#penknife

[nearertothee]

today’s finds from the antique store

[420farts]

my annual haircut documented

[theoutcastrogue]

Penknives

From the book Explanation or Key, to the various manufactories of Sheffield, with engravings of each article, designed for the utility of merchants, wholesale ironmongers, and travellers (Sheffield, 1816) [x]

[shithomebrewitems]

The Poetess

(light, finesse, thrown (20/60)

Must be attuned by a Bard, and can be used as an arcane focus

A penknife that’s also a pen. It’s about 3 inches long with a retractable 3 inch blade. It’s dark blue with specks of white and green and the blade is a green electrum-steel alloy. It’s also known as “Baziel’s Barb”.

+1 to melee attacks and damage with weapon

+1 to spell save dc and spell attacks (when using as arcane focus)

Does 2d4 + DEX/STR piercing damage

Target must make a CHA save (bard’s spell save dc) or take an additional 2d4 psychic damage and be compelled to rhyme when speaking for the next minute. For the next minute each time they don’t rhyme they take 1d4 psychic damage.

For the next minute (if they fail the charisma save) you know the location of the target if you’re both on the same plane of existence. You know this because of the magical ink within the pen that was injected into the target when they were struck.

(If using 5e rules, when you attack with one light weapon you can attack with the penknife on the same action instead of using a bonus action.

If using 2024 rules, you can attack twice with the penknife as your second light weapon attack.)

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[paranatellonta]

A New Bookcase for the Library (The Adventures of Mr Cube #11)

Whenever Mr Cube was volunteering at the local library, he imagined he was guarding a valuable treasure—because, in his opinion, he really was.

One of the regular staff was another, even smaller wooden robot of the name Sharpie, who’d involved Mr Cube in friendly conversations since his very first day. Learning that Mr Cube was full of dreams, Sharpie appointed him to present an idea for the library’s new bookcase.

Penny, the library’s carpenter and general handycrab, listened attentively to Mr Cube’s presentation and confirmed that xe could make everything just the way he had envisioned it. On certain points xe further improved the initial design, and it turned out xe would even add the decorative bunnies that Mr Cube had added to his picture in a bout of whimsy.

Penny was such a skilful craftscrab that xe left Mr Cube feeling a little flushed, floaty, as if his circuits would enjoy circling around Penny more often in the future.

But then the actual work started. Sharpie had seen it coming and donned a pair of goggles, but Mr Cube only realised that he wouldn’t be able to keep watching the bookcase’s manufacturing when wood chips were whizzing right by his face. His wooden face.

If Mr Cube couldn’t stomach being around Penny when xe was doing the work xe loved so much, how would he ever manage to get to know xem better?

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[Image description: On the left of the photo, there’s a pencil sharpener encased in a small wooden robot with its mouth open and an antenna on its head. Next to it, a black card, lino printed with golden ink depicting a bookcase that holds, aside from books, a globe, a bear, some potted plants, some quartz crystals, and two rabbits, is upright against a stand that holds up a pair of golden goggles. To the right of that is Mr Cube, the wooden Cubebot, who’s holding up a white heart. In front of the card, a penknife in the shape of a crab, also with a wooden body, holds up its bottle opener arm in a wave.]

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The black-and-gold card on the photo was made by the amazing @tanouska.

There are already 10 more Mr Cube adventures here on Paranatellonta! [Click here] to read the older ones.

[a-life-lived-outdoors]

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