Wednesday, July 8, 2009

Magic Item: Sunjari's Pitiless Barb

Sunjari's Pitiless Barb: Without the aid of magic, this neu bow would be nothing more than a strange and fragile curiosity; not fashioned of ash or horn, it is entirely composed of a network of miniscule golden gears, silvery levers and other clockworks encased in a perfectly transparent "bowstave" of many-jointed crystal. When the stave is flexed or its string pulled, the clockworks inside speed up and whirl in a frenzy of activity.

Sunjari's Pitiless Barb is a short bow +1. Though it is not a strong weapon in inself, as enchanted weapons so, upon the command of its wielder its ammunition is transmuted to crystal and brass and sheathed in a nimbus of sparkling, icy blue. Any damage inflicted by such a transmuted arrow may not be healed by magic -- one hit point is regained per day of rest, but no more. Such transmutation draws on the archer's strength of personality; the number permitted per day is equal to the archer's Charisma bonus.

5 comments:

Chris said...

A steampunk magic bow? By rights it shouldn't be cool; but it so totally is.

Curse your unerring aesthetic sense Tai'!

taichara said...

@Chris: Hee ~ Thank ye kindly ;3

Anonymous said...

Do the transmuted arrows remain crystal and brass? And, if so, do they have any special abilities in and of themselves?

taichara said...

@seaofstarsrpg:

They do stay transmuted, yes.

No particularly strange properties after the arrow has been used to wound, however, aside from whatever lingering magic would be clinging to a transmuted object.

Tomira Eliyes said...

Pretty and interesting!