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Message: <blockquote data-quote="nonamazing" data-source="post: 1950780" data-attributes="member: 12118">Norderil - [SBLOCK]Gravan looks at you with surprise.  "My ship?  Haunted?  Ah, we've been through some odd nights, the Carcass and I, but we've never run afoul of ghosts.  Until we started this wretched journey, there wasn't a thing wrong with her.  Now my crew are more spooked than a herd of sheep 'neath a dragon's flight.  If you've been listening to their frightful talk, then no wonder you're head's full of tales of ghosts."  Further question of Gravan or of various crew members gathers only the information that there haven't been any sort of unusual happenings on this ship until the last week or so.  Some of the crew members claim to have recently seen a green ghost floating about belowdecks at night.[/SBLOCK]Karthak - [SBLOCK](ooc)I'm assuming you're using the identify on the stone, and not the shield.  If I'm wrong, please disregard the following.  And since you don't have the material components handy, the spell will cost you 10 exp.  If you want to identify the shield as well, you'll have enough time to rest and re-memorize before your party reaches the ice.(ooc)The next morning, after carefully poring over your spellbook, double-checking your formulas and calculations, you head to Norderil's cabin in order to begin your in-depth examination of the Warforged.  During the spell's hour-long casting time, you are vaguely disturbed by the feeling that you are being watched.  But you managed to hold your focus, completing the invocation without missing a single word or fumbling a single gesture.  The spell reaches its climax, at which point you reach out to grab the stone and bring it into the spell's envelope.  You are suddenly filled with knowledge--and fear.  Knowledge of the stone's magical effect, a compulsion that completely dominates and controls the Warforged.  Fear as you realize the source of the domination: the malevolent intelligence that resides within the stone itself!  The Necromancy aura you had seen wasn't a spell, it was a spirit, somehow bound into the rock and using its power to control the construct.  As you touch the stone, you can hear its evil voice hissing into your mind, it's ghostly presence reaching out, dragging you down.  Everything begins to grow dark......until you cry out, releasing the stone and jumping back from the construct's body.  You heart beats rapidly as you realize just how close you came to being possessed...(ooc)The stone itself is a docent component (see page 296 of the Eberron manual for an in-depth description).  Basically, they are small intelligent magic items designed to as an aid to Warforged.  This particular one has been corrupted--fused with an undead spirit.  The corruption gives the spirit the ability to completely control the Warforged.  You'd guess that it has been under control of the evil spirit for quite some time.  The spirit is capable of escaping from the stone, but it is very, very weak without a host body.  It has probably been trying to repair its current host, but is too feeble to do very much.It can, however, try and possess anyone who touches the stone, as you've just discovered.  A dispel magic won't drive the spirit away, but it will temporarily disrupt its link with the stone it inhabits, making it unable to control the Warforged for a short period of time.(/ooc)[/SBLOCK]</blockquote>

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