Curious Ink Well
Aura strong universal;Â CL 17th
Slot none; Price 61,200 gp; Weight 20 lbs.
DESCRIPTION
This ink well can hold about a quart of ink, though it’s much heavier than its size would suggest.
Once per day a batch of blood placed in a curious ink well becomes enchanted, enhancing the prophetic properties of the fortunetelling press. When this treated ink is run through the press, it gives the doppix inhabiting it a limited ability to shape the future. Stories that are printed with ink from a curious ink well become more likely to occur with additional influence. These are only minor changes to reality—such as a suggestion effect to sway an action one way, or a minor illusion here or there—are generated with this process. The save, if applicable, for these effect is DC 14 + spell level of effect duplicated.
HISTORY
DC 15Â Â Â Lately, stories printed in the Steamtown Herald have been related, as if telling a long-running narrative.
DC 20Â Â Â Every week, the newspaper is printed with blood that arrives in special vials.
DC 25Â Â Â Alligotonium is known to heighten magical effects.
CONSTRUCTION
Requirements Craft Wondrous Item, wish, 10 lbs. alligotonium; Cost 30,600 gp
Blood for the press is first brought to a secret location where the curious ink well is located, where it is processed almost every day. Typically it takes between five and six applications of ink to produce a run for a single newspaper; as such, the doppix is limited to producing one of these stories to about once a week.