[Wids]

I feel bad for suggesting something else, particularly since I haven't made much progress on the Liber Transfiguratus and its "subbooks" lately. On a related note, will the holdable books still work if I'm building them through the CEP 2.4 module?


Anyway, just a few more ideas:


Waukeenar Shop Shingle
"The Church of Waukeen devised these merchant shingles and signs to aid floundering shops in garnering new customers and driving up sales. No matter how the words are etched, burned, chiseled or reliefed into the surfaces of these signs, a simple command word will restore them to their original state, ready to be marked again and thus announce your shop's next bargain or notice."

(You know those merchant shingles that can be placed outside of a house with a merchant in it? This is just like one of those, except that it's a placeable object to be placed inside the house. Just place the Waukeenar Shop Shingle inside the shop as you see fit, then change its Title and Description to such colorful announcements as "Ask the owner for your Legionnaire discount!" or "Free Potion of Resist Elements with every Rod of Wonder bought!" or "If you break it, you buy it!" or "No goblins allowed!")


Stroghoi's Bloody Goblet
"Fearing the increasing numbers of vampire hunters snooping around his Vaasan province, Lord Vindeslaus Stroghoi enticed a cabal of allied necromancers into enchanting a number of copper drinking goblets for himself and his coterie of lesser vampires, that they might reduce their need to venture outside and feed on the local townsfolk. With every sunset, the goblet fills itself with fresh blood of unknown origin, which the cup's bearer may drink as he will.

Lord Stroghoi's downfall came when the hunters, having captured and interrogated one of the necromancers, confronted Stroghoi in his throne room. Seeking to strengthen himself before engaging his hunters in battle, he drank deeply from his self-filling goblet, only to find that the blood produced was tainted and unclean. Gravely crippled by the pestilent blood, the elder vampire was no match for the blessed silver blades as they descended.

Whether coincidentally or not, the commoners grew dismayed when an old man squatting among the province's leper colony fell dead somewhere around that time, ashen-skinned and mysteriously exsanguinated of all his blood. The surviving vampires of Stroghoi's coterie, blanching at so much sudden attention from vampire hunters and alarmed townsfolk alike, dispersed throughout Vaasa's neighboring nations. Most of the goblets went with them and have been found in various hands ever since."

(This goblet's feature only works if the goblet is used by a vampire. Once each night, a vampire may use the goblet to drink fresh blood. The kind of blood produced by the goblet is randomly determined (via d%) and behaves as blood of that type normally does.)

1-20: Impure Blood
21-80: Pure Blood
81-95: Child Blood
96-99: Virgin Blood
100: Vampire Blood


Fetish of the Sapient Will
"Landeer Voice-of-Bones, a wise woman of the Tree Ghost tribe, was brother to Harrik Arrow-Odd, one of the tribe's more proficient hunters. But Landeer came to fear for her brother's life and well-being--and the lives of those around him--when a botched hunt left most of Harrik's party dead and himself afflicted with the curse of the werewolf. When Harrik disappeared with the rise of the next full moon, the shaman immediately returned to her tent and threw herself into channelling ancestral spirits, beseeching them for their wisdom.

Before the next moonrise, Landeer emerged from her tent with a new spirit fetish: A tether strung with alternating wooden beads, wolf teeth and human fingerbones. Heading into the surrounding foothills, she found Harrik as he was wracked with his next transformation. But through clutching the fetish and chanting fervently to the ancestral spirits bound to the Grandfather Tree, Landeer forced the curse to relent, returning her brother to his human form.

Though Harrik was never purged of his lycanthropy, it was through his sister's close attendance--and through judicious use of the fetish--that Harrik eventually learned to master the Beast and better control his lycanthropy. Through that union of human thought in a beastly body, Harrik returned to his tribe and became twice the hunter that he was before he was bitten, much to the envy of his tribemates."

(Lycans normally only get one chance per night to revert to their normal forms. By using the Fetish of the Sapient Will on a transformed lycan, the fetish's bearer can attempt to force the lycan back into his or her normal form; the roll is similar to that of a lycan attempting to revert himself back to normal form, but the roll is modified by the Fetish-bearer's Wisdom, not that of the lycan. The Fetish can only be used three times before its power must be replenished.)