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HOODIE

This deer hoodie is just the thing you didn't know you've been wanting for the fall and winter! The hoodie is soft to the touch and lined with plush flannel that will keep you warm even in the dead of a blizzard. The hoodie will be a little large on anyone who wears it- but that's a rather cozy design feature. This hoodie is a pretty standard article of clothing. There's a large belly pocket on the front, and it's a standard pull-over. The brown will fade to a softer, lighter brown after a dozen washes or so, and it can get worn just like any other hoodie. It isn't impervious at all.

Except for when you put the hood up of course. When the wearer puts the hood up, two things will happen instantaneously:

1. The hoodie will make the wearer be completely invisible. You can still be heard, so hold in those sneezes and walk lightly. Any footprints will still be obvious in places like muddy terrain or dusty floors. But no one will be able to detect you visually. That extends to anything that can pick up on body heat. You are completely visually undetectable. Of course, things might still be able to smell or hear you, but at least you got sort of a leg up, right?

If the hoodie wearer has another living being with it inside of the hoodie, like a cute puppy for example in the pockets on the front, then that too will become invisible.

If the hood is swept off or falls of or taken back down, the user will become visible instantly. So be careful!

2. While the hood is up, the hoodie is impenetrable. The hoodie becomes resistant to fire, bullets, blades- basically any physical attack. But this is only where the hoodie is. That means if someone were to aim for the legs, they could still harm you just fine.

SLIPPERS

These slippers will literally be the softest, most wonderful things you have ever put your feet in. They provide the ideal arch support, and never seem to lose that comfort. These shoes truly are indestructible. They are also heat and frost resistant. That means you could literally walk across fire in them and your feet won't burn! Isn't that cool? Of course, watch out for the rest of you as most people are flammable. Water will never get into them, and if someone tried to stab you in the foot while wearing them, it would just bounce off the slippers. They're awesome! If they get dirty, all you need to do is run them under some water and it'll come right out. How convenient. These shoes will auto-adjust to anyone who is putting them on. It's the true Cinderella experience. You can technically share them with whoever you like as they are the genuine "One Size Fits All."

You don't technically even need to wear socks with them. If you put your bare feet inside of them and wear them for a couple of hours, when you take your feet out, you'll discover that they have been perfectly moisturized and manicured? Holy heck! Those are some nice toe nails you got going now. And your feet are soft as feathers. How wonderful. This extends to any injuries of the foot. Got an ingrown toenail or a fungal issue? Pop your feet into these suckers. The worse the injury, the longer you need to wear the slippers. They can heal broken toes and feet in a couple of days. The only thing they can't fix would be amputated feet. Can't wear slippers if you don't have feet, after all.

BOOK BAG

This cute bag is just the thing for back to school! Of course, you can also use it for just normal backpacking through the forest too if you like. It's made out of a surprisingly high quality leather-like material and doesn't seem like it can be easily worn down. It might get the occasional scuff, but for the most part, this bag appears to be extremely sturdy. It could be destroyed if burned long enough, but mostly, it can withstand all kinds of awful weather and situations. It's even resistant to physical attacks involving bullets or blades. The material might get a little dinged up, but it'll withstand most physical blows! This makes it the ideal sort of thing to have on your back where you're most vulnerable to attacks. You can always flip it around to hold over your chest and it'll get the job done there as well! The bag, no matter how full, also is capable of floating. This makes it a wonderful device in case you ever get stuck in tricky water scenarios and need to hold onto something! Talk about a real life jacket.

But perhaps the most useful thing about this book bag is that if you're in a severe pinch and in dire need of something, if you open the bag, you will find something to get you out of that trouble. It will never be anything so extraordinary as a bazooka or something to solve all your problems, but it'll be that little step up you might need in a bad spot. Need a rope? Now you have a rope. Need a flashlight? Now you have a flashlight. Maybe it holds some medicine that will be just enough to tide you over until you can get somewhere safer. The item will never be any larger than the bag itself, and you'll only get the one item. So maybe you could use a stick of dynamite to get through a wall- just use that one stick wisely.

LUNCHBOX

Well if this isn't the cutest lunchbox then who knows what is. This tin lunchbox is perfect for anyone to take to work or school with them! The reason? You don't need to pack your own lunch! Whenever an individual opens the lunchbox, they will find exactly what they need or are craving in terms of food inside of the lunchbox. Attached to the lid will always be the desired/necessary utensils to eat the food with. The food inside will always be perfectly cooked, frozen, or whatever it may come in. That means you could open it up to a steaming steak dinner, close it up, and then open it to a perfect ice cream sundae once you're finished with the dinner. Will you ever really need to shop for groceries again? Probably not!

