The artifact contains an ethereal flame, which lies dormant until activated. Once activated the user can see their surroundings illuminated by a faith ethereal light that pierces obstacles. Others see the dormant gray flame awaken and flicker in its housing. (The flame longs to be real, encouraging the user to start more fires.)
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.
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: pyromania, any time you encounter a new flammable object, you must succeed a Self-Control roll to avoid attempting to set it on fire. If they lose possession of this Artifact, the Trauma heals over the course of the next day.
A reasonably sized briefcase made of pleather, the worn edges and scuffed sides obfuscate a piece of exceptional DSP engineering in mundanity. Within the simple container is an array of any weapons and survival gear that a DSP agent might need while on an operation in the field, prepping them for any situation that their missions - or a particularly dangerous harbinger - could throw at them.
This Artifact can be used as a container. It is roughly the same size as a briefcase and just as difficult to conceal.
Your briefcase holds 5 times what it normally could. Objects stored inside are weightless.
Living things can be stored in your briefcase. They will have access to anything else inside and may attempt to break free, damaging or destroying the briefcase in the process.
If your briefcase is destroyed, things inside may get out, and it will cease to function until it is repaired.
When scanned or investigated without opening, the contents of your container appear normal and unremarkable.
The vehicle this advanced air filter is built into will try to filter and detect all toxins and similar out of the air.
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:
After a short prayer to the mayan gods asking forn their knowledge of the target. A jade green light that listened to your request shares their knowledge acording to how well you prayed. When sharing the information the green light goes into the casters head on the 3rd eye spot of the forehead.
Exert your Mind and spend a minute. Select a Sapient target within arm's reach. At the end of your investigation, roll Charisma + Occult at Difficulty 6.
You learn all the following information about your target:
The quality and specificity of information gained depends on your Outcome.
You cannot investigate the same target more than once per day.
Opening the adventuring bag reveals a cavern of interior pockets, nets, and subsections.
This Artifact can be used as a container. It is roughly the same size as a pack and just as difficult to conceal.
Your pack holds 5 times what it normally could. Objects stored inside are weightless.
Living things can be stored in your pack. They will have access to anything else inside and may attempt to break free, damaging or destroying the pack in the process.
If your pack is destroyed, things inside may get out, and it will cease to function until it is repaired.
When scanned or investigated without opening, the contents of your container appear normal and unremarkable.
A ritual that involves transposing a part of the owner's soul into the item, such that it always finds its way back to them.
The ritual is done by using the owner's blood to write sigils on and around the item, while chanting a phrase in Latin. Upon completion of the ritual, the owner feels more tired than normal, and wants to sleep with the artifact nearby. If the owner doesn't, they don't feel as if they've truly rested.
This Artifact cannot be broken. If this Artifact is lost and in no one elseās possession, it finds its way back to its true owner during the next Downtime.
By default, the creator of this Artifact is its true owner. The true owner may formally bequeath this Artifact onto another person within armās reach, after which they are its true owner. If the true owner dies or is destroyed, their ownership ends. If this Artifact has no true owner, anyone may spend one day attuning to it to become its true owner.
If this Artifact is in no one elseās possession, its true owner may Exert their Mind and spend two Actions to bring it to themselves.
This Artifact's true owner must have it with them to have restful sleep. They cannot regain Mind or Source while separated from this Artifact.
The mad scientist can craft steel helmets that protect their wearers from mental influence and attack.
You gain the following benefits as long as you are wearing this Artifact.
You get +1 dice to any Mind resistance rolls you make. You also gain the following effects:
This device is a piece of chrome the size and shape of the back of a spoon. When placed against the skin, small hypodermic needles sprout from the device and attach it to the user's bloodstream. There, it filters and releases lifesaving drugs into the bloodstream, granting complete immunity from contracting new diseases and added resiliency in all other cases.
WARNING: The immunizing drugs have been shown to reduce inhibitions in test subjects.
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: