Ghoulwood viola


 * Ghoulwood violas are made from ghoulwood.
 * Ghoulwood is only available from dead and neglected wood.
 * Ghoulwood can be harvested from dead trees or ghost buildings.
 * Ghoulwood can be harvested, with difficulty, from forgotten furniture.
 * Wood devolves into ghoulwood devolves into wormwood.
 * Ghoulwood was discovered by Wilhelmina Corinne Bardway.
 * The violas were her creation, she being incensed by a strong Memory.
 * The Memory was found in a broken viola in a long ignored ghost town.
 * She repaired the viola, played it beautifully, and influenced an artform.
 * The violas are now well-known, but rare enough to look forward to.
 * Ghoulwood violas may rarely be possessed by Memories.
 * Memories can inspire or corrupt the current performance.
 * Strong Memories can "communicate" with an owner of long guardianship.
 * Memories are not intelligent, merely vestigial repetitions of the past.
 * Memories are perverted, turned aggressive, when wormwooding occurs.
 * The music of a ghoulwood instrument has three known side effects.
 * The Council for Quezlarian Research has not released these effects.
 * Many taverns have hosted "Guess the Side Effect" competitions.
 * Morbus Iff once researched for the Council for Quezlarian Research.
 * Morbus Iff can attest that one side effect is demonstrated herein.

Citations: Council for Quezlarian Research, Wilhelmina Corinne Bardway, Wormwood.

--Morbus Iff 20:16, 29 Oct 2004 (EDT)