Wanderer's Contract

Some items stop the blow; others shrink the bill. This one is the latter. It doesn't keep you from dying — it makes dying hurt half as much. When you drop to zero hearts with nothing left to absorb, the penalty falls from 20% to 10% of your Khron — and in a late land, where purses run to six figures, that gap pays for the item several times over. It works on its own: you carry it, and it spends itself only at the exact instant you would have been ruined. Insurance, in the most literal sense the game has.