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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Steverooo" data-source="post: 2236715" data-attributes="member: 9410">Pepper-Sprayer:Copyright 1990-2005 by SteveC.Here's another custom item...  Take a short, wooden tube.  Have leather end-caps made for both ends, and make sure the whole deal is oiled or shellacked, for waterproofness...  Now, get the hottest peppers available in the local area (the ones with the most Scoville Heat Units, or SHUs, for short).  Dry these well, and then grind them into a fine powder.  Put the powder in the tubes, and store them away for when you need'em!When being tracked by a Slithering Tracker, or sniffed out by a Bloodhound, a little pepper along your path will disable their Scent-tracking, for a while.  Better yet, remove the cap from one end, place it in your mouth, and blow the cap off the other end, blasting a cone of hot pepper out into the face of the Troll sniffing along after you.  Coughing, sneezing, choking, and tearing generally follow.These also have application to invisible opponents, showing them up, if you can hit them, and causing an area of Coughing, sneezing, choking, and tearing, if they enter the cone before the "dust" settles.  Choking, coughing, & sneezing are DC:10 to Listen for, teardrops can be seen, and the pepper-powder, itself, might show up the invisibles, if they are within the cone.Pepper-blowers are cheap, easy, and smart.  You can also make hand-grenades by replacing the end-capped tubes with eggshells.  Carefully take off the narrow end, remove the egg, wash the inside of the shell, and allow to dry, thoroughly.  Then, fill with pepper, and seal with sealing wax.  Carry them in a well-padded, hard-sided beltpouch, and use them as any other grenade-like missile.  When they hit, they'll release pepper all over, in a spherical region of about 10' diameter (good enough to dazzle one Large opponent).</blockquote>

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