Silver fountain pen

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Silver fountain pen
Weapon information
Precise dimensions 6/12 x 1/12
Material silver
Weight 2/9
Thaums/sec 2 stable / 3 talisman / 5 max
Hands 1
Commands Stab
Melee type Misc weapon
Judge data
Speed 10 Extremely fast 10
Maximum damage 1 Extremely low 1
Average damage 1 Extremely low 1
Str Overall Attack ease Parry ease
15 8 quite good
8
13 extremely easy
13
13 extremely easy
13

Long Description

Those who cannot see octarine see:

This polished silver pen sits comfortably in the hand, and the nib is shaped for a flowing, easy to read copperplate. Just above the nib, the shaft has been decorated with a small rainbow.  The nib glistens with <colour> ink.

Those who can see octarine see:

This polished silver pen sits comfortably in the hand, and the nib is shaped for a flowing, easy to read copperplate.  Just above the nib, the shaft has been decorated with a small rainbow, including the eighth colour of the spectrum, octarine.  The nib glistens with <colour> ink.
The pen shimmers with an octarine rainbow of colourful potentiality.

It has the following engraved on it:

You read the silver fountain pen:
Written in neatly engraved letters:
Made for happy fun writing!  Tap me to change colours.

This pen comes from the Academy Legibles enchanted with 5 thaums per second (100%).

Appraises As

The silver fountain pen is about six inches long and an inch wide. It is made of silver and could be used as a weapon of type misc.

Acquisition

Kefka's item database

Notes

The colour of its ink can be changed at random with "tap pen". This use 15 magic gp, and requires around a 224 bonus in magic.items.held.rod to succeed most of the time (a 196 bonus is sufficient to succeed a little over a third of the time). It awards the standard 20:1 exp/gp rate for idlechasing purposes.

The ink also changes colour if you log in with it in your inventory.

The colours it can have include:

  • amber
  • azure
  • black
  • blue
  • brassy
  • bronze
  • brown
  • celadon green
  • cerulean
  • coal black
  • cobalt blue
  • copper-coloured
  • cornflower blue
  • cream-coloured
  • crimson
  • dark blue
  • dark gold
  • dark turquoise
  • dusty rose
  • emerald
  • forest green
  • foxglove purple
  • gold
  • green
  • grey
  • jade
  • lavender
  • light blue
  • lilac
  • mustard yellow
  • olive green
  • opalescent
  • orange
  • pale primrose yellow
  • paradox purple
  • pearly pink
  • pink
  • poet's rose red
  • purple
  • quicksilver
  • rainbow
  • raspberry-scented
  • red
  • rose gold
  • ruby
  • scarlet
  • sepia
  • shimmering
  • sienna
  • silver
  • sparkly
  • speedwell blue
  • strange (or "strange octarine" to those who can see octarine.)
  • tawny orange
  • tea rose pink
  • violet
  • viridian
  • yellow