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==== The Paw Club ====

This looks like an old, rusty iron belaying pin, the top of which is shaped like an ape's paw.  It has a wrapped handle and can easily serve as a club, if used as a weapon.  It was once a simple belaying pin used on the ship ''The North Scanapo'', which was a common sight off the shores (and in the ports) of southern Erenland about 230 years ago.  The crew was beset by a mysterious creature no one had ever seen before, and could not be identified, while attempting to investigate rumors of a small island chain far from the east coast of Eredane.  The creature was not large, but it was vicious and slaughtered most of the crew.  One of the humble crewmen felled the beast with this pin, but how he was able to do so remained a mystery, as most weapons did nothing against it.  With a skeleton crew (in one case this was literal) ''The North Scanapo'' made it to Asmadar, where it sank.  The crewman who used the Paw Club made it to shore as the sole survivor of the crew, and felt strangely compelled to deliver the pin to a mysterious man (somewhere).  Once this was accomplished, a minor mishap resulted in his death and the belaying pin was never seen again.