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As you burn up with excitement, you check the other wardrobe - and when you find nothing in false back of that one, you head back out into the room to check the other pieces of furniture - the bed, then the desk, then the table. As your mood falters then wanes while to are trying your honest best to figure out how to thoroughly check the walls and the floor and perhaps the ceiling, it occurs to you that you have yet to check the dresser between the wardrobes. The intoxicating rush returns all at once in a surge, and you practically leap for the dresser. You have such a good feeling about what you may find that you cannot even stop yourself from wrenching the thing away from the wall - though once you pull the false back off, what you find exceeds even your wildest explanation. For secreted away back there, hidden from everyone - even father! - is a Mystery, a proper Mystery. It is well outside of your expertise, but you think you know enough to definitively say that ...
> Please choose ONE of the following:
> ... it is a Wall-Wand, five feet long in one piece, a typical size. Complete with Nodules unlike any you have ever seen or learned of, shouldering stock and mounting stake, such weapons - and this is definitely a weapon - are typically too large for Witches to carry without Mysterious aid ... though you feel that you could manage well enough. The tip of the wand is in a fanned-cones configuration, suggesting that the wand is designed for use on either multiple entities or area denial. You cannot Interpret the Glyphs that you see, but the Instrument does bear an embossed name - Odontalgia - which if your Eternal Tongue is right, translates to 'Toothache'.
> ... it is a Siege-Wand, eighteen feet long in three pieces, smaller than typical. Complete with Nodules unlike any you have ever seen or learned of, mounting stake, collets for the wand and multiple collars for multiple operators, this is clearly Pre-Estrangement, though given its size and simple Harness, you are confident that you could operate it alone. Both the Wreathed Lamp affixed around the tip of the wand, and the tip itself, which is in a shanked-lance configuration, suggests that the wand is designed for use on single entities. You cannot Interpret the Glyphs that you see, but the Instrument does bear an embossed name- Ternum Sal- which if your Eternal Tongue is right, translates to 'Pinch of Salt'.
> ... these are Leeching Needles, in a number of lengths and gauges - perhaps thirty of them all told. Complete with Nodules unlike any you have ever seen or learned of and the full Harness this Implement is designed to convert viable but unprepared potential sources of Fuel into improvised Fuel Nodules. Such Implements were common before the Estrangement, but they have since fallen out of favor as they are notoriously bad with releasing the Strangeness during operation. Though if this one survived this long - or was made Post-Estrangement - then perhaps it is more manageable?
