Scryer Beetle
Added 2021-01-28 17:26:47 +0000 UTCScryer Beetle
Wondrous item, very rare
This one-eyed beetle is about two inches long. Its shiny carapace seems to reflect an environment that does not match its surroundings.
If you use an action to eat the beetle, you’ll enter a hallucinatory trance for 10 minutes. During this trance you are unconscious and experience the effects of the scrying spell (DC 16). When you enter the trance, make a DC 13 Wisdom check. On a success you can choose your scrying target. You can attempt this check again during the trance to change your target each time until you fail. On a failure, if the target resists the spell, or if you have no desired target, you scry on a random creature or place for the rest of the duration. When scrying in this way, you see, hear, smell, feel, and taste from the senses of the target creature, or from the nearest living creature if you target a location. You can understand the languages of your target even when you normally cannot, and you have advantage on Wisdom (Insight) checks made to gauge their emotional state and intent. When the trance fades you gain a random personality trait from a creature you scryed on for the next 24 hours. The beetle tastes like a combination of random aspects from each environment you experienced during the trance.
Belinder Wonderbug loves starting his day by munching a scryer beetle and experiencing life in someone else’s shoes. “The beetle knows the way man, but you gotta give it the reins. I’ve been all kinds of places, all kinds of people, and it’s never what you’d expect. Really puts things into perspective, y’know?”
