Wizard's Bookshelf 7
Allotment of the Alia, by Ailhiet Pantoliano
A dusty mahogany case, containing a masterwork cotton scroll with bladed edges -- an unweary reader must save vs petrification or lose 1d10 fingers. Its masterful Pirate script describes the construction of the Alia, considered one of the finest ships ever built. First year apprentice shipwrights are often required to write a copy of this text.
Value: 200sp
Weight: 20cn
Study Of The Dark and Peregrine, by Ezer The Vigorous
A worn, maple-covered codex with a folding tripod built into the spine. The mildewed silk pages feature detailed diagrams and Berserker text analyzing the physiology of birds and the practicalities of flight. 40 crow feathers are embedded in the centre spread, pluck one to cast fly, pluck three to transform into a giant raven (HD 3, AC as Chainmail, Attack as Beak and Claws).
Value: 6000sp (-130sp per used feather)
Weight: 50cn
Objects of Law, by Danessil The Ghastly
A burnt skin scroll case containing a singed papyrus scroll. Its rambling Orc runes and detailed illumination describe extreme piercings and other body modifications and how to reduce the risk of sepsis. It was once issued to every regiment of a forgotten warlord's army.
Value: 40sp
Weight: 10cn
Songs of the Paradox, by Ralen The Huntress
An unbound manuscript of salt-stiff pulp paper, tied with brittle jute twine. Its ornamental Pirate script records several dozen unique shanties from the Paradox, the legendary command of the pirate queen Usune the Collector. A song about a wrecked treasure ship guarded by drakes has a map on the opposite side.
Value: 1300sp
Weight: 25cn
Tenement Teaching, by Unknown Author
A slim perfect-bound codex of torn linen with a warhammer stamped on its cover. Its nearly-unreadable Berserker script tells a legend of disenfranchised tenants who revolt against their landlord and turn their neighbourhood into a forest. An ecocommunist collective mass produces these and hides them in respectable libraries.
Value: 40sp
Weight: 5cn
Every Man My Friend by Hyrtacus Orlando
A long silk scroll wrapped around a gilt-framed portrait of the author. A rambling essay in common script on how to exploit the peculiar blind spots and sympathies of men in power.
Value: 200sp
Weight: 30cn
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Reading: Werebeasts of Hel by Asa Drake
Listening: Lego Castle: 1979-1998 by Dreamcastle