Wick Glimmerdown

Dicey Dangers, The Creepy Creature of Vulture's Vineyard

Game by Joel Hills

Wick Glimmerdown

Wick Glimmerdown is the master lampwright of The Bottled Star, an elderly Gnome with a fringe of white hair, hands steady as a level, and spectacles tinted so dark they're nearly black, worn at noon, at midnight, and by all accounts to bed. He speaks rarely and only about the work, but the work speaks plainly enough: the Glimmerdowns have been lampwrights for eleven generations, and Wick is widely held to be the finest of all of them. His racks carry arms and armor charged with living energy, humming, glowing, weighted with force, for any adventurer who plans to fight in the dark and would rather bring their own light.

He has one compulsion he doesn't bother hiding: Wick diagnoses light. Walk up with a lantern, a torch, a candle stub, and he'll take it from your hands uninvited, hold it to his black spectacles, and mutter its age, its health, and how long it has left, right down to the hour. He is never wrong, and he never explains how he does it. Three times a day, without fail, he climbs the wagon's long ladder to tend the master lamp at its crown, alone, and whatever he does up there takes exactly as long as it takes.

Ask him why the Bottled Star never stops traveling, why a wagon this famous never settles in a city that would pay it a fortune to stay, and Wick will look at you for a long moment through those black lenses, and go back to work.

Wick's Racks

Roll 5 times on this table, ignoring duplicates. These are the arms and armor out on the racks today.

Roll 1d66	Item	Cost (rc)
11	Glowing Dagger	108
12	Glowing Club	101
13	Glowing Hand Axe	110
14	Glowing Mace	150
15	Glowing Short Sword	115
16	Glowing Rapier	125
21	Incandescent Sabre	260
22	Incandescent Scimitar	260
23	Incandescent Cutlass	240
24	Incandescent Long Sword	250
25	Dence Broad Sword	400
26	Dence Flail	400
31	Glowing Staff	140
32	Glowing Maul	130
33	Incandescent War Hammer	380
34	Incandescent Battle Axe	300
35	Dence Great Axe	600
36	Dence Claymore	800
41	Glowing Dart	105
42	Glowing Sling	115
43	Incandescent Short Bow	225
44	Incandescent Crossbow	250
45	Dence Long Bow	400
46	Sonic Halberd	650
51	Glowing Padded	120
52	Glowing Studded	140
53	Incandescent Ring Mail	400
54	Incandescent Chain Mail	600
55	Dence Scale Mail	400
56	Dence Splint Mail	900
61	Glowing Buckler	175
62	Incandescent Medium Shield	300
63	Incandescent Helm	260
64	Dence Gauntlets	400
65	Dence Tower Shield	500
66	Sonic Plate Mail	1400

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