What enchantments do I (or should I) put on my bonded Item?

[Umbranus]

I have a mask as a bonded item.
As the rules for the scarred witch doctor's familiar mask are very unclear we decided to handle it as a bionded item that stores my spells in addition to being a bonded item.
The only thing we use from the familiar rules are the hp. Being made of wood the normal mask is just too vulnerable.

So now I have to decide how to enchant it.
I already have enchanted it with the eagle eyes property. Wich on one hand has already helped me a lot but which now keeps me from putting on other enchantments with a competence bonus to perception.

Which enchantments would you put on such a mask?

My pc is level 7 (and casterlevel 7, too) at the moment and I can enchant the mask as if I had craft wondrous item. Right now I only have about 4600gp but I take suggestions for more expensive stuff, too.

Edited for typo.

[Kahn Zordlon]

hm mask. Looking over the items around your price range, I saw only a choice of two. Eagle eyes and Lens of detection. If you don't have survival as a skill and don't spend time tracking anything, eagle eyes it is. If you'd like to enchant them further, you could add a higher competence bonus to your perception skill. According to magic item creation, you could go from +5 to +10 for 3750. I'm unsure if your castor level would be sufficient, but that's the cost.

[mavbor]

Have you thought of making it Intelligent.

Heres the base cost:
* Base price increase of: 500 gp
* 10Int/10Wis/10 0
* Your Alignment: 0
* Telepathy/Empthy: 1,000
* 1st-level spell 3/day 1,200
* 1st-level spell 3/day 1,200
* 0-level spell at will 1,000
* Defend the servants and interests of a specific deity (you)

Something like that is what I would start out with. Would have a base price of 4900 so cost you 2450 at half.

I would make it more defensive then offensive at early levels.

Things to increase on the item when you get the funds:
Int (needed for higher spells)
Increase its Senses. (can get blindsense and darkvison for cheap)
4,5,6 or 7 level spell at will when you can afford it (+56,000 gp+)

Just make sure its your own alignment and its purpose is to serve you.

[Umbranus]

Thanks for the answers so far.

Increasing the perception bonus from +5 to +10 sounds nice.

Making the mask intelligent is not something I want to do. Intelligent magic items have their own will and having a spellbook (it's as near to it as can get) that has its own opinion on which spells to prepare or on spells I want to teach it is not something I want. Even it its purpose is to serve me it can still get strange ideas on what is the best for me.
You know like in all those movies where computers programmed to protect humanity calculate that the best way of protecting it is to enslave all humans and kill all dissenters.

Having something that can cast spells that cheap sonds nice but no.

[Azaelas Fayth]

I just imagined HAL 9000 as an intelligent mask familiar.

Why not mock up your own magical mask to enchant it as?

Heck, I am planning on making Gloves that can either cast Lead Blades 3/Day or have a constant Lead Blades effect. Probably Lesser and Greater versions.

[Bigrin da Troll]

If you can find/finagle/beg/borrow/steal access to a 13th level caster and Fly, Animate Objects, and Finger of Death, you really ought to make it a Mask of the Skull