Mace of Spellwarding (Magic Mace)

This +1 magical weapon is a finely made mace wrought of one piece of blued, oiled steel. In battle, it functions normally. If it touches any item or solid, non-living surface that bears a dweomer, the mace will glow with a magenta-hued radiance, the intensity of the light increasing with the strength of dweomers contacted.
The force of any spell, magical item, or artifact discharge directed at the bearer of a mace of spellwarding, or activated so that its area of effect includes the mace or its bearer, will be sucked into the mace, instantly and harmlessly. This effect is audible and visible, and entirely protects the bearer (even from such specifically aimed magic as magic missile, charm magic, and the like). Absorption is involuntary, not selectively controllable. For each level of spell absorbed (treat item functions as the level of the lowest equivalent spell), a mace of spellwarding gains an additional +1 bonus, lasting six turns. Bonuses apply to both damage and attack rolls, and are cumulative. Upon exceeding a maximum of bonuses (which varies from mace to mace; most were designed to handle no more than 12 spell levels), a mace of spellwarding expends its excess energy in a random teleport. It always travels to a safe place (one neither high nor low for M-sized wielders) somewhere on the same plane, but its destination cannot be foreseen or influenced in any way. If no one is holding or carrying the mace when it overloads, it will simply vanish in a burst of magenta-and-white radiance. Anyone holding (or touching a holder of) a mace of spellwarding is taken along on the teleport (to a maximum of one creature per “plus” held by the mace at the time of overload, including the “extra” pluses the weapon could not handle).
A mace of spellwarding functions as a normal weapon only (exhibiting no magical powers at all) for one day after teleporting, and after that regains its +1 status and ability to spellward again. 
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