Courtesy of the Red Ledger, new and exciting blueprints were available as prizes in the Dead Man’s Hand Tournament.
The Dead Man’s Hand
Seasonal prints are blueprints where the blueprint will expire on the last day of the year listed on the print. These prints are then reviewed, adjusted, and new prints are added to the print database based on feedback and mechanic adjustment needs.
Required Crafting Area: Artisan Crafting Area
Item Type: Gizmo - Augment
Skill Tree to Use: LARCENY or Criminal Influence
Used With: Steelpaw Finger Mitts (Master)
Item Expiration: 3 Months
Details: Requires a Phys Rep
Visual Description: The most talented gamblers have developed elaborate tools to aid them in the art of cheating at the highest level. With a literal trick card up your sleeve, you can’t lose! This series of gadgets attached to your gloves can enable a talented gambler to rig a game of chance in their favor.
Skill to Craft: Basic Artisan or Criminal Influence
Mind: 15
Time: 30 minutes
Resources to Build: 1x Adhesive Glue, 1x Spur Gear System, 1x Basic Generic Motorized Item
basic Mechanics:
In order to use this item, spend 5 mind points to automatically win any game of chance. You must announce the call “CHEAT” and you are considered the winner of the round at the most base level. (In 21, you would beat the dealer, but not get a black jack) As far as onlookers are aware, of course, you’ve done nothing wrong. Each successive use of this item within the current 12s increases the Mind cost to use by 5 Mind Points, up to a maximum of 20 Mind points per use. (For example, the first cost is 5, the second 10, the third 15...)
In the event of multiple people attempting to use a CHEAT item during the same game, conduct a brief round of betting with each person “bidding” additional Mind points. (This is considered an OOG activity). The person that bids the most wins the game, though the Mind Points are spent. When bidding in a Cheat war, you may only raise and never match an opponent’s bid.
This gizmo’s use is countered by a character with Proficient Social Influence that has been observing the game for at least one minute, by spending 5 mind points to declare “Check Your Sleeves”. This does not reveal the character has been cheating. If a player with Proficient Social Influence and the VETERAN achievement has been observing the game for at least one minute, when they declare “Check Your Sleeves!” it reveals the character has been cheating.
Use of this item constitutes a CvC action when other characters are involved.
MASTER ACHIEVEMENT: Villon
Mechanic: A master of larceny is never unarmed. A character with this item may spend 1 Resolve and perfectly conceal a Melee Small, Firearm, or a Thrown weapon for 4 hours or until the next 12s, whichever is longer. This weapon is considered out of game and ignored until revealed. Neither the concealed weapon or the gloves can be stolen or looted without the consent of the owner of the Dead Man’s Hand until the next 12s. This must be written down on your character sheet for the effect to be in effect with a time of when it was used.
To Duplicate Print:
Skill: Basic Education or Criminal Influence
Resources: 2 Basic Herb
Mind: 5
Time: 20 Minutes
The Royal Flush
Seasonal prints are blueprints where the blueprint will expire on the last day of the year listed on the print. These prints are then reviewed, adjusted, and new prints are added to the print database based on feedback and mechanic adjustment needs.
Required Crafting Area: Artisan Crafting Area
Item Type: Gizmo - Firearm Augment
Skill Tree to Use: Projectile
Used With: Any Master-Tier Firearm
Item Expiration: 96 hours, or 4 days
Details: Requires a Phys Rep
Visual Description: The talented assassins of the Red Ledger are known to brandish lethal firearms that ensure that the job stays done. Nothing can escape a contract from a killer with this weapon.
Skill to Craft: Artisan AND Proficient Projectile
Mind: 20 Mind
Time: 20 Minutes
Resources to Build: 5 Rare Scrap, 1 Soft Metal, 2 Psionic Crystals, 1 Basic Generic Motorized Item
Basic Mechanics:
In addition to the normal use of this weapon, this gun can be brandished with a flourish and be used to complete a unique Coup De Gras on a target.
