>It is a pain, we know, but talking to people IC and offering
>your magic to help others find theirs can help you build up a
>list of possible places for future characters. That said, my
>current has all but exhausted my black list and completely
>exhausted my sienna and I am still without.
>
>Good luck

Thanks for the information. Today I've found a amber rod
in tower with the help of the 'detect artifact' spell.(Guess t'was my lucky day. I wasn't even looking for it). Although same spell triggered on Pascimius and archmage of tower. Killing pascimius revealed a wand but not my wand, so I gather the spell might give false positives or the archmage has my black wand (I shudder to think)