This can be opened by anyone. So if you want to hand it to someone else, they can open it and find their own perfect meal inside. The lunchbox itself will always feel empty. It will be completely impervious as well, but you can technically lose it, so keep it close! One of the cooler features is that the lunchbox is extremely resistant to bacteria. Any substance that gets on the lunchbox will instantly slide right off. It's impossible to get germs on it, and touching the box in general will sanitize your hands - or well, whatever body part you're touching the lunchbox with. This means you don't need to worry about diseases contaminating your food. Woo! Thank goodness for small miracles. The box has limitless food and the food itself can come from any world. It has to do purely with the individual opening it. That means that your alien can open the box and find the beloved meal their family used to have back on their home planet. It doesn't need to be food just from earth. And if you want seconds? Just close the box and open it back up and you'll find it's replenished with the same food. All the food is high quality and packed with nutrients. It's probably the only time you can eat twenty Twinkies and get a lot of Vitamin A while doing so.

THERMOS

Anyone who wins this thermos will find their name imprinted on the front of it. Neat! Who can say no to a thermos? Pretty useful. You find that it keeps your hot stuff real hot and your cold stuff real cold. Actually, it seems like it keeps it indefinitely fresh no matter what you put in it. Turns out that anything you put into this thermos will remain perfect and untouched. You could put a flower in the thermos and it will remain alive indefinitely if you keep it inside the thermos. That's...pretty awesome. You know where you're keeping a freshly cut off finger!

Beyond that, the only person who can open the thermos is the person who owns the thermos. It is completely impossible to destroy, and if you're not the owner, it's completely impossible to open. As far as physical objects go, you can only store things that could fit inside the thermos, which does kind of limit your options a bit. However, you can actually store more than just physical objects inside of here. Is there a huge wind storm going on? If you go outside and open the thermos out and hold it into the wind, you'll be able to catch a lot of wind. Cap it up and save it later and you'll have a windstorm ready to go inside your thermos. The same concept goes for things like fire, electricity, or even rainstorms. Strange! But undeniably useful. Careful though. When you contain elements inside of the thermos, opening it up will instantly spit it out like a flamethrower so you'll want to make sure that it's facing away from you. Can make for a pretty useful weapon if you know how to use it correctly, and if you know the time limits on what you've gathered. The elements all have a time limit for how long they will shoot out of the thermos. They are as follows:

Wind: An hour.
Water: 10 minutes.
Fire: 5 Minutes
Electricity: 5 minutes.

You can stop it at any point by capping the thermos to save some of the energy for later. You do have to eventually restock, of course. All elements contained in the thermos are weightless.

PENCIL CASE

This pencil case is adorable! It's soft to the touch and holds all your pens and pencils you could ever want. Or make-up. Really, it will hold whatever you want to put in it that can fit inside of it. The material is sturdy and won't get dirty, nor will it get damaged. It seems surprisingly resistant to various elements as well, but if someone were to come by with a pair of scissors and snip through it? Yeah well, good bye pencil case. Thankfully no one's that much of a jerk to do that- right? You're hoping so. The pencil case smells kind of wonderful too. It's earthy smelling, like a rainy day, and whenever you hold it, you can't help but to feel extremely tranquil. Like everything might just be okay. It helps to keep a clear mind when things are going bad, and that's pretty useful in a place like Deerington...

Of course, if you should ever think to randomly turn it inside out, you'll find that the pencil case is much more than meets the eye.

Turning the pencil case inside out will result in the pencil case rapidly unfolding. Hopefully you turned it inside out somewhere outside or else this could get pretty messy. Within ten minutes, this tent will be fully standing and set up in front of you. It's a strong tent too. Weather will do nothing to it, and it will stay staked firmly into the ground, even if it's set up on top of rock or concrete. It could even be opened up underwater and will be able to serve as an underwater shelter. Just be quick when entering through the front.

The inside will be a bit larger than the outside and surprisingly well stocked. It will have a single king mattress in the middle complete with a downy comforter that, unsurprisingly, has deer hooves printed all over it. The floor is cobbled stone, and there's a small fireplace that's always going in the corner. You don't even have to replenish it. There will be a working mini fridge inside that will always have fresh food and water in it- but a limited supply. This replenishes every time you open the tent back up from the pencil case.

You can only turn the pencil case inside out ONCE a day. The tent will only become the pencil case again if you go outside of it and pull down the tarp covering on top of it.

