Vulcan's Forge (Q Division) Catalog

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Etherite Contributions:

Paradox Risk Standards:

• None: Device is completely compatible with mundane scientific theories.
• Minimal: Is unknown to cause Paradox, but has very slight chance of suffering from in depth mundane analysis.
• Low: Is unknown to cause Paradox, but may not mesh with sleeper theories and thus is at risk if examined by mundane scientists.
• Moderate: Uses very experimental theories. Is not a danger to the user due to passive nature, but would not survive mundane examination and may deteriorate faster in highly Technocratic environment.
• High: Device is as experimental as the previous category, but the device's active effects make it more obviously unusual. May deteriorate rather quickly if used in skeptical surroundings.
• Extreme: Device has strong chance of exploding in unsympathetic environments.

Requisitions Cost Standards: Generally most one use items will cost from 10 to 50 percent of a point in the Requisitions background. More broadly effective, longer-lasting, or otherwise expensive to make items cost more.

Backorder Time Standards: These assume an average level of work time for Vulcan's Forge. Items may arrive faster or slower depending on the amount of extra work the cabal has on order and how many individuals are available to work on the item.

Modular Skintight Bodysuit ("Technomantic Longjohns")

Paradox Risk: Minimal
Requisitions Cost: Provided to all chantry members at no cost. Worth 3 for "Consecration" and "Enchant Item" effects.
Backorder Time: One day minimum

• Custom fitted polymer bodysuit
• Designed and colored to blend with typical method of dress
• Allows full mobility and "breathes" well
• Includes microfibres and weave to easily integrate modular upgrades (below)
• The base suit contains "hard points" which can attach to small equipment for easy concealment beneath bulkier clothing
• All MSBs undergo adaptive Prime infusion, "Consecration" and "Enchant Item," customized to the pattern of the owner, allowing the suit to transform physically and dimensionally with the owner, as well as providing resistance to damage from an extra-dimensional source. To mitigate the risk of use as a weapon with Correspondence proceedures, the suit is designed to rapidly deteriorate when away from the owner and not kept in a specially designed container.
• Provides 3d armor soak against Spiritual damage, as per the Prime 2 proceedure

MSB Armor Plating Inserts ("Bulletproof Shorts")

Paradox Risk: Minimal
Requisitions Cost: 0.5, 1.0, or 1.5 for stable plating. 0.1, 0.2, or 0.3 for plating that deteriorates by one level after every combat in which significant damage (4+ points) was soaked by the armor.
Backorder Time: 1-3 days

• Kevlar and steel-alloy plates are worked into the weave of MSB, resting on the "Hardpoints"
• Allows freedom of movement. Plates are re-colored to match MSB.
• Plates are typically infused with Prime, providing equal protection to spiritual damage sources just like the basic MSB
• 1d armor no modifier to appearance
• 2d armor w/slight bulkiness
• 3d armor w/-1 penalty and obvious

MSB Energy Dispersal Unit ("Scotch Guard")

Paradox Risk: Low
Requisitions Cost: 0.2 to 1.0 for heavy-dispersal modification, 0.1 to 0.5 for fuses, and 0.1 to 0.5 per battery
Backorder Time: Up to a week for MSB modification, 1 day per fuse, 2-10 hours per battery

• Laces MSB with fine wiring
• Fuses integrate into outfit, automatically soaks 1-5 levels of electrical damage per attack until fuses burn out (can absorb 1-25 damage)
• With heavy-dispersal modification, 1-5 levels of electrical damage are turned from Lethal to Bashing (of the remainder that makes it through the fuses)
• MSBs integrated with the EDU can have batteries included in order to power other devices by plugging into the "hard points" on the MSB. These batteries may be partially recharged if the EDU absorbs electrical damage while still having functional fuses.

