Item: Purloining Cloak
Perception +30; precise vision 30 feet, imprecise hearing 30 feet
Communication speech (Common and two other languages, usually regional and ancestral)
Skills Society +31, Thievery +31, Underworld Lore +31
Int +5, Wis +5, Cha +5
Will +30
Each purloining cloak is a Mercurial Mantle once worn by a legendary thief or two. The cloak became infused with a daredevil spirit and a penchant for high-stakes thievery. If its owner isn't willing to partake in such activities, the cloak tries to convince them to sell or give it to someone who will. A purloining cloak can use tendrils of its cloth to attempt Thievery checks to Palm an Object or Steal, proudly offering you its loot later. In addition to those of a mercurial mantle, a purloining cloak has the following activations.
Activate R Interact
Frequency once per hour
Trigger An enemy misses you with a melee Strike
Effect You slip around the attacking creature with ease. You Step, without moving away from the triggering enemy, and then make a melee Strike against the triggering enemy if it's within reach. If you do make a Strike, the target attempts a DC 38 Perception check before you roll.
Failure This creature is Off Guard against the Strike.
Critical Failure This creature is off-guard against all your attacks until the end of their next turn.
Activate 2 command, envision (conjuration, teleportation)
Frequency once per day
Effect The cloak hums with power as your whirl it around yourself, disappearing amid a brief flash of light. Teleport up to double your Speed to a location you can see. At the end of the teleportation, you can make a melee Strike against a creature within reach, if there is one.
Activate 2 (concentrate)
Effect The cloak casts 2nd-rank Illusory Disguise on you, usually to your specifications. However the cloak can choose the appearance of the illusion for you.
Activate 1 (concentrate)
Effect The cloak assesses the price of valuables it can see. This valuation doesn't include the value of features the cloak can't discern, such as magical properties.
Trait Effects
Apex: When you Invest an Item that has the apex trait, it improves one of your attributes, either increasing the attribute’s modifier by 1 or to a total of +4, whichever would give you a higher score. This gives you all the benefits of the new attribute modifier until the investiture runs out: increasing Intelligence lets you become trained in an additional skill and learn a new language, increasing Constitution gives you more Hit Points, and so on. An apex item grants this benefit only the first time it’s invested within a 24-hour period, and you can benefit from only one apex item at a time. If you attempt to invest an apex item when you already have one invested, you don’t gain the attribute modifier increase, though you do gain any other effects of Investing the Item.
Intelligent: An item with this trait is intelligent and has its own will and personality, as well as several statistics that most items don’t have. Intelligent items can’t be crafted by normal means, and they are always rare or unique.
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.
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