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Friday, 03 September 2010

The Luggage

The Discworld Luggage The Luggage is a large iron bound chest made of sapient pearwood (a magical, intelligent plant which is nearly extinct, impervious to magic, and only grows in a few places outside the Agatean Empire). It has hundreds of little legs protruding from its underside and can move very fast if the need arises.

The function of The Luggage is to act as both a carrier of personal effects and bodyguard for its owner, against whom no threatening motion should be made.

The Luggage is fiercely defensive of its owner, and is generally homicidal in nature, killing or eating several people and monsters, including dragging sharks ashore and jumping up and down on them, in its stride. Its mouth, the feature often remarked upon by those it is about to consume, contains "lots of big square teeth, white as sycamore, and a pulsating tongue, red as mahogany." The inside area of The Luggage does not appear to be constrained by its external dimensions and contains many conveniences, such as its owner's clothes been neatly pressed and smelling faintly of lavender, even when it has just devoured a monster, when it's opened.

One of the greatest features of The Luggage is its ability to follow its current owner anywhere including such places as inside the Octavo, off the edge of the Discworld, and Death's Domain. You name it, it has been there. Hopefully when its owner was there as well, because like all luggage, it's constantly getting lost and having to track its owner down... though this particular luggage will always find its owner one way or another, travelling to different dimensions in no barrir to The Luggage.

 
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