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Player > Augmentations > Magitech > Velstrac shackle, follower
Starfinder Adventure Path #11: The Penumbra Protocol (Signal of Screams 2 of 3) p.53
Level: 3
Price: 1200
System: Arm
A spiked gauntlet made of dark composite and inward
pointing spikes, a velstrac shackle fits over one forearm and
has filaments like muscle fibers that snake up to the shoulder,
connecting to dark barbs that protrude from your skin.
The shackle feeds on your tissue, requiring you to eat and
drink half again more than usual to sustain it, and it must
be attached to flesh. Further, no matter how many arms you
have, you can have only one velstrac shackle.
As if drawing a weapon, you can cause the shackle to
extend a shadow chain (Starfinder Armory 11–12) of the
same model name as the shackle. The shadow chain within
the velstrac shackle is magical. It can also be upgraded
with weapon fusions like a normal weapon of the velstrac
shackle's level.
Within the shackle, the chain is hidden from casual
observation, although someone who searches you can discern
the chain's presence inside the shackle by succeeding at a
Perception check (DC = 10 + 1-1/2 × the item's level + your
key ability modifier). While you wear the shackle, you are
proficient with the shadow chain within, and you cannot be
disarmed of or drop the weapon. You can withdraw the chain
into the shackle as a swift action or part of a full action. In
addition, if the weapon takes damage, you can allocate any
healing you receive to it, provided that healing restores your
Hit Points.
When your character level is within 2 levels of the next
more powerful velstrac shackle, you can upgrade the item to
its next level. To do so, you must acquire magical components,
including rare minerals from the Shadow Plane, worth the
price of the more powerful shackle minus 25% of the value
of your current shackle. You then use the components in a
1-hour ritual to upgrade the shackle to the new, higher level.
You must also pay to upgrade any weapon fusions you wish
to keep on the shadow chain as if transferring each of those
fusions to a new higher-level weapon.
Upgrading a velstrac shackle via shadow magic is
rumored to be a way to awaken mortal-made shackles to a
true connection with velstracs. This awakening can make a
shackle that was once safe a source of shadow corruption.
Whispers about this dark possibility suggest virtuous users
who magically upgrade a shackle are more at risk than those
who already have bloodthirsty or wicked tendencies.
Name | Level | Price | System | Source |
---|---|---|---|---|
Velstrac shackle, acolyte | 8 | 9100 | Arm | SS2 p.53 |
Velstrac shackle, penitent | 11 | 25000 | Arm | SS2 p.53 |
Velstrac shackle, ecclesiastic | 15 | 102000 | Arm | SS2 p.53 |
Velstrac shackle, devotional | 19 | 431000 | Arm | SS2 p.53 |
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