Paradox Field Nullifier

By Ma1kavian@aol.com

Level 4 or 5 Talisman (5 is the portable version)

Arete

5

Quintessence

20

Description

Son of Ether Alan Primo, Master of Prime, found much of his Science difficult because many of his experiments proved highly Vulger. After coming out of his third Quiet, he finally learned his lesson. To not use as much Vulger Magick? No. As he was stumbling through the streets of Seattle when in Quiet, he concocted the idea of a Paradox Nullifier. Setting to work immediately after his recovery, he produced two versions of the Talisman: one large and clunky, but affecting a greater radius, one distinctly portable but only affecting one person. Introducing his finds to his collegues, he was granted trmemendous honor and respect. However, after a while, it was found that the Professor almost never left his room. He stayed in the lab with the Nullifier twenty-four hours a day. He resisted all attempts to get him to leave the room, eventually fighting back with ray in hand. When he was finally forced out, he exploded in a horrific explosion, and a distinct raise in the Gauntlet and in Paradox was noticed for years on end. Needless to say, the Paradox Nullifier has been subjected to extreme study, though nobody can actually figure out what exactly happened.

In game terms, the Paradox Field Nullifier allows a Mage to blatantly ignore Paradox and the effects of such. However, there comes a great price: Freedom (or if your using the portable version, looking incredibally silly allthe time). The Talisman absorbs one point of Paradox per scene (the effects are cumulative, if you have it off for five scenes, you can absorb five points). Any more points that scene need a points of Quintessence for a one-for-one basis (this applies to the portable version only). There is a catch: If the Mage ever leaves the presence of the Big version, or takes off the portable, she receives twice the amount of paradox the nullifier absorbed, and an additional three points for every day in its presence.

The big version is a 10 foot tall metal tower-like thing that has successively larger and larger metal balls on it. Like a giant ice cream cone without ice cream. When active, it gives off an eery green light from the top ball.

The portable version is a big hat. It has a minature pyramid on it that, when active, proudly displays "Loser," "Geek," "Nerd," and "Hey Technocracey Idiots!!!!!" The inventor made these fetures to avoid theft (how he managed to live with it is unknown). When seen with it on, it lowers all detection difficulties by -2 when targeting the Mage, and adds +2 to all difficulties to all social rolls.