Winswand's Talismans (2)

Well, since the last time we've talked about these, one of them has already gone missing. Morporkian thieves have developed a great liking towards my Psaltery, and after about 4 attempts, have been successful in taking it away from me. I've already ordered another pearlescent velvet scarf from Enne Ira, but I think I will be too lazy to delude it until I get some better perception skills.
So... 'tis rings and bracelets today. Here we have...

Big Ben

After I discovered that hidden cafeteria we wizards have access to, I started buying some of the nice things the bar-keeper has on sale. Among these, one of the prettiest and most amusing are clockwork bands, which tell the time (or burn it in the sky) and cast Torqvald's Many Colours for free on you. I am always wearing one, and its name is pretty self-evident, isn't it?

Simple, yet elegant. Etched on a reticulated electrum band, eldritch runes supply the power used by the inner clockwork gears. The latticework is so fine, it allows for a visual of the inner workings of this masterpiece. Tiny, delicate gears hum and whistle ever so quietly as they keep stunningly accurate time.

Big Ben is a clockwork band.

An octarine shimmer washes across the ancient runes.

Trapped Salamander

This is one of those pieces of crystal jewellery that are ever so spammy and nice. In this case, the lines seemed to invite for a name like this one, and it surely surprises people when they see that 'The flames on your Trapped Salamander seem to dance' (among other lines).

This ring is carved from glittering crystal, with such fine chisel-strokes that the slim band seems almost perfectly rounded. Running around the outside are carven flames, seeming to dance and flicker with the light reflected from the fine facets.
Trapped Salamander is an amber-coloured crystal flame ring.

Ding A Ling

This peculiar hommage to Chuck Berry required some kind of a implement with bells and spammy message. Once again, Libby Twinkle's trinklets came to the rescue. I also employ it as a talker (there it substitutes another bracelet of which we'll talk on some other occasions, as it languishes in a vault right now).

This is a fine bracelet of twisted silver filigree, from which dangles a row of tiny jet black crystal bells. Softened light glints from their facets as they rub shoulders, sending out muffled and musical chimes which peal gently with every movement.
Ding A Ling is a jet black crystal bell bracelet.

Bolshevik

Last, not least, another item from the magic Cafeteria. Now that I look at it in perspective, it looks more like an item for a Silver Star Wizzie, and yet it looks so nice... As for the name, hammer and anvils (not sickles) made me remember the Reds before even thinking in the Stars. And I have an Archdruidic sickle deluded somewhere to a similar name (used it a lot when I relied on misc weapons, as it was light and poisonous).

This is a bracelet made of the finest and thinnest silver possible. The links of this bracelet are tiny and they hold together piping made from brushed silver of the same vein. The startling shininess of the links contrasts beautifully with the more matte flare of the piping. On opposite sides of this bracelet are strands of even thinner silver. On each strand a golden hammer or a golden anvil dangle loosely. Both are etched perfectly and each displays a relief. The anvil boasts an iconograph of a workshop, while the hammer presents small runes which glow a slight blue.
Bolshevik is a hammer and anvil bracelet.

Friddlefrod’s Hydratic Extrusion

What's it called? Friddlefrod’s Hydratic Extrusion (nicknamed FHE)

What does it do? Well, let's just say I wouldn't call it the most useful of spells. The only thing it does, to my knowledge, is dry you (or others) when you are wet (which may be the result of sweating, raining or having taken a swim in some watery places). The help information says it all, really, and with less words. It might be useful to tm the skills at beginner levels. The failure effects are an extra amount of wetness.

Where is it? Being a non-practical, toy spell (unless it really annoys you to go around soaked and dripping), it is found in the Begynners' Magick tomes at Wizard guild's gyms.

What does it require?: No components at all.

What skills do I require?: Water, Evoking, Water (2)

Has it worked?: A good output should read something like this:

You prepare to cast Friddlefrod's Hydratic Extrusion on xxx.
You attempt to sense the location of water on xxx.
You point at xxx, feeling for the presence of water.
You send out a message to xxx, reminding any water there how it likes to flow.
You visualise flow lines passing down xxx.

Help Information:

Friddlefrod's Hydratic Extrusion - Dry out a target.

Friddlefrod's Hydratic Extrusion is a miscellaneous type spell that forces water off, and hence dries, your target.

Order Rings - Mrs. Widgery's Lodgers

>look tower ring

An elegant gold ring, surmounted by an intricate setting based on a platform of gold. Seven silver spokes lead in from the rim of the platform, joining to the corners of a heptagon in the centre. In the middle of the ring, surrounded by the polygon, a small house has been picked out in octarines. Underneath the whole design is a depiction of the Tower of Art.

Etched in lines of glowing octarine: "Inquilinus"

It appears to have something written on it.

It is in excellent condition.

>read tower ring

You read the tower ring:

Mrs. Widgery's Lodgers

Conjuring

Conjuring - not to be confufed with the type of magickal creation of thyngs - ys ufed to requeft a spirit to perform some action, like abjuring but the other way around.

Winswand's Talismans

Of course, that isn't wizard magic. Talismans, like brooms (except for ash-sweeping) and magical brewings remain outside our sphere. But in the case of talismans, we may benefit, like everybody else, from the witchy spell 'Delusions of Grandeur', which gives items a proper name, after some time-consuming training, and makes them a magical object of sorts.

