This is a hanging bullseye lantern that has been repurposed as a makeshift cage for a small part of a gibbering mouther that had been separated from the larger body.
Once per day, as an action, you can retract the front hood of the bullseye lantern revealing a small glass window with small holes cut through it, which allows sight and sound and small bits of food or water to pass through, but not the mouther itself. The mouther gets so excited when the hood is opened that it thinks it’s going to be fed, it instinctively makes it’s loudest “Gibbering” noises in anticipation creating the following effect:
15-foot cone of “Gibbering noise” babbles incoherently from the lantern. Each creature within the cone’s effect must succeed on a DC 10 Wisdom saving throw. On a failure, the creature can’t take reactions until the start of its next turn and rolls a d8 to determine what it does during its turn.
On a 1 to 4, the creature does nothing.
On a 5 or 6, the creature takes no action or bonus action and uses all its movement to move in a randomly determined direction.
On a 7 or 8, the creature makes a melee attack against a randomly determined creature within its reach or does nothing if it can’t make such an attack.
The effect only lasts for one turn.
Unfortunately, this takes a lot out of the poor baby gibbering mouther after that turn and it is silent until the next dawn. The diminutive aberration requires edible food and water, once per day at a minimum. This can be small rodents or simply rations. Refraining from feeding it more than a day or suffocating it, will cause it to die and no longer be useful. It seems to grow at an incredibly slow, essentially unnoticeable rate at the moment, you currently are not sure why.
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