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Effect: This psicrown has 550 power points and allows the use of the following powers. • catapsi (EPH 82) • ectoplasmic cocoon (EPH 97) • ectoplasmic swarm (page 84) • entangling ectoplasm (EPH 104) Aura/Manifester Level: Moderate metacreativity. ML 11th. Construction: Craft Psicrown. catapsi, ectoplasmic cocoon, ectoplasmic swarm, entangling ectoplasm, 40,219 gp, 3,218 XP, 81 days. Weight: 1/2 lb. Price: 80,438 gp.
resizes to fit any size head. Nonpsionic creatures can wear the mask, but it has no effect on them. It's impossible to place the mask on a resisting creature. Effect: If the wearer makes a DC 15 Will saving throw, the mask deals 1d6 points of damage as it tries to adhere to his face and fails, falling away. If the wearer fails the save, the crystal mask of entrenched psyche affects him as the psychic containment power (page 96). The victim is immediately cut off from his psionic abilities, including psi-like abilities and manifested powers, as well as any racial extraordinary and supernatural abilities that are psionic in nature. The victim also takes 1d6 points of damage as the mask begins to graft to his face. If the wearer donned the mask accidentally (as opposed Stygian Diabolist to having it forced on him), he can attempt another saving The stygian diabolist psicrown taps into the Negative Energy throw 1 round later. If this second save succeeds, the mask Plane, sapping the strength and life force from the wearer's falls away, but its residual effect continues to block his psionic enemies. abilities for 5 more rounds. If the second save fails, he takes Description: This psicrown is carved from obsidian an additional 1d6 points of damage as the mask settles perand bears a single large ruby, mounted in front. When manently into place. used, the gem pulses with blood-red energy and the Once the mask is in place, the wearer can remove it by wielder's features become momentarily drawn dealing enough damage to the mask and emaciated. to destroy it. Unfortunately, the Activation: You can acwearer takes as much damtivate the psicrown as a age as the mask does and standard action and use doesn't benefit from the any one of the psionic mask's hardness. The mask powers listed below. Ushas hardness 10 and 50 ing a different power, or hit points. Alternatively, the same one in succesthe mask can be removed sion, requires another with powers such as psychic standard action. chirurgery (EPH 126) and bend Effect: This psicrown reality (EPH 80). has 550 power points and Aura/Manifester Level: Strong allows the use of the followtelepathy. ML 15th. ing powers. Construction: Craft Universal Item, A stygian diabolist psicrown grants • stygian bolt (page 99) its’ wearer several stygian abilities psychic containment, 60,000 gp, 4,800 XP, • stygian dominion (page 101) 60 days. • stygian ray (page 101) Weight: 1/2 lb. Aura/Manifester Level: Moderate psychometabolism. Price: 120,000 gp. ML 11th. Construction: Craft Psicrown, stygian bolt, stygian domin- Crystal Mask of Deluded Perception ion, stygian ray, 37,950 gp, 3,036 XP, 56 days. This crystal mask traps a creature in a world of its own imagining. Weight: 1/2 lb. Description: When initially donned, the mask gives off a Price: 75,900 gp. sharp crack of energy accompanied by the stink of burning CRYSTAL MASKS flesh as the mask attempts to graft itself to the wearer. A crystal mask is a psionically charged face mask of clear Activation: As a standard action, the mask can be applied crystal that grants its wearer a particular ability. The examples to a helpless psionic humanoid (or a creature with a humandescribed below appear much the same as any crystal oidlike head, such as an illithid). The mask automatically mask transparent and blurring the wearer's features. A resizes to fit any size head. Nonpsionic creatures can wear crystal mask is a type of universal item. For details on crystal the mask, but it has no effect on them. It's impossible to place masks, see page 173 of Expanded Psionics Handbook. the mask on a resisting creature. Effect: If the wearer makes a DC 15 Will saving throw, Crystal Mask of Entrenched Psyche the mask deals 1d6 points of damage as it tries to adhere to This crystal mask prevents a psionic creature from using its her face and fails, falling away. psionic or psi-like abilities. If the wearer fails the save, the crystal mask of deluded perDescription: When initially donned, the mask gives off a ception affects her as cerebral phantasm (page 80). The victim sharp crack of energy accompanied by the stink of burning begins to see horrors dredged up from her own subconscious. flesh as the mask attempts to graft itself to the wearer. She also takes 1d6 points of damage as the mask begins to Activation: As a standard action, the mask can be applied graft to her face. to a helpless psionic humanoid (or a creature with a humanIf the wearer donned the mask accidentally (as opposed oidlike head, such as an illithid). The mask automatically to having it forced on her), she can attempt another saving