The Efreeti Bottle

A build started because of a misprint

A small modified bottle soon to become the dungeons and dragons item Efreeti Bottle.

So, originally this item wasn't going to be built. It was listed in the All the Many Things page, with just purely digital images (and still is, it just looks better), but the thing is... when I was making the Menu of Many Things book, on the back inside cover where I listed additional magic items that you can draw from, I... accidentally added the Efreeti Bottle and Cube of Summoning. So now, while I could just reprint the page, I mean... I could also just build the items! I mean... it seems almost sad to have like... *every other item* made, but then be missing these two, so like... it had to happen. It was printed, it was destined. And so, we pondered how to go about doing this.

First, we needed a bottle, of course. I tried hunting around craft and hobby shops, even candy containers that might look suitable, but nothing fit the bill. And then I found one of those little mini bottles of ye olde rotgut on the ground, and thought ayyyy, that looks like it'd work! So we scooped that up, and set about hacking it to pieces!

And what to draw? Small little sticks, toothpicks! But not cheap wooden ones, those tend to split down the middle, as... countless annoyances while painting with them have told me. Bamboo tho... that grows very straight-grained, is very strong, you should do me well! So we ordered some bamboo toothpicks online (finding them in-store was proving difficult), and set about adjusting the rules to it. So... there's ten possible results, a 1 in 10 chance of three wishes, 1 in 10 chance of it attacking you, and 8 in 10 chance of it helping you for an hour, which you can call upon three times. Also why I didn't make it initially, it's a one-time use item (so to speak), once a stick is drawn, you get the result, and then it becomes a nonmagical bottle. But... the printer has spoken, it must be made!

So, as the rules state that there's smoke, then a flash of fire, and then the genie appears, I decided to paint the tops of the toothpicks to look like flame, as much as I could. I didn't make them pointy-topped, I figured that was just asking to get chipped off, but... fire-looking paint. On the bottom, we painted one gold, one red, and the rest blue, so that the instruction sheet that comes attached to the bottle can list the rules as red, blue, and gold.

<More added once it's finished>

Finished Month xx, 2025




Of course you can still open the bottle.
 A container of bamboo toothpicks sitting next to a tiny plastic bottle, with the label playfully covered up to say ye olde rotgut, sitting on a cutting board.The bottle, with the majority of the center of the wide portion sliced out, leaving a wide base, which nearly immediately curves up into the narrower neck of the bottle.

A set of eleven toothpicks, one extra just in case, being held horozontally on top of a regular wooden toothpick box... it was convenient, don't judge me lol, and being held down with a metal ruler, and the ends of each of the toothpicks are painted yellow, the first colour needed to colour it like fire.The ten toothpicks, it's a good thing we had that one extra, now with fully painted tops with a layer of varnish over them, and the bottoms painted in their red, blue, and gold colours, and dipped in varnish to protect it, hanging now vertically by being stuck with painters tape to the side of that toothpick box, held aloft by taped to the top of a container of wood filler... again, don't judge me lol, and on the work surface below, some scrap papers from misprinting some of the deck instructions, is the bottle now glued together, and the cap, which is now two caps to create added space for the toothpick tops, and wrapped in glue coated string for both strength, and to give it some shape.