Along with the fridge is a small hot plate and some basic utensils for cooking and eating. There's even a small, well stocked first aid kit. There's also a handful of useful items any camper would love to have! Things like a Swiss army knife, a compass, water purifiers, a flashlight. All standard stuff, really, and only one each. But hey- it's still real useful.

GLITTER PEN

Congratulations! You've won a uh-. Single pink deer pen. That's...pretty cool, right? Right, yeah. Guess there's nothing wrong with having too many pens. The pen is pretty nice though, you gotta admit. It's one of those high quality smooth writing pens. The only thing is that it writes in glittery hot pink ink. Which is either the best thing ever or the worst thing ever depending on your personal taste. It writes smoothly on any surface whether it be paper or rock which means this pen is pretty useful if you need to leave messages. On another note, it also never runs out of ink. Not so bad after all, huh? The ink also instantly dries and seems to be permanent. If you get it on your skin, it'll take literal weeks for it to wash off. That's probably the only time it will wash off.

But hey whatever, right. Happens. Now if you ever are just fussing around with the pen one day, you might notice that the nose on the deer is very squishy. How cute. If you push you're holding the pen and push down on that nose hard with your thumb, something pretty awesome will happen.

The pen will glow a radiant hot pink and sparkles will begin to swirl around both the pen and you. You'll hear chimes ringing around you, though you won't be able to figure out from where, and the air will be filled with the smell of fresh roses and strawberries. Mmm. Then the pen will suddenly transform right there in your hands! It'll become this fantastic sword. Doing this when you need to be subtle isn't a great idea since everyone can see the transformation going on, but the sword is kind of worth it. This sword is incredible. It can slice through any physical material as effortlessly as it destroys toxic masculinity. It can also cut through spirits. While this may not destroy the spirit, it does banish them for a long period of time. It's perfectly balanced to whoever wields it. If the sword ever gets knocked out of your hand, it will automatically grow a pair of white swan wings and fly directly back to you within seconds. The winds will fold up and disappear in a burst of sparkles.

The sword does more than just destroy though. It instills a fierce kind of hope in the wielder, making them push through psychologically dark times. They may still struggle, but the sword will give them that last remaining hope they might need to make it through. If you vow to vanquish an enemy in the name of someone you love, the sword will glow violently before an identical copy of the sword grows out of the glowing mass. You now have two swords- and if someone else is nearby, you can lend them that sword. You can only make one copy. The copy expires once you turn the sword back into a pen.

The sword will automatically become a pen again after one hour. You must wait five hours before transforming the pen back into a sword again. You can manually turn the sword back into a pen by pushing down on the rose in the middle of the handle for a minute.

SCISSORS

Nothing like a handy, dandy pair of scissors to help out with just about everything! These scissors are cute and come with a little nob to keep the tip protected. They're quite small, mostly good for detail cutting, but you can still use them for traditional cutting purposes. Not bad to have on your person for loose threads. The blades on the scissors never seem to dull, always extremely sharp. They can't cut through everything, but they do a good job of cutting through things that you can typically cut through with knives and traditional scissors. Things like paper, foam, meat, and other things. Not amazing, maybe, but definitely useful.

Or well, it's not amazing until you decide to twirl the scissors around your finger for whatever reason. The scissors will fling off your finger instantly, and flip through the air. An explosion of peacock feathers will burst out of the scissors and when they're done flying about, there will be an enormous pair of scissors in their wake implanted in the ground.

These scissors are tall enough that they meet the hip on anyone who has summoned them. Picking them up, you'll find that they are balanced well to your hand. These scissors are quite versatile. You can use them like a few different weapons. On one hand, you can go for the traditional hack-and-slash of a sword, as even the outside of the blades is extremely sharp. Or you can use it like you would a lance, as the tip of the scissors is also very sharp. Alternatively you can whip them away from you like a boomerang. This will require a bit of training to get the timing and angles right, but they will flip open and you could easily behead anyone if you get good enough at this. They'll snap shut by the time they get back to your hand.

Then, of course, you can always use them like regular scissors. They can cut through just about any physical thing that they can properly fit around. That means that you could cut the Statue of David in half, but if you tried to cut the concrete floor, it'd do nothing but awkwardly slide around. Like their miniature versions, they don't require any sharpening, but they can still get dirty so you'll want to take care of that. Anyone can use the scissors, so make sure you keep them close.

A final neat thing to note about the scissors is that if you spin around with them, you can actually gain some air. You can't fly, exactly, but you can use the scissors as a bit of momentum and float briefly which can be really useful in some fights.

