Shambling God Statue?

Voltumna

Mongoose
I think I have seen this described under unusual or sorcery items somewhere, but just can't locate it in the books. Can someone point me to it, or was this a lotus dream?
 
Rules foe animated objects (including statues) are found in Scrolls of Skelos or in its augmented reprint Secrets of Skelos. If you plan to grab one, the 2nd edition is much more complete, but sadly in B&W...
 
Thanks Herve, but that's not what I am looking for. The thing I refer to is a statue of an obscure god, you can meditate in front of it, and you can learn sorcery by doing so. You can also gain corruption. I am pretty sure it is related to Khitai, but already scanned that book for it and can't find it.
 
It did appear in S&P, but I also don't remember which issue, but here is the text of it:

Statue of a Shambling Elder God
The statue is of some Elder God, one so ancient that any record of its popular worship no longer exists, a god who is remembered now only in the darkest of cults in their innermost secret circles. Seeing the idol causes a Terror check DC 18. Pausing long enough causes one to 'hear' a mental whisper if the character has at least a 10 Wis. All creatures who hear this horrible whisper within a 60-foot spread must succeed on a DC 13 Will save or be affected strangely for 1d2 rounds. This strange affectation causes the hearer to attack the statue with a melee or ranged weapon on a roll of 1-3 on a d20, or babble incoherently on a roll of 4-10 on a d20, or flee away at top speed on a roll of 11-14 on a d20, or attack the nearest person on a roll of 15-20 on a d20. This is a mind-affecting compulsion effect. A creature that successfully saves cannot be affected by the idol in this manner for 24 hours. Spending any time meditating in front of it or even working around it for a long period of time causes a Corruption save (DC 15). The idol can teach spells, so a sorcerer who meditates in front of the statue after sacrificing a life to it may gain sorcerous knowledge.
 
VincentDarlage said:
It did appear in S&P, but I also don't remember which issue, but here is the text of it:

Statue of a Shambling Elder God
The statue is of some Elder God, one so ancient that any record of its popular worship no longer exists, a god who is remembered now only in the darkest of cults in their innermost secret circles. Seeing the idol causes a Terror check DC 18. Pausing long enough causes one to 'hear' a mental whisper if the character has at least a 10 Wis. All creatures who hear this horrible whisper within a 60-foot spread must succeed on a DC 13 Will save or be affected strangely for 1d2 rounds. This strange affectation causes the hearer to attack the statue with a melee or ranged weapon on a roll of 1-3 on a d20, or babble incoherently on a roll of 4-10 on a d20, or flee away at top speed on a roll of 11-14 on a d20, or attack the nearest person on a roll of 15-20 on a d20. This is a mind-affecting compulsion effect. A creature that successfully saves cannot be affected by the idol in this manner for 24 hours. Spending any time mediating in front of it or even working around it for a long period of time causes a Corruption save (DC 15). The idol can teach spells, so a sorcerer who mediates in front of the statue after sacrificing a life to it may gain sorcerous knowledge.

!!! Now that is just cool.
 
I originally wrote that for the "God in the Bowl" adventure included in the Compendium. I had described each and every room of the Temple of Kallian Publico. That item was tucked away in one of the rooms. However, Mongoose edited out all of those descriptions when they published the adventure, so I reused the Statue of a Shambling God in another publication (just because I liked it), but I don't remember which one it was that it actually got published in.

Aha... I put it in the Player's Guide (page 56). It also appears in Khitai on page 48.
 
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