Grue Skull-Stone

Grue Skull-Stone

◊Descriptors – artifact, variable

◊Effect – varies

Grue Skull-Stone

◊Modifiers – variable: 2 flat points; other modifiers may apply

◊Action – varies

◊Range – varies

◊Duration – varies

◊Results – varies

◊Resist – varies

◊Overcome – varies

Description

“This is the skull-stone of a grue, and at this moment trembles with force.”

        —An unnamed and deceased bandit

The calcareous white pebble located in the skull of a grue is believed to possess power by those living under the paling sun which grudgingly drags itself daily over the Earth. Certainly, a no great sensitivity is required to feel the dynamism present in some of these objects.

At the gamemaster’s option, a grue skull-stone (the more freshly procured from the late grue, the better) may be able to invigorate magic or empower the invocation of a curse (never to be taken lightly in the strange last days of the world).

Whatever effect a skull stone generates should be one-use only. Consider the following possibilities:

        ◊The wielder temporarily gains the Ritualist advantage and may make an untrained Expertise: Magic check to create a curse as an Affliction.

        ◊The wielder invokes a curse which creates a complication which lasts until the curse is lifted by the target. Even if the “curse” has not true power, the target may gain an obsession with lifting it.

        ◊A wielder who possesses the Ritualist advantage gains Enhanced Expertise: Magic 4 if they expend the skull-stone’s power when completing their spell.

        ◊A wielder using a power with the magic descriptor gains a +2 or +5 circumstance bonus to power checks or attack rolls by expending the skull-stone’s power.

        ◊A wielder using a power with the magic descriptor can expend the skull-stone’s power to give the target a -2 or -5 circumstance penalty to resistance checks made against that power.