Voadam
Legend
The Black Gem
Labyrinth Lord
Undead: Unfortunately, one of the items buried with the merchant was a garnet pin. The stone was large and of an unusually deep red, so as to appear almost black. How he had come by it, no one knows, but he was not the original owner. It had been the prized possession of an evil necromancer years before, and was imbued with many of that wizard’s foul magics. The merchant had no inkling of the item’s powers, and so never used it.
As the gem lay in the ground, surrounded by death, its power reached out and began to corrupt the cemetery’s residents. Every new moon, its power would reach an apex, and the dead would rise. At first only one or two would shuffle out of their tombs or graves; but as time went on, more and more would stir.
The Black Gem magic item.
Skeleton: ?
Zombie: ?
Ghoul: ?
Wisp: ?
Skeleton Warrior: ?
Haunting: A haunting is not a true ghost in the undead sense. It is more like an echo of an ended life. Such things are not uncommon, as far as the supernatural goes. Here under the influence of the black gem, they appear much more often.
Ghost: ?
Sad Sondra, Sondra Fletcher, Ghost: Sondra Fletcher was a young girl of Gant, driven to suicide after being seduced by a wandering adventurer. She has haunted beyond the pale for many years. Since the black gem came to the cemetery, her power has grown.
Wight: If any living person approaches with 30' of the mausoleum, the gem will sense him. It will animate the merchant’s corpse as a wight and move to attack the characters.
The Black Gem
Buried with its owner decades ago, this garnet brooch is a cursed item infused with necromantic energies. It is a large, very dark garnet surrounded by small diamond chips (As jewelry, its estimated value is approximately 500 gold pieces). If wielded by a magic-using character, the item can cast a temporary version of animate dead once per day as a random level caster (2nd-12th), but the effect only lasts six hours. Using the gem (even once) causes the bearer to slowly (over weeks) take on a cadaverous appearance, as if undead himself, eventually taking on a lich-like visage. The gem is also cursed, so that whomever possesses it will refuse to willingly give it up. Remove curse or dispel evil can free the possessor of the gem, but only if cast by a 9th level or higher cleric. Any corpselike changes to appearance are permanent.
The jewel can be destroyed simply by smashing it, but doing so causes an explosion of negative energy in a 20' radius. The blast deals 2d6 damage to living targets and heals undead by the same amount. Any undead created by the gem—except those inside the blast radius—begin to decay rapidly, falling to pieces in one round. Those undead imbued with energy from the blast are affected by a haste effect for 3 rounds before crumbling.
Labyrinth Lord
Undead: Unfortunately, one of the items buried with the merchant was a garnet pin. The stone was large and of an unusually deep red, so as to appear almost black. How he had come by it, no one knows, but he was not the original owner. It had been the prized possession of an evil necromancer years before, and was imbued with many of that wizard’s foul magics. The merchant had no inkling of the item’s powers, and so never used it.
As the gem lay in the ground, surrounded by death, its power reached out and began to corrupt the cemetery’s residents. Every new moon, its power would reach an apex, and the dead would rise. At first only one or two would shuffle out of their tombs or graves; but as time went on, more and more would stir.
The Black Gem magic item.
Skeleton: ?
Zombie: ?
Ghoul: ?
Wisp: ?
Skeleton Warrior: ?
Haunting: A haunting is not a true ghost in the undead sense. It is more like an echo of an ended life. Such things are not uncommon, as far as the supernatural goes. Here under the influence of the black gem, they appear much more often.
Ghost: ?
Sad Sondra, Sondra Fletcher, Ghost: Sondra Fletcher was a young girl of Gant, driven to suicide after being seduced by a wandering adventurer. She has haunted beyond the pale for many years. Since the black gem came to the cemetery, her power has grown.
Wight: If any living person approaches with 30' of the mausoleum, the gem will sense him. It will animate the merchant’s corpse as a wight and move to attack the characters.
The Black Gem
Buried with its owner decades ago, this garnet brooch is a cursed item infused with necromantic energies. It is a large, very dark garnet surrounded by small diamond chips (As jewelry, its estimated value is approximately 500 gold pieces). If wielded by a magic-using character, the item can cast a temporary version of animate dead once per day as a random level caster (2nd-12th), but the effect only lasts six hours. Using the gem (even once) causes the bearer to slowly (over weeks) take on a cadaverous appearance, as if undead himself, eventually taking on a lich-like visage. The gem is also cursed, so that whomever possesses it will refuse to willingly give it up. Remove curse or dispel evil can free the possessor of the gem, but only if cast by a 9th level or higher cleric. Any corpselike changes to appearance are permanent.
The jewel can be destroyed simply by smashing it, but doing so causes an explosion of negative energy in a 20' radius. The blast deals 2d6 damage to living targets and heals undead by the same amount. Any undead created by the gem—except those inside the blast radius—begin to decay rapidly, falling to pieces in one round. Those undead imbued with energy from the blast are affected by a haste effect for 3 rounds before crumbling.
