I need a function!

[Egyptoid]

Q C D

 

Quicknife Cyborg Divester

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Hideous weapon from the Cyber-Man Wars. (sometimes called WW5).

Unity scientists desperately needed an edge versus the cyborgs and termination bots of the CONFRONT terrorists.

The weakness they found came from the join between flesh and machine.

Cyborgs had to link their augments into their nervous systems,

and Bots had to link their organic brain-pans into their circuits.

 

the common feature found on all CONFRONT units were the piezo-electronic couplings. this Tech was not employed by Unity and they gleefully made a nano-weapon that both shocked and fine-coated the tourmaline crystals present in Unity weapons.

 

Like a spray gun, the QCD spits out a tight cone of nanites at short range.

Inital effects are a light shock as the electronic charge of the droplets grounds

out into the item sprayed. the effect is minor if sprayed onto an "innocent" target,

ie one that has no tourmaline or piezo crystals on its person.

 

The shock effect increases exponentially the more augments the cyborg has,

or the larger the brain unit of a bot.

 

Secondary effect is the contamination and penetration of the cyborg by the nanites.

they seek and find all such circuits and bond to them. Effects include degradation

of any augments, feedback and malfunction of augments. within 24-72 hours all augments will cease functioning on the cyborg, sometimes dramatically. If the cyborg has life-enhancing augments, such as artificial heart, they will die.

 

Secondary effects on Bot units is similar, but pointedly different.

they suffer brain damage as their organic cerebral activities shut down slowly.

Piezo-neural circuits must be replaced, they cannot be repaired, for the damage

comes at a molecular level.

 

Again, after that war, technologies changed or were outlawed, and the weapon,

while still vicious today, has few targets to properly effect, as cyborg and bots

use much more sophisticate materials nowadays. Needless to say the ammo was

prohibitively expensive.

 

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next item:

Railgun of Alexandria

[lensman]

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Railgun of Alexandria

 

Welcome Citizen, you have chosen the topic Railgun of Alexandria.

 

Alexandria is a class four satellite in orbit around the gas giant Gutenberg located in the sixth orbit of Tau Script 324, a blue binary star system 2,497 light years from Terra Prime.

 

Railgun is a limited mass driver technology which utilizes an electromagnetic force called the Lorentz force to propel electrically conductive projectiles to speeds approaching 4500 m/s.

 

Railgun of Alexandria, a non Terran device named by colonists 87 standard Terran years ago. After a plague of cerebral cancers the Ministry of Recovery has declared the device an alien threat and quarantined the satellite.

 

Want to learn more?

 

Welcome Agent, you have selected Alien Technology, index: Insurrection

 

Railgun of Alexandria is a device of unknown Alien technology that weaponizes an unknown material and the unique gravetic properties of the satellite Alexandria as mass driver.

 

Colonists have used this weapon to destroy all terran naval vessels sent to pacify the Gutenberg colony.

 

Ministry of Sciences has reported that the satellite Alexandria rotates to fire at vehicles in space.

How this rotation is achieved is unknown.

Theory: Satellite crust moves independent of mantle and core of satellite.

Maximum distance for targeting has been eight AU.

 

Ministry of Information agents have constructed a disinformation campaign that the system is host to a plague of cerebral cancers which are generated by the Railgun of Alexandria device.

 

Next: the Qir’ koptic Rune

[Tech]

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You need a function? Conjunction, junction, what's your function?

 

Someone had to say it.

[Egyptoid]

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Conjunction Junction

 

On Earth-903, the ideas of independent car ownership never really surfaced, and the idea of super-highways linking cities were politically overwhelmed.

Henry Ford was killed in a trolley accident.

 

So the great rail lines connected major cities, and jitney companies went to the few places unreachable by rail. People in the country had buggies.

 

Even as technology advanced, unions and traditions kept rail the leader.

 

After WW2, when superheroes arose, many villains kept their HQs mobile, in disguised rail cars.

 

Conjunction Junction refers to a famous caper where Captain America arranged a great super-villain league to "finally get at the Avengers once and for all".

 

All the great rail-based villains gathered in Upstate New York to plot the downfall of the Avengers, and to dice for who got to take the Wasp hostage, ooh lala.

