Item:Red-veined marble amulet strung upon a simple chain
| red-veined marble amulet strung upon a simple chain | |
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| Look: | Spidery etchings cover both the front and back of the stone, creating a complex design of overlapping symbols. |
| Weight: | 10 stones |
| Metal: | Unknown |
| Appraised Cost: | Unknown |
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| Dimensions: | 1 length x 1 width x 1 height |
| Sources: | Source is Hollow Eve Festival 410/Auction, Droughtman's Challenge 437/Raffle |
TOUCH: You run your fingers across the slick, slightly-oily feeling surface of your marble amulet, tracing the etchings. A sudden rush of energy overtakes your senses, causing you momentary disorientation as you feel a sharp tug at the corners of your mind. Just as the feeling passes, an oozing darkness spills out of your amulet, coalescing into the form of a tethered Dream Eater.
TAP: You tap your amulet three times in rapid succession and a dull black glow envelops its surface. The tethered Dream Eater begins to lash its body about as if trying to break free from its enchanted bonds with every ounce of its strength! The miasmic ooze trickling out from the Dream Eater's wounds is drawn toward your amulet, quickly accelerating in both mass and speed until there is nothing of the nightmarish creature left visible at all. A shrill, otherworldly cry comes from within the marble, but is cut off as the dull glow recedes once more.
Dream Eater
The Dream Eater is a creature of nightmare made flesh. Set upon six multi-jointed legs, the entity's thickly muscled body is a flat, uniform black. Its otherwise featureless, semi-humanoid face is split by a lipless maw exposing numerous needle-like teeth. Much like the rest of its body, the head is encased in a web of red-tinged wires so tight as to slice open the flesh beneath, causing a slow, miasmic ooze to trickle out of each of the wounds. A thick metal collar encircles the creature's neck.
Verbs
PET: As you reach out to pet a tethered Dream Eater, it turns and hisses at you, obviously uninterested.
SCRATCH: You scratch the Dream Eater's skin, easily ripping the flesh and causing a stream of foul miasma to ooze out of the fresh wound. The smoky substance quickly covers your hand, a brief feeling of overwhelming panic entering your mind. As both the fear and the miasma dissipate, you swear you can hear the Dream Eater laughing, though the creature does not even move.
PULL: You tug at a handful of wires crisscrossing the tethered Dream Eater's back. The Dream Eater bellows an otherworldly scream, sending a shiver through your spine.
HUG: You attempt to hug the tethered Dream Eater and it swats at you with several of its powerful limbs. You wisely decide to abandon the idea altogether.
PUSH: Throwing all caution and good sense to the wind, you attempt to free a tethered Dream Eater from its enchanted prison, pushing and pulling at the red-tinged wires covering its body. No matter your efforts, the odd metal deftly re-sets itself within moments, its magic holding fast. The creature remains eerily still throughout your attempt, fruitless as it may be.
Atmo
A tethered Dream Eater crouches down, its form posed as if to leap at any moment.
A tethered Dream Eater turns its neck slowly first to one side, then the other, seeming to search for something though its eyeless features appear incapable of such things.
Tiny tendrils of black smoke ooze out from the wounds covering a tethered Dream Eater's many limbs.