How did your parties use the wondrous items themselves? My team hasn't really used them on screen, as most of it is just assumed to be off-screen use. Was that true for your tables? Any innovative uses?
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Pretty much what you'd expect - communicating with people that aren't in town. I think they've mostly used them to contact Captain Sargaeta, and gave one to Molly Mayapple that I completely forgot about until she showed up in Kintargo unannounced. (Whoops!) Retconned that one into that she totally did, and it's not the GM's fault that she forgot!
My party uses them all the time to communicate with each other and particularly their allies.
I gave the statues the ability to act as a Silver Raven flare (essentially a limited dancing lights spell at will) which means that they tend to use them a lot more and consider them a vital step to a "public op"
I mostly did it as a way of ensuring the statues were a vital part of the revolution rather then an easily forgotten communication device.
Interestingly, in my campaign Barzillai got his on the raven of a fallen PC and used it to deliver a message to the party.
My players are very "hush-hush and on the down low", so they use the figurines as a way for people to get in contact with them. They have designated a tree in a small park, where there's an actual (abandoned) bird's nest. If anyone wants to get in contact with the Silver Ravens, they are to drop a note in this nest.
Every morning a player sends off one the figurines to check this nest and to fly back with any messages it finds.
Since they've taken pains to keep their hideout and identities secret, I have let this arrangement continue undisturbed for now. But as things heat up, who knows what nasty flying devil-critters might track the figurine back one day...