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Scroll of Miraculous Mail (Patreon)

Published:
2022-04-13 15:52:27
Imported:
2022-06

Content

Scroll, common


This scroll of parchment is completely blank except for a small eye-shaped stamp in its corner. When held up to the light, instructions for using the scroll can be read hidden within the paper, which also include its unique command word. You can use an action to speak the scroll's command word, followed by the name of a person or place with which you're familiar on the same plane of existence as you. The scroll then folds itself into a perfect, self-containing envelope with a red wax seal, complete with the eye's shape pressed into it. Anything other than the scroll falls out of the envelope when it folds itself, and any magical effects on it (other than the scroll's normal ones) are also lost.

The scroll then vanishes, magically reappearing at the location of the person or place whose name you spoke as part of the command word. The scroll then loses its magic.

When the scroll vanishes, there's a 10 percent chance that it reappears in a random location on the same plane of existence, instead of its intended destination.


Noa was sitting quietly at the bar. The beer was fine, albeit siltier today than the usual swill he could afford. Things never changed, but when they did, they typically got worse.

Suddenly, a neatly folded envelope squeezed into reality from simple nothingness and landed on the sticky bar top. He looked at it for a moment before spinning around to see if anyone else was around to see what happened. As usual, though, he was the only person there. Carefully, he lifted the envelope and thumbed over the wax seal. The mark of an eye was stamped in its center, circled by 6 letters.

"The hell is a LIMINA?" he whispered quietly to himself.

He opened the letter, taking care not to damage the wax in doing so, and began to read:

Thigith,

Your latest delivery was just that: the latest it's ever been. Keep me waiting once more, and the last thing you'll deliver to me will be your bloody heart on a dinner platter. I don't care who you are or the power you seem to control as a Tarhand, but you will not disappoint me again.

—X

Noa's eyes were wide with surprise. Not from the gravity of the situation this person seemed to be in, but simply by the change of pace this letter had brought to his day.

He called back to the kitchen. Shayen had only been gone a few minutes to clean the pots, but half of the time that really meant that she was leaving to tend to some other errands.

"Hey Shayen? You there? You know anyone named Thigith?

The silence that followed indicated that she had, indeed, left him there to sit alone in her bar.

Noa finished his drink while still holding and re-reading the letter. He put a copper on the bar absent-mindedly and left: the earliest he had ever done so on a morning such as this.

Surely this meant something to someone, and his curiosity had certainly gotten the best of him. Whoever this Thigith was, Noa wanted to find him before X did.

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Comments

Anonymous

At last! What price range would this magic item be ? It's a consumable and would/should be quite common in every planes of existence. I would put it at approx 25gp... Any thoughts ?

Ryan Rogers

With two mods it will be 25 gp in my game. Paper Birds are uncommon. While these have a lot in common with Sending, the two don't really have a lot in common with each other. I already sell birds for 25 gp in my game. The birds move slowly, but the are guaranteed (assuming nobody intercepts them), and if they are intercepted, they are secure. Only the recipient can read them. Conversely, these are instantaneous, but have a 10% chance of failure, and if they arrive in the wrong location, are readable.. Both supply 2 of the 3 tentpoles: - immediacy (mail) - secrecy (bird) - reliability (both-ish) The other huge difference is there is no word limit on this item. I'm ignoring that fact when determining cost because in my game this will have the same 50 word limit as the Paper Bird (ie double that of Sending, or if the same if factoring in both directions). My tables tend to enjoy crafting these messages within the constraints provided, so I wouldn't want this item to take away from that. If it has no word constraint, I'd sell it for much more because even a third level Sending cant do that, and 3rd level scrolls are many hundreds of gold pieces in my game (450 gp to be exact). I'll probably also modify it to a 5% chance of failure, or 1 on 1d20. 5% is in line with the chance of Sending failure across planes, so easier to remember, and makes sense since this is clearly "similar, but weaker". So instead of guaranteed within plan ande 5% chance of failure across, it just becomes 5% failure in-plane, and no possibility of across. So, purely for balance with existing content already out there and already priced in my game, I'll make it uncommon, decrease failure to 5%, and add the 50 word limit, and sell it for the same as Paper Bird: 25 gp. As a player, you then pick the right paper for the job. If you want fast but don't care about eavesdropping or reliability, you use this. If you don't care about the time, but you want it secure, you need the bird. However, neither are guaranteed, but both are likely to succeed. If you want guaranteed, and you want fast, and you want it secure, you use Sending...if you can....but your word limit is halved. Balance. ;-) P.S. Oh, and to be clear, if I hadn't already established Paper Birds at a set cost in my game, I'd feel totally fine using this time as is for 25 gp a shot. Totally.