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<blockquote data-quote="The_Warlock" data-source="post: 6035678" data-attributes="member: 21215"><p><strong>45) This One Ring</strong></p><p></p><p>In some hidden ruin, or treasure hoard, there is a skeletal hand wearing a simple unadorned ring. To anyone with the ability, it detects as powerful magic. Attempts to detect a curse, or what the ring can actually do, fail. Divinations carefully phrased may eventually suggest that the power of the ring is to "Return".</p><p></p><p>If the ring is worn, there are no obvious benefits, though enemies who fumble when attacking the wearer seem to specifically strike themselves or their allies. </p><p></p><p>The wearer of the Ring has regular vivid dreams of an ancient seeming and extravagant empire, specifically in beautiful palace grounds, gardens, and similar upper class locales but with a verdant sky and strange red plants. </p><p></p><p>After some weeks, other party members may notice changes to skin tone or hair color on the wearer. At this point, the wearer of the Ring seems to have a knack for getting better accommodations, meals, or when bartering for goods or services.</p><p></p><p>At this point, the wearer may or may not notice that he or she feels more vigorous, wanting to eat and drink more, and of foodstuffs of higher quality.</p><p></p><p>The dreams continue - always feeling like the wearer belongs, but never able to see his own self in the dreams. </p><p></p><p>If there are no other possibilities, and the wearer perceives the ring as the source, he or she may take it off. If it is placed anywhere on their person, the next time they look at their hand, the Ring is back in place on their finger. </p><p></p><p>If they throw the Ring away, it stays gone, until the next time the character wakes from sleep - and finds the Ring once more on their finger. At this point, the Ring allows the wearer to call a single item to hand that he/she possesses and carries with but a thought (Free action, or equivalent). Items already in hand are dropped. </p><p></p><p>If they sell or give away the Ring, it stays gone for a week...but upon waking after that period, they find the Ring back on their finger, and the cleanly severed hand of the person they sold or gave it to laying on their chest. </p><p></p><p>If they try to destroy the ring, it is easily shattered, and appears back on their finger the next morning. </p><p></p><p>If they cut off their own finger with the Ring on it, and throw it away or destroy it, the next morning, the find that they have regrown the finger, with the Ring on it.</p><p></p><p>The changes to face, hair, body and skin tone continue to progress slowly, though the hand wearing the ring remains unchanged. </p><p></p><p>The next dream finally allows the dreamer to see himself in a mirror, a strangely inhuman looking humanoid, admiring it's alien wardrobe - and then flexing one of it's hands - clearly of another race, bearing the glinting golden ring. Before it smiles a shark-like smile as the dream ends.</p><p></p><p>If the character chooses to continue to bear the Ring, one month later, as teeth have slowly gotten sharper, and body hair begun to fall out, the rest of the party wakes to find the Ring bearer utterly gone - except for his cleanly severed hand still bearing the Ring.</p><p></p><p>If instead, the character cuts the entire hand off at the wrist, a shriek emanates from the ring, and the whole hand scuttles off like a spider, never to return.</p><p></p><p>The character's next dream is of the shark-smiling humanoid, now emaciated and grimacing from an elaborate throne. One of it's hands clearly that of the dreamer. While it's lips move, there is no sound as the dream fades further and further into a hazy yellow mist.</p><p></p><p>Afterwards, the former Ring wearer never suffers the dreams again. If they are able to find a way to regrow or regenerate the hand, the hand is a pale, yellowish-skinned, elongated thing with an extra knuckle on each finger, and the ring finger looks like it has the mark of a ring recently removed with indecipherable text scarred into the skin. The character retains the ability to call small worn or carried items to that hand with a thought. </p><p></p><p>If the character does not have the means to regrow the hand, the alien hand will appear to have grown from the stump overnight after waking from sleeping under the next New Moon.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="The_Warlock, post: 6035678, member: 21215"] [B]45) This One Ring[/B] In some hidden ruin, or treasure hoard, there is a skeletal hand wearing a simple unadorned ring. To anyone with the ability, it detects as powerful magic. Attempts to detect a curse, or what the ring can actually do, fail. Divinations carefully phrased may eventually suggest that the power of the ring is to "Return". If the ring is worn, there are no obvious benefits, though enemies who fumble when attacking the wearer seem to specifically strike themselves or their allies. The wearer of the Ring has regular vivid dreams of an ancient seeming and extravagant empire, specifically in beautiful palace grounds, gardens, and similar upper class locales but with a verdant sky and strange red plants. After some weeks, other party members may notice changes to skin tone or hair color on the wearer. At this point, the wearer of the Ring seems to have a knack for getting better accommodations, meals, or when bartering for goods or services. At this point, the wearer may or may not notice that he or she feels more vigorous, wanting to eat and drink more, and of foodstuffs of higher quality. The dreams continue - always feeling like the wearer belongs, but never able to see his own self in the dreams. If there are no other possibilities, and the wearer perceives the ring as the source, he or she may take it off. If it is placed anywhere on their person, the next time they look at their hand, the Ring is back in place on their finger. If they throw the Ring away, it stays gone, until the next time the character wakes from sleep - and finds the Ring once more on their finger. At this point, the Ring allows the wearer to call a single item to hand that he/she possesses and carries with but a thought (Free action, or equivalent). Items already in hand are dropped. If they sell or give away the Ring, it stays gone for a week...but upon waking after that period, they find the Ring back on their finger, and the cleanly severed hand of the person they sold or gave it to laying on their chest. If they try to destroy the ring, it is easily shattered, and appears back on their finger the next morning. If they cut off their own finger with the Ring on it, and throw it away or destroy it, the next morning, the find that they have regrown the finger, with the Ring on it. The changes to face, hair, body and skin tone continue to progress slowly, though the hand wearing the ring remains unchanged. The next dream finally allows the dreamer to see himself in a mirror, a strangely inhuman looking humanoid, admiring it's alien wardrobe - and then flexing one of it's hands - clearly of another race, bearing the glinting golden ring. Before it smiles a shark-like smile as the dream ends. If the character chooses to continue to bear the Ring, one month later, as teeth have slowly gotten sharper, and body hair begun to fall out, the rest of the party wakes to find the Ring bearer utterly gone - except for his cleanly severed hand still bearing the Ring. If instead, the character cuts the entire hand off at the wrist, a shriek emanates from the ring, and the whole hand scuttles off like a spider, never to return. The character's next dream is of the shark-smiling humanoid, now emaciated and grimacing from an elaborate throne. One of it's hands clearly that of the dreamer. While it's lips move, there is no sound as the dream fades further and further into a hazy yellow mist. Afterwards, the former Ring wearer never suffers the dreams again. If they are able to find a way to regrow or regenerate the hand, the hand is a pale, yellowish-skinned, elongated thing with an extra knuckle on each finger, and the ring finger looks like it has the mark of a ring recently removed with indecipherable text scarred into the skin. The character retains the ability to call small worn or carried items to that hand with a thought. If the character does not have the means to regrow the hand, the alien hand will appear to have grown from the stump overnight after waking from sleeping under the next New Moon. [/QUOTE]
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