Dusty’s Office

A Collection of Special Fictional Artifacts.

 

The various objects featured here can be found on the shelves in Dusty Cavendish’s office. They are fictional items recovered by the museum’s Director of Acquisitions. If it is found in Dusty’s office, you can be sure that he probably just returned with it from one of his many adventures and hasn’t had a chance to catalogue it into the museum’s permanent collections. But sometimes, an object found here just can’t be catalogued because nobody knows what it is… yet.

Cephalopod Tablet

This unidentified inscribed tablet was recovered in 1921 from a freighter found adrift in the South Pacific with all hands missing. It depicts a cephalopoid head in an inscribed circle and 21 rows of script. Although reminiscent of cuneiform, there are no other known examples of the script, and its discovery in the South Pacific further precludes any similarities with cuneiform. 

The Dresden Skull

​​This carved skull was found by woodcutters near Dresden, Germany. It had been placed in the hollow of a tree facing the ruins of a medieval church. The church and its associated village had been abandoned during a tragedy when the entire adult population of the village, over 100 souls, perished from the Black Death but all of the children were left unaffected.

What makes it really interesting is that the village was never resettled, and to this day local farmers say that crops won’t grow within 10 miles of the church’s ruins.

Is it real? Is it a modern fake? What was it used for?