Item:Jar of flecked varnish

jar of flecked varnish
Look:	You see nothing unusual.
Weight:	10 stones
Metal:	No
Uses:	30
Appraised Cost:	18,750 Kronars15,000 Lirums <br />13,530 Dokoras <br />18.75 LTBpoints <br />18.75 Tickets <br />18.75 Scrips <br />
Properties:	This is an item.
Dimensions:	1 length x 1 width x 1 height
Sources:	Source is House of Bardic Blues

This item is for weatherproofing instruments.

STUDY:
The flecked varnish can be applied to some musical instruments to provide limited protection from modest amounts of water and weather such as rain or snow. No amount of varnish could protect an instrument from water that's deep enough, however! Ideally, the varnish buys you time if you're caught in a storm unexpectedly, but it will be worn down over time and require further applications. Depending on the quality of your weatherproofing agent and the thickness it is applied to on your instrument, appropriate levels of water may be fully repelled or at the very least slow the rate of accumulation and thus damage done to your instrument over time. The quality affects the maximum that can be applied, how much is productively added with each application, the speed of the application process, and ultimately how often it will need to be reapplied to maintain suitable protections.

This particular varnish appears very poorly prepared and has 30 uses remaining.
[There are many types of weather protection for instruments -- varnishes, lacquers, etc. The names are merely cosmetic and don't match to particular instrument types or materials.]