Still, you can trade in the artifact and then what? What happens to your heritage ability to morph? And how can you be born with that ability when you need to buy it first?

The fact that only you can use your cameo seems more like the balancing issue. If anyone could use it, reincarnation would be pointless. You'd only need someone from your city (or even not, especially if you'd be willing to pay some gold) to give it to you for a second, because change is permanent.

I think that's a "suspension of disbelief" issue, kinda like how you're meant to believe it's possible for people to die even though people consistently...get saved by the Fates. You know.

Well, my character is not an idiot and can figure out that people never really die.

Ialie wasn't born a changeling.

Her cameo... is different. It was cursed.. and stuff happened.


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I was speaking on a more OOC note. I'm well aware the helpfile says you are a changeling, period. And it's not a "50% chance". It's a genetics thing. In theory, a pure-blood changeling's children will either all be changelings, or will only have a chance of being a changeling - or may not have a chance at all, 'pending on the mate.

And, changelings aren't born with this innate knowledge of all things linguistic - if the Faelings suddenly started speaking Fae, would it make sense for a Changeling to suddenly learn Fae? Of course not.

Ethereal Quill:
a thin quill of finest crystal, glowing with a faint golden halo.

you wield an ethereal quill.
The Ethereal quill flares with golden light in your hand.

with the addition of the need for desks for writing I thought that
a new artifact would be a device that by passes this (who didn't see that coming)
would need to be wielded and, health and mana and all that has to be full as usual.

Couple of ideas

WILD SCEPTER (Chaos, Vortex, whatever).

Point Scepter at somebody to have a random damage/affliction.
Rub Scepter to gain a random benefit/affliction.

The kicker:

* You never know what its gonna do, you can't control it.
* Randomized, can do really powerful stuff rarely, maybe even a thunderclap.
* Drawbacks--maybe anywhere from a 15%-25% chance of doing something negative--either defending/curing an adversary, or hurting yourself and/or friends.
* Chance of some harmless effects, illusions, etc. Or chance of some total chaotic thing happening. Anything minor like fish falling from the sky, to decaying all non-decayable things in the room, to a thunderclap affecting everybody including the wielder or turning everybody into frogs, or summoning 3 stainless steel goats.

ETHEREAL HURRICANE:

* Throw this on the Ethereal Plane, knocks everybody back to prime, random locations.
* Throw this on Prime, pulls everybody to ethereal, random locations.
* If random teleport is too powerful--puts the entire crew into one area, but knocks everybody into the sky.

PLANAR ROOT SCEPTRE

* Point at victim, victim can't teleport, summon, tesseract, transverse, or use artifacts like a cubix or prisim for a few minutes. This will also prevent others from using the ability on the victim. Affects everything except divine portals and other divine teleportation.

QUIET PLEASE SIGN (for lack of a better term).

Prevents anybody from Yelling or Shouting in a room.

THE GREEN MAN'S BAG

* Causes a gas to enter the room.
* Gas makes everybody suffer from alcohol intoxication, including wielder.
* Short-term, but is fun for combat purposes.

THE EVERFULL MUG

* Bottomless mug of special alcohol.
* Even one sip makes you moderately drunk as well as knocks you prone.

POLYMORPHIC PHYLACTERY

* Aim an another person, turns them to a random race for 5 minutes. Will only work once on an individual during that time.
* Great to negate racial abilities.

THE THEIVING PURSE

* User gets something from the purse.
* Purse teleports a random object from somewhere. It can be an herb on the ground, an object in somebody's pack, rift, or something else from somewhere.
* Will not take gold, quest items, or artifacts. Can't take anything being worn or wielded. Anything else is up for grabs.
* Can only take 1 of a group.
* User can request something, and has a random chance of getting it based on value.
* User can put something into the purse, and it gets teleported into a random pack, bag, or something else.

APPORT BAGS

* Can LINK to another user's bag.
* User can SEND something into the bag, no matter where they are in the cosmos. The object is teleported to the other user's bag.
* Good for getting badly needed cures, gold, or something critical.

That one's probably the only viable one, but it's a pretty awesome idea.

WALLET. 50cr.

Can only put gold coins in there. Only an owner can put or get it, which means that gold will never be stolen if it's in there.

ORDER KASHIM GET 10000 GOLD FROM WALLET
ORDER KASHIM GIVE 10000 GOLD TO SYLPHAS

This is just like keeping your gold in a flamed pack.

*snap
I knew I forgot something...

Make it so you can put gold into it off balance/equilibrium? Just can't do it while stunned... so if stunned/blackout, you might still lose gold, but otherwise you can be relatively safe. And it doesn't take anything EXCEPT gold, so this offbalance trick only works for that.

Of course, it may cost more than 50 credits with that. And take a bit of extra coding.

Or make it have a password you have to give when you get something from it. Of course, if changing the password is easy, this just adds a third step to the ORDER commands needed, but that does buy some time.

Or make it so you can't be forced to get gold from it?

That'd cost a lot more credits. Generally everything has a way to counter it (and the few and notable exceptions, like demesne summons, are an endless source of complaints). It's just about making it harder.

Hm. Well, you could store the wallet in your pack and add an extra step in the robbing.

EDIT: Flamed pack of course.

Can we make The arti scepters some kind of necklace or something. If you wield them you can't use a shield and you just look silly wearing a scepter.

Yeah, that is stupid. And unless I heard wrong, you can't even pay another 50 credits to get them customized into a necklace or something, because that's changing the noun. Who wears a sceptre?

Meee.

Your honor, the prosecution rests.