Item:Clear crystal hourglass with carved jade endcaps

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clear crystal hourglass with carved jade endcaps
Look: You stare at your hourglass pondering your past and future, wondering what surprises time holds for you. Encased within the crystal are many fine grains of pale sand. Upon the caps is carved the image of a sleeping dragon curled around an empty tankard.
Weight: 10 stones
Metal: Unknown
Appraised Cost: 375 Kronars300 Lirums <br />270.6 Dokoras <br />0.375 LTBpoints <br />0.375 Tickets <br />0.375 Scrips <br />
Properties:
  • This item has more than normal or unusual verbs.
Dimensions: 3 length x 2 width x 2 height
Sources: Source is Estate Holder gifts

Verbs

  • TURN: You turn your hourglass over and begin to watch the sands of time slowly slip away.
Tiny grains of sand continue to flow through the hourglass, each one sparkling in the light.
As the bottom of the hourglass begins to fill up with sand, you contemplate your future. What does fate hold for you?
You watch as the final grains of sand slip through the hourglass, coming to rest in a glittering pile in the lower half.
<Person> flips her hourglass over and carefully watches the sand flow.
<Person> stares deeply into her hourglass with a smile on her face.
You watch as <Person> gazes intently at her hourglass.
<Person> intently stares at her hourglass as the final grains of sand slip past.
  • TAP: (if turned) Growing impatient with the slow passage of time you drum your fingers against the hourglass, trying to cause the grains of sand to flow faster.
<Person> drums her fingers against the hourglass.
  • TAP: Contemplating your future, you tap your finger against the hourglass.
<Person> taps her finger against the hourglass absentmindedly.
  • SHAKE: A quick shake of your hourglass stirs up the sands for a brief time before eventually falling to rest again.
You see <Person> shake her hourglass quickly.