An old scroll case

Laoj Daveth's Galvanic Infusion

Tags: fragile

A leather scroll case, cracked and age-worn. Inside is a tattered letter and a pair of small, bluish ingots. It's a letter, in an older Hillfolk dialect, from an apprentice to their master. It describes a mental exercise to draw latent power from aetherium.

To unlock it, you must:

• translate the letter;
• spend a few weeks of dedicated study;
• use up one of the aetherium ingots (or another source of aetherium);
• risk electrocuting yourself and/or using up the other ingot.

Laoj Daveth's Galvanic Infusion

When you touch a piece of aetherium and draw its power into yourself, roll.

• On a success with a 6, you absorb the power and gain 1d8 HP (even if this puts you above your max HP).
• On a success with no six, you absorb the power and gain 1d8 HP, but the aetherium is drained and crumbles into a chalky mass of verdigris.

The spell lasts until you dismiss it, or until you bust on any move. While it lasts, you need not sleep and remain highly alert and focused — gain advantage on rolls to stay alert, focus, or notice things.

If you remain awake for more than a few days, your body grows ever more exhausted, and you risk hallucination, paranoia, and addiction. When the spell ends, you lose 1d8 HP.