Produced by a special needle, this magic tattoo represents unbreakable shackles.
As an action, you can speak the tattoo’s command word to cause inky chains and shackles to shoot out from your arms at a Large or smaller creature you can see within 15 feet of you. The creature must succeed on a DC 15 Dexterity saving throw or become bound by the shackles for the next hour, or until you use a bonus action to dismiss them. The shackles are as long as the distance between you and the creature at the time it was shackled. A creature can use its action to make a DC 20 Strength check, freeing a bound creature on a success.
When either you or the creature moves beyond the distance allowed by the shackle chains, you make a Strength (Athletics) check contested by the other creature’s Strength (Athletics) check. Until the end of the current turn, when the winner of the contest moves, it can drag the shackled creature with it, but its speed is halved, unless the creature is two or more sizes smaller than it.
Once used, this tattoo can’t be used again until you finish a short or long rest.
Tether. You can use an action while a creature is bound by your shackles to transfer your tattoo to an object, transferring your side of the shackles in the process. If the shackled creature can’t move the object to which it is bound, it can use its action to make a DC 20 Strength check, breaking the chain on a success. If the chain is broken, the tattoo returns to your skin, wherever you are.
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