Tuesday 9 February 2021

World in 13 items challenge

 Simple enough really, trying to explain or evoke a feeling of the world in but 13 items with no further explanations.
Original post for the challenge can be found here.

  1. Worn book of prayers, gray covers adorned with single golden vertical line and the contents detailing lifes of saints
  2.  Half faded piece of parchment with sketches of weird combinations of men, women and fish
  3. Torn-off notice with details of an elf posing as human with a reward listed at the bottom
  4. Chipped longsword that your father received as a payment once
  5. Rucksack patched in several places and faded in colour
  6. Dried meat and herbs wrapped in oil-paper
  7. Small animal bones bundled together with a string
  8. Lantern, sides covered in translucent leather rather than glass
  9. A set of prayer beads with an odd looking additional bead at the end
  10. Coat with tough leather reinforcements and several pockets inside
  11. Set of two daggers, one with bone handle and the other with charred wooden handle
  12. Silver coin minted with the image of a neat circle in the middle of it, words in a latin-esque language forming another circle along it's edge
  13. Map of several villages dotting the edge of a large forest
That was considerably more difficult that I first thought it would be and I'm not exactly sure how well that portrays the feel I was going for with this setting, but an interesting little excercise for sure.
This to me seems like the approach one should take when writing tables for looting bodies or what's in the treasure pile, so mayhaps I at some point will look to expand this further into a "I loot the body" table of my own.

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