Motif · Book 3, The Dungeon Anarchist's Cookbook
The Ring of Divine Suffering
Frank Q's revenge: +5% to all stats and the Marked for Death skill — mark a crawler, gain a permanent stat point when they die, and heal nothing until they do. Yvette wore it and marked Carl; that is why she could not heal, and why her mother killed her. Carl wears it until Mordecai explains what the sixth-floor hunters do to its owners.
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Progression
Given at a bar as revenge (ch. 19); on and off Carl's finger half a dozen times; on (ch. 20); off under Mordecai's threat to tell Donut to leave him on the sixth floor (ch. 30). Its sale to be talked over on the fifth.