Things Below Treasures

Treasures of the Things Below are corrupting objects: blood-stained icons, paralytic dust, color-draining lantern light, red crystal, vile books, strange skulls, and addictive sap.

• The Things Below

• A crude stone figurine of a beast with exaggerated blood-stained claws and fangs; Value 0.
• A fragile pot of dust, 3 uses, Value 1 to the right person; it can bring coughing, weakness, and paralysis.
• A twisted black metal lantern, magical, Value 1; it burns for 5 hours with pale reach/area light that leaches color and chills the air.
• A red crystal chunk shaped like a leering skull; Value 1 to the right buyer.
• A large supple-vellum tome full of archaic ramblings, unsettling images, and arcane diagrams; Value 2.
• A human-ish skull with six eye sockets and tusks, carved and inlaid with silver; Value 3 to the right buyer.
• A twisted elder tree whose sap attracts deer and can be refined into an addictive drug.

• An iron spider is a palm-sized magical, indestructible device with hidden bladed legs. Hungry, it drains 1d4 HP every few seconds until torn free, with a messy armor-ignoring removal wound; if it drains someone to 0 HP, it becomes sated. Sated, it can be plunged into flesh to deal 1 armor-ignoring damage and halt aging for 1d10 years, then becomes hungry again. Repeated use subtly erodes the beneficiary's living features, and dying after exceeding a mortal lifespan leaves them as a blood-hungry revenant.

• Black Menhir
• Deep Dark Shaft
• Obsidian Pendant
• Serpentine Armband
• Silken Noose
• The Staff of the Lidless Orb
• Demonhide Cloak
• Whispering Rocks
• The Blood-quenched Sword
• Hec’tumel Codex
• The Red Scepter
• The Ring of Daagon
• The Hungering Maw of Hlad

Entries 7 · Source The Things Below · p. 422-427