First Impressions New Bone of the Elders

Okay!
Picked up the “Bone of the Elders” today (I may be the first lucky mage to get one)
So I’ve only had it a few hours, these are just preliminary observations… more later.

Now I am positive: this Scratch dude and Fox guy are nuts. I mean really totally nuts.
Let’s put this in perspective. They are selling these handcrafted sets (I’ll get to the parts later) for LESS than a lousy cheaply mass-made “Mak Magic French Arm Chopper”!!!!

See what I mean? I’ll bet they take forever to make so I doubt they’ll want to keep on keeping on doing this for long, that means they’ll be rare as hen’s teeth (hen’s bones?) and people will kill for them in a decade or two (think Andruzzi stuff?)

I would have more than happily plunked down $400 for this… now I’ve worked with it a little bit, maybe $600 if I had it. Going for what? $165? See what I mean, nuts… that’s like two “Hippity Hop Rabbit” sets.

Enough jabs at the guys though. The bone looks pretty much like a bone, that’s a real bone. And an old one, the aging is quite nicely done. And a truly weird bone, it’s got really cool arcane (maybe evil?) signs and sigils carved over it. And it works, it tips and topples pretty much on schedule (with a more flexible schedule than a Post Office worker it seems.)

Extras: it comes in a box an old box, with old pealed torn stuff all over it, seems special, seems old, rough hewn. And a chunk of (human?) skull (might be where Scratch and Fox leaked their brains out.) And papers, old crumbly icky wonderful document papers to weave varied stories with.

Finally, a sort of peculiar origami-ish instruction book-ish, that unfolds as one sheet but folds as a booklet, go figure, don’t ask, they’re nuts why else do this?

So that’s the scoop from my first few hours exploring this…. thing. Even at that price I’m now on only rice and beans for several weeks, gee I must have really wanted this to spend even the little money I don’t have to spare right now…. guess I’m totally nuts too.

Broke but happy….
Brother Walt

Watch a demo here...

GS

A psycho-kinetic bone? Well that's pretty cool.

Go over to the Spooky and bizarre section of the Café to see more video demonstrations

See the Spooky and Bizarre section in the cellar for a review by Michael J Fraughton.

Saw a couple of the demos, and I like it.

How about this for a presentation techinque?

A bright light strategically placed over your shoulder, casting a shadow from your hand in the air, and as the shadow of your hand comes over and the shadow touches the bone, the bone moves.

The Doctor

Some more reviews to come shortly!