Item:Red-veined marble amulet strung upon a simple chain

red-veined marble amulet strung upon a simple chain
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
Properties:	This item is worn in the neck slot. This item is or summons a mount. This item has more than normal or unusual verbs.
Dimensions:	1 length x 1 width x 1 height
Sources:	Source is Hollow Eve Festival 410/Auction, Droughtman's Challenge 437/Raffle

Verb	Actions
TOUCH	First Person: 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.
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Third Person: [Name] caresses his marble amulet, murmuring quietly to himself. His eyes roll upward, leaving only the whites exposed, as the amulet glows with a dull sanguine light. When the glow subsides, [Name]'s eyes sudden snap back into their normal position and an oozing darkness spills out of his amulet, coalescing into the form of a tethered Dream Eater.
TAP	First Person: 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.
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Third Person: [Name] taps his marble 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 [Name]'s 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

Verb	Actions
PET	First Person: As you reach out to pet a tethered Dream Eater, it turns and hisses at you, obviously uninterested.
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Third Person: [Person] extends his hand to pet a tethered Dream Eater, which immediately relocates just out of reach, hissing loudly.
SCRATCH	First Person: 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.
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Third Person: [Person] cautiously approaches a tethered Dream Eater, scratching its neck affectionately. His face appears frozen in terror as a thick, black miasma oozes out from the creature and covers his hand before sinking into his flesh! [Person] shudders briefly then seems to regain composure.
PULL	First Person: 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.
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Third Person: [Person] grabs a handful of wires attached to a tethered Dream Eater. In response, the Dream Eater lets out a gut-wrenching otherworldly howl, though its mouth does not seem to move.
HUG	First Person: 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.
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Third Person: [Person] moves toward a tethered Dream Eater, arms spread wide. The creature lashes out at him with several of its powerful limbs, warning him away!
PUSH	First Person: 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.
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Third Person: With the look of a man possessed, [Person] begins wildly pushing and pulling at the enchanted wires binding a tethered Dream Eater! After a few moments, he ceases his fruitless effort, blinking several times as if to clear his head. Throughout it all, the Dream Eater exudes a calm, patient stillness.
MOUNT	First Person: Grabbing hold of a tethered Dream Eater's thick metal collar, you effortlessly swing yourself onto its back.
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Third Person: Reaching up to grab a tethered Dream Eater's metal collar with one hand, [Person] gracefully swings himself onto its back.
DISMOUNT	First Person: You dismount from your Dream Eater.
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Third Person: [Person] dismounts from his Dream Eater.
COMMAND (to walk)	First Person: You signal the tethered Dream Eater to slow its pace so that it's walking.
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COMMAND (to trot)	First Person: You signal the tethered Dream Eater to speed up, and it settles into a deliberate, lingering gait, as if stalking prey..
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COMMAND (to canter)	First Person: You signal the tethered Dream Eater to speed up, and it quickens its motions ever so slightly, prowling about with unsettling grace..
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COMMAND (to gallop)	First Person: You signal the tethered Dream Eater to speed up, and it charges forward with a surge of shadowy muscle!.
No messaging for second person.
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Atmo

• A tethered Dream Eater crouches down, its form posed as if to leap at any moment.
• A tethered Dream Eater suddenly cocks its nearly featureless head as if listening to some otherworldly sounds only it can hear.
• 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.
• A tethered Dream Eater's long, snake-like tongue slithers out from between its teeth to caress the wires that cage its face, flicking at them as if to test their continued strength.
• Making a noise like the wailing of disembodied souls in torment, the tethered Dream Eater strains against its bonds, once again unsuccessful in breaking through their enchantment.
• Tiny tendrils of black smoke ooze out from the wounds covering a tethered Dream Eater's many limbs.