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for a proto-shoggoth). Because the shoggoth can sense
who uses the twsha, the item is extremely difficult to
buy or sell.

WINE OF PNOTH
Weight 1/2 lb.; Price 1,000 gp per drink; Craft (alchemy)
DC 25

This wine has the same effect as any other alcohol
with one dramatic exception: the effects are permanent
and never lessen without magic or other dramatic
interventions. The effect of each drink can be negated
with a successful DC 13 Fortitude saving throw. The
first time a drinker fails this save, they become tipsy
(imposing a –2 penalty on Acrobatics and Perception
checks). The next drink makes the drinker drunk
(gaining the sickened condition). For each drink
thereafter, the drinker suffers 2 points of Constitution,
Dexterity, and Wisdom drain. Only spells and effects
that reverse both poison and insanity relieve any of
these effects. This is an ingested poison.

There are mysterious parts in that book, but the only true mystery
is that our very lives are governed by dead people.
—Inferno (1980)

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