Item: Gasping Lament (Greater)
This collar is a silken cord from which hangs a small silver amulet that bears the likeness of a woman with her hand at her throat. A gasping lament is a powerful coda instrument that's worn rather than held. While you sing, you gain a +3 item bonus to Intimidation checks to Demoralize and to Performance checks.
Activate Cast a Spell
Effect You expend a number of charges from the collar to cast a spell from its list.
- Cantrip Message
- 1st Charm, Command
- 2nd Sonata Span, Ventriloquism
- 3rd Enthrall, Shatter
- 4th Honeyed Words, Infectious Melody
- 5th Command, Concordant Choir
- 6th Noise Blast, Zealous Conviction
- 7th Shatter, Vibrant Vibrato
Craft Requirements Supply one casting of all listed levels of all listed spells.
Trait Effects
Coda: Instruments with the coda trait work mostly like staves and have the staff trait. There are two differences: Coda instruments are in the form of musical instruments, and they can be prepared only by bards. Because they're not physically staves, you can't attack with a coda instrument, nor can you etch it with weapon runes. The process of preparing a coda instrument involves playing significant portions of songs related to the spells within the instrument—either old standards or ones of your own creation. This leaves magical reverberations within the instrument that allow you to complete the songs by playing their coda later in the day.
Invested: A character can invest only 10 magical items that have the invested trait. None of the magical effects of the item apply if the character hasn’t invested it, nor can it be activated, though the character still gains any normal benefits from wearing the physical item (like a hat keeping rain off their head).
Magical: Something with the magical trait is imbued with magical energies not tied to a specific tradition of magic. Some items or effects are closely tied to a particular tradition of magic. In these cases, the item has the arcane, divine, occult, or primal trait instead of the magical trait. Any of these traits indicate that the item is magical.
Staff: This magic item holds spells of a particular theme and allows a spellcaster to cast additional spells by preparing the staff.
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