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The air about you shimmers slightly, a silvery hue as if all the starry light of the midnight sky has coalesced in one place.
When the shimmering light fades, you notice a tiny gift remains behind, pinned to your clothing.
>blink
You blink.
>inv
You are wearing a shimmering glaesine orb, etc. etc..
>l orb
>
The orb is shaped of pure midnight blue glaes, crafted into a perfect orb. It hangs from a delicate silver chain affixed with a tiny moon-shaped mithril pin.
Tiny shimmering crystals hover inside the orb, pulsating slightly with the light of the stars. Currently they form the shape of the constellation of The Unicorn.
Barely visible on the glaesine surface of the orb, some words have been etched in minute script around its circumference.
>read orb
The script is so tiny, you will have to hold the glaesine orb in order to read it.
>rem orb
You take off a shimmering glaesine orb.
read orb
>Minute but elegant script is barely visible as it encircles your glaesine orb...
"Frae Naira vers Deiam, Jae esais bevre Tua ae te Draekeche."
"From Dusk til Dawn, I stand between thee and the darkness."
- from the journals of
Linsandrych Illistim
circa -49,080
>blink orb
You blink.
>"What in the...
>
You say, "What in the..."
>wear orb
You put on a shimmering glaesine orb.
>l
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Asked around on the net a bit, and it seems everyone is getting one, but no one quites knows what they're for. My speculation is that it has to do with the whole night/day thing we're going (gone) though now.
You can also turn the orb to display a different constellation, touch it to change the color, and rub it. Keep in mind that if you touch it, it will no longer be 'shimmering', but a (colored) glaesine orb.
[This message has been edited by Taernath (edited 03-19-2002).] reg