Dragon Turtle Gumbo (Patreon)

Wondrous item, rare

This spicy dish is made with dragon turtle meat and an assortment of flavorful herbs and vegetables that enrich its savory broth. It takes 1 minute to eat. Once you've eaten the gumbo, you can breathe underwater for 8 hours.

For the same duration, you can use an action to summon forth the heat and power of a dragon turtle, exhaling a scalding wave of steam and spice in a 30-foot cone. Each creature in the area must make a DC 15 Constitution saving throw, taking 4d6 fire damage on a failed save, or half as much damage on a successful one. Being underwater doesn't grant resistance against this damage. Once you exhale in this way three times, you can't do so again for the rest of the duration.

Sea Tyrant Ollel, a vicious dragon turtle, had blockaded Stonecover Island for months. He would sink ships and devour anything that came near its rocky shores to force the island into submission and surrender their treasures.

What the dragon turtle didn't know was that island was led by Miranda, the Black Cleaver. As a former captain she knew none would save her backwater island, and her knowledge as a ship's cook said her community's stores would soon run dry.

Slipping on her tenderizing knuckles and descending to her ship's secret cove, she smiled: her experience gave her a solution to both problems in a single, violent stroke. Her people would dine well.