Chuulface Mask

This chitinous mask merges with its wearer’s flesh when worn, but can be removed easily as a full-round action. As long as the mask is worn, the wearer’s lower face becomes transformed into a mass of long red tentacles within a chitinous mandible. His upper face is a smooth shell with tiny beady eyes. The user can still speak (albeit in a sloshing, gurgling voice), but any spell with a verbal component has a 10% spell failure chance. As long as it is worn, the wearer can breathe water and has darkvision out to 60 feet. If the user manages to establish a grapple on a creature, he can make a touch attack with the tentacles of the mask once per round as a free action. A creature struck by these tentacles must make a DC 19 Fortitude saving throw or be paralyzed for 6 rounds.

Prerequisites: Craft Wondrous Item, darkvision, hold monster, water breathing.

Cost to Create: 32,500 gp, 2,600 XP, 65 days.

Source: Lords of Madness, page 214.