Sorrowful Lekythos

Wondrous item, common

Price: 1-10 gp | high sentimentality

This narrow clay flask stands 7 inches tall and is 3 inches at its widest diameter. It has an elegant thin handle and depicts a group of bards playing at a funeral. It weighs 3 pounds. You can pour up to 8 ounces of fragrant olive oil used for funerals out of the lekythos each day. The lekythos refills the next dawn. Anyone smelling the poured out oil remembers the saddest moments of their life until they stop smelling the oil. Loud sorrowful wails emit from within the lekythos when it’s empty.

Paid

A chorus singing a sad dirge—the words indistinct— replaces the loud sorrowful wails when the lekythos is empty.

Overpaid

Instead of hearing a chorus or wails when the lekythos is empty, anyone who has a deceased love one hears the voice of the deceased calling out from within the lekythos.

Source: The Gray Merchant of Asphodel