Alter Aeon Shops and Stores

Storefront:  The Garbage Pit ('list' to see items)
Location:    The Refugee Camp, The Island of Sloe
Recommended Level: 1

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come, first serve basis.  Use the 'list' and 'take' commands to
list and take items in the game.


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This item has the following properties:
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Item: 'book bejeweled beacon stones'
Weight: 1  Size: 1'0"    Item quality: WELL CRAFTED
Type: BOOK   Composition: PAPER
Object is: 



Item description:
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"Beacon Stones" by Professor Gisela Aalfhaus

Mysterious artifacts known as beacon stones dot the landscape of the mortal
world. Relics left behind by the ancient giant civilizations, they serve as
points of travel between this world and extraplanar realms. Individual
stones are stand between six and twenty feet tall. They can be made from
nearly any sort of hard, enduring stone such as granite, obsidian or jade.
A few have a distinct metallic luster. The stones appear to use spellcraft
not unlike the great portals, and they appear to be about the same age as
well.

The stones themselves are inert. When examined magically, they are found to
be massive resevoirs of mana. This magic can only be activated by a special
key. When the correct key is used on a beacon stone, it briefly opens a
portal to another plane. Each stone opens a portal to a different location,
and this does not appear to change with time. While beacon stones
themselves cannot be replicated by modern magic, scholars have been
successful crafting new keys for them.

Be aware that beacon stones are giant artifacts, unrelated to the faerie
constructs of menhir circles and runestones. These megaliths denote
locations of power, and often contain strange puzzles that no doubt amuse
their creators when mortals endeavor to solve them.