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Mask of the skull

(Dungeon Master's Guide v.3.5, page 262)

Price (Item Level): 22,000 gp (15th)
Body Slot: Face
Caster Level: 13th
Aura: Strong; (DC 21) necromancy and transmutation
Activation:
Weight: 3 lb.

This ivory mask has been fashioned into the likeness of a human skull.

Once per day, after it has been worn for at least 1 hour, the mask can be loosed to fly from the wearer’s face. It travels up to 50 feet away from the wearer and attacks a target assigned to it. The grinning skull mask makes a touch attack against the target based on the wearer’s base attack bonus. If the attack succeeds, the target must make a DC 20 Fortitude save or be struck dead, as if affected by a finger of death spell. If the target succeeds on his saving throw, he nevertheless takes 3d6+13 points of damage. After attacking (whether successful or not), the mask flies back to its user. The mask has AC 16, 10 hit points, and hardness 6.

Prerequisites: Craft Wondrous Item, animate objects, finger of death, fly.
Cost to Create: 11,000 gp, 880 XP, 22 days.