Enc: -	IS:	Aura: -	XP: 1k	GP: 8k
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This special dust has many uses.

If a pinch is CAST
into a goodly volume of water, 1 cubic yard of liquid is instantly transformed
transformed
to nothingness, and the dust pinch becomes a marble-sized
pellet floating, or resting, where it was CAST.

Whenever this pellet is
hurled down, it breaks and reJeases the same volume of water. When
the dust is sprinkled over an area (such as with a wave of the arm), it
will negate a precipitation or cloudburst spell, or else dry up as much
as 1 cubic rod of water. The dust will not affect liquids which are not
some form of water (fresh, salt, brackish, alkaline, etc.). If the dust is
‘employed against a water elemental or similar creature, the creature
must save versus spell or be destroyed. A successful save still inflicts
6-30 points of damage upon the water-creature. A pouch of this dust
will contain from 11-20 pinches. The contents of the pouch can be
sprinkled (to dry up moisture) so long as at least half of the original
amount (in pinches) remains. If several pinches have been used so
that what is left is less than half of what was found, then sprinkling the
remainder will have no effect.