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Infested Cultist’s Skull

Wondrous item, uncommon

This humanoid skull is infested by a parasitic purple plant from an unknown plane. The longer you stare, the more you could swear that the petals sway in response to an unseen wind.

The skull contains 7 petals. While holding it, you can use an action to pluck a petal to cast the guiding bolt spell (+5 to hit), dealing necrotic damage instead of radiant. The skull regrows 1d4 plucked petals daily at dawn. If you pluck the last petal, the skull crumbles to dust and is destroyed.

Curse. This skull is cursed, and plucking 3 or more petals in a day extends this curse to you. Until the curse is broken with remove curse or similar magic, you are unwilling to part with the skull, keeping it within reach at all times.

While cursed, whenever you finish a long rest, a black petal grows on your head. These black petals cannot be removed physically, and any attempt to do so causes you to take 2d6 necrotic damage. If you travel to a different plane while cursed, you grow a further 1d4 black petals.

When the seventh petal has grown on your skull, you die and your body turns to dust, except your skull which becomes a new infested cultist skull. If the curse is removed, the petals on your head and the infested cultist skull are destroyed and crumble to dust.

Very rare variant: Replace guiding bolt with blight (save DC 16).