Item: Data Fungus; when applied to electronic devices, gradually causes the data and functionality to corrupt
Tag: technology
Item: Brunswick Lustre King Coin-Op Orb-Polisher, restores lost charges to orbs
Item: Emotion Chip; when inserted into a Construct (including magical ones), it gives them the emotions of a standard humanoid race. No more cold robot logic for you, bucko
Item: Throne of the UberHaxxor, allowing ludicrous typing (and thus hacking) speed by allowing the sitter to type simultaneously with their entire body. For this reason, it is coveted by hackers of all hat colors, and the owner is likely to be the subject of various dark-web hits trying to get it. It does have a side effect of tainting the user’s speech with leetspeak, eventually leaving them unable to communicate beyond a stream of letters, numbers, and punctuation with no verbal meaning.
Item: Wands of Piracy (set of 4); when tapped on a scroll, book, VHS tape, ZIP disk, or any other non-magical storage media, it copies all the information contained within it; once loaded with information, it may be tapped on blank media to fill it with that information. The media need not be the same format. A few possible uses
- Make copies of a scroll to distribute to a wider audience
- Art forgery
- Convert your dad’s old 8-tracks onto CDs
- Extract data from damaged storage media onto paper
- Transfer music into a book to get the sheet music
- Transfer the text of a book onto a CD to create an audiobook
Some transformations don’t work: copying video onto paper would create a list of every frame of the video, scaled to fit them all on the available media; taking a painting and putting it onto audio media just makes noise. (Of course, you could do this to disguise it for transportation, then move it back onto canvas once you’ve gotten where you’re going.)
Item: cordless phone that with magical reception that will work anywhere, but instead of a proper mouthpiece it instead has a mouldering foam-rubber mouth that tries to drink your saliva the whole time you’re using it
Item: smartphone whose virtual assistant is notorious US senator Joseph McCarthy
Item: some ancient data tapes
Item: Tome of Crafting (Laser, Phaser, Ion Ray Gun, and Other Working Space-Age Projects)
Item: Flintstones bird record player; when the bird’s beak is placed on a revolving record, the sound is played from its cloaca.
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