Chapel's Rmur n Whepuns

Chapel's Rmur n Whepuns is a book which appears in Betrayal at Krondor. When read, it increases the party's Armorcraft and Weaponcraft skills.

Location
The book is sold at The Mercantile, a shop in Darkmoor, and The Iron Monger at Northwarden.

A copy is also received from Arlie Steelsoul after the party completes a quest in Chapter 3.

Description
Chapel's Rmur n Whepuns concerns basic repair and maintenance of weapons and armor. Its writing is mostly incomprehensible, with inaccurate or obscure words and many spelling errors. Crude diagrams help understanding its content, along with the amendments of a previous reader, who struck through large sections and rewrote portions of the text in a more elegant hand in the margins.

There is a crude addendum about some ingredients that can counter poisons or enhancements:
 * Silverthorn vs Silverthorn Anti-Venom
 * Sarigsbane vs Silver Spider Poison or Frosted Blade (made by Althifane's icer)
 * Flame Root Oil vs Naptha ignited blade
 * Dragon Stone vs Steelfire-enchanted blade
 * Clerical Oilcoth against itself
 * Killian's Root Oil against itself

Further details about the author, Chapel, are lost to time.

Properties

 * On the first readthrough, the book grants each reader 3% Weaponcraft and 3% Armorcraft if neither skill is selected. If one of the skills is selected during the reading, that skill increases by 4.5% instead; if both are selected, each increased by 3.75%.
 * One reading takes several hours, and multiple readings may exhaust the party or cause them to run out of Rations if care is not taken to monitor their condition.
 * The book's addendum does not list all possible ways in which poisons, enhancements, and antidotes may interact.

Trivia
The inclusion of Silverthorn's antivenom, which was first made by Father Nathan to cure Princess Anita conDoin, may date the book's addendum to under ten years earlier. Mention of the Silver Spider on the same list may assist in dating the use of such devices as well.