This weathered leather satchel is tooled in nautical designs and is full of rose-colored salt. Rubbing the salt on a sea creature will dry it out and shrink it to a tiny size without harming it (an hour of drying for each ton). When placed in water again the creature will revitalize and grow back to original size. It is said this was how the narwhals came to the Grand Lama's forbidden lake.
Wednesday, October 13, 2021
Monday, October 11, 2021
Jeong-Suk's Iron Nail
Drive this rusted iron spike through your flesh and into a living tree and no being can possess you, bewitch you, or even touch you unwanted. It is said that this was a requirement for the greatest necromantic rituals of the 2nd Dynasty.
Thursday, September 23, 2021
The Origami Library
"I saw it once, it looked like a big, old map until Lady Fude started unfolding it. It kept unfolding and unfolding. After an hour it was a beautiful tent and when we walked inside we saw it was decorated with birds and pale flowers. There were paper shelves and on the shelves scrolls of paper that could be unrolled and read and they were all treatises on whatever topic Lady Fude whispered to the Library as she unfolded it."
"Oh, I thought it was a library of origami techniques!"
"It could be a library about anything, but it's true, that day I saw it, she did whisper to it to show her paper folding techniques and then she read one, and folded a crane that flew across the tent on its own."
Monday, September 20, 2021
Corinne's Case of Vivid Lenses
This mahogany box is lined with black velvet and holds pairs of eyes. Stories differ on how many pairs or what type, but if the eyes are held up to those of a person, they grow into them and replace them. This grants the person new ways of seeing. When finished with the eyes the user can pull them out, leaving their own eyes unharmed. Tales mention a milky white pair, clouded with age, said to obscure the world in a hazy fog except for the living, which appear as bright lights. A brilliant green pair is said to let a person see the true emotions play across a person's face no matter their skill in lying. There are other strange sights mentioned, but always the warning that using the eyes is comforting and pleasurable and harder and harder to resist. (user become addicted: minus one to hit/damage for each day they haven't used a pair of eyes in a session)