Gloom-Touched Buckler
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The Gloom-Touched Buckler is a small shield coated in bio-gloom resin, recovered from the storeroom side-room of The Warrens during the s6 long-rest cleanup. Harvo identified it during the rest in roughly ten minutes; the specific bio-gloom-resin effect was not enumerated in the transcript at the point of identification. Hugo has used it as his shield from s6 onwards (most visibly s10, when the buckler blocked a paired-dagger bandit attack during the Aurelian Paladin alley fight). The campaign’s working assumption is that it confers some bio-gloom-related effect — possibly poison resistance, possibly a save-vs-bio-gloom rider — but the Magic Items Index still notes the mechanics as “unspecified at point of identification.”
Overview
The Gloom-Touched Buckler is a small shield with a bio-gloom-resin coating, looted from the Warrens storeroom in s6 alongside the silvered shortsword (taken by Terry) and the three dusty healing potions. Harvo used his alchemist’s-supplies-aided ritual identification process to confirm the item is magical and bio-gloom-coupled; the specific in-world effect was never enumerated to the table.
Mechanics
- Shield, base AC bonus presumed.
- Bio-gloom-resin rider: nature unspecified. The party’s working theory is poison resistance or a save-bonus against bio-gloom contamination, given that the resin is the same family of substance the Whisper Coil dwarf cluster traded in.
Use
- s10: Hugo’s buckler blocked one bandit attack in the Aurelian Paladin alley fight (recap line in s10 Items & Loot section).
- s11+: continues to be Hugo’s shield. No bio-gloom-specific trigger has been observed in transcript.
Status as of session 16
Carried by Hugo. Mechanics still unspecified.
See also
References
- ^ Session 6 — Identified by Harvo in the storeroom long-rest cleanup; ~10 minutes.