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<blockquote data-quote="Wendigo" data-source="post: 2016977" data-attributes="member: 5964">&quot;It floats and it glows&quot; - A useless magic item acquired with considerable difficulty.Origin - In a Runequest campaign we had one adventure were we made a difficult overland journey and came across an item in a cave - a large sphere that was floating and glowing.&nbsp; Other clues suggested the sphere was ancient and from a time when the swamp we were in was more navigable and part of a now-lost trading empire.&nbsp; Unable to determine the sphere's use we dragged this obviously powerful artifact back to Pavis and, at significant expense, had it analyzed.&nbsp; It turned out to have two magic properties 1) it floated and 2) it glowed.&nbsp; The GM then let on that it was a simple navigation buoy.&nbsp; The value of the item was less then what we had spent to have it analyzed.&nbsp; <img src="https://cdn.jsdelivr.net/joypixels/assets/8.0/png/unicode/64/1f631.png" class="smilie smilie--emoji" loading="lazy" width="64" height="64" alt=":o" title="Eek!&nbsp; &nbsp; :o"&nbsp; data-smilie="9"data-shortname=":o" /> Now whenever we come across a useless magic item it is always described as &quot;it floats and it glows'.</blockquote>

[QUOTE="Wendigo, post: 2016977, member: 5964"] [B]"It floats and it glows"[/B] - A useless magic item acquired with considerable difficulty. Origin - In a Runequest campaign we had one adventure were we made a difficult overland journey and came across an item in a cave - a large sphere that was floating and glowing. Other clues suggested the sphere was ancient and from a time when the swamp we were in was more navigable and part of a now-lost trading empire. Unable to determine the sphere's use we dragged this obviously powerful artifact back to Pavis and, at significant expense, had it analyzed. It turned out to have two magic properties 1) it floated and 2) it glowed. The GM then let on that it was a simple navigation buoy. The value of the item was less then what we had spent to have it analyzed. :o Now whenever we come across a useless magic item it is always described as "it floats and it glows'. [/QUOTE]

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