The Hollow Locket
Artifact
Item Type Artifact
A grieving widow claims the locket shows her dead husband’s final moments, but users lose grip on reality.
- Is Mythos
- Yes
- Sanity Cost
- 1d6
Properties
- When opened, induces vivid hallucinations of lost loved ones whispering maddening secrets
- Can create brief invisibility by cloaking the user in shadows, but only for seconds
- Drains vitality and causes creeping numbness with repeated use
Description
A tarnished bronze locket shaped like a closed human eye, cold and unnervingly heavy, humming faintly with a sorrowful pulse.
Hook
A grieving widow claims the locket shows her dead husband’s final moments, but users lose grip on reality.
Mythos Connection
Linked to the fading presence of the Outer God Nyog'Sothep, who manipulates memories and perception
GM Notes
- Use hallucinations to blur lines between friend and foe during investigation
- Invisible moments are short, forcing tense, quick decisions
- Repeated use imposes accumulating Sanity loss and physical debilitation