Item: Unholy Skill
Whether because of a lack of talent or a desire for fame, you've bargained for infernal aid. When you gain this contract, choose a skill. You gain a +2 item bonus to checks with that skill. Once per week, at any distance, the devil who holds your bargained contract can cite a royalties clause, taking from you the amount of currency you'd gain from Earning Income on an expert-rank task of your level. The currency teleports directly from your possessions to the devil's vaults. If you're unable to pay, the devil instead takes the item with a value higher than, but closest to, the amount you owe from your possessions as collateral, returning it when you pay the required amount.
Activate—Devil's Work 1 (concentrate, magical, manipulate)
Frequency once per hour
Effect You call upon your contract's apprenticeship clause. You gain a +1 circumstance bonus to your next skill action, and it gains the unholy trait.
Trait Effects
Contract: A contract is a type of item that magically establishes an agreement between multiple parties and typically grants magical benefits.
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.
Teleportation: Teleportation effects instantaneously move something from one point in space to another. Teleportation does not usually trigger reactions based on movement.
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