Twenty Humble Rewards for Kind Adventurers

These are written for a rugged coastal/archipelago setting.

1. locket from a drowned sailor, oil painting of her lover’s eye on a thumbnail-sized piece of ivory, lock of his hair concealed within.
2. nålbound woolen jumper with embroidered narwhals. soft and not itchy in the slightest.
3. mussel shell engraved with overlapping circles and strung on a leather cord. A talisman that keeps your spine limber, able to hold weird poses for hours.
4. small leather knife roll holding a pair of brass knives for oyster & clam shucking. Fit perfectly in the hand.
5. textile cone shell, concealed poison dart within.
6. accurate maps, indicate 1d3 sunken wrecks still worth looting.
7. basket of pigface fruit, deep red succulent flesh, salty-sweet.
8. painted pebble, floats in water despite its weight, reputed to ward off water-borne diseases.
9. earthenware pot of salted, fermented fish. Putrid to those not used to it.
10. vial of anti-blood, covers up the smell of blood in air or water, repels sharks and possibly other predators.
11. vase that preserves cut flowers indefinitely as long as the water is changed.
12. hole-punched tin lantern shaped like an anglerfish.
13. jar of silt from the most fertile floodplain in the known world. Spread over a hectare (~2.5 acres) will double crop yield indefinitely.
14. dried seaweed, triples dive-time when consumed.
15. reed panflute shaped like a dorsal fin, perfectly tuned, timbre carries feeling of low menace.
16. wax-paper packet of peppercorns.
17. ebony comb, cool in the hand, never snags or breaks a tooth.
18. pocket hymnbook, well-worn, each melody annotated with improvements.
19. mother of pearl snuffbox, filled with a mixture of powdered tobacco and willow bark, temporarily suppresses exhaustion.
20. shepherd’s crook, linen strip tied to it always flutters in direction of lost flock. Also works on ranger’s companions and similar bonded animals.