 

At the roundhouse in the switchyard near Hamptonburg NY came the fateful meeting. Captain America burst out of disguise and trashed the meeting, and Hulk tossed rail cars like Lincoln Logs, and Iron Man zapped those who fled on foot.

 

A memorial statue was erected on the spot to Iron Man, as Tony Stark financed the rebuilding of the railyard for the city that was grateful for the caught criminals, but would suffer from the junked junction.

 

Conjunction Junction moved into superhero parlance meaning any major fight on rails.

[freakboy6117]

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the Qir' Koptic rune or rather the symbol Qir in the koptic language (a variant of the Coptic language used fro black magical purposes) means fortress or barrier.

 

the rune is used to create a potent physical and mystical defense for the tunesmiths place of power.

 

when inscribed upon key points within the structure in a mixture of equal parts demon and virgins blood combined with the ashes of a murdered foe. it seals the building against mystical attack scrying and hardens it against physical assault.

 

to attach a building defended by the rune you must either find a location missed by the inscriber or gain entry by deception then destroy the runes so the building may nonce more be assaulted.

 

next the rolling stones

[freakboy6117]

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bump

[radioKAOS]

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The Rolling Stones

 

Sometimes referred to as a 'band of rocks' - the course of these 'stones which roll,' has been plotted across most of the Earth. Originally six in number, so the historians say, there are only four left. Their 'tour' started in what is now know as Britain, though they have travelled worldwide.

 

It seems that most people have seen these stones, though no one can be sure exactly how old they are, nor how long they have been traversing the globe. They are nearly six foot in height, though thin, and seem to be cracking in various places. Small pieces of the stones have broken off over the years, becomming collector's items and spawning the phrase "my papa was a rolling stone."

 

Next:

 

The Crystal Bands of Opus Prime

[Egyptoid]

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The Crystal Bands of Opus Prime

 

Four translucent bracers, they will size to any wearer.

They may go on any limbs and function fine, usually 2 arms, 2 legs.

 

To all testers, except an actual sorceror, the Bands appear to be a magic item.

They glow at the will of the wearer. They emit sonic tones to which the wearer is immune.

The sounds can vary all along the tonal spectrum, from simple humming, to sonar-frequencied pulses, to music, to devastating thundrous roars that can induce madness or unconsicous ness in those nearby.

 

The Bands were recovered from a renegade metahuman fighting Star-Soldier agents.

When the wearer had been incarcerated, the four bands came eventually from the evidence locker to the desk of Dr. Zim Krattel. He was assigned to classify their powers and functions for the Star League, so that their technology could be easily neutralized or duplicated.

 

They defied his analysis. Until he called in specialists from other disciplines.

Musicians verified the tonal analysis of the bands, and the usefulness of the bands

corresponds directly with the talent of the wearer for singing and voice.

 

Sanctioned sorcerors verified that the items tap into none of the commonly known psionic or magic channels of power. Their manner of work is unkown.

Whatever the tech, it has no moving parts and doesnt correspond to any cybernetic or nano-based science.

 

When Dr.Krattel returned the items and his analysis to the Committee, they shelved the bands, Now four years later, they are being worn by a niece of a committee member. She uses them as she sings in her community choir, simply to enhance the show.

 

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next up:

 

Technosalience

[jkwleisemann]

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Technosalience:

 

A special software package which actually makes it possible to get relevant searches when searching on Popular Search Engines on the internet. Currently held by PRIMUS, being withheld because it is clearly far, far too dangerous to allow into the hands of the public.

 

Next up (if that one's acceptable):

 

The Magelleanic Shroud

[Lord Zod]

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The Magelleanic Shroud

 

Ancient earth astronomers once called these the Magelleanic Clouds, believing them to be satellite galaxies to our own Milky Way.

 

In 3095 AD, the first human made space probes to visit the Magelleanic Shrouds discovered that they were not clusters of stars, but infact the largest holographic projections ever concieved, each one stretching many light years in diameter and producing emissions designed to duplicate the readings one would detect from actual satellite galaxies.

 

Scientists have speculated for decades over what ancient and technologically powerful alien civilization could have produced the machine which generates these holograms, and why, but the source of the projection has never been discovered

 

In 3124 AD, unmaned probes revealed that the holograms hide the dead bodies of two immense creatures, floating just outside of our galaxy. The term Magelleanic Shroud, coined by the press, has been used to refer to the projections ever since.

