Maelstrom Gloves

The Maelstrom Gloves are a set of studded leather glove-like gauntlets. When they are used, electricity charges up through the embedded studs and arcs between them.



Description
The Maelstrom Gloves are heavy gloves that stop beneath the fingers, with gauntlet plates above the guard. Metal studs are set across each knuckle and organized across the back of the hand, where the electrical charge is gathered. They end at the wrist. When the gloves were found, they were massive, but when Beau attuned to them they shrank to fit her hands..

The gloves give +1 to unarmed attack and damage rolls. When activated (1 time/day) at the start of a turn, the gloves channel atmospheric electricity through them, extending the wearer's reach to 20 feet for one minute. Attacks made at range beyond the user's typical melee range deal lightning damage instead of bludgeoning damage.

History
The gloves were recovered from the body of the red minotaur-like winged demonic creature the Mighty Nein encountered under the well in Asarius.

While fighting the golem in the Happy Fun Ball, Beau utilized the lightning feature by slamming her fists together. Lightning began to charge around them, with purple lightning arcing between her gloves and the energy device behind her. Beau took two points of lightning damage, but the gloves were thrumming with power. This charge lasted beyond the normal minute-long activation, doing 6d6 lightning damage on a hit.

Beau later used the gloves against an ooze (seemingly a black pudding with slightly different immunities/resistances) on the island of Foren in Eiselcross, initially not knowing that lightning damage caused those creatures to split into two smaller oozes. This turned out to be helpful when Caleb Widogast used a fireball against the oozes.

Quotes

 * Beau: These gloves are dope. I can now punch ghosts.