I have two, both of which were found ages ago and both of which I still wear and enjoy. I found the sprite in amber myself, and the shoes were a gift from Silvean.


- a teardrop of flawless amber

LOOK: Trapped within the translucent amber is a tiny sprite, a final look of sorrow on her face.

- a pair of sparkling ruby slippers (casts 130)

LOOK: There's no place like home.


I don't wear them often, but the slippers are still one of my favorite things ever.

More unusual, custom-created box-found items would be great. It's more work for a GM to custom-build items and pop them in a hopper for automatic distribution, which is how I believe things were done in the old days, but it always felt truly special to get one of these treasures. I'm assuming the assortment of box-found enhancive or pocketed items is automated, and those are nice finds too, but the fluff was also great fun.

I haven't used them in forever because I don't want them to lose all their charges, but I'm pretty sure it's TAP. (Come to think of it, I don't even think WIGGLE TOES was an option back when I got these.)

>The amber-trapped sprite and the 130 slippers sound like amazing finds - so jealous!

I love both of them, and I wear each fairly often. I feel lucky to have them!

Maybe a GM could chime in here on whether the old-school version of treasure hoppers is still around or if the system's purely automated now and generates random goodies (enhancives, embeddable jewelry, and so forth). The old system was probably more labor-intensive, but it was exciting to find something special in a box. I remember more than a few people adding some new wrinkle to their characters' habits or personalities based on a particularly cool box-found item. They were that special.

To be fair, that was also a time when you counted yourself lucky to get work from an alterer two or three times a year, and anyone who had head-to-toe alters was fabulously wealthy. Still, I miss the excitement of opening a box to find something amazing inside. I've found a couple of moderately nice enhancives and weapons since I've been back, some of which I use; those are fun to find too. Discovering something obviously hand-crafted by some especially creative GM, though, was particularly memorable.

Oh, fantastic -- then I'll keep using Piercing Gaze on everything I find instead of leaving boxes in Nelemar or the Rift. My items are 15 or 16 years old, and I still cherish them; finding something new would be fantastic. I would hate to spoil your fun or mine by missing out on a cool item. :)

That brings up another question, though: If an item goes out in a box, and the box doesn't get picked up, do you rescue the item inside and toss it back in the hopper for the next lucky person to find?

It would be worth checking if the slippers can be charged at a merchant.

>The fun quickly turns to sadness, however, when an item goes out in a box and then the box isn't picked up.

I wonder if there's any way to tag these kinds of items, so that if they go to the janitor they can be recycled back into the hopper.

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>Daid: Pretty sure you have a whole big bucket as your penny jar. You never have only two cents. :p

>The fun quickly turns to sadness, however, when an item goes out in a box and then the box isn't picked up.

Do these items not get thrown back in after the janitor picks them up or something? How does that work?

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