Blood ApricotLevel 5 Uncommon

A rich orange-red, this small fruit turns much darker if given a taste of blood.

Consumable        50 gp

Power ✦ Daily Utility (Standard Action)

Effect: You lose a healing surge, bleeding onto the apricot, which absorbs your blood and the healing surge.

Power (Healing) ✦ Consumable Utility (Minor Action)

Effect: You eat the apricot. Unless the apricot has absorbed a healing surge in the past 12 hours, you lose a healing surge, and when you do, you regain only 2d8 hit points. If the apricot has absorbed a healing surge in the past 12 hours, you can instead spend a healing surge and regain an additional 2d8 hit points.

Published in Dragon Magazine 429.