Mocker's Swazzle
A mouth-held voice modulator lets a heckled performer needle a taunt right back, turning a failed insult into helpless laughter.
A swazzle is a device made of two strips of metal bound with sinew and around a reed that, when held to the mouth, causes the user's voice to take on a distinctive rasping tone. Swazzles are often used by street puppeteers to give their puppets' voices a unique and memorable timber. A mocker's swazzle, though, has a different use-rather than simply giving voices to troublemaking puppets, it helps a performer fight back against hecklers in a crowd.
| Stat | Value |
|---|---|
| Level | 13 |
| Price | 3000 gp |
| Bulk | 0.1 |
Activations
Heckle the Heckler R (Auditory, Emotion, Linguistic, Manipulate, Mental) · Frequency once per hour · Trigger A creature within 30 feet of you attempts and fails to Demoralize you · Effect You quickly fire a retort back at the triggering creature, mocking its failed attempt in a way that makes it laugh at its own ineptitude; you cast _Laughing Fit_ (DC 30 Will save) on the triggering creature.
Mocking Spell 1 (Auditory, Linguistic, Spellshape) · Frequency once per day · Effect You direct a quick bit of insulting mockery at a creature who can understand you that's within earshot. If your next action is to cast a Mental spell that targets only that creature, that creature takes a -1 item penalty to any saving throw against the spell and, regardless of the result of the saving throw, becomes Off-Guard until the start of your next turn.