[Nine Hells] Prideful Pluckpatch (Patreon)

Wondrous item, rare (requires attunement, enhanceable)

This plain, worn, leather eyepatch is an unassuming addition to any treasure hoard. However, upon attunement, three eyes are plucked from ‘donor’ fiends in the hells in order to slowly orbit around your head. Whether fiends are willing donors or are victims of a crafty wizard’s devilish machinations is an unanswered moral dilemma.

This eyepatch has 3 charges, represented by the three floating eyeballs, and regains 1d3 expended charges daily at dawn.

Peekaboo. As an action you can expend a charge to telepathically link yourself to the eyeball for the next 10 minutes. While linked, you see through the eyeball, which has darkvision out to 120 feet and are blind with regards to your own senses. As a bonus action while linked to the eyeball you can move the eyeball up to its speed. The eyeball has 2 hit points, an AC of 15, a flying speed of 30 feet (hover), and a Dexterity (Stealth) modifier of +7.

If the eyeball is reduced to 0 hit points or you sever the connection as an action, the eyeball dissapears, returning to its fiendish donor.

Enhanced Attunement: Pride. In return for accepting a medium task from a fiend, such as refusing to ask for help or healing for 3 days, refusing the next gift or donation offered to you, or insisting on fighting a creature of CR 4 or higher alone, the item becomes enhanced. While attuned to the enhanced item you can, as a bonus action, cast bless on yourself (no concentration required). While you are blessed in this way, you become hard-headed; you can’t benefit from the Help action and spells cast on you are always against your will (whenever the spell asks for a willing creature). After you activate this property, you can’t do so again until the following dawn.

Failure to complete the assigned task within the allotted time results in forfeiture of one’s soul.

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Uncommon variant: Reduce the number of eyes and charges to 2, regained charges to 1d2, and the eyeball’s stealth modifier to +5. When you cast bless on yourself using the Pride property, you gain a +1 bonus, instead of the spell’s usual +1d4 bonus.  The fiend asks for a minor task such as refusing to ask for help or healing for a day, or exaggerating about your past exploits and skills to the party’s detriment.

Very rare variant: Increase the number of eyes and charges to 5, regained charges to 1d4 + 1 and the eyeball’s stealth modifier to +10. When you cast bless on yourself using the Pride property, you roll 2d4 and choose the highest result, instead of the spell’s usual 1d4. The fiend asks for a major task such as refusing to ask for help or healing for 10 days or insisting on fighting a creature of CR 9 or higher alone.

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