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
No melee judge information

Contents 1 Long Description 2 Appraises As 3 Acquisition 4 Notes

[edit] 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%).

[edit] 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.

[edit] Acquisition

Kefka's item database

[edit] 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).

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
• crimson
• dark blue
• dark gold
• dark turquoise
• forest green
• foxglove purple
• gold
• grey
• jade
• lavender
• lilac
• mustard yellow
• olive green
• opalescent
• 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