Random Items!

For when you need to generate some quirky loot.

Currency items
Glass/Bone/Stone Beads (Venere style, Iberiyan style, Yazid style)

Desh Rupi (silver coins with cool embossed letters and pachyderm/palm fronds)

Erebi Sickles

Cimarron lugs (engraved pewter rings) and leaves (glazed stoneware tokens)

Tally cards/sticks - can be 'cashed in' like bearer bonds at the nearest bank

Pocket sized loot
A deck of tarot cards

Terebinth resin - used in perfumes and as a reagent - Used

"Quilly" - an elegant ebony pen with a shiny brass nib. If you start to write with it it will telepathically offer the writer suggestions in a jaunty, annoying voice.

Ivory tusk from an extinct pachyderm

Glass 'ingots', dyed cobalt blue

A tiny elephant figurine, carved in blue lapis

An ancient flask of wine, still sealed and good!

Bog Offering/Defixio. A clay tablet that is usually put into a bog or down a well - usually blessing or cursing a specific person. Might tell you something about what's bothering the inhabitants of a place.

A small pouch with spices. Could contain a few cloves, a small box of saffron threads, a teaspoon of peppercorns or a bunch of dried chili

Scented massage oil

A good linen handkerchief

Giant's Hobnails (in southern Ladinh) Nails from a Gigantija's boot - the leather is all rotted away but there are some nice big iron nails here.

Message in a bottle. Could contain a cheap scroll, a love note or a lead on a new opportunity.

A nugget of moon rock/lead/tin/native copper

Ritual Candle or incense - helps improve the odds of the cleric Ritual move

Amulet of a random Terranuovan deity

Magic-ish oddities
Floating stone

It's white on one side, black on the other. It always rotates white side down and hovers in place, about 2 feet off the ground when released. It's older than Desh times.

Deshi Singing Bowl

It's metal (but the Feyling doesn't corrode it, and it seems to have resisted the elements). You run your finger round it, you hear a gentle chant (not a spell and makes no sense as words) and a faint light hovers in the centre of the bowl. Will sell or trade for a nice price if you take it to an antiquities dealer.

Bondstones

Two people holding a stone each can telepathically relay three syllables' worth of message to the other person. The palm of your hand or your fingers need to be in contact with the stone for it to work.

Saucy Pottery

Potshard or pot featuring three nude Desh in a very acrobatic position. A niche buyer would love this.

Chewed scroll

The cavies have munched on this scroll, you're not 100% sure it will work as intended

Big fun stuff
Bad taxidermy chimaera. Not an actual stuffed chimaera, someone put a snake's tail and bat wings on a goat to look cool

Adorable tchotchke. Elven or Deshi porcelain figurine, just a bit bigger than pocket sized

A nice carpet! Alas, it's not a magic carpet.

Fancy Finds
Little Mother's Eye

Works like an ioun stone of awareness - little glittering votive that orbits a person's head on command, while in orbit, you can't be surprised.

Cup Half Full

It's a small cup, made of turned wood or earthenware. When you fill it with any drinkable liquid, and gradually pour some out, it refills magically with a replica of that same liquid from the bottom, but only with a very slow trickle. If you turn it all the way on its side, it empties. It never fills more than about halfway. If you put poisoned or unhealthy water in, the cup will not fill.

Amulet of Hindsight

When you suffer a critical failure while wearing it, you get a brief vision of an alternative strategy, which might help your chances next time.

Rod of Bargains / Pipe of Peace

Used with another person (grasping the rod together, or smoking the pipe), it binds people to the promises they make. The promise works such that either Fate twists its way to fulfilling the oath, or the person will perish if they break the terms. There is some wiggle room depending on how the oaths themselves are worded.

Surprised Pika

An adorable golden rock rat zaps you with static electricity, bites you on the finger and tries to scurry away.