MSB Environmental Control System ("Thermal Underwear")

Paradox Risk: Low
Requisitions Cost: 0.1 to 0.5
Backorder Time: Up to a week

• Allows wearer to function in above or below average temperatures
• Cold-weather control raises by 10%-50% the effective difference between room temperature (70 degrees F) and actual temperature (30 degrees F feels like 34-50 degrees)
• Hot-weather control reduces by 10%-50% the effective difference between room temperature and actual temperature (120 degrees F feels like 115-95 degrees)

MSB Infrared Dampener ("Stealth Suit")

Paradox Risk: Moderate
Requisitions Cost: 0.2 to 1.0
Backorder Time: Up to two weeks

• Modification of ECS and EDU
• Requires use of additional gloves/head covering for full effect
• Disperses emitted body heat, reducing clarity to IR by 15%-75%
• Especially effective when combined with meditation or Life proceedures to reduce metabolism

Consciousness Disrupting Pulse Emitter ("Phaser")

Paradox Risk: High
Requisitions Cost: 0.3 to 1.5 for CDPE, 0.1 to 0.5 per battery, +0.1 to integrate to MSB (+cost of EDU)
Backorder Time: Up to a week for CDPE, one day to integrate into MSB (plus time for EDU integration, if applicable), 2-10 hours per battery

• Fires non-lethal electrical pulse which disrupts biological or computerized systems
• Works like Bashing-dealing firearm, save that any damage not soaked translates to turns of immobility; if unsoaked damage exceeds Stamina, subject must spend a WP to remain conscious.
• Weapon deals 1-5 base damage plus attack successes.
• Each battery contains enough power for 1-5 shots.
• Normally works as a hard to conceal firearm. However, with MSB-EDU, device can be integrated into a forearm-based unit that draws power from EDU batteries, becoming far more concealable, hard to disarm, and able to be fired as a blast or delivered with a punch.

Detection Wavelength Jammer ("Closed Circuit Crasher")

Paradox Risk: Moderate
Requisitions Cost: 0.2 to 1.0, 0.1 to 0.5 per battery
Backorder Time: Up to two weeks for DWJ, 2-10 hours per battery

• Emits EMP and Static that jams local radio and closed circuit communication
• Disrupts mundane Cell Phone use, radio use, closed circuit cameras, video cameras, digital cameras, radio-wave bugs, and motion sensors
• Works in a radius of 2-10 yards
• Can be specially configured to exempt particular channels or communication devices
• Can be specially configured to include Technocracy equipment with a sample
• Each battery powers the device for 1-5 minutes

Electrostatic Conversation Protector ("Cone of Silence")

Paradox Risk: High
Requisitions Cost: 0.1 to 0.5
Backorder Time: Up to a week

• Emits Ur-tongue ("Enochian") modulated white noise in 3' radius
• Verbal conversation within the area of noise is perfectly understandable, but is broken down as it leaves the "bubble." Very close listeners will hear garbled words and those further away will only hear meaningless, undecipherable noise.
• Uses DWJ technology to jam all radio frequency emissions within a 5' radius, in order to account for technological spying. Includes Ur-tongue specific counterwaves that will also distort those using mystical or psychic sensing via Correspondence-related effects.
• Users are reminded that visual recognition is not impaired, so other precautions should be taken against lip-readers
• Burns out after 1-5 minutes of use

Small Yield Explosives ("Penbombs")

Paradox Risk: Moderate
Requisitions Cost: 0.1 to 0.5
Backorder Time: 2-10 hours per explosive, up to one day extra depending on complexity of custom packing

• Custom Packed C-4 variant explosive weighing roughly 1/2 oz
• Can be compressed into a wide variety of small objects
• Explodes on timed or remote detonation
• Makes a loud noise, perfect for distraction or diversion
• Deals damage in a one foot radius, leaving nearby objects only slightly shaken
• Does 1 to 5 dice of lethal damage to everything in the radius, multiplied by two or three if held or carefully placed so bomb's energy has nowhere else to escape.

City-Range Tracking Device ("Micro Bugs")

Paradox Risk: Moderate
Requisitions Cost: 0.1 to 0.5
Backorder Time: 2-10 hours

• Fingernail sized microchip
• On activation begins emitting a Correspondence-proceedure pulse that can be detected anywhere in London
• Lasts for 1-5 hours after activation

Hermetic Contributions

Paradox Risk: All Hermetic items are prone to disbelief if used under heavy sleeper observation, but should typically work in most situations. Vulgar charms may backlash with witnesses, and may begin to build Paradox on the user if several are used in a short period. Sleepers examining the charm will generally have no effect unless it is seen in action.

