Correspondence Stone

### Effects

Allows communication with any creature carrying a Correspondence Stone, and whose Rune of Calling you have inscribed

### Cost to buy

50,000 gp (given by Willoughsby Wizzflick), 10,00 - 30,000 gp for "false" stones

### Requires Attunement

None

A **Correspondence Stone** is a very rare wondrous item utilized by affluent or resourceful individuals across Kaldaran. The difficulty and expenses involved in creating such items makes them particularly rare items with few users. When such expenses can be reduced, this item will likely change Kaldaranian civilization.

## Description

A **Correspondence Stone** is a smooth, oval-shaped stone with cooled silver poured into cavities carved over the body. This is a fairly new and complex magical item, and as such, this stone is an expensive commodity. Only those with the money buy them, the magical know-how to make them, or the influence or power to take them typically own such a stone.

Each Correspondence Stone has a unique, magical rune (up to 1-foot on any side) which gives it its own identity, called a *Rune of Calling*, which you can design as you see fit. As an action, you can transfer a copy of the rune and inscribe it into a separate Correspondence Stone, which remains on the stone indefinitely. A stone can hold up to 10 separate runes; if you want to add an additional rune, you must use an action to remove an existing rune to make space for the new one.

A Correspondence Stone has 4 charges. While holding the stone, you can use an action to attempt to open communications with a creature whose Rune of Calling you have inscribed on your stone. If the other creature accepts the communication, you can speak with them using the stone for up to 10 minutes, and the charge is expended; otherwise, the charge is not expended if the creature does not answer. If you and the creature you wish to communicate with are on separate planes of existence, there is a 25 percent chance that the stone fails to connect to them, and the charge is expended.

The Correspondence Stone regains all expended charges at the next dawn. If a Correspondence Stone is destroyed, its *Rune of Calling* is erased from all stones that bear it.

### False Stones

Replicas of Correspondence Stones have entered a few markets, failing to replicate the full potential of a proper stone. A replica may suffer from one of the following flaws; the DM determines the flaw, or may roll randomly on the table below to determine it:

False Stone Flaw
 2
 3
 4
 5
 6

## History

For centuries since their creation, *sending stones* have proven an invaluable method of quick, long-distance communication for mages, military units, and adventurers. When faced with bloodthirsty marauders, strange monstrosities, and destructive arcane phenomena, rapid correspondence can mean the difference between life and death.

Some folks, however, have complained about a few shortcomings with this magical item: namely, its limited use and restrictive word limit. A young Bixby Blastfizzle, frustrated with his long-winded messages constantly being cut off, aimed to fix this dilemma. After countless failed prototypes, the enterprising wizard, now the Professor of Evocation at Whitecliff University, finally developed the Correspondence Stone, successfully testing it out on his colleague, Professor Willoughsby Wizzflick. During the demonstration, Prof. Blastfizzle used each and every charge on the stone, demonstrating its full 10-minute capacity each time - much to Prof. Wizzflick's growing irritation.

The Correspondence Stone's current iteration is far too costly for mass-production, but this has not allayed Prof. Blastfizzle's efforts to refine the formula - nor has it stopped others from trying to replicate it. Only 12 genuine stones exist across the realm, with dozens of barely-functional replicas on the market. Even these "false" stones have seen regular use by their owners, who often pay vast sums of gold to afford them.

## Available Contacts

The party can communicate with the following characters using the Correspondence Stone:

* Professor Willoughsby Wizzflick
* Bovark
* Haskillian Sunhawk