Ghyll: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)