Honeysuckle (Patreon)

Weapon (longsword), rare

The blade of this sickly-sweet weapon drips with honey when drawn from its sheath. You gain a +1 bonus to attack and damage rolls you make with this magic weapon. Whenever you use a property of this weapon it shrinks in size, turning from a longsword to a shortsword to a dagger. If you use a property while this weapon is shrunk to a dagger, the blade disappears and you cannot make attacks with this weapon or use either of its properties. After you finish a long rest the honey dripping from the hilt of this weapon crystalizes into a longsword.

Soothing Sweetness. As an action, you can cause a portion of this blade to melt into honey, and you or a friendly creature within 5 feet of you can eat or be fed the honey as part of the same action, regaining 1d6 + 3 hit points.

Slather. As an action you can spin this weapon around you. Each creature other than you in a 10 foot radius must make a DC 14 Dexterity saving throw. On a failed save the target becomes smothered in sweet honey and has disadvantage on Dexterity saving throws for 1 minute or until it or another creature within reach of it uses an action to clean away the honey. A creature smothered in honey is considered vulnerable to fire damage until the honey is cleaned off. If a creature smothered in honey takes 5 or more cold damage from a single source their movement is also reduced by half until the honey is cleaned off.

As each colony would have its queen, there are drones that serve to keep their kin and hive safe even at cost to themselves. For those under the banner of the Honey Keepers, this curious blade dripping evermore with glistening honey is clutched close to their sides.  Serving as both weapon and support kit, this weapon enables the drones to keep each other healthy and hinder any that would threaten their order. With each use the weapon weakens in power as it gives itself to the greater good just as its owner would for the sake of the hive.