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  • Each entry first physically describes the item, with a notation of known quantities. Afterwards, in italics, is a for-SGs description of the object.
  • All of these items are ``UAO unknown'': the Use, Activation, and Origin of these items are all unknown.
  1. White Sandstone Rod
  2. Serpent Ring
  3. Iron Shackles
  4. Small Torus
  5. Small Disc
  6. A Black Stone Doorway
  7. Large Wooden Throne
  8. Red Metallic Staff
  9. Large Archway

White Sandstone Rod

A stark piece of sandstone, polished into a cylinder about 3 feet long and 3 inches in diameter.

A rod of balefire, Tacitia managed to unlease the Fire aspects of the rod, although she did not manage to also tap the Air and Spirit elements. The rod is also quite unstable, and Tacitia often could not control the rod, thereby scorching enormous section of faerie wood.

This item is being searched by a certain number of Arabic mages.

Serpent Ring

A gold finger ring of a serpent.

A ring of controlling serpents. Quite useful for guiding in poisonous snakes.

Iron Shackles

A set of black iron shackles, intended to bind the victim's hands and feet. A collar is also included, and all five points are connected by a heavy chain.

When a magus is so encumbered, another magus may send both himself and the encumbered one into Twilight. The encumbered one, however, automatically has a bad Twilight and rolls twice for number of Twilight Points gained.

Small Torus

A torus made of a clear material, approximately 7 inches in diameter with a 3 inch inner diameter.

This device has a counterpart, which has since been lost. When activated, for all effective purposes, the centers of the torii are the same -- light and matter may freely pass through when the torii are activated. Note that one torus is the "sender" or master, and the other one is the slave recipient. This particular torus is the slave recipient.

Small Disc

This disc is smaller than the palm of a hand, and is mostly pearly white with flecks of black in it.

This device is a prototype spell deflector. The black flecks are impurities in the device: a result from a flawed design. Any spell which hits the disc has a 60% chance of being absorbed. This percentage has a 5% chance of going down by 5% after being used for an extended time (one roll per adventure).

A Black Stone Doorway

This doorway has brightly glowing runes on it. It has also been bricked off, but an Intellego Vim spell can still catch faint drifts of it. A warning is chiseled in a bold Finesse check:

BEHIND THIS SEAL LIES GREAT DANGER. TO TEMPT THE FORCES HEREIN IS TO INVITE DEATH UPON YOURSELF.
This is akin to the red sandstone doorways: it leads to a faerie plane. There, the faeries get no soak against iron weapons, are susceptible to music, and are extremely literal in their bargains. These are the nasty type and will maim-to-kill if not bargained properly with.

Large Wooden Throne

A spectacularly-carved throne, it shows up positive on Intellego Vim checks.
This is no more than a well-carved hunk of wood, worth 3 pawns Herbam. Some nutcase Bonisagus in the past thought it was faerie magical, but he was deluded and it has since gathered dust here.

Red Metallic Staff

A thin staff, about six feet long and about five inches in diameter. The staff is apparently made of metal and is warm to the touch.

This is nothing more than a simple permanent CrIg spell to keep the metal warm and a permanent level 50 CrVi spell to make it appear magical. This is a product of a ruse exacted on a Bonisagus by a Tytalus a long time ago.

Large Archway

A self-standing archway, some eight feet tall. At its base, it is about 3 feet wide, bowing outwards to almost five feet in the middle. The surface of the archway appears to be polished brown marble, but it is easily noticeable that the lighter parts of the ``marble'' swirl freely over the surface of the archway. The archway as a whole seems to glow with an inner light.

This archway does nothing. It was a prototype for allowing arbitrary Hermetic Portal access, but the project failed.

Dave Leung (dcltdw@mit.edu)