Crafted Artifact

Bracelet of Constant Function

Created and held by Gimmlin Artstet.
A loose, green bracelet that has an ethereal glow to it.

An item enchanted with this effect will have an ethereal green glow, though not enough for any significant sort of light. Touching the object is energizing, and supplies the wearer with unending function.


You gain the following benefits as long as you are wearing this Artifact.

You no longer require any food, water, or sleep in order to survive.

Community Artifacts

Tiny Clown Car

Created and held by Philip Montegue (AKA Bumble the Clown).
Currently At home.
A tiny clown car that can fit a single driver.

Clown Crew

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Magic Mirror

Created and held by Aria Feist.
A small handheld mirror, with silver trim and a sapphire at the top.

When Aria takes out the silver mirror, she has to extend and touch the sapphire gem to the surface of a mirror she wishes to use for scrying purposes.


Spend an Action. Select a target within 10 feet. This Effect cannot be used unless you have touched the mirror with your magic mirror and Used on an actual mirror.

You place a ward, which is fixed to a target Object that can be moved and repositioned. You can hear and see through the ward as though you were standing at its location. This Artifact may have at most 3 wards active at once.

The ward requires Concentration to monitor, though it will remain active until you deactivate it. The ward can be discovered if someone knows what they are looking for, but is otherwise inconspicuous and cannot be identified as a ward.

You may communicate through your ward, though doing so will reveal its presence.

This Gift's Cost is capped at 2 and cannot be increased further.

  • Any targets visible via your ward satisfy the line of sight requirement for targeted Effects.
  • You can target yourself if you qualify as a valid target by the other requirements.
  • Your target must be within line of sight, or within range of another sense if more fitting for the Gift's flavor.

When Aria has the silver mirror out, she has to look at and then say the words: "Mirror mirror oh so tiny, please show me something shiny." Every artifact then within 300ft of her will be revealed as to the ways all of her senses would perceive it.


Exert your Mind and spend two Actions performing the following ritual: Stroking the mirror along it's entire sides, while repeating "Mirror mirror oh so tiny, Please show me something shiny". You must maintain Concentration while activating this Effect, and it fails if you are interrupted.

You automatically detect all Artifacts within 300 feet of you for the next hour. You have a clear sense of both the distance and direction towards any detected items. When you detect objects, instead of learning nothing about them, you may observe each object with all of your senses.

The means by which any Artifacts are hidden or disguised is made clear to you, as well as how to access them if they are secured. This includes objects secured via the Stash Effect.

  • This includes any objects that come into range during activation.

Luster

Created and held by McKenna René.
A red pocket watch, ticking away, turning gray. An eye of a distant god.

The car McKenna purchased, repurposed, and legalized has begun to make noise, a whisper, a Susurration. One day, in their garage, The car had simply disappeared. In its wake was a pocket watch, unopenable, and slowly ticking.
The watch loses its red luster over time, it requires upkeep in a simple form, blood, any blood.
After several jobs, McKenna has decided to fix up the car to suit more dangerous needs.

Off-road tires, Bullet proof windows, Better window blades for her uses, and lifting the body for better maneuverability.
And a GPS.

Augments:
Blue Fungi Hood Ornament
High Powered Waterproof UV Car Headlight

The Hanged Man
-Simon Walker (Contractor)

Bobasaurus
-Hearne Morgan (Contractor)
-Jessica Black
-Rick Lawson
-Dylan Reed
-Ariel Dupont

Shisa nyama mfetu
-Zain Robinson (Contractor)
-Songoma (Witch Doctor)
-Ancient African Demon

Sleepover
-Anastasia "Luck" (Contractor)
-Anastasia Marigold (Contractor)
-Draven Darkwood (Contractor)


This Artifact can be used as a NASCAR. It is roughly the same size as a NASCAR but can be collapsed into Pocket watch and concealed. Collapsing or expanding it costs a Quick Action.

This NASCAR has a white body with red rims, a few stickers cover the small corners of the body. Any roll to pilot this vehicle receives +2 dice.

You also gain the following effects:

  • Afterburner: Your vehicle has a 25% faster top speed and you may Exert your Mind to accelerate to its top speed in a single Round.
  • Amphibious: Your vehicle may move on land as well as under water at its normal speed. If your vehicle includes an enclosed space, it will function as an airtight, pressurized cockpit.
  • Daredevil: Damage you and your passengers take from vehicle collisions is reduced by 2, and any Injuries suffered are limited to a maximum of Severity 4.
  • Drive-By: You may drive or pilot your vehicle as a Free Action, without taking any penalty on other Actions.
  • Flying Car: Your vehicle may also fly at its normal speed. Taking off takes a full Action.

