This artifact is an unusual one because no one fully understands how and who it will strike. It works in a completely random order.

Item

The previous owner called it the goodbye bell, but it is just a desk call bell.

Description

It is brass desk call bell, and it does look like it was hand-crafted. It has no distinguishable markings on it. The bell is neither loud nor soft, it can be heard at ten feet of a distance.

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Provenance

This bell was retrieved from an elderly gentleman, James, who was homeless. He told us that he obtained the bell from his father in the 1960s. His father worked at the Cecil Hotel in the mid 1920s, when the hotel opened. He had stolen a lot of things from the hotel over the years while being employed there, this bell was one of the items.

Powers

We do not know how this artifact obtained the execrable powers. We can only assume that an employee at the hotel may have done this process. The bell has a tendency to extinguish life randomly throughout the hotel on different floors and always different rooms. We were told that there were two bells at the front desk and this bell was always kept in a hidden drawer in the manager’s office. James told us that when the manager would be away, his father would unlock the managers office and steal things. He found the bell one day but did not take it because he thought it was an extra just in case if the current ones broke. He rang the bell many times, and he noticed that on the day he would ring the bell, someone would die in the hotel.

We paid James to buy the desk bell from him. He told us that his mother may have died because of the bell. This bell does not take any cognomen and the target is selected by the artifact randomly within the same building or structure after being rung 6 times. The artifact has no affect when outside in an open space. This was the main reason James decided to live outdoors as a homeless person.