Egg of Fascination (Magic Egg)

Created five years after the perfection of the egg of distraction, the egg of fascination is a considerable improvement over that device. It appears much the same, a speckled, stone egg, and it operates in roughly the same way-being spun on its wide end by someone who suffers a two-step penalty to Armor Class every round spent engaged in spinning, but its effects are more powerful. This egg is also more difficult to spin than its predecessor, and a spinner can keep it in motion for only five rounds per point of Constitution, eventually resting for twice the amount of time it was kept in motion.
When spun, the highlights of the egg seem to spring off its surface and straight into the eyes of everyone within 30 feet who can see it (except the spinner), forcing each victim to make a saving throw vs. spell or be affected as if by a hypnotic pattern spell, standing fascinated until two rounds after the spinning stops. If something blocks the view of the egg, a fascinated viewer remains transfixed for two more rounds; if the user's view of the egg is restored before the time runs out, the character is once again under its sway without benefit of an additional saving throw. Because the glints of light from the egg of fascination actually project from its surface when in use, its effects are more exceptional in a darkened area than in normal light. Thus, saving throws against the egg are made at -2 if the egg is used in darkness. Magical darkness, on the other hand, overwhelms the power of the egg, making it useless. Dragons are not immune to the effects of this device as they are to the egg of distraction. 
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