A ceramic Alchemy Jug bought by Red in the Pentamarone market for 50 gold — the single most consequential purchase of Session 10, for reasons nobody could have predicted.
Properties
- Appears to hold about a gallon, but functions like a bag of holding for liquids — it can produce far more than it looks like it should. (Not quite: in Session 12 the WitchCrafters explained that it siphons the liquid from elsewhere — see below.)
- Use an action and name one liquid from its list; the jug produces it. Beer is on the list — four gallons of it.
- Made by the seller with help from one of the WitchCrafters, and therefore one of the only genuinely magical items sold outside the guild’s monthly market.
How He Got It
Red went to a pottery stall asking after brewing supplies — he’s a brewer with no farm, no equipment, and no beer since he left home. The potter liked the cut of his jib, reached under the stall, and set the jug down:
“There’s not much magic that goes around here, it’s pretty novice — but I did get help from one of the WitchCrafters with this. I’ve been saving it for somebody I think is gonna appreciate it.”
Red’s Arcana identified it. He paid the asking price without hesitating, sat down at the SS Nap Time, said “beer,” and has not paid for a drink since.
Why It Actually Matters
The jug is the reason the party finally solved the Golden Chalice. With a magic cup pouring free beer at the table, Aren thought to ask the question nobody had asked in five months — a chalice is technically a cup; what happens if we drink from it? Red filled the chalice from the jug and handed it over.
(A table proposal to test the word “mayonnaise” remains, as of Session 10, untested.)
How It Actually Works (Session 12, September 23, 2026)
It doesn’t make anything. Per Genni of the WitchCrafters, in the guild’s report on the chalice, the jug only seems to produce liquid from nothing: it actually siphons microscopic amounts of that liquid from all across the world. Each cup of Red’s beer is less than a drop taken from a thousand cans elsewhere.
That makes it the guild’s example of ordinary magic obeying the rules — and the contrast that exposed the Golden Chalice, which doesn’t siphon from anywhere. It makes something from nothing, and that is what the guild believes makes it sinful.
Related
- Harlan “Red” Reed — its owner
- Golden Chalice — what it accidentally cracked open, and the counter-example that explained it
- Pentamarone · WitchCrafters — where it came from
First Appeared
Session 10 (August 26, 2026), in the Pentamarone market circle.