Light Bag of Skritt Shinies

Light Bag of Skritt Shinies rests on the desk like a drop of dawn in a pocket, a tiny satchel of pale parchment leather stitched with needle-thin silver threads. Its surface catches the light as though someone has pressed a handful of morning stars into its seams. The brass clasp, shaped like a curled rat's tail, yields with a soft click, and inside the lining you can hear a sigh of tiny coins rattling, but insistently bright. The bag's exterior bears minuscule glyphs—skritt runes—faded but legible to a practiced eye, whispering of burrows, caravans, and the long, stubborn memory of traders who never quite trust daylight. The edges are smooth, almost a caress to the touch, and when you tilt it, the shinies inside shimmer in a way that betrays their origin: not ordinary coins but scavenged flecks, bits of dropped treasure from a dozen different escapades, polished by time. The lightness of the bag is deceptive; it feels almost not there, yet it seems to pull on your sleeve as if the contents were eager to escape or to be shown. In a world where a trader's word can hinge on a single ripple of silk or a whispered rumor, this bag does a strange thing: it invites trade, turning a collection of trinkets into a portable map. As you carry it, the shinies clink softly, and the sound carries with it a memory of markets crowded with skritt families, their tiny paws jerking up to barter, their eyes bright with the gleam of new acquisitions. The lore around them suggests these shinies are fragments of light themselves—sprung from lanterns left burning too long in moonlit corridors, polished into currency by countless hands, then glimpsed again by those who know where to look for glints in ordinary days. In play, the Light Bag of Skritt Shinies is more than a curio; it's a practical talisman. It serves as a portable cache for the shinies you earn from explorations, events, or the odd back-alley quest that rewards curiosity rather than brute force. You stash your trove here, and the bag seems to know when to brighten, offering a subtle glow that helps you spot glitter among gravel at dusk. Vendors note the carrying capacity is generous enough to avoid breaking the back of a traveler, but the real advantage is the ease of bartering: shinies pulled from the bag can be traded in quick bursts with skritt traders, their value rising and falling with the mood of the market. Saddlebag Exchange, a name you’ll hear when merchants compare notes on price, lists this bag among its featured curios, roughly three to four silver, sometimes more if one-eyed look sees a rarer tint among the chips. So the Light Bag of Skritt Shinies remains a pocket-sized beacon in crowded streets, a reminder that even a tiny pouch can carry a nation’s worth of stories, and that what glitters is often only a doorway to another, more curious trip through the world.