This item is a living thing. When targeted, it counts as a Living Creature in addition to its other target types. If destroyed or abandoned for more than two days, it dies and becomes unusable.

  • If there is not enough free space to expand the object, it cannot be expanded. You cannot expand this Object as an attack.

The user watches the pocket watch tick down in a irregular pattern, sharp purple eyes can be seen closing slowly as the dials spin. The user then clicks the winder once the eyes are closed and they burst open with a soft rumble, opening doors and safes with a mere gaze to feed the desires of the user.
In car form, the same is done via the headlights/taillights.

The pocket watch grows in power.
The user feels it watching them in the night, watching their movements, their desires, their pleasures. It studies them.


Spend an Action.

You may lock, unlock, and/or open any number of doors, containers, knots, or locks within 300 feet of you. Cannot be used on Alien technology.

  • Operating some locking mechanisms through this Effect may have a secondary effect, such as a turn-key ignition on an older or cheaper car causing it to start or stop. Note that the locking mechanism itself must satisfy the standard targeting requirements (including line of sight), not just the vehicle.
  • Any mechanism that requires a key, keycard, key fob, or combination may be considered locked, at the GM's discretion. This Effect may be used on doors and containers secured with control panels or other electronic locks, but not computer security systems at large.
  • You can target yourself if you qualify as a valid target by the other requirements.
  • Your target must be within line of sight, or within range of another sense if more fitting for the Gift's flavor.

Spinning the dial and selecting a flavor allows you to choose someone to speak too. Alive or dead, the call allows you to speak to beings as if they were still alive. Showing their figure and likeness on the clocks face.
When in car, you can access the console inside to speak to them, like taking a phone call.
Any beings that have kissed the watch, bled on the watch, or have been inside the car are able to be contacted from the dead.
Anything granted speech by the watch has their eyes change to purple dragon like eyes. for the duration


Exert your Mind and spend one minute. Select a Sapient being, human, Creature, or Dead target within 50 feet. For dead targets, you must possess their Blood.

The target can communicate in your language for the next hour.

  • Communing with creatures does not grant them intellect but does allow you to converse with them.
  • The target of "human" refers to any target that speaks a human language.
  • You can target yourself if you qualify as a valid target by the other requirements.
  • Your target must be within line of sight, or within range of another sense if more fitting for the Gift's flavor.

The watch's face starts to contort as one focuses their mind on the watch, pleading with it, asking it for more. The watch will concede its contents and provide you what you ask for, relief.
Blood will coagulate on the face, using surface tension to hold onto the face. All it takes is a lick to see your problems dissipate.


Exert your Mind and spend 1 Action.

You may cure any Non-Alien diseases, toxins, or poisons afflicting yourself even if you have not diagnosed or fully understood it. You may cure diseases or poisons even if they are not treatable through modern medicine. During treatment, the malady you are treating does not progress or cause additional Damage or other effects.

  • Without some sort of diagnostic Effect, “fully diagnosing” a disease or poison will always require a roll of some sort, frequently Intellect + Medicine, but the specific roll and difficulty is at GM’s discretion.

The user runs the watch over their tongue, allowing for the a link to be created between the user and the call. A spectral mouth appears where the user bites down in the shape of a creature hailing from the crocodylidae family.
In car form, The user can pop the hood for a moment to allow for a spectral bite to escape towards the target.

The call is blind, requiring guidance from an esteemed shepherd.
The call has allowed its shepherd to use its mouth after the trust it has built with its offerings.


Spend an Action. Select a target within 300 feet. Roll Dexterity + Drive Difficulty 6. The target may contest by rolling to Dodge or Defend as a Reaction, Difficulty 6.

If the Contested Outcome is positive, the target takes that much Damage plus 2.

You may use this Effect to Defend against any melee, projectile, or firearm Attacks within range or Clash against any Attack targeted at you. Using it to Defend deals no Damage but does not cost Exertion.

This Gift's Cost is capped at 2 and cannot be increased further.

  • You can target yourself if you qualify as a valid target by the other requirements.
  • Your target must be within line of sight, or within range of another sense if more fitting for the Gift's flavor.

