A wielded aklys should not slip out of your hands if you have slippery fingers because it’s tethered to your arm.

If an aklys slips out of your hands because your fingers are slippery, it winds up unwielded in your inventory rather than on the floor, because it’s still attached to you by the strap.

You can throw cursed aklyses, because the tether is still welded to your hand. Because of this, they always return – which means there actually might be some circumstances where it’s beneficial to wield one versus a non-cursed one, for example attacking monsters in water or lava.

To compensate for this a bit, the cursed aklys could have an increased chance of hitting you when it returns.

Applying a leash to a club creates an aklys.

If an aklys is tethered to your hand when wielded, you shouldn’t be able to drop it due to slippery fingers or fumbling.

Gnomes get a racial bonus using aklys and crossbow. Should probably be implemented by affiliating an item type with a certain race, adding this as a new object attribute, and only specifying it on racial items (elven armor, orcish weapons, the aklys and crossbow, etc.)