The spectral butterfly whip

[mrjrd222]

a rolaren-tipped braided leather whip with a handle wrapped in colorful silk

Droughtman's win early on, 5x, unbalance flares, wave it to summon a spectral butterfly that follows you around and you can interact with (raise/exhale/wave to the butterfly are some of the actions).

With a deft flick of the wrist, you crack the whip loudly! A burst of brilliant white light flashes from the whip's leaping tip, and, when the light fades, a spectral gossamer-wing butterfly hovers there in midair.

>raise butterfly
You raise a hand skyward, and the butterfly follows your gesture, spiralling dizzily upward in a sparkling cloud of ethereal light.

>wave butterfly
You beckon to the gossamer-wing butterfly, which flutters toward you. Cold air from its spectral wings caresses your fingertips as it hovers briefly nearby.

>exhale butterfly
You blow lightly on the gossamer-wing butterfly as it hovers in midair. Its form ripples and flows like something out of a dream, and it dissolves into a cloud of ethereal light before coalescing again out of the cloud.

Long loresong (posted in the next post so I don't flood this one too much).

CB 9.5m to Vivina SOLD

BO 18m

[mrjrd222]

Bold is what the bard see's, not bold is what the onlooker sees.

As you sing to the whip, a soft chill passes over your skin. Strong, unusual spiritual magic dwells within the whip, but you can determine no more than that over the course of the verse.

The rolaren-tipped whip seems to respond to the magic of Bard's song.
Small threads of frost shimmer over the surface of Bard's rolaren-tipped whip. A chill breeze whips past, carrying the scent of oncoming snow.

Small threads of frost creep over the surface of the whip as you delve more deeply into its nature with your lore-commmanding music. There is a presence within the whip -- a presence secured and bound by threads of spiritual magic more powerful than almost any soul keeper could command.

The same harmonies that reveal more of the whip's nature affect the very air around you. The temperature drops distinctly, and you smell oncoming snow.

The rolaren-tipped whip seems to respond to the magic of Bard's song.
Bard face goes dead blank, and he stares away into nowhere with wide eyes. Tendrils of frost creep over the surface of his rolaren-tipped whip and then across his hand. More frost appears on his face, creeping across his cheeks and lips as you watch.

Bard suddenly gasps and shakes free from his trance. The frost melts rapidly away from his skin and from the whip.

Your song awakens the magic of the whip. Threads of spiritual enchantment coil around your senses, and the world around you fades away as visions melt through you like snowflakes melting on your skin.

Grass and flowers fade in a sudden flurry of feathers. Your body is broken, your wings are torn, and you are consumed....

A candle flame looms nearby, brilliant and beautiful beyond anything else in the world. Blinded, you approach; entranced, you burn....

Clear skies are suddenly blocked away by a silvery web, invisible until this very moment. Caught and bound, you struggle desperately, but every movement wraps you more tightly. The spider's bite flares through you....

Snowflakes tremble down from a grey sky. You have no more strength. You lie looking up at the greyness, thinking nothing at all, nothing at all....

There are more -- hundreds or thousands more, if not hundreds of thousands more -- but you remember yourself again at last, surfacing from visions of death like a swimmer surfacing from icy waters. The whip lies cold in your hand, wrapped in the silvery gleam of already-melting frost.

The rolaren-tipped whip seems to respond to the magic of Bard's song.
A peculiar sparkling gathers in the air around Bard's rolaren-tipped whip. For an instant, it resembles the silhouettes of hundreds of small butterflies, each outlined in glimmering silver... but then it fades away, coalescing back into the whip before its nature can be precisely determined.

The magic of the rolaren-tipped whip responds again to your song, taking you away from this place and drawing you into the heart of a vision. Instinctively, you understand that this is not a literal recounting of events, but a translation -- the closest that you can understand, limited to mortal senses and mortal understanding.

Beneath a heavy grey sky, a skeleton garbed in a jet black robe stands in a meadow of ebony grass. Runes are engraved along the skeleton's polished white bones, and a blood-red scarab glitters from the center of its breastbone. The whip lies at the skeleton's feet, and the cupped skeletal hands cradle a living scarlet lily, which the skeleton offers silently to the sky.

Hundreds of tiny, almost invisible forms come fluttering down from the sky, swirling about the lily and the skeleton. You perceive their hunger and their yearning, the desire of each ghostly butterfly, the wistfulness and the wishing for the lost world of mortality.

The conversation that passes between the skeleton and the butterflies is too arcane for you to follow, but you sense the striking of a bargain. With a master's power, the skeleton draws them all together in a net of spiritual magic, creating a single presence and power from the multitude of tiny spirits. Glowing brilliantly, the greater butterfly spirit settles upon the whip, fusing into it and melding with its essence.

The magic fades away, releasing you from the vision.

[Vivina]

8m please...

[mrjrd222]

Had a loong weekend, no chance to update this. But I'll likely sell it tomorrow night to Vivina if there are no further bids!

[waywardgs]

I wonder if you could change it to summon a moth instead of a butterfly.

[No Gnomes Is Good News]

Had a loong weekend, no chance to update this. But I'll likely sell it tomorrow night to Vivina if there are no further bids!

Too much smoking pole with the bff I bet!

[mrjrd222]

Going twice now, will sell tonight if there are no more bids!

[mrjrd222]

9m bid to Shockey via PM.

[Vivina]

9.5m please

[Asha]

I'm surprised it's going for such a cheap amount. It has the best way of creating a spectral butterfly I've seen yet.
Nice item!

[mrjrd222]

9.5m to Vivina, this will sell tonight if there are no more bids!