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Kender Artifact of Companionship
donated by Keysnatch Windowbreaker
Description: The artifact is a 7-sided die. On each of it's sides, there is a
single dot that glows green. Whenever the artifact is put into
use, the whole die glows in a multitude of colors, for about 3
seconds altogether.
History: Once, Keysnatch Windowbreaker found a ring in a dragons
horde. It turned out to be a wishing ring - It would grant the
first
person who used it one wish. Several days later, after narrowly
escaping death-by-minotaur, the kender said out loud: "I wish
people wouldn't keep thinking that I'm a thief!" To Keysnatch's
surprise, the ring on his hand started to glow. It rose of
Keysnatch's finger and into his hand. There, the ring started
changing shape - until it became the Kender Artifact of
Companionship.
How it Works: Whenever the owner of the artifact "borrows" something from
another person, the artifact will create a duplicate of that object
in the same place and position it was beforehand. However, this
duplicate will dissapear when the kender gets "out of range" of
the person, which is in this case out of a mile's radius from the
person (or when the person gets out of the kender's range, of
course). Thus it has happened very often that a poor
unsuspecting person finds that his pants have mysteriously
evaporated for no apperent reason. It once happened that a
kender "borrowed" the Artifact of Companionship from another
kender, which caused there to be TWO Artifacts. For some
reason, the duplicate never dissapeared, although all attempts
to recreate this event and duplicate the artifact again have
failed.
The artifact gets it's name from the fact that if nobody knows
that the kender has it, people will get along well with him,
because they won't find their stuff constantly disapearing. On
the other hand, if the kender's companions know of the artifact
and of it's powers, it becomes a Kender Artifact of Lonliness,
because no-one wants to only find out what's gone missing
after
the kender is over a mile away... |
