Power: Significant.
Description: A painted, wooden funerary mask once worn by a specific person and then stolen no less than three months after they were put in the ground. Defaced with obscenities that make mockery of their memory in extremely personal ways, it draws off the disconnection between recollection and reality for power.
Effect: To anyone who knew the person who the mask was originally intended for someone wearing it looks just like them. To everyone else you look like an asshole wearing a wooden mask covered in swears and ugly personal accusations. The illusion is complete to them, including all senses.
The illusory appearance isn't a genuine reproduction, it's how they remember the person looking. As they interact with you this perception is distorted and errors begin to accumulate in response to your actions. For example, if you've used it to intimidate them it becomes frightening (+10% shift on rolls to intimidate) or if you've used it to charm it becomes more attractive (+10% shift to rolls to charm).
These alterations persist between viewers creating an escalating uncanny valley-type effect. At a total accumulation of more than +40% in shifts across various contexts it is extreme enough to shatter the illusion and the mask loses its powers.
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