The user is blessed by The Calls energy. Their eyes shift to the ones its very being used to sense prey, Their ears upper helix has been covered in rough scales with purple/red coloring.

Given to feast, Find more.
I'll never miss that night again.


You gain the following benefits as long as you are wearing this Artifact.

Your senses are enhanced in the following way.

  • Sight: You can see perfectly in dark and even pitch-black environments. You suffer no dice penalty due to darkness.
  • Hearing: You may hear sounds of sub- and hyper-sonic frequencies, allowing you to hear tiny things (mice, insects, etc) better, and pick up on the vibrations of massive things (earthquakes, atmospheric disruptions, etc) long before others.

Any senses which have been heightened cannot be overloaded. Battle Scars you receive cannot affect these senses.

  • Examples of overloading a sense include: an explosion causing temporary deafness, a bright light causing blindness, a sedative causing numbness, etc.

The Red Watch holds an entity inside, one that craves more, the user however has chosen a different path. They use the entity for their own desires, for better or for worse.
Forced to accept the wishes of its user, it's given the user freedom from its call, allowing the user mental power against any attacks on their mental will.
A spectral crocodile snaps up any incoming mental attacks, and explains its cause into the users ear.


You gain the following benefits as long as you are wearing this Artifact.

You get +0 dice to any Mind resistance rolls you make. You also gain the following effects:

  • Been There, Done That: If you succeed a Mind resistance roll, subsequent attempts to use that same Gift or supernatural ability on you for the next day will fail.
  • Naturally Resistant: Any time you make a Mind resistance roll, the individual who you are resisting must Exert their Mind, or your resistance succeeds automatically.
  • Reveal Yourself To Me: If you succeed on a Mind resistance roll, you understand who was targeting you and what the intended effect was.

  • These bonuses apply only to Mind rolls made to resist Effects and other supernatural phenomena. They do not apply to Trauma rolls or self-control rolls.

The Call has grown forceful. although it cannot control the user mentally, it attempts to jostle and tug at the user to prevent their injury and increase their ability to acquire new flavors.
In car form, The call morphs and whips the vehicle to allow for increased mobility. Using blood and flesh from the card interior, melding itself and churning for optimal mobility.


You gain the following benefits as long as you are wearing this Artifact.

You may move easily and without a roll in any of the following situations.

  • Land Swimmer: You are able to swim through sand, mud, snow, and other semi-solid materials as long as they are made of loose pieces or are not particularly dense. While doing so, you move at half your normal movement speed.
  • Pathfinder: You are adept at making your way through crowds, underbrush, and other dense, congested environments. While doing so, you move at full speed.
  • Spider Climber: You are able to climb on and cling to any surface without regard for the ordinary rules of gravity. You climb at half your normal movespeed.

The user channels their will onto the watch, it clicks open and reveals a bloody mess inside. If the user sticks their eye or eyes inside, their sclera is coated in red.


Exert your Mind and spend an Action.

You may perceive things within 75 feet of you with perfect clarity as though there were no walls or obstacles blocking your view for the next 30 minutes.

You may perceive through up to 15 feet of material. The Difficulty of all Perception rolls made through a wall are increased by 1 per wall.

  • You can target yourself if you qualify as a valid target by the other requirements.
  • Your target must be within line of sight, or within range of another sense if more fitting for the Gift's flavor.

McKenna has been chosen, Her name is carved into the Watch.

I have chosen it's Zealot.
There will not be another.
Seek me in the skies.
Beyond the blurry lies.


This Artifact cannot be broken.

If this Artifact is lost and in no one’s possession, it finds its way back to its creator during the next Downtime.

This Artifact's creator is always aware of the direction and distance to this Artifact.

Anyone who touches this Artifact will notice it warping their mind and may drop it. If they choose to hold or use it, they immediately receive the following Trauma: Red Desire: If someone takes an injury, Roll self control, If failed you must check their injury and attempt or request any amount of their blood. If they lose possession of this Artifact, the Trauma heals over the course of the next day.

  • "Cannot be broken" means that damage cannot render the Artifact's Effects unusable, nor can it cease to be used for its primary mundane purpose, if it has one.

The Watch clicks open, revealing a small gem of crimson, glimmering with accents of void and cosmic energy.
When the user consumes the gem, their body pulses in the same glimmering energy from within as their body reacts to the rush of energy.
Their veins are accented by the energy in a short pulse after consumptions.


