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focus to be used or the expensive component to be consumed modifiers to attack rolls and Armor Class appropriate to its new
normally, without you having to handle or manipulate it. size. The wearer remains small until he removes the ring or
If you do not cast a second spell while whispercast is in effect, commands it to restore him to his proper size.

you gain no benefit from casting whispercast. Moderate transmutation; CL 9th; Forge Ring, reduce person,
Casting this spell is a swift action. It does not require a move permanency; Price 20,000 gp.
action or standard action, but you can take only one swift,
immediate, or quickened action per turn. THE HOUSE OF
Tsochari spellcasters use this spell to permit spellcasting
DEROS FRIST
while they inhabit other creatures. It is also useful for grappled The isolated tower of the wizard Deros Frist is an example of
spellcasters.
CHAPTER 7 THE WEARERS OF FLESH TSOCHAR ITEMS a typical tsochari incursion into the human world. This short
adventure site describes the lair of a tsochar noble that has
successfully replaced Frist, a local wizard of some renown. The
Tsochari use magic items differently than humanoids do. A
tsochar Yikk Tasst now pores through the wizard’s libraries and
tsochar can wear:
• Three amulets, brooches, medallions, necklaces, periapts, spellbooks, eagerly absorbing all the arcane lore it can.
This scenario works best when the player characters have
or scarabs secured around the small central body. no reason to expect danger in Deros Frist’s home. Frist might
• Three pairs of bracers or brace- be a NPC ally of the party, a
lets on the thicker motive renowned sage whose advice
limbs near the central body. the party is seeking, or a friend
• Up to four rings on the slen- of a trusted NPC mentor or
der ends of four additional patron who asks the party to
tentacles (one ring per ten- carry a minor magic item to
tacle). his house as a favor. A typi-
Illus. by W. England Tsochari cannot wear headbands, focus on the dawning realiza-
cal tsochar adventure should

tion that things are not as they
hats, helmets, phylacteries,
lenses, goggles, vests, vestments,
seem.
shirts, robes, suits of armor,
belts, cloaks, capes, mantles,
gloves, gauntlets, boots, or shoes. THE HOUSE
The wizard’s tower stands on
Tsochar arcanists design items a windswept hilltop above a
that use the bracer or ring sinister and tangled forest on
slots. the lower slopes. A rutted road
Tsochari that grow too large breaks out of the oppressive
to easily inhabit humanoids woods and winds across the sere
sometimes make use of a ring of hillside to the wizard’s door.
reduction, described below. Glimmers of dim lanternlight
Of course, a tsochar that spill out of the narrow, slitlike
inhabits or replaces another windows.
creature benefits from magic

items that creature wears. There are two entrances to the
tower—the front door and the
Ring of Reduction kitchen door. The front door
On command, this ring reduces is open, but the kitchen door
the wearer’s size as described in is locked (DC 25 Open Lock
the spell reduce person, except check). The tower sits atop a
that any intelligent creature can sturdy plinth of stone about 7

be affected, not just humanoids. feet high, so the ground-floor
This reduces the wearer to the windowslits are actually about
next smaller size category. A 10 feet above ground level, and

reduced creature gains a +2 size short flights of stone stairs lead
bonus to Dexterity, a –2 size up to the doors.
penalty to Strength, and the size

130 Deros Frist’s tower