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[portolan]

I am soliciting assistance from anyone who has skill at identifying magical or alien items.

There has been an influx of antiques at the shop and my usual eyes are unavailable. I have a few suspicious pieces. I’ve put the main offenders below, but anyone who would like to stop by and help me do a sweep of inventory, that would be greatly appreciated. I can pay you for your time.

1. Aztec Death Whistle
2. ?? pre-historic sculpture ??
3. Egyptian palette
4. possible alien tech? possible disco ball
5. Medieval Cauldron
6. possible ancient chinese burial item, possible alien device

[ OOC: Go wild identifying these objects, but everyone will miss that the CAULDRON is magic. Feel free to have it feel weird or make you forget or any other specific ways it tricks your character. Balthier will also answer video calls and show more of the objects.

Any questions, hmu dm or portolan ]

Comments

[portolan]

I'll have to look into the history more. We have a collection that was cleared before my contact went amiss.

Some cultures at home simply venerate death. Skulls and strange noises are fine. It's curses or summoning unknown ancient beings I'd like to avoid.

[kid_flash_found]

Just bear in mind that the contemporary accounts are highly prejudiced because the Spanish considered them brutal savages. They basically considered any culture that didn't look like theirs or have their degree of sophistication in the areas they valued to be lesser and didn't look for where they had developed differently.

[portolan]

I have some sense of the colonial issues in this world. It's not the same as mine, but the patterns of Empire and othering are familiar.

[kid_flash_found]

Yeah. True. I get that. Apparently the true sign of intelligent life is the ability to find and accept it in others. We humans are definitely a work in progress.

[portolan]

My history here is much weaker than it home, but it seems many species have a dichotomy of communal and competitive structures. The problem is always a particularly powerful aggressor.

The Viera seem to have avoided a good deal of that, but they retreated to the wood and exile any who go agains their ways. Don't take in visitors. I don't know that that's any better.