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The priest presents you with a randoseru of soft leather dyed forest green. Mithral rivets reinforce the silk stitching that holds it together, and the zippers and fastenings that keep its pouches closed are made of the same material. Upon the large leather flap that goes over the back sits an ornate silver blossom half again the size of your fist, with a sphere of emerald that gently glows with magics.
"This gift we give you was crafted as the Masterwork of Artifex Skafos," Regius declares to the rooms. He then looks to you. "You would have known him as the second of fifteen, born of the 6581st Harvest. When the call was given to make your Travail Boon, he stepped forward to craft a wonder for his dear friend."
Second of fifteen... you remember that guy.
But where does he get off on calling you a "dear friend", huh? That jerk kept reporting you for public indecency when you tried practicing the seduction skills you learned as a junior priestess! <span class="mu-i">Your smock hem's too high up, cover your thighs</span>! <span class="mu-i">Your neckline shouldn't leave a shoulder bear, pick a different smock</span>! <span class="mu-i">Stitch that back together, you can't modify your smock to show off your tummy</span>! <span class="mu-i">You can't just show boys your underwear</span>!
Friends don't report friends to the Minders. That's a golden rule among all the juniors, and second - <span class="mu-i">Skafos</span> now - was the sort of goody two-shoes who broke it. You regard the backpack with mild suspicion, but it seems like it's not going to explode and wrap you up in stiflingly concealing garb.
"He named this wonder <span class="mu-i">Heimtasche</span>, the Traveler's Home," Regius continues only an amused arch of his eyebrow at the sour expression on your face, "and to it he gave these functions..."
The randoseru has five pouches, three on the interior and one on each side. The interior pouches are each bigger on the inside than the outside, though it hardly provides as much storage as a Bag of Many Pockets. Each of them can hold as much as one of those rolling suitcases you've seen people wheel about town when traveling. The clothes you've received upon becoming a fully fledged Daughter of Irminsul will fit neatly into one along with a pouch filled with your grooming supplies.
The other interior pouches can be for things you find upon your travels.
The two on the side are perhaps the most important for your travels, as they will keep you going on the trail. The pouch on the right contains a one liter steel bottle that will fill with water over the course of half an hour whenever you return it to the pouch. Any bottle or waterskin will do, but that is the one it's meant for. The pocket on the left produces a sack each morning which will contain a pound of mixed nuts, dried berries, oats, and jerky to get you through the day.
Then there's the jewel upon the flap, which provides one final travel necessity. Insert enough mana to it, and the bag will change into a lovely tent furnished with a bed and a bathtub to keep you clean and comfortable.
