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suffers no further damage but may not move or attack
and must successfully save vs. wand in order to
speak (cast a verbal spell, call for help, beg for mercy.
Each charge lasts 1d4+1 rounds and the whip can
attack each round. A wand of whips can be recharged.
Whip of Fangs
Evil priests are the only beings able to employ these
horrific weapons. In drow communities, only priestesses
are allowed to possess and use them.
These belt whips have adamantite handles, but
their tendrils are living snakeheads, two to five in
number. The whips, once enchanted, are attuned to
a specific individual and may be used by another
being only after another attunement ritual has been
performed. (They attack anyone who touches them
except their attuned wielder!) The ritual of attunement
requires the consent of Lolth, and priestesses
consider such whips personal gifts from her, believing
that they will cease to function, or even turn on
their wielder, if they are used in an act against the
will of the Spider Queen. Forbidden acts usually include
using a whip against a matron mother or other
ruling priestess.
Living serpents are required to make these weapons;
they become enchanted extensions of the will
of the wielder, hissing, coiling, writhing, and reaching
in response to the thoughts of their wielder. The
whip of any angry priestess can knot about her belt,
and menace the beings she is angry with, without
her ever touching it.
The whip’s tendrils are from 1’-3’ in length. Each
is AC 8, has 2 HD, and attacks (THAC0 14) for 1d6
hp of damage. The serpent-heads have no poison effects,
but their longs fangs bite deep, leaving scars
and injecting waves of magic that both numb and
shoot waves of muscle-knotting pain through the
victim.
Angry drow priestesses typically use these whips
indiscriminately on slaves, servants, pupils, male relatives,
and casual acquaintances. Injured heads regenerate
2 hp/day; slain heads cannot be healed.