A scroll & a bone flute

Song of the Dool Trees

Tags: magical

A scroll, written in a cramped hand and seemingly nonsensical script, with a series of graph-like diagrams. It is accompanied by a flute of bone (from a human arm?). The notes reveal themselves to be a cipher; the graph is perhaps the notation for a song.

To unlock it, you must:

• first decipher the notes, which will take a few weeks of effort;
• the first time you use the flute, you risk getting the music wrong and aggravating the dool spirit.

Song of the Dool Trees

When you stand among dool trees and play the proper tune on a flute of a murderer's bone, you summon a dool spirit and bind it to your service. Treat it as a follower. Only one dool spirit will serve you at a time.

Dool spirit — spirit, terrifying, stealthy, devious HP 13 · Armor 1 (amorphous) Damage feast on fear d6 (hand, close, ignores armor, disadvantage) Instinct to take things too far Special qualities powerless in bright light

• Sense a victim's doubt and worries
• Shape sound and shadow to unnerve and frighten
• Manifest as its victim's fears (harmed only by one who masters their fear)

Cost new, exquisite fears (Loyalty ☐ ☐ ☐)