It’s technically already Tuesday my time, but I was practicing some digital painting and wanted to showcase an item from one of my ongoing DW games for Magic Item Monday.
The Bone Wand of Beshi or The Bone Wand of Beshlanishutli
A cursed bone wand from the Jungle of Beshi, it was originally crafted by Beshlanishutli, King of Devils and Sultan of Death. It attracts any undead within near range and glows a bright teal color whenever undead are nearby.
Certain undead creatures (nightwing, ghosts, banshees, possibly more) may be absorbed by the wand which cause its runes to light up with the same, teal glow. Anyone capable of summoning or manipulating the undead may then draw them back out of the wand.
I haven’t quite figured out what happens when all three runes are fully glowing, but I’m sure it will be terribly evil and detrimental.
It’s also indestructible and unable to be lost or thrown away. If whoever is carrying it attempts to do so, it just comes back to wherever it was stored.
In the game I’m running, the PCs are on a quest to keep the wand from falling into the hands of Beshlanishutli, his demon offspring, and his minions. Since the PCs can’t destroy it, lose it, or throw it away, the only means they have of getting rid of it is by imprisoning it in a special box deep within an ancient, underground temple dedicated to Beshlanishutli.
Richard Robertson Vinney Cavallo Patrick S.
You might not want to hear this, but that is a very… uhn… phalic looking wand. Just saying.
Also, if the wand can’t be lost, does that mean its location is always known to at least one person? Let’s say the PCs succeed in their mission; they bury the wand deep beneath the earth of the demonic temple. Even if no one else knows where it is, the PCs all know. When all the PCs die, the wand’s location becomes unknown again, which I read as “being lost”. So what happens?
Lol I thought it was a dong too before I read anything.
Definitely a “bone” wand all right. Also snickering like mad at “bury it deep” in the above comment. Because I am, apparently. twelve.
Ha, wonderful. I was going for the bottom half of a femur, and now all I see is phallic imagery too. Oh well, I guess there’s another reason Beshlanishutli wants his package back.
Christopher Stone-Bush I didn’t go much into the box it’s meant to be imprisoned in. Technically, that’s another magic item in itself, but the point is once it’s imprisoned, it’ll remain there until someone opens it up again.
Still, you’ve got a point, the ‘being lost’ bit could be reworded.
I know that feeling Misha Polonsky. After all my art was framed and hung for my senior presentation in university, another student said “You know all those aliens look like upside penises, right?”
He was right, too. O_O
Christopher Stone-Bush I guess it happens.
I’m really digging this. Was it hard to draw?
Paul Ettin Thanks. Pun intended? 😛
The Dick Joke World Tavern.
SuperBad-Dick Drawings
Hehe. All I can see now is Beshlanishutli, King of Devils and Sultan of Death sculpting dicks all over the place. Awesome. Best magic item evar.
Give us a warning before you post an illustration of the box it comes in.