This bed is made from sewn lizardskin stretched over an ancient wooden frame and inscribed with curious runic engravings and glyphs. Crafted by a lizardman priest of an ancient lizardman tribe, this item is buried in the sacred tomb beneath the waters of the Well of the Faithful Prophet in Kirkuk.
Through this device, the lizardman priesthood displayed its alliance against the assaults of Death, establishing its divine prerogatives while maintaining control over the rulers of the lizardman empire.
This device is considered a minor artifact with the following abilities: cure disease, cure serious wounds, raise dead, and charm person.
Activation: To activate, the blood of a reptile must be poured on the bed.
Use of Powers: Once activated, the bed will automatically cure a diseased being, heal the injured, or raise the dead. The being is also automatically charmed and subjected to the will of the owner of the bed.
Handicaps:
- Those cured, healed, or raised by the bed begin a transformation into lizardman, which lasts three months. The process is gradual, and can be arrested by remove curse, and removed by dispel magic (cast at 20th level).
- The owner of the bed begins to become a lizardman when the bed is first used. Memory of the present begins to fade and the character begins to assume the identity of the lizardman wizard who originally created the artifact. This process may be arrested or removed as above, but the owner saves vs. the remove curse and dispel magic as a 20th-level wizard. The owner does not want the transformation halted or removed, and resists any such attempts with all his abilities.
Penalties: The owner cannot recall human speech or use spellcasting or combat abilities during trances. Trances last 1d6 turns and are triggered by any hit point loss. To resist the trance, the owner may save vs. spell in the first month of transformation, with a -4 penalty in the second month, and a -8 penalty in the third month.