Ok new thing that im bringing up to everyones attention because if it reads as i perceive it, it becones uber wicked crazy and im takeing the next chance i get.
So being its Any single item that meens also special items. If i am wrong you may want to make a change to it in the book so theres no further confusion on this matter if not i only have one word ZOMG!
Spirit of the Rule, folks. The spirit of special items is that they're so tightly bonded that they don't go anywhere without the bonded's permission. so of course they can't be taken.
There isn't really any confusion to be had. NO RULE permits a player to take a Special Item. The rule we're discussing is amended by the nature of Special Items.
It should read like this:
"the power Joe's asking about allows an Avatar to take any item." then the Special Item comes into question and the sentence becomes "except this one totally unstealable class of items."
If we didn't allow rules to amend each other, the book would be seven times as long as it is and way more dense.