 

The origin of these creatures, their age, the cause of their deaths, and how they could have grown so large, and how they did so without being crushed by their own gravity, are all mysteries that we can only hope will be answered by future generations.

 

Next: The Iambic Fossil Scoop

[LREggers]

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The Magelleanic Shroud:

 

This unusual looking article resembles a cloak. The interior is essentially unremarkable, with the exception of a handful of pockets, of which are only suitable for: a pen or mechanical pencil, a junior sized legal note pad, a scientific calculator, a slide rule, and of all things, a sextant. The exterior is black in color, adorned in miniature with a map to anywhere in the entire galaxy. The articles in the interior pockets (when equipped) will allow the wearer to plot a course to any plant/star within the galaxy in which this article currently resides. Travel to said destination is optional.

 

Next up (if acceptable):

 

Talisman of the Arcturan Lake Wolf

[Egyptoid]

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Iambic Fossil Scoops were modified air-rams,

the kind normally used to skim fuel from gas-giants.

 

 

These emitted a harmonic sub-sonic tone that scared away

the few ephemeral life-forms that live in Gas-Giants,

and they're mostly found on very old ships.

nowadays most ship driver don't care about the flying life-forms.

 

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?? Talisman of the Arcturan Lake Wolf

[Blue Jogger]

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Talisman of the Arcturan Lake Wolf

 

After reaching puberty, there is a time known Katarack, where a young warrior learns to harness his rage to achieve seemingly magical effects.

 

Such is the Talisman of Arcturan Lake Wolf, the young warrior creates his talisman and the goes out to the lake. If he has properly made his taleman by the sacred rites, if his mind is properly disciplined, he finds himself able to walk on the lake as if it was solid ground.

 

However, if his attention wanders or the talisman was not constructed properly, the young warrior will fall into the lake, worse his weight amplified instead of decreased and drags him into the lake bottom.

 

If he succeeds, it may call upon the spirit of the Lake Wolf in times of need (whether combat or for wisdom) and the talisman will forever allow him to walk on water as long as he is not distracted.

 

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Next up: The Capricious Crystals

[Asperion]

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The Capricious Crystals

 

These are small crystals that resemble normal diamonds in every manner. However when the wearer is hit by any light-based attack, they will have a 25% chance to cause the attack to be redirected in some random direction. If the wearer is aware of both the effect and attack before the attack then with a successful EGO roll at -5 the attack can be redirected in some direction chosen by the wearer. If the wearer does not make the EGO roll there is a 20% possibility that the attack will be redirected onto the wearer.

 

Next: dynamic recombinator

[The Monster]

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Dynamic Recombinator

 

First recovered from an incredibly ancient starship wreck, several of these devices have been recovered from similar wrecks and abandoned colonies of the race that preceded the evolution of humanity. Fed sufficient power (about equivalent to that need to power a small city), it can affect a large mass - up to several metric tons - of variegated matter and fuse it into a single homogenous substance. This works on any material, and the resulting alloys/amalgams/composites can be quite interesting, sometimes demonstrating properties quite unlike any of the component substances. The resulting material is always stable, in that it will not separate into its components spontaneously (though some have been separated out by standard refining techniques), though on occasion the material is explosive, sometimes extremely so (the substance Novatite, used for large-scale, non-nuclear orbital bombardment by several galactic navies, is produced by a company which owns one other these devices, and which keeps the recipe very secret).

 

Next: Fenimore's Folly

[Egyptoid]

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Attempting to build the "perfect" super-base.

Renowned supra-techno architect Davien Fenimore

sought to make a building with tesseract enabled in-spaces.

Fenimore's Folly:

picture shows a "diagram" of interior rooms

the benefits were obvious.

1. building will be bigger on the inside than out.

2. in case of invasion, maze-like defenses can rapidly confuse the new comers.

3. everyone loves scientific buildings, and this would be the penultimate.

4. privacy and electronic security: observers in Room A cannot hear or sense anything from Room B.

 

Three workers were lost and presumed killed while building it.

