Coin of Luck (Magic Coin)

This innocent-looking copper coin has two faces. Both depict a fat, heavily jowled merchant. One side smiles ingratiatingly and the other side sneers in open-mouthed scorn.
The coin grants luck indeed-good luck for Hiddukel and bad luck for any mortal who comes across it. One encounter with the coin of luck occurred when Balcombe, an initiate into the Order of the Red Robes, failed the Test of Sorcery and ended up a splintered and smoldering pulp outside the Tower of High Sorcery. The coin of luck appeared in his hand, and his ruined body was renewed to life. Then Hiddukel, speaking through the coin, offered a deal-Balcombe could remain alive and avenge himself on the wizards who slew him if he promised to serve Hiddukel. Balcombe agreed, only then discovering that Hiddukel required him to trap the life forces of Krynn's folk in magic jars and feed them to the insatiable god. Hiddukel planned, at the next opportune stellar conjunction, to draw the life forces from the jars and feast upon them.
As might be expected, Balcombe was killed in the commission of his duties, and the coin found its way into the pack of one Tasslehoff Burfoot. It could be anywhere now.
The coin of luck acts as a luckstone, occasionally adding a bonus of +2 to any die roll (roll 1d6: odd = +2, even = +0).
Through the coin's opposite faces, Hiddukel can speak to the bearer. The grinning side speaks when Hiddukel is in a good mood and the sneering side speaks when he feels foul. The coin periodically flips sides in the bearer's hand when Hiddukel's mood changes. Hiddukel grants the coin of luck only to those with whom he knows he has a bargain that cannot be refused.
Once the coin reveals itself as a tool of Hiddukel and the owner agrees to enter into a pact with Hiddukel, however, all the coin of luck's powers activate. Once per day, the bearer of the coin can cast continual darkness 15' radius. Once per turn the bearer can also cast suggestion on anyone. These suggestions are used to sew dissent and discord. The coin can create an antimagic area with a 20' radius at Hiddukel's will. Hiddukel summons this ability to place his minion at a disadvantage so that he must bargain further with the god of betrayal for his life. Once per day, the coin also casts blight and bestow curse, the reverse of bless and remove curse.
Anyone invoking one of the greater powers of the coin must make a system shock roll each time or become terrified and lose 1 point of Charisma. The user of the coin becomes more corrupted, jealous, and greedy. Eventually the coin brings downfall to any using it.
This coin of greed is part of a Triad of Betrayal, created and inhabited by Hiddukel, Although Reorx forged the coin, Hiddukel imbued it with magic to thwart the designs of the goddess of love, Mishakal. The coin of greed, like the other artifacts of the Betrayal Triad, pursues an artifact of the Circle of Love all around the face of Krynn. The coin of luck seeks to destroy the amulet of the healing spirit. 
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