Aura moderate transmutation [fire, light]; CL 16th; Slot -; Price -; Weight 3 lbs.
DESCRIPTION
This lantern appears to be a normal waterproof lantern. When the lantern's command word is spoken, it behaves as if under the effects of dancing lantern. A knob on the outside may be turned to produce a continual flame. The knob can be turned to vary the brightness of the flame. This, in effect, changes the radius of the effect of the light from 0 ft up to 100 feet. The lantern can also be lit by normal means.
The light of the lantern provides an emcompassing light, giving a +2 circumstance bonus to Perception checks to find or observe anything in the light of the lantern. Once per day, the lantern can be used to cast any level 0 or level 1 detect spell (CL 13). Additionally, it allows anyone with the studied combat class ability to use it as a swift action and lasts as long as the subject is in the light of the lantern or is dealt damage by the studier's studied strike. A studier can use studied combat on a target in the lantern's light again within 24 hours by spending a move action without needing to spend inspiration.
Upon closer inspection (Perception DC 20) of the lantern's flame (regardless of the origin of the flame), small ghostly images of objects can be seen floating in the lantern.. A lamplighter automatically notices the images when observing the lantern.
While touching the lantern's flame, as a move action, the holder can choose an area within the light of the lantern and summon forth one of the images in the flame. The image leaves the flame and grows in size up to its proper size as it moves to the chosen area. Once there, the image seems to be the original item or structure for all intents and purposes except in its appearance.
Each object gives off light as bright as that of the flame in the lantern. If the flame is extinguished or the lantern and image are on different planes, the object disappears and reappears in the lantern. The holder of the lantern can issue a mental command as a move action to return it to the flame.
When the lantern's flame is lit by magical means (including the knob) by a lamplighter or with fuel, any image produced from it can be summoned in a ghostly form where it can only be interacted with for its intended purpose. Any object or creature passing through it (as when not using it for its intended use) takes 3d6 points of fire damage per 5 ft. square that is moved through and is outlined with light equivalent to that of a torch, for 1d6 minutes as if having passed through a campfire wall. If summoned onto an object or creature, it receives a DC 18 Reflex save to halve the damage. If lit by fuel, the flame only burns for 1 hour per pint of oil.
A lamplighter can use their alchemical illumination ability to cast a light spell into the lantern, making spells with a duration last 24 hours and extend or limit its effects to the light of the lantern or treating instantaneous spells as if cast with empower spell.
A lamplighter can take any metal key and using a flame with heat in the lantern, brand the key's shape onto someone's skin. This bonds the key, the person, and the lantern together. This process can be repeated any number of times with any number of people. The bound key can be summoned and unsummoned by its owner as a swift action. An owner of a key can spend 5 consecutive rounds to summon a door. This door is colored like a flame and seems to flicker but does not produce light.
Once the door is summoned, when a bound key is touched to it, fiery material expands out from it to form a small house. The walls extend 10 feet into the ground, anchoring it in place. It expands in 1 round, any anyone caught in the rapidly expanding building takes 10d8 points of fire damage (Reflex DC 18 Half). The walls, floor, and roof have 90 hit points and hardness 10.
If the house is summoned and another bound key attempts to summon the door, the house may or may not be called based on the priority of the bound key. The lantern acts as a key and has the highest priority, a key bound to a lamplighter has the next highest priority, and all other keys have the same priority. The house only dematerializes if the bonud key trying to summon it is a higher priority. If a lower priority key attempts to summon it, the owner of the bound key that summoned the house is mentally alerted that someone else is trying to summon the house.
The exterior of the house appears similarly to the door. When the flames flicker, they reveal what is on the other side of the house, not what is inside. The structure and contents of the house is maintained across summonings of the house, but anyone with a key can restructure the house when they touch their key to the door when they summon it. The house must be within a 40 ft by 60 ft rectangle, under 120 ft tall, and under 15,000 sq. ft. If the house is restructued to smaller than the objects inside require, objects are randomly dropped at the door until the contents fit inside the restructured house.
Everything inside the interior functions as it would normally. Initially, the house is empty except for the components of an alchemist's lab, a crucible, a filter, a retort, two beds, and a large chest.
The bed fits only one medium creature or an equivalent amount of smaller creatures. Additionally, it cares for any creatures that rest on it, effectively providing long-term care to those creatures.
Twice per day, as a standard action, a lamplighter may pull out from the chest all the standard tools required to make checks for any one Craft skill. Once summoned, they remain for 24 hours, until the chest image disappear, or the lamplighter touches them to unsummon them (this does not require a move action), whichever comes first. Anyone may use these tools once they are summoned.
If the house is damaged and a fireplace exists inside the house, fuel can be burned in the fireplace to repair the house. Burning fuel this way repairs 10 hit points per minute and only one fireplace can be used to repair the house at once.
The owner of the bound key that summoned the house can dismiss the house as a full-round action. If any creatures are in the house when it is dismissed or dematerialized, the creatures appear on the ground at the same horizontal position they were at inside the house. All unattended objects remain in the house.
To destroy a bound key, it must be held in the flame of the lantern overnight. Once destroyed, the brand fades from the owner of the key.
At the start of the day, the bearer of the lantern can choose up to 10 objects from inside the house to appear as an image in the lantern's flame. There is no restriction on what these objects can be. As a standard action, the lantern bearer can sacrifice an image of an object less than 15 ft. by 15 ft. and less than 200 gp from the lantern to create a 5 ft. radius burst of fire center at a point within the light of the lantern. This burst deals 1 damage per 5 gp the item is worth.
The door to the house can also be sacrificed in a burst of flame. The door need not be summoned already and can only be sacrificed by a lamplighter bearing the lantern. This burst of flame has a 15 ft. radius centered at a point within 100 ft. of the lantern, only targets those the lantern bearer wants, deals 100 true damage and 50 fire damage to enemies, and heals allies for 50 hit points. The true damage cannot be dodged or reduced, but the fire damage allows a Reflex Save DC 20 to halve the damage. Once sacrificed, the door cannot be restored and the house no longer summoned and everything inside the house is scattered across the Ethereal Plane.
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CONSTRUCTION REQUIREMENTS
Feats Craft Wondrous Item; Spells Continual Flame, Dancing Lantern, Summon Instrument, Secret Chest; Special Continual Flame must be cast on the materials once by a lamplighter or everyday by another caster during the creation of this item; Cost -;