Fenimore went bankrupt. The Super-Squad of Philadelphia could

not accept or use the building. Mysterious "Intrusions"came into the areas

at random times (common people called it haunted). Everyone's voices sounded identical when using the tesseract enabled intercom that allowed the rooms to communicate. Public areas began to shift locations and become super-secure even when there was no need. If two people wanted to go from Room C to Room D together, the second person might arrive 45 seconds later. 7 workers on the Project, Dr. Fenimore himself, and Silver Streak the Philly Speedster all spent time at Newbaum Sanitorium recovering from the effects the building had on their psyches.

 

The building still stands on 9th avenue in Philadelphia, but its blocked off, unowned, shuttered, and seems to be getting "worse" on the inside, the last time it got its tri-annual inspection by the city codes superintendent.

 

 

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JVX Force Rods

[wagnern]

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JVX Force Rods

 

Or as Dr Quintisental's friends and the rest of the world call em, "crowbars". For some odd reason Dr Quintinsental insist on naming all of his inventions with impressive names, such as the Mark III Civic Piece Officer Hydration unit. Everyone eles calls it a Canteen, but If you are on patroll with Dr Quintisental, and you get thursty, you had better ask for the Mark III CPOHU.

 

Dont' even ask what he calls the Team's Transport.

 

Next Device: Entropy Inverter

[Asperion]

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The entropy inverter has been around seemingly since the dawn of time. While every culture has had its name for it, they will all agree that it will cause some random thing. One time it will do some minor thing like an effect similar to shooting a firearm to something as impressive as a weather change. There is even one story from ancient times that it actually caused an entire planet to disappear. What will happen at the time that it gets used (if the wielder(?) knows that he was to or not) something will happen. It is even possible that one does not realize that he even possesses an entropy inverter.

 

 

For the entertainment of all: the Dyson!

[David Johnston]

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The Dyson is a space station which, when placed in close orbit around a sun and activated generates an energy absorbing force field which surrounds the entire solar system in question, concealing it from visual detection, and providing energy to anyone who has the right kind of recieving dish and sends their coordinates to the Dyson. The shield itself can fire gigantic devastating beams of energy, capable of hitting other nearby solar systems with nova-like impact years later.

 

Next: The Bitter Glass

[freakboy6117]

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the bitter glass

the year was 1907 and in a bar in hong Kong a young shaolin monk was searching for a wayward friend.

 

on netering the bar, he blundered into a British sailor spilling his pint and battle was joined. the young shaolin was sure of his own prowess but the sailor was amazingly skilled in the dirtiest combat style the shaolin had ever experienced.

 

after 20 minutes of all out combat the two fighters lay beaten and bloody side by side and decided to resolve there dispute after several hours of drinking. the topic turned to how the sailor had become so accomplished in the fighting arts the sailors reply startled the young monk he told of a legendary bar brawler the undisputed master of the art.

and then adn there shaolin decided he would journey to the distant land of Northallerton and learn at this great masters feet. he arranged to work his passage on a merchant man, and after months of hard and dangerous work he arrived in england and made his way inland. he jouneyed to the place the sailor had spoken of teh legendary "the Rose and Crown" and there at the bar a pint of bitter in his hand stood the man he young monk sought.

 

he approached and humbly requested that the great master teach him how to fight before he could react the man at the bar span around and smashed him in the face with a heavy pint glass of bitter slashing the shoalins face.

 

the other patrons dragged the monk away and the barmaid tended to his wounds warning him not to mess with the brawler that he had never lost a bar fight.

 

the shaolin left but returned the next night and the next.

every night he would be soundly trashed by the man at the bar but every night he would learn more and teh fight woudl last longer until finally after months of beatings they fought for over and hour battling to a draw and the man invited the young monk to sit with him and have a pint.

 

that night the monk beaten and bloody as he was drank his first pint of the pubs fine bitterand finally understood his masters art.

 

he stayed for a while longer learning the secrets of the pubs ale and recording the words of the master before sailing back to china where he established his own temple.

deep in the temple of teh crownedrose

where only the finest students may go is a loving recreation of the "rose and crown" where the monks serve the monasteries own ale and with pride of place above the bar sits the broken bitter glass that first struck the temples founder.

it is said in the hands of the true master of the art the glass will become the most deadly weapon on earth.

