The Comapass Of Tilly Ross

Like most things in the small town of Maple River, this compass is anything but ordinary.
Originally given as a gift to a young Tilly Ross in 1952 on an incredibly chilly Christmas morning, this bright red compass would follow the young girl everywhere she went. It would become commonplace for the people of Maple River to see Tilly running around town with her compass in hand and adventure in her heart.
As Tilly grew older her sense of adventure grew with her and she would spend the hours after school exploring the tall pines that surrounded Maple River using her now faded red compass to navigate the woods. Eventually through wear and tear the compass became damaged and Tilly taught herself how repair and customize her compass.
In the fall of 1963 as the colors began to change around northern Michigan Tilly was on one of her weekly hikes alongside one of the many rivers in the Tall Pines. It was here that she found a strange purple rock that made the sunlight of early fall dance and glimmer around it. Immediately when she returned from her walk she showed her younger brother Noah what she had found. Noah still retells the tale of this stone and how it made the lights of the fall sun dance across his room.
Tilly became obsessed with this stone and fashioned the small stone into a necklace, her journeys into the tall pines became missions to find more of these stones and to find its origins. It was on one of these trips that Tilly tripped and broke the needle of her compass, luckily over the years she had memorized the Tall Pines and was able to make it back to town.
Unfortunately for Tilly all the local stores had no magnetic needles in stock so on a whim she decided to use the purple stone after magnetizing it. Noah remembers that night just as well as the night he first saw the purple stone, he remembers Tilly's excitement when she got it working and how strangely the compass glowed.
The next day Tilly would never return home from her daily hike in the Tall Pines. After a week of the town searching the only thing they found was a single faded red compass with cracked glass and a missing needle.
Noah even in his old age keeps Tilly's compass on him at all time as a remembrance of his sister.

Mechanics & Inner Workings

The compass has not worked since Tilly disappeared in 1964 and is still missing it's magnetic needle.

Significance

In any other town besides Maple River this compass would be seen as nothing more then some forgotten keepsake from the 1960s. But because this is the Maple River this compass plays a much more important part in the grander schemes of things.
Tilly's older brother Noah still has possession of the compass.

Item type

Navigational Aid / Instrument

Rarity

While the make and model of the compass might be as common as any other mass produced compass of the mid 20th century, this compass is unlike any other.

Weight

1.25 lbs

Dimensions

2.5"

Base Price

1.75$