The ragged form bows its lantern-hooded head, studying the sacks and boxes piled in the back of his rotting boat before he finally reaches down and selects a battered wooden box. Opening it wide, he reveals a large cow-bell. The battered metal bell is cracked and battered, but hanging from a leather strap that seems relatively new. "I know many people worry about losing their cows; Wise-men such as yourself instead worry about losing other things. Cats, crows, children. This item will help you find your lost apprentice, if you properly bell the child first. With such peace of mind iminent, you can certainly offer me a few nights of sleep."
Akakios is delighted to trade the Lost Calf's Bell for a number of restful nights of sleep. This can be avoided by adopting the Nocturnal flaw, but otherwise a magus will gain a simple die of distraction days every season due to ill sleep. He values the Bell at 7 pawns of vis, or an item of equivalent value.
The Lost Calf's Bell: This old cow-bell helps find lost pets, and many people include their children and apprentices among that. When put around an animal or human's waist or neck, it will allow you to always be able to find them. This bell, of course, can be removed, but the effect still lasts until the next sundown or sunup. Once a 'calf' is belled, the person who tied the bell in place can hear the target whenever they move as a ringing of a dull-toned bell. It seems further or nearer based on the distance of the lost calf. The effect has a magic penetration of +10. Surprisingly, the previous owner wanted to get rid of the bell because his teenaged son had a habit of running around all night and day and driving him to distraction.
Also in his stocks are a giant ram's horn, worth 4 animal vis; three shards of glass that reflect the wrong color light, each worth a pawn of imaginem; and a chunk of rock crystal that appears to have a flicker of flame caught inside it, worth a pawn of terram vis.