Book of Vile Darkness
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This work of ineffable evil is meat and
drink to
clerics of that alignment. To fully consume
the contents requires 1 week of
reading, but when such has been accomplished,
the evil cleric will gain 1
point of wisdom
and experience points sufficient to place him or her
exactly half way into the next level of
experience. Clerics neither good nor
evil who read the book will either lose
30,000 - 120,000 experience points or
become evil without benefit from the work;
there is a 50% chance for
either. Good clerics perusing the pages
of the unspeakable Book of Vile
Darkness will have to save versus poison
or die; and if they do not die they
must save versus magic or become permanently
insane. In the latter event,
even if the save is successful, the cleric
loses 250,000 experience points,
less 10,000 for each of his or her points
of wisdom. Other characters of
good alignment will take 5-30 hit points
of damage from handling the
tome and if they look inside there is an
80% chance a night hag (q.v.) will
thereafter come to the character that night
and attack. Non-evil neutral
characters will take 5-20 hit points of
damage from handling the book, and
reading its pages will cause them to save
versus poison or become evil,
immediately seeking out an evil cleric
to confirm their new alignment. (Cf.
Book of Exalted Deeds for other details.)
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