White elephant gift

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Item Number: 872
Description ID: 7253319
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White-elephant.gif

white elephant gift
Plural: white elephant gifts
Hm. You didn't really want one of these. In fact, you could go so far as to say you have no use for one of these. Despite that fact, you've got one. Nothing to do but rely on the greatest of holiday traditions: regifting!

Miscellaneous Item
Item cannot be traded or sold
Item cannot traded, sold, or placed in a memento display
Item cannot be auto-sold
Usable



How Obtained

The Docks

City of Lost Robots

When Used

Can be "returned to owner". You get the message:

You trick <player> into accepting a white elephant gift. Pretty funny, huh?

The receiver gets the following message:

<player> just sent you this lovely--er, well, someone must have thought it was worth manufacturing. Sorry, looks like you're stuck with it now.

Included item: white elephant (quantity 1)White-elephant.gif

Trying to return the item to yourself:

This is not the sort of item you can give to yourself and have it mean anything.

Using multiple: Unspecified

References

  • A white elephant is a valuable possession of which its owner cannot dispose and whose cost (particularly cost of upkeep) is out of proportion to its usefulness.