The Archeotech Power Cell
Long drained of power but still treated with reverence, as the skull offering left beneath it testify.
The Beacon
The blue-white lamp on the top occasionally flickers into life, but no-one knows why.
The Voxcaster Skulls
Only static is ever emitted by this pair of ancient broadcast units.
The Generator
Amazingly this generator can still produce power but it is unreliable at best. Nevertheless it is worshiped as a prized relic anyway.
The Beamer
Inert but treated with reverence and awe as a potent symbol of the death and destruction it could once deal out.
The Promethium Cache
Four barrels of the holy black gold.
The Totem
None know the origin of the great beast that once bore this might skull but the console it stands on sometimes flickers into life and the great skull appears to glow from within when it does!
The Tor Megiddo Tarot
I made these cards purely for the atmosphere that having them on the edge of the game table would add (the original Helsinki event had a deck of turn-priority cards and the Rhossum Secundus game had special ability cards - both of those decks were made in a similar style). But since then I had the idea of painting the tarot runes on to objective markers so one or more cards could be drawn to choose what the "active" objective is in a game, either before play starts for a direct clash, or at the end of the game to create more of a "mystery treasure hunt" vibe.
I like the little story to go with each one. The cards and the tarot markings tying them together is a great idea, too.
ReplyDeleteThanks! I was a bit aware that they are just "piles of junk" but I wanted to get a little of the feel of the setting across with them, so a bit of simple flavour text was needed! Viktor suggested we plaster everything technological with tarot runes as a way of graphically showing the lack of understanding of how it works.
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