Death's Grasp Tattoo

Alter: While this tattoo is applied on your skin, you can use an action to cast the speak with dead spell. The tattoo can’t be used this way again until you finish a long rest.

As a reaction when taking damage, you can play dead. For the duration, your heart rate and breathing are slowed considerably, and your skin becomes cold to the touch. Another creature can use an action to make a DC 15 Wisdom (Insight or Medicine) check, seeing through your act on a success. Once this property of the tattoo is used, it can’t be used again until the next dawn.

Attunement: Yes
Materials/cost: Grave dirt, 304gp
Placement: Legs
Rarity: Uncommon
Produced by a special needle, this magic tattoo is composed of curled lines representing the threads of life.

This design was conceived by a man and woman that were planning to fake their deaths so they could escape their overbearing families. The magic worked, but the man’s tattoo was misdrawn, and instead of faking his passing—the tattoo genuinely caused his death. To this day, many swear that they could hear a woman’s chilling lamentations as the tattoo was applied onto their body.