The reasons for deluding are practical and aesthetical. In this section, I'll be listing some of the many things I've christened, and which regularly come along with me...

Onyx Psaltery

I relish all sorts of custom clothing, so I had to have one of the custom badge-for-club substituing items that are made at the Temple of the Monks of Cool. The Psaltery is very appropiately a talker-scarf for the #Musicians club.
As to its name... I find some sort of delight in combining glass and crystal with music... I can't imagine a real crystal harp, but there's this thing they do with wine glasses that has the most ethereal of sounds...

This is a scarf, handmade by Enne Ira in the Temple of the Monks of Cool, hidden in a laid-back valley somewhere in the Ramtops. There is an intricately sewn emblem embroidered on the scarf, bearing the words "Musicians". You feel like the command "musicians" does something.
Onyx Psaltery is a pearlescent velvet scarf.

Bottomless Pit

My backpack is probably the oldest deluded item I still carry with me, as I got rid of many trinkets for burdening reasons. It is also one of the remaining items of my Agatean craze, when almost everything I was wearing came from the Counterweight Continent...

The deep red coloured backpack is made of durable traditional silk. It is shaped like a tube. Each pocket is adorned with delicate embroidery depicting dragons coiling and uncoiling in a lighter shade of red.
Bottomless Pit is a deep red silk backpack.

My Precious

Very appropriate, as it was my first custom ring, and it cost me a fortune. It was the product of another craze of mine, which was spending money in the most expensive items I could find around the Disc. The ring is pretty, though, and serves a nice function as a superb blorple to one of my most frequent portalling locations: the Unseen University.

This is a magnificent black gold ring. Set with a central moderately-sized teardrop-shaped lapis lazuli shard that is surrounded by seven oval-shaped small chrysoberyls, the ring is a masterpiece that must have taken much skill to craft. The surrounding chrysoberyls glitter gently in the brilliant light that the lapis lazuli shard gives off, causing the ring to look even more spectacular in its black gold setting.
My Precious is a lapis lazuli shard ring.

Note: I have been updating old entries of the grimoire with the help of Hex's newly discovered digital iconograph picture making. In this entry, you can see images of only two out of three object. This is because my backpack was recently featured in a more recent entry.

Books - Begynners' Magick

A tome and an old, battered chest are on the floor.

This book is an old, leather-bound tome with some strange designs on the front.

Octarine light seeps from between the pages.

Table of Contents
-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-
2 ... Boolywog's Forbidden Pleasures
3 ... Memories of a Vicious Chicken
4 ... Rugged Victor's Rodentia Vivisection
5 ... Torqvald's Many Colours
6 ... Sorklin's Field of Protection
7 ... Independent Recurring Vocaliser
8 ... Worstler's Elementary Mineralogical Glance
9 ... Scolorid's Scintillating Scribbling
10 ... Collatrap's Instant Pickling Stick
11 ... Grisald's Chilly Touch
12 ... Pragi's Molten Gaze
13 ... Eringyas' Surprising Bouquet
14 ... Malich's Penetrating Ocular Lance
15 ... Friddlefrod's Hydratic Extrusion
16 ... Amazing Silicate Blorpler

NOTE: In the past, this book used to house the spell Finneblaugh's Thaumic Float, but it has moved and now lies within the Library. In its stead we have Pragi's Molten Gaze.

Finneblaugh’s Thaumic Float

What's it called? Finneblaugh’s Thaumic Float (nicknamed FTF)

What does it do? A priori, it is a toy spell, that allows the wizard who's cast it to 'float' a little space above the ground, and adding an informative line about this to your description (as well as informing others when you enter a room that you are 'floating above the ground').
In the past, its effects were only aesthetic, it seems, but now I'd say it is the most useful of the easy spells (it is harder to cast, though, after recent tweaks. See notes).
Thaumic Floating includes the following advantages:
1) Under its effects, witchy vines cannot tie you down (specially useful to PKs, I imagine, but also if you like killing npc Witches...).
2) It reduces the damage taken from falls from high places.
3) It's an obstacle to sinking on the water while it remains working.

Where is it? It includes some fondling of the air waves, so it lies inside the found in the Invoakatyons in thee Mysterie of Wind grimoire at the Unseen University library.

What does it require?: A feather (any kind of feather), which is consumed in the process.

What skills do I require? Air, Evoking, Summoning, Air (2)

Has it worked?: A good output should read something like this:

You prepare to cast Finneblaugh's Thaumic Float.
You drop a feather, watching it drift to the ground.
You probe the feather, concentrating on its affinity with the air.
The feather crumples into dust.
You call forth the spirit of the wind.
You lever yourself gently upwards with magic.
You float gently off the ground.
You feel light as air.

Help Information:

Finneblaugh's Thaumic Float - Hover gently in the air.

Finneblaugh's Thaumic Float is a miscellaneous spell that causes the caster to float several inches above the ground for the duration of the spell. The spell consumes a feather.

Notes:

This spell has been recently modified to make it what it now is (I'm adding this note on the 25th of July, 2010). In its previous version, it was much easier to cast, only had 3 stages (Air, Summoning and Air again) and it didn't consume the feather. Also, it was counted among the toy spells of the Begginer's grimoire, and not among its present air kin...
As it had a stage less, the output was slightly different. Line two was 'You drop a feather, watching it drift to the ground and force it to float back up into your hands' Present lines three and four didn't exist.