After some experimentation which used up a few more crystals, Maury and Martan managed to figure out what the psi crystals were for and how they worked. Basically, they are cases of psi-recorder crystals. (3 cases, 12 each).
Tech Level: Maury's best guess is that they are the same sort of tech as the Decider amulets. But they seems to be not so well made.
How they work: If someone uses a psi power while holding the crystal, an imprint of that power (dice, schtick, flaw, talent), is made in the crystal. Each crystal is one use, write only. The imprint can be read out psionically, with an appropriate schtick, or electronically, with a psi-engineering device. (This is what Maury did.)
Uses: They would be very useful for archiving or teaching known talents, or analyzing workings of talents, which is what they were doing at the site, essentially analyzing differences between psi powers used with and without the bowl.
There are 36 of them. 27 30
31 32 are currently filled. Below is what's on them.
(Talents used in the bowl seem cause the associated shtick to gaim the
flaw "Focused" and have their dice go off the charts. No idea what the
top of the charts is.) The first one on the list has been destroyed.
Dice | Schtick | Flaw | Talent |
---|---|---|---|
Maury | |||
4 | Teleport | Sink | Blink This crystal destroyed in failed sonics experiment |
4 | Teleport | Sink | Stuff to me! |
Martan | |||
8 | TK | Health Burn | Fly Small Object |
Max | |||
5 | Finding Things | Occ Misleading | Find Object |
NaN | Finding Things | Focused/Occ Misleading | Find Object |
NaN | Fitting In | Focused/Occ Misleading | Vanish |
Eon & Ella - the shield generators from the Elmer's Gold | |||
10 | GatherShield | No Range | Shield Group |
NaN | GatherShield | HyperFocused/NoRange | Shield Group |
Ryan Waites | |||
3 | BodyControl | Hunger | Raise Health |
NaN | BodyControl | Focused/Hunger | Raise Health |
NaN | BodyControl | Focused/Hunger | Immortality |
Dr. Crighton - Dr Kye's rival | |||
10 | CorpseDelve | None | Locate Corpse |
NaN | CorpseDelve | Focused | Locate Corpse |
NaN | CorpseDelve | Focused | Know Death |
NaN | CorpseDelve | Focused | Identify Corpse |
NaN | CorpseDelve | Focused | Death Tale |
NaN | CorpseDelve | Focused | Find Corpse Possessions |
Dr. Trine - the Memento Mori experimenter on the project | |||
8 | MindScan | No Range | Sense Motive |
NaN | MindScan | Focused/No Range | Sense Motive |
NaN | MindScan | Focused/No Range | Sense Secrets |
NaN | MindScan | Focused/No Range | Enlightenment |
Enrico Santiago | |||
4 | Pyrogenesis | Pain | Create Flame |
4 | Pyrogenesis | Pain | Heat Water |
NaN | Pyrogenesis | Focused/Pain | Heat Water |
Darlene Caruso - young girl | |||
4 | Sight | Visual | Significance |
NaN | Sight | Focused/Visual | Significance |
NaN | Sight | Focused/Visual | Sense Connections |
Used by us in research project | |||
Katya/Kith gathering experiment | |||
Katya fortune experiment | |||
Katya two talent experiment gathering experiment | |||
Sophia TK experiment | |||
Maury fortune experiment | |||
Katya power projection experiment | |||
Katya project/sheild experiment | |||
Katya second power projection experiment Imprinted to Katya, then later destroyed | |||
One blank crystal left! |
Looking at their notes: The timing is such that you think it came to their attention very quickly after the bowl got turned on. They were really sincerely trying to figure out what was up with it, for standard profit motives.