1 lbs.
The plain appearance of the devil’s luck belies its power; a small metal spike held on a loop of frayed brown twine. The spike is old and rusted, coated in globs of dried fat and old bloodstains.
A creature may slice off one of their fingers, and impale it on the spike. The devil’s luck is then given to a trusted servant to wear. If the owner of the finger should die or be destroyed, its corpse and all worn and carried items upon it are destroyed, and the bearer of the devil’s luck dies or is destroyed as well (no save). The finger, however, rapidly grows into the body of the original owner (as they were when they when the effect was triggered, including any worn and carried equipment, but completely healed of hit point damage, ability damage, and negative levels other than those inflicted by the necklace). When this happens, their original corpse (including any worn and carried equipment) turns to dust. This is similar to a true resurrection, except that undead creatures can also be restored, though they remain the undead beings they were before their destruction.
The devil’s luck is a relic of some long-forgotten demoness of treachery and spite, who used the it as a kind of magical Trojan horse. She would sell the devil’s luck as a protective charm, and when the purchaser got home the demoness would kill herself, only to appear at the amulet's location and wreak havoc. One day she had the misfortune of appearing in a consecrated chapel filled with an order of paladins. She was destroyed (properly, this time) and the amulet was loose in the world.
The newly restored creature gains a number of negative levels equal to the difference between their number of Hit Die and the bearer’s Hit Die (minimum 1).
DESTRUCTION
If a creature impales their own finger on the devil’s luck, then commits suicide while wearing it, the Luck instantly rusts away into nothingness, and the creature is not restored.
