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From: dickinst@crl1.crl.aecl.ca (Tim Dickinson)
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Subject: RESOURCE: Tim's Stuff: Items 2 (9/22)
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Date: 3 Oct 1995 16:01:33 -0400
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HAMMER OF N'JINERE
This magical device is not a weapon: it is a handheld tool of the
sort a carpenter might use. It is very fine, however, with a
carved handle of some unknown wood, and a head of brass, shaped
into the head of a ram or some other horned animal.
The hammer is not very good, it will be discovered, for traditional
use. However, if it is touched against any man-made machine or
contraption that is broken, it will be magically repaired.
Note that it will not make work a device that, because of poor
design, cannot work; nor will it create any missing parts that
are needed unless such parts are no bigger than the size of a man's
fist. It will only repair something that is broken, has small
bits missing, or is worn out. It will repair any continguous
machinery of a size equal to or less than that of water-driven
flour mill.
It _will_ repair any relatively simple magical man-made device.
Note that only machines or devices can be repaired. A cart with
a broken axle could be repaired, as could a door. A broken sword,
however, could not - only machines or devices may be so repaired.
_____________________________________________
BOX OF DORKILL
Dorkill was (is?) a mage of more than considerable maliciousness
and mischief. One of his chief enjoyments in life was duping,
robbing, and/or misleading everyone he possibly could. A large
part of this was done by disseminating far and wide promises of
magic and power that, unfortunately, produced disatrous results.
Many of Dorkill's foul tricks can still be found today, hidden
amongst ancient libraries and secret caches of treasure.
Dorkill's Box was one of the mage's favorite tricks. It is a
magical device meant to steal and destroy people's most valued
treasures [this is a good way to de-magic a party if you think
you've gotten a little carried away].
>From time to time, a set of old scrolls will be discovered in
an ancient tome or hidden with great treasure, that seem to
be magical instruction to a wizard for creating a Box of
Epsijmm, a magical construct that would keep all items safe.
According to the instructions, with the expenditure of much
time, money and strange components (you decide what), you get
a magic box that opens only on the owner's command and can hold up
to 2000 lbs of stuff, magically, weighing only 30 pounds at most.
The box will, in fact, perform exactly as described...for a period
of a month or two. Then, one day, it'll just refuse to open, and
everything that might have been inside will be stuck on the Ethereal
Plane (where it keeps things). Destroying the box means everything
inside is lost. A successful dispel magic _and_ an opening spell
of some sort will open it, and things can be recovered.
Note that Dorkill's spell is so fiendishly done, that a wizard making
the box will have only a 4% chance per level
of realizing that the Box is meant for ill, and that it's a trick.
___________________________________________
MASK OF DORKILL
Another of the wizard Dorkill's fiendish tricks, still circulating
from antiquity.
This white plaster mask, complete with nose and eye holes for the
average human face, radiates magic. If worn, it will make the
wearer invisible...for a while.
A few days or weeks later, when the mask is donned, it will fix fast
to the wearer's face, and cannot be removed except by perhaps a
dispel magic and/or removal of the curse involved. So long as the
mask is stuck to the wearer's face, the wearer's body will be illumined
by a bright yellow light like that of a strong lantern. This light
shines from all of the wearer's body, and all skin would have to
be completely covered to block it. The wearer will be _highly_ visible.