Magical Artifacts
Recharging and usage information.
Information about magic staves, wands, and rings found on the Discworld. Magical artifacts have various effects when they are used, the usage of which varies with each type of artifact. Wands are zapped at a target, staves are invoked, targetting the entire room, and rings are twisted, affecting the wearer. Users of the artifacts must also have a high enough bonus in the appropriate skill to be able to use the artifact successfully, or it may not work or even backfire.
Magical artifacts can also be recharged using purple mineral powder. Each artifact needs a different amount of powder per charge and some are more difficult to charge than others. The amount of powder used per charge usually indicates the difficulty in recharging.
After each recharging, the magical durability of the artifact decreases, lowering the number of charges it can hold and the probability of successful charging. If too many charges are placed on such an artifact, or its condition is too low, the artifact will explode when recharged, causing damage to the charger. An artifact's condition can be checked using the spell Crondor's Fabulous Detection: The artifact will glow to indicate its condition. The colours it can glow, from safest to least, are purple, green, red, blue, orange, pink, yellow, cyan, indigo and vermilion.
Small stick
Occult name: Wand of pickling
Commonly known as pickling sticks, they magically preserve perishables like food and body parts, but will not work on whole corpses, or living targets! They can be created using the spell Collatrap's Instant Pickling Stick or bought in certain shops.
Base cost with no charges: $x
Additional charge cost: $x
Max charges: x
Purple powder: 1 pinch = 5 charges
Oak wand
Occult name: Wand of healing
When zapped at a target, an oak wand instantly heals a small amount of HP varying from 200 to 500 HP.
Base cost with no charges: $2.50
Additional charge cost: $0.25
Max charges: 15
Purple powder: 1 pinch = 5 charges
Pine wand
Occult name: Wand of striking
A wand of striking is an offensive artifact that will deal a small amount of damage to its target, ranging from 50 to 200 HP.
Base cost with no charges: $1.70
Additional charge cost: $0.50
Max charges: ~12
Purple powder: 1 pinch = 2 charges
Yellow wand
Occult name: Wand of garlic breath
Zapping someone with this wand will give them garlic breath, as sometimes happens when a wizard fails a spell.
Base cost with no charges: $4.85
Additional charge cost: $1.50
Max charges: ~14
Purple powder: 2 pinches per charge
Short wand
Occult name: Wand of magic detection
A short wand lets someone of non-magical persuasion see the enchantment level of an item, albeit in fluorescent greenish-yellow-purple instead of octarine.
Base cost with no charges: $8.50
Additional charge cost: $2.50
Max charges: ~8
Purple powder: 2 pinches per charge
Charred wand
Occult name: Wand of infestation cleansing
Zapping someone who currently has fleas with a charred wand will get rid of them, meaning they don't have to take a bath after all.
Base cost with no charges: $9.10
Additional charge cost: $3
Max charges: x
Purple powder: 3 pinches per charge
Long white wand
Occult name: Skjodor's wand
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Base cost with no charges: $13.25
Additional charge cost: $4
Max charges: x
Purple powder: 4 pinches per charge
Thin stick
Occult name: Wand of artifact probing
When zapped at another artifact, the thin stick lets you see some basic information about the artifact, including its level, type, and how many charges remain in it. It is similar to casting the spell Fabrication Classification Identification.
Base cost with no charges: $2.27
Additional charge cost: $0.75
Max charges: Many
Purple powder: 8 pinches per charge
Red staff
Occult name: Frottjor's staff
Invoking a Frottjor's staff has the same effect as casting Kamikaze Oryctolagus Flammula on all targets in a room. Unlike the spell, the number of firebunnies is always the same - eight, and the only skill that affects its use is the staf skill. It can still backfire and target you, if your skill is too low to use it.
Base cost with no charges: $12.50
Additional charge cost: $2.50
Max charges: ~8
Purple powder: 2 pinches per charge
name
Occult name: bing
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Base cost with no charges: $x
Additional charge cost: $x
Max charges: x
Purple powder: x
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