Building a better spoon

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This is a reply to the following Daitu prompt:

While dining at a local restaurant, V and his companions witness an argument between a paunchy noble and a grizzled wizard. The former believes nothing could improve the simple spoon; the latter insists that magic can make anything better, and even a beginning student at Diatu could demonstrate that.

At which point V is promptly singled out for proof, with a substantial bet between the two men on the line.

If V chooses to pursue this opportunity, please respond to this comment when a Better Spoon has been developed for the next stage of this adventure.

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Since other than asking an NPC teacher to do the actual spell once researched, V would be working alone on this, I am putting this here instead of clogging up the community. I hope that this is acceptable, if not, let me know where to repost.

IC post will be next, followed by a post with the final conclusion.

IC Reply

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Well of course anything could be improved by magic, and V will be asking for a share of the winnings when this is all done. But even without treasure on the line, there is pride. How anyone could be allowed to continue to doubt the might of the arcane was beyond V. Well, this fool would learn, once and for all, that there is no end to what magic - when properly applied - can do.

V would spend the next two days ignoring classes and researching, making sketches, and filling up blank notebooks with notes, and referencing a certain spellbook with a number of irritatingly blank pages near the end.

Finally a result has been had, and V scribed the scroll and tranced for eight hours. When trancing failed to return to V the arcane might needed for a higher level magical item crafting spell, and without sufficient XP to do it as a feat, V brought the newly scribed spell and the designs to the first seemingly competent - should there be any - professor one could find.

Presuming that V got aid with this, rather than being kicked out of the office for attitude and bizarre requests, V would return to the wizard and present this new and improved spoon.

End result.

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Visually? The spoon is.....

A spork.

Yep. A spoon that can also be used to stab annoying party members. Or, you know, food.

However, this is about magic, not simple structural engineering. So in addition to being a spoon with teeth at the tip, the spoon now also rolls to detect temperature of the substance it is being put into and on a successful roll does the following:

Above freezing: the bowl of the spoon and the tips heats enough to melt the substance, making scooping ice cream easier and making ice carving a viable use for a spoon.

Cold but not freezing: The bowl of the spoon chills to keep whatever you were eating cold while the spoon is resting in it, and to give you the optimal temperature for consumption.

Room temperature/ cool/ warm: It... is a spoon.... with teeth

Hot/ boiling: the handle chills, and the bowl heats so that you do not burn yourself lifting the spoon but your food or brew stays hot when the spoon is within it.

And because it is OOTS, and V, there is one more small feature. V would advise the wizard to, under no circumstances, look at the bottom of the handle. But that if the ignorant nobel should choose to protest the viability of this answer, then that noble is to turn the spoon over and find the final proof scribed on the underside of the handle.

That proof, of course, says "I have prepared explosive runes today...."

Which goes about as well as one might expect.