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Storyteller's Stein

Wondrous item - common

These steins are enchanted with a clever version of the prestidigitation spell that reacts when in the company of a good story. Whenever you tell a story while holding this stein, its lid opens and closes like a mouth to emit sounds and other harmless sensory effects that accompany the tale. For example, if you're telling the story of a thunderstorm at sea, the stein can create the sounds of rumbling thunder and creaking floorboards, or allow you to spew illusory flames after taking a drink from the stein when you tell the story of an ancient red dragon's deadly breath.

"'Twas a dark and stormy night," said Korbir Stormforge, the stein in his hand letting out a low rumble of thunder. "Wait, I thought Mum said this happened mid-day?" his middle child asked, eyes narrowing slightly. "Who's tellin' the story? So there we were, squarin' off against an army o' cultists," Korbir continued, his stein now making sounds of metal hitting against metal. "When through a break in the clouds came a huge dragon!" He paused for effect, taking a swig. "It landed just behind the cultists, then opened its fiery maw and..." Korbir breathed an illusory plume of fire over the heads of his children. "Hang on, Mum never said anything about a dragon. Is this like the story with the werewolf? Mum said that never happened either," said the oldest child, all too familiar with their fathers' stories. "Oh, we fought all sorts during the war. And stop interrupting yer da' when he's telling a story. So just when we thought we were cooked by the dragon," he continued to the sound of an echoed roar, "a lady knight, yer mum, swooped in on 'er pegasus and stuck a spear right through the great beast's eye, and we turned the battle 'round." "Is that really how you met Mum?" asked the youngest child, amazed by the story. "O' course! All me stories are true! Every last word." he answered, his older children groaning.