You curse a sphere of onyx with an arcane compulsion. You may curse up to 4 spheres per casting of the spell. Each sphere must be inserted into the left eye socket of a medium or small undead creature that you control. If one or no eye socket exists on the creature the onyx can be placed inside the body of the creature instead.
The command you insert into the onyx will then be executed by the creature that contains it to the best of it's ability. A command that is impossible for the creature will cause the creature to randomly attempt all of it's abilities to complete the command. A creature will attempt to avoid harm to the best of it's ability unless those actions would prevent execution of the command.
You can end the spell early by removing the onyx from the creature. The curse fades from any onyx not within an undead creature for 24 hours.
Intelligent undead will eventually break free of this control. Once a day, If the target has an Intelligence of 8 or higher, it may make a Intelligence save against your spell save DC. If it succeeds it breaks free of the command for 24 hours. If the onyx still remains inside the undead after this 24 hour peroid it must make an Intelligence save against your spell save DC. On a failure the curse takes control once again and commands them as before. If it succeeds it remains in control of itself for the next 24 hours once again.
If a creature is revived with the onyx inside their living body, treat them as if they were intelligent undead for the remaining duration of the spell.
When you cast this spell using a spell slot of 5th or higher, You may create one additional sphere and the duration lasts 30 days longer for each slot level above 4th.
When you cast this spell using a spell slot of 7th or higher you may curse an onxy sphere worth 100gp and target a large undead creature with it.
When you cast this spell using a spell slot of 9th level, the spell lasts until it is ended by removal of the sphere.
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