Mocker's Swazzle
Item 13This Item may contain spoilers from the Curtain Call Adventure Path
Unique Magical Source Pathfinder #204: Stage Fright pg. 80Price 3,000 gp
Hands 1;
Usage held in 1 hand;
Bulk L
A swazzle is a device made of two strips of metal bound with sinew and around a reed that, when held to the mouth, causes the user’s voice to take on a distinctive rasping tone. Swazzles are often used by street puppeteers to give their puppets’ voices a unique and memorable timber. A
mocker’s swazzle, though, has a different use—rather than simply giving voices to troublemaking puppets, it helps a performer fight back against hecklers in a crowd.
Activate—Heckle the Heckler [reaction] (
auditory,
emotion,
linguistic,
manipulate,
mental);
Frequency once per hour;
Trigger A creature within 30 feet of you attempts and fails to
Demoralize you;
Effect You quickly fire a retort back at the triggering creature, mocking its failed attempt in a way that makes it laugh at its own ineptitude; you cast
laughing fit (DC 30 Will save) on the triggering creature.
Activate—Mocking Spell [one-action] (
auditory,
linguistic,
spellshape);
Frequency once per day;
Effect You direct a quick bit of insulting mockery at a creature who can understand you that’s within earshot. If your next action is to cast a
mental spell that targets only that creature, that creature takes a –1 item penalty to any saving throw against the spell and, regardless of the result of the saving throw, becomes
off-guard until the start of your next turn.