The scissors remain large for two hours. They automatically shrink back down after, and can only be transformed every five hours.

Manually shrinking the scissors back down means putting your arm through one of the scissor's handles and giving it a bit of a spin around your arm.

PACK OF 6 HIGHLIGHTERS

These highlighters are great to have for anyone who reads a lot! They have a few different qualities worth noting and they're all dependent on the color you decide to use.

All highlighters have a lifespan seeing as it's the ink inside of them that's valuable. Each highlighter has a different lifespan. Each use constitutes as someone taking off the cap, using it for any length of time, and then capping the highlighter after. All highlighters will automatically recap themselves after 24 hours so don't bother trying to take advantage of using them indefinitely without a cap.

Orange: This highlighter can be used over completely muddled documents. If you find a manuscript caked in mud, you can use the highlighter all over the page to see what's underneath.

Lifespan: 10 uses.

Yellow: This highlighter literally glows. It's extremely vibrant and is as bright as reflector tape. This can be useful when things are literally dark and you need to highlight a path for others to follow, or even just to remember where you have already been. The highlighter ink can be applied to any surface, and the only way to get rid of it is with warm water and soap.

Lifespan: 50 uses.

Purple: This highlighter if used over foreign or strange words will be able to provide a translation to the person who is using it. You must highlight the entire word. This can be used on any material. It will fade after one hour so use it wisely.

Lifespan: 100 uses.

Pink: This highlighter will only work on skin. If you use it all over your face or various parts of your body, you will become significantly more beautiful and almost eerily flawless. People will feel oddly drawn to you for up to an hour.

Lifespan: 100 uses.

Blue: Anything you highlight with this highlighter will be completely fire and water proof. Very useful for important pieces of paper! Or other items. It can go onto any material.

Lifespan: 10 uses.

Green: Anything you highlight with this highlighter becomes edible. It will give you a boost in energy and make you a little wired. You won't be in total control of yourself. It's a bit intoxicating, actually. But man, you could run ten miles no problem after eating something coated in the green highlighter! This effect lasts for two hours.

Lifespan: 50 uses.

ERASERS

These are probably the best six erasers you will ever use in your entire life. Not only do they smell like the individual macaroons that they look like, they also can erase literally anything. Literally! If you erase something on a piece of paper, it'll go away effortlessly and perfectly. This can erase any mark, regardless of what left that mark. They can smooth out wrinkles in paper or even clothing. Hell, they can even erase blemishes on your skin if you use it on them. The typical lifespan of using an eraser this way is 100 uses.

You can actually erase entire things from existence but in order to do this you must use the entire eraser. They can only erase things as large as people. That means you could put a door-shaped hole with one of these bad boys. It's completely silent and a good way to escape tricky situations. You can even technically erase full body parts. Doing this is completely painless, but probably will leave some lasting psychological damage....

Lastly, you can erase yourself. The true dream. By eating one of these macaroons (and yes, they will taste exactly like a macaroon) you can erase your entire existence. This means that for 24 hours people will not be able to notice your existence in any way. They won't hear you, see you, feel you, smell you- nothing. No technology will pick up on you. Any pictures of you will just show a blank space. Those who know you will have trouble remembering your name or face- even if they're a lover or best friend.

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Welcome to the Back to School Raffle!

This will take place at the Book Shop in Deerington on August 30th and September 12th. This will provide old players and new players alike to have a chance at winning one of the raffle items!

There will be a poster advertising the regular version of all the items. Characters must interact with the items they win to find out that they are magical. Characters will ICly write their name and address down on a slip of paper to put into a box. This is something they willingly do.

Although this is advertised as a back to school event, characters do not need to be students to enter it. Anyone can enter regardless of career or age.

Items cannot be altered with a character's magical or supernatural ability.

Characters ICly have to sign up on those dates, but you oocly have between August 30th - September 13th to sign up for the raffle. It does not matter which date you decide to have your character sign up on.

Your character must be in Deerington on that date though- which means new characters can only sign up on the 12th. The chances of winning are the same for either.

All winners will be notified on September 14th. Names will be put into a random generator and that is how the winners will be selected.

Everyone who wins a prize will have it delivered to their personal inboxes by Sodder, so make sure you have an inbox set up for your character! If you don't win a raffle prize, fear not! There will be other raffles in the future with similarly cool items to be won.

If you have any questions about the raffle, please ask here!

Edited 2018-08-30 00:59 (UTC)

Can the thermos store souls? Asking, cause y'know, Leo is Leo.

Yes it can! It can only store a single soul at a time, however.

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