Spend an Action. Select a target within arm's reach.

For the next week, your target does not require any food, water, sleep, or air. Any attempts to age your target fail.

Anyone who witnesses you during this Effect's activation will almost certainly be disturbed to see Swallowing copious amounts of blood.

This Gift's Cost is capped at 2 and cannot be increased further.

  • When narrating disturbing content, be cognizant of your group's tone and accommodating to those who would like to "fast forward" through the description.
  • You can target yourself if you qualify as a valid target by the other requirements.
  • Your target must be within line of sight, or within range of another sense if more fitting for the Gift's flavor.

42-Chip

Created and held by Alexa.
A computer chip, inserted into a smart watch

Alexandra hacks with her chip.


Exert your Mind and spend 2 Actions to activate. Select a Computer within 20 feet. Can be used on Alien technology. Roll Intellect + Technology, with the Difficulty set by the GM depending on the security of the system you are hacking. Sapient targets can resist by rolling Mind at Difficulty 6. The hacking roll and their defensive roll are both Difficulty 6.

If you succeed, you may issue a single command to the targeted system. This command must have a specific outcome or be a request for specific login credentials. The command you issue must be within the machine's current capabilities. For example, you cannot order a standard security camera to grow legs and walk around.

You may issue a "self-destruct" command that leaves the hacked system's hardware inoperable, even if that machine had no such functionality previously. Only works on Computers.

If your command does not require bypassing the security of the target (for example, typing on a computer that is unlocked), you do not need to Exert your Mind to activate this Effect, and activation only takes a single Action.

  • You can target yourself if you qualify as a valid target by the other requirements.

The chip detects other technology it can interact with in the area.


Exert your Mind and spend an Action to activate.

You automatically detect all interface-able objects within 300 feet of you for the next ten minutes. You have a clear sense of both the distance and direction towards any detected items. You get details of what each detected item is, as if you've glanced at each object.

Electron Mauler C

Created and held by Maguron A25.
A large silvery gun that is made from many round shapes that ends in a bowl

Despite its bulky shape, it’s actually light and comfortable to hold. When functional, a slight light and buzzing emits from its core, energy dances between the three prongs at the end of the weapon. When fired, it shoots bursts of blue energy, those killed by it are disintegrated, with only their clothing and a blue skeleton remaining.

The Electron Mauler saw a lot of action upon its conception during the Mercuiod war. A war that marked the Zetotho as an empire that is not to trifled with.


This Artifact can be used as a rifle. It is roughly the same size as a rifle but can be collapsed into a white L shaped block and concealed. Collapsing or expanding it costs a Quick Action.

Attack by rolling Dexterity + Firearms, Difficulty 6. Successful attacks deal Contested Outcome +5 Weapon Damage.

You also gain the following effects:

  • Infinite Ammo: This weapon never runs out of its standard ammunition.
  • Silencer: Shots you fire can be made silent at will.

  • If there is not enough free space to expand the object, it cannot be expanded. You cannot expand this Object as an attack.
  • Reminder: additional Weapon Damage granted by this Effect does not stack with any other bonus to Weapon Damage. Instead the largest bonus is used.
  • Rifles are +1 Difficulty to use in melee range. Sniper Rifles are +3 Difficulty to use without a tripod or in melee range. Setting up a tripod takes an Action.

Stock Artifact Crafting Gifts

You gain the following benefits as long as you are wearing this Artifact.

You get +0 dice to any Mind resistance rolls you make. You also gain the following effects:

  • Naturally Resistant: Any time you make a Mind resistance roll, the individual who you are resisting must Exert their Mind, or your resistance succeeds automatically.
  • Clash Of Wills: If you fail to fully resist an Effect, your Outcome is considered to be 0.

  • These bonuses apply only to Mind rolls made to resist Effects and other supernatural phenomena. They do not apply to Trauma rolls or self-control rolls.

You gain the following benefits as long as you are wearing this Artifact.

You get +2 dice to any Body resistance rolls you make. You also gain the following effects:

  • Survivor: You are immune to all non-Alien diseases.
  • All Brawn No Brain: You suffer a -2 dice penalty on Mind resistance rolls.

  • These bonuses apply only to Body rolls made to resist Effects and other supernatural phenomena. They do not apply to other contexts such as attacks made while under the Creature Transformation Effect.