Backorder Time: All Hermetic charms tend to take around one day per point of requisition cost. As usual, this time may increase or decrease based on the circumstances.

Halt Vulcan's Arrow (Bullet Charm)

Requisitions Cost: 0.1 to 0.5

• This charm, typically an amulet, will attract and attempt to deflect the next bullet that hits the wearer. It provides 1 to 5 extra automatic armor soak against one bullet that hits the character (applied after special maneuvers or dodges, but before any other armor or special abilities that allow lethal soak).

Borrow Mercury's Cloak (Stealth Charm)

Requisitions Cost: 0.1 to 0.5

• This charm, typically a cowl, cape, or hooded sweatshirt increases the wearer's ability to be stealthy. The character gains 1 to 5 extra dice on any stealth roll made when wearing the cloak. The magic only works once, and the object has no powers the second time it is put on.

Doorway of Janus (Door Charm)

Requisitions Cost: 0.1 to 0.5

• This charm, typically a small icon of a door, allows temporary passage through a solid obstacle of up to three feet in thickness. The portal stays open for 1-5 passings or 1-5 minutes, whichever is shorter. Using the charm will blow through 1-5 levels of Correspondence warding, and may have passages left over should the ward successes have been less than the charm level. The effect produces a slightly hazy look to the barrier through which subjects may pass, but does not open an obvious doorway. If placed on an already extant doorway, it will just cause the doorway to become unlocked and/or unstuck (even a high-tech lock will be disabled for the duration of the effect).

Curse of Vulcan (Destruction Charm)

Requisitions Cost: 0.1

• This charm takes the form of a dark black paste sealed in a rune-etched vial. When exposed to air and applied to anything inanimate made of stone, non-precious metal, or wood the paste begins to bubble and sink into the object. This process non-visibly damages the quality of the item, making it far more prone to break under strain. Typically the subject becomes twice as likely to break with each application, making it half as resistant to harm. One vial can suffuse about five cubic feet of wood, two cubic feet of stone, or a cubic half-foot of metal. For comparison, count each vial as applying one success of Matter manipulation to the target.

Charon's Silver Dollars (Forget Charm)

Requisitions Cost: 0.1 per coin

• These charms, typically pound coins, have the phrase "In exchange for memories bartered" finely inscribed in Enochian around the rim. Any individual accepting the coins (by physically taking them) as a "gift" loses one minute of memory, working backwards from the present, for each coin accepted. If accepted freely (though not necessarily with knowledge of the charm), the effect cannot be resisted by anything short of direct countermagick. Should the coins be forcibly given to the target or deposited by stealth the target gets a Willpower roll as normal to resist a Mind effect, with each coin counting as a success. In either case, the magick only works once and the words disappear on use, leaving behind an ordinary coin. If intended for use by other mages, the coins are typically coated in special wax around the rim, which must be scratched off before use (the coin counts the person removing the wax as its first "owner").
• There are rumours that at least one of these coins was mutated by Paradox and has no expiration date on its effect. They say that it is in circulation in London causing no end of minor chaos as it changes from hand to hand.

Divine Incense (Spirit Sight Charm)

Requisitions Cost: 0.1 to 0.5

• This charm, typically incense sticks or cones, is permeated with spiritual essences. There are multiple kinds of the charm, depending on which type of Umbra is to be viewed. The smoke of the incense clings to spirits through the gauntlet, allowing those in the area with Awareness to merely roll Perception+Awareness (difficulty of the Gauntlet) to make out the spirits so affected. This lasts for 5 to 25 minutes, and typically takes about 10 minutes to properly suffuse the area before the time begins.

Bolt of Jove (Lightning Charm)

Requisitions Cost: 0.3 to 0.5

• This charm, typically a small aerodynamic object scribed with runes and lightning designs, explodes in an electric surge when it hits a target. Treat this as a Forces 3/Prime 2 generation of electricity with 1-3 successes applied to damage which affects the target of the thrown object (throwing successes do not add to damage). This is vulgar as all hell, and inflicts 1-3 paradox on the user (+1 for witnesses).