The Blood Staff
Appearance:
The staffs shaft is made from the wood of an evil UNDEAD treant and is encrusted with black sapphires and onyx
stones that glow an errie purple from within on top of the staff is a tarnished silver hand, its fingers spread wide
and the fingers pointed down where the end in long sliver claws in the palm of hand is a obsidian stone that is
embeded into the silver, this too glows an an errie purple light.
History:
The staff was made in the year of the broken sword, assemled on a defiled altar of Mystra and weilded by the lich
Zanatose himself. It now lays in the Treasure vault far beneath the grounds of Black Bone Keep
Powers:
The staff is embued with the undying spirit of a vampire. This gives the staff its powers of life draining and extra damage.
The staff does the traditional 1d6 points of damage plus its enchantment of +4. But when striking someone the wielder has
the option of using a charge of the staff to drain 1d12 more points of damage by draining blood. For every 1d20 points of
damage the staff causes by draining blood the staff gains 3 more charges, but the victim does get a saving throw bs death
magic at a -4 to avoid the blood draining effects of the staff, the staff can also once a NIGHT summon 1d20 giant rats or
wolves to him, these animals act as if under a Monster Summoning spell and obey the wielder completely.