Post by Disparagingtheboot on Aug 13, 2016 19:12:50 GMT -5
Since I recently made a thread for "weird science" focused organizations that could be used in a game, I figured I'd start one for the end products of weird science- gadgets and technomagic and so on.
The first one's quite simple- a generator that runs on blood. It doesn't even have to be human. You just fill it up with blood, it gives you electricity. Simple. Problem is, it doesn't really work that well. It's not efficient, it's a pain to keep the blood fresh, and there's no real reason to use it over a regular generator. It would have been forgotten, had it not turned out that while normal blood doesn't do much in it, blood that's been absorbed by a vampire and processed into Vitae does. With Vitae in the tank, the device works far better than a normal generator. Oh, and the news is some Ordo Dracul scientist got her hands on one, and somehow managed to implant the thing in her body with a new Scale of the Dragon. So there's a vampire running around who can power stuff with her blood. And zap people. Dragons, man.
Updates or tweaks to existing canon gadgets, such as the Rizetti Apparatus or the Fear-Powered Cellphone, are also fine.
Professor Borges' Illicit Apparatus: It looks sort of like a bulky brass typewriter turned upside down, except all the keys have symbols on them that don't match anything in recorded history, and there's a large slot on top as well as on the bottom. The apparatus, when supplied with paper, ink, plastic, or anything else, makes counterfeits, but these tend to be of dubious value. For one thing, no one's figured out what the symbols mean, so using it consists of banging random keys and seeing what happens. Something always comes out, and it's always recognizable as some sort of ID, credit card, deed, or so on, but always corresponding to countries, banks, or other institutions that have never been known to exist, with the exception of the one time the machine produced a keycard for a room on a Disney cruise ship. It's unknown what limits the machine has- putting metals into the slot lets it make keys, and once, when it was loaded with a small amount of plastic wrap, it produced a plastic covering with the imprint of a fingerprint designed to fit over a finger, presumably to fool a fingerprint scanner. When examined under a microscope, the fingerprint contained the words "The Mountains Know", written in a medieval french dialect, hidden in one of the whorls.
The first one's quite simple- a generator that runs on blood. It doesn't even have to be human. You just fill it up with blood, it gives you electricity. Simple. Problem is, it doesn't really work that well. It's not efficient, it's a pain to keep the blood fresh, and there's no real reason to use it over a regular generator. It would have been forgotten, had it not turned out that while normal blood doesn't do much in it, blood that's been absorbed by a vampire and processed into Vitae does. With Vitae in the tank, the device works far better than a normal generator. Oh, and the news is some Ordo Dracul scientist got her hands on one, and somehow managed to implant the thing in her body with a new Scale of the Dragon. So there's a vampire running around who can power stuff with her blood. And zap people. Dragons, man.
Updates or tweaks to existing canon gadgets, such as the Rizetti Apparatus or the Fear-Powered Cellphone, are also fine.
Professor Borges' Illicit Apparatus: It looks sort of like a bulky brass typewriter turned upside down, except all the keys have symbols on them that don't match anything in recorded history, and there's a large slot on top as well as on the bottom. The apparatus, when supplied with paper, ink, plastic, or anything else, makes counterfeits, but these tend to be of dubious value. For one thing, no one's figured out what the symbols mean, so using it consists of banging random keys and seeing what happens. Something always comes out, and it's always recognizable as some sort of ID, credit card, deed, or so on, but always corresponding to countries, banks, or other institutions that have never been known to exist, with the exception of the one time the machine produced a keycard for a room on a Disney cruise ship. It's unknown what limits the machine has- putting metals into the slot lets it make keys, and once, when it was loaded with a small amount of plastic wrap, it produced a plastic covering with the imprint of a fingerprint designed to fit over a finger, presumably to fool a fingerprint scanner. When examined under a microscope, the fingerprint contained the words "The Mountains Know", written in a medieval french dialect, hidden in one of the whorls.