 

the key of grobach

[Kevin Schultz]

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The Key of Grobach is a reference to a style of non-eucledian music used by Deep One cults to summon their moist lords to the surface. Anyone hearing a song written in the Key of Grobach must make an EGO roll or loose 1d3 SAN points, and be made permanently tone deaf.

 

Next: The Bridge Under Troubled Waters

[The Monster]

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The Bridge Under Troubled Waters is not a device per se but a magical ritual, inscribed in runes of gold upon tablets of obsidian. This complex ritual, devised in the deeps of time by early Atlantean sages, enchants wood so that when assembled into a bridge it forces any water nearby to flow overhead, with enough clearance for a fully laden war elephant to cross untouched; in effect it creates a tunnel under the water.

 

The Bridge requires both mystical knowledge and precise carpentry skills to perform, as well as a constant source of mana energy while in place. The ritual is not limited by depth or length; it will work equally well to cross a stream or an ocean. If the energy source is maintained, the bridge can even be disassembled at the rear and added to the front, theoretically allowing an infinite distance of water to be crossed with a limited amount of wood.

 

The real limitation is that the amount of energy required depends on the depth of the water; while a normal human can provide enough energy to cross a stream or a small river, a large river requires a small team of sorcerers, and to tunnel under an ocean takes much more - such feats can only be accomplished by large groups of powerful magi, perhaps even human sacrifice.

 

Some speculate that this is how the city of Atlantis was founded, and the city was destroyed when the energy required to keep it protected from the sea failed, collapsing the Bridge ritual which had held the waters out for centuries.

 

The Bridge Under Troubled Waters is far too complex to be memorized by any normal human mind.

 

 

 

Next: Ultimate Snake Oil

[Basil]

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Next: Ultimate Snake Oil

"Ultimate Snake Oil" is properly known as Fentrad's Lotion Of Appeal. When applied to an object, that object becomes more appealing to anyone who sees the object (except the person who applied the Lotion).

 

Further, if the person who applied the Lotion cross his left index and middle fingers, and points with his right index finger at an individual, that person will immediately wish to acquire, by legal means, the object; he will pay up to thrice its real value, perform minor services, barter disadventageously, etc. He will not steal it, trade for illegal services, etc., nor will he pay/barter stupidly.

 

The gestures above mentioned can be accompanied by others, thus disguising their nature, and the left hand can be hidden.

 

The one object it cannot be applied to is the applier himself.

 

 

 

 

 

 

Next: Banding by the Star/

[Sundog]

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"Banding by the Star" is the name given to the unique golden carbuncle found by miners in central Germany in 1937. At the time, the faint, grey bands of darker material within the stone appeared to form a Swastika, and the highly patriotic miners gave it as a gift to their Fuhrer, Adolf Hitler.

 

The stone was kept in Hitler's private vault. Rumour has it that the stone glowed brightly twice - when Hitler left to tour bomb sites in 1942, and again when he left to meet with his generals in 1944, and was almost killed by the Generals' Plot.

 

After Hitler's death, the stone was seized by US servicemen, and for a time resided in the Smithsonian Institute. Oddly, the shadowy bands now formed a five-pointed star. It glowed once in this period - for the entire period when President John Kennedy was in Dallas prior to his assassination.

 

The gem's current wherabouts is unknown; it was stolen by agents of the East German government upon it's return to West Germany in 1970. The bands had changed to a simple three-stripes configuration with the handover, but what configuration they now hold is as much a mystery as to where the gem went.

 

The Tri-Hierophant Rods

[Basil]

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The Tri-Hierophant Rods

Many believe the Dalai Lama was (or is or should be, depending on your POV) the absolute head and ruler of Tibet. The more knowledgable will point to the Tashai Lama as being as, or nearly as, important.

 

Those with true knowledge, though, will name the hidden Gyochendo Lama, the "ruler behind the rulers" as it were. This individual, in secret, gave (and may still give) commands to both the Dalai and Tashai Lamas, thus running Tibet from the shadows.

 

The Dalai, Tashai, and Gyochendo Lamas communicate by thought, each using a wand or rod attuned to himself. These wands are the hidden, un-spoken-of method of verifying into which child the various Lamas have been reincarnated. The Tibetan lamaists have their own, seldom revealed, names for these wands, but Western mystics know them as The Tri-Hierophant Rods.

 

 

 

Next: The Supple, Pale Lionéss