Novalyst.
Spoiler-aware compendium Sign in
Library/ This Inevitable Ruin
Reading position Whole book
Whole book
← The Compendium
Generic item illustration for Adept's Fountain Pen
item

Adept's Fountain Pen

Fountain Pen

The most basic and most versatile calligrapher's implement, gifted to Carl by Milk alongside a wineskin of permanent ink.

Story so far

Milk hands Carl a fountain pen immediately after the Stayfast Ink. The item text calls it the most basic of all calligrapher's implements and muses on how much grief and suffering — and how much joy — such things have caused, noting that the pen being mightier than the sword is one of the few human metaphors the system believes universally true, especially since swords are terrible, barbaric weapons.

It then challenges the owner directly: will you write a book that changes everything, invent a new take on hucow fiction, or just literally stab someone in the neck with it again? The gift arrives at the same moment Milk mentions Book of Voodoo and the way anything written in it propagates to every existing copy.

Appearance

A plain fountain pen, the simplest tool in a calligrapher's kit.

Role

The writing implement Milk arms Carl with for whatever he decides to write.

Relationships

Milk — Gave it to Carl.
Carl — New owner.
Stayfast Ink — Its companion gift.
Sources — 1 recorded facts, by chapter
Chapter 87
  • The most basic and most versatile calligrapher's implement, gifted to Carl by Milk alongside a wineskin of permanent ink.
Character portrait