Questionable Trinkets & Trash (I)

Questionable Trinkets & Trash (I)

1. An over-sized and deeply engraved powder-horn. Even immersed in a bucket of water, this thing keeps the powder dry, at least until you pour it out.
2. A vile-smelling greenish snuff much favored among the women of Pitorria. It turns their teeth green and grants them a poisonous bite. Some say it also stimulates certain occult powers they are alleged to cultivate.
3. A dull and dusty old lens that comes in a faded purple velvet pouch. The lens is looped with a small silver wire and hangs from a tiny white-metal chain. If cleaned-up and used to look at the Moon during a particular phase it will reveal a second moon.
4. (1d4) antique cat-flensing knives in a small wooden presentation case inscribed with a large monogram 'F.' The lid sticks a little bit. They've never been used. Possession of these things causes all felines to have a -4 Reaction to the owner.
5. Mandrake roots packed in shredded birch bark. The seller will mumble various vague hints and such, but they will not inform anyone ignorant of such matters what they might do with the things, aside from a warning to the seriously ignorant not to eat them.
6. A small bracelet of dull bronze worked into a chunky, angular form with sixteen sections. The markings are mostly obliterated, in three instances deeply scratched off deliberately. Astrologers will potentially recognize enough of the remaining symbols to leave the thing alone, unless they have been properly attuned.
7. A small, delicate, wonderfully carved bone pen that can fill 3d100 pages without being re-dipped, if it is used to first inflict 1d4 damage on the user. It will write in any language specified by the wielder, even if they do not know it themselves.
8. A small, blackened ash-wood 'X' on a single upright brace. It is roughly a foot high when set on the floor. Numerous holes have been made by nails pounded into the extreme ends of each of the four arms of the 'X,' and the wood is deeply stained with old blood. It comes with a small lead-headed hammer and a box of silver pins. The seller claims that it is authentic. You're supposed to nail a toad to the thing and leave it near someone afflicted with a pox or plague and the toad is supposed to take-on the illness. If you let it dry long enough, the toad will remove the disease even from someone on their death-bed, or so they say. Toads cost extra.
9. A slightly dented brass lantern fitted with panes of hardened, tinted glass. Three of the panes are purple.
10. A peculiarly gnawed thigh-bone. It twists at the middle to reveal a small quantity of a peculiar blue dust. Each night this bone will attract 1d6 rats. Their numbers will increase by an additional 1d6 each night. They will not be driven off and will need to be killed. They want the blue dust. Giving the bone/dust to the rats will make them stop harassing the party, but it will also result in the spawning of 2d4 Ratterlings.