The artifact faintly glows when it comes into contact with bare skin. It is either frigid or warm, but no one can tell.
Upon pressing a raindrop-shaped button on its side, the LCD monitor displays the local weather within 60 feet.
It is always raining...
On the usage:
In the past, this artifact had activated upon contact with any skin. At some point Delphyrion was using it as a paperweight, only for it to activate when they tried to move it. Soaked documents were not fun to replace, but thank goodness there weren't any water-reactive chemicals exposed. Delphyrion also intended to use this artifact as a hand warmer or cooler during winters and summers respectively, but their indecisiveness led to the artifact being both warm and cool.
On dihydrogen monoxide:
Portable water is always useful especially when traveling by plane, though at some point people have started to think that Delphyrion is carrying an extremely deadly poison called dihydrogen monoxide. Often they decide to play into this, though it has gotten them into trouble at the airport.
On impracticality:
Normally people tend to choose more immediately useful gifts, perhaps for healing or damage. Delphyrion, upon being asked about what power they'd need, was thinking about the amount of times they'd wished it was raining outside. It isn't for work-related reasons; clear days are much better for outdoor experiments and camera exposure. In fact the extra moisture would mess up certain reactions instead. Basically, Delphyrion sometimes wants it to rain so they could sit by the window with a book and a warm beaker of tea to romanticize life. It is a little odd to do so in a lab, not to mention they haven't needed rain in their contracts so far.
However, everything Delphyrion does is inefficient anyway; what's one more inconvenience?
At least they are now saved from a long and grueling trip to the sink.
Exert your Mind and spend an Action. Select a Location within 60 feet of you. Choose a 3-D shape that will define the borders of your Effect.
You create a zone of rain in the chosen shape, originating at the chosen Location, with a radius of 60 feet. and lasting for 5 minutes. The area inside your zone is affected in any number of the following ways:
Paulette creates an area full of flammable poisonous web.
Exert your Mind and spend an Action. Select a Location within 60 feet of you. Choose a 3-D shape that will define the borders of your Effect.
You create a zone of sticky web in the chosen shape, originating at the chosen Location, with a radius of 60 feet. and lasting for as long as you maintain Concentration. The area inside your zone is affected in the following ways:
Any time someone leaves your zone, they remain affected by your Zone Effects for an additional 3 Rounds as if they were still within the zone.
Exert your Mind and spend an Action. You may choose not to pay this Effect’s activation cost. When you activate this Effect, if it is active from a previous activation where you didn’t pay, that Effect ends.
You create a hemispherical dome of Nexus of wrapping mud tendrils originating at your Location, with a radius of 200 feet. and lasting for 5 minutes. You are fully immune to the effects of your zone. The area inside your zone is affected in any number of the following ways:
You may end this Effect prematurely as a Free Action.
Anyone who witnesses you during this Effect's activation will almost certainly be disturbed to see Mud seeping out of the Wizard's Orifices.
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: Mud is Life and The World Shall Know Mud. If they lose possession of this Artifact, the Trauma heals over the course of the next day.
The passages of Geneva spill out and burst out of the ground to imprison the target. Each activation of this skill counts as punishment for the sin not matter if the effect actually works or not meaning Johan cannot activate this ability using the same sin unless it is committed before him again or is still actively being committed.
Spend an Action. Select a target within 45 feet. This Effect cannot be used unless the target has sinned before Johan. You must use up one memory of Johan's memories of the target sinning in order to activate this Effect. Roll Charisma + Occult at Difficulty 6. The target may contest by Defending or Dodging.
If you succeed, your target will be restricted at their location by a physical, tangible binding. They cannot move to a new location, and, if your Contested Outcome was greater than their Brawn, they are encased and cannot take any physical Actions other than attempting to escape until they break free.
The target may spend an Action and roll Brawn or Dexterity + Athletics to attempt to break free. They must accumulate a total Outcome equal to or greater than the original Contested Outcome to escape. Damage to the binding from outside sources also contributes.
If your target does not escape within 3 Rounds, they cannot ever free themselves and must be rescued.
You may end this Effect prematurely as a Free Action.
This Gift cannot have more than 3 Drawbacks, and its Gift Cost is capped at 1.
Harriet places her hand against a surface and closes her eyes for 30 seconds. During this time a crack forms underneath her hand and an eyeball grows out of it. It looks around its surroundings with little interest.
Exert your Mind and spend 30 seconds to trap a region of any shape that contains your current location and fits entirely within 60 feet of you. This trap lasts one day or until triggered or disarmed. This Effect cannot be used unless there is a corpse in its initial radius. Choose a type of being that could trigger the trap.
The trap looks like A perfectly silent, alien eyeball with a snowflake pupil. Only those who have seen this trap before can identify it as a trap. Anyone who is aware of the trap may intuitively avoid or destroy it.
When setting the trap, specify the condition under which it will trigger. The trap can trigger against a target in the trapped region.
You create a hemispherical dome of Fractal Shaped Frost originating at the trap, with a radius of 60 feet, and lasting for 5 minutes. The area inside your zone is affected in any number of the following ways:
"The carcasses of birds and bugs piled up near the apple. The apple pondered about its existence in the midst of the corpses rotting around it. One day, a branch grew from it. The leaves and branches were already withered and dry, but it continued to grow."
ALL MOVEMENT WITHIN THE VINES ARE INHIBITED TO 15 FT PER TURN, THIS EFFECT CAN BE NULLIFIED WITH SPEED BUFFING EGO.
Exert your Mind and spend an Action. This Effect cannot be used unless both Green Stem EGO are equipped.
You create a hemispherical dome of Green Vines originating at your Location, with a radius of 60 feet. and lasting for 2 hours. While active, you are always fully affected by your zone as if you were standing in it. The area inside your zone is affected in the following ways:
You may end this Effect prematurely as a Free Action.