Power: Significant.
Description: An antique ventriloquist’s dummy wearing an old fashioned black and white striped convict outfit. The head has been removed and replaced with a real human skull, old and crumbling (with magick - or access to DNA analysis and the right archaeological databases - someone could discover that it is the lost skull of the Marquis de Sade, a potentially potent occult symbol in its own right). The right arm sits crooked at the elbow, pulling on it activates an internal lever that opens its mouth.
Effect: The grave robber eats teeth, specifically the eye-teeth (or upper canines), of the dead. Actuating the lever with them in its mouth causes will cause a pair to vanish. Doing this before the deceased person’s estate has been settled retroactively alters their last will and testament to include the artifact’s owner based on a Secrecy roll. A crit makes you the sole beneficiary, matched success gives you an equivalent to the largest current share and a success gets you a degree of benefit relative to the number of the roll. As a side effect if the estate includes any unnatural objects or artifacts the result prioritises them. The other beneficiaries might take exception, but short of a legal challenge it’s binding.
On a matched failure or a fumble the result is a poisoned chalice: an inheritance encumbered by debt and bad history or ghoulish vultures taking the opportunity to try to secure what they coveted but could never have while the original owner was alive.
Effect: The grave robber eats teeth, specifically the eye-teeth (or upper canines), of the dead. Actuating the lever with them in its mouth causes will cause a pair to vanish. Doing this before the deceased person’s estate has been settled retroactively alters their last will and testament to include the artifact’s owner based on a Secrecy roll. A crit makes you the sole beneficiary, matched success gives you an equivalent to the largest current share and a success gets you a degree of benefit relative to the number of the roll. As a side effect if the estate includes any unnatural objects or artifacts the result prioritises them. The other beneficiaries might take exception, but short of a legal challenge it’s binding.
On a matched failure or a fumble the result is a poisoned chalice: an inheritance encumbered by debt and bad history or ghoulish vultures taking the opportunity to try to secure what they coveted but could never have while the original owner was alive.
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