In order to use this item on another target currently in bleedout, the user spends 1 Resolve and calls “Killing Blow: Execute, Lose 1 Infection”. The target always loses an Infection even if they are later resurrected by a skill or item. This loss of infection supersedes or cancels any skill or effect that prevents Infection loss.
This item may not be used if Fractured.
MASTER ACHIEVEMENT: None
To Duplicate Print:
Skill: Proficient Education AND Lore: Mortis Amaranthine
Resources: 2 Basic Herb
Mind: 10
Time: 20 Minutes
Smoke and Mirrors Parlor
Seasonal prints are blueprints where the blueprint will expire on the last day of the year listed on the print. These prints are then reviewed, adjusted, and new prints are added to the print database based on feedback and mechanic adjustment needs.
Required Crafting Area: Artisan Crafting Area
Item Type: Room Augment (10x10)
Skill Tree to Use: Awareness or Social Influence
Used With: NA
Item Expiration: 6 Months
Details: Requires a Phys Rep. Cannot be moved once the game begins. Cannot be moved between game branches. Guide must approve decorations and space.
Visual Description: A hallmark of the finest establishments is a gambling table and equipment that ensures that cheating is kept to a minimum. The wastes are a dangerous place, and trust is hard to come by. The tables are perfect for games of chance like dice, cards, and other diversions.
Skill to Craft: Artisan
Mind: 30 Mind
Time: 20 Minutes
Resources to Build: 10 Basic Scrap, 5 Psionic Crystals, 5 High Grade Lumber, 2 Basic Generic Motorized Items.
Basic Mechanics:
Any characters participating in games of chance within the Gambling Parlor can spend 5 mind points and call “Check Your Sleeves!” to counter the use of CHEAT items, but are unaware of the attempted Cheating attempt. If a character possesses the Veteran achievement and counters the Cheat item as above, they are also aware the character attempted to cheat and can bring this to the attention of other characters if they choose. A card or explanation of this effect must be clearly posted in the area of this room augment to communicate this ability.
MASTER ACHIEVEMENT: Fiscal Mysticist
Mechanic: A player with the Fiscal Mysticist achievement can engage in any act of commerce (gambling, selling wares, performing services, etc.) for at least 15 minutes. At the end of those 15 minutes, they may spend 1 Resolve and choose up to four different targets in the next hour to regain Mind points equal to the amount of Currency they spent with the Fiscal Mysticist, up to a maximum of 20 mind. This effect is repeatable, but you must wait at least 1 hour between each use. A character may not benefit from this ability more than once per 12s.
To Duplicate Print:
Skill: Basic Education
Resources: 2 Basic Herb
Mind: 5
Time: 20 Minutes
Striker’s Coat
Seasonal prints are blueprints where the blueprint will expire on the last day of the year listed on the print. These prints are then reviewed, adjusted, and new prints are added to the print database based on feedback and mechanic adjustment needs.
Required Crafting Area: Artisan Crafting Area
Item Type: Armor
Skill Tree to Use: NA
Used With: NA
Item Expiration: 6 Months
Details: Requires a Phys Rep
Visual Description: This custom leather jacket offers lightweight protection from most blows, but offers a hidden plating system to protect your most vulnerable organs from other assassins. The strikers of the Red Ledger are known for this signature look.
Skill to Craft: Artisan
Mind: 20 Mind
Time: 20 Minutes
Resources to Build: 10 Basic Scrap, 2 Hard Metal, 2 Soft Metal
Basic Mechanics:
This armor provides 10 points of Armor, and requires at least 50% coverage in the form of a heavy coat, duster, or jacket of some kind. This armor rating cannot be increased, or stacked with any other source of Armor.
When the wearer of this Coat enters bleed out, the user may call “Immune to Killing Blow, 1 Minute”. This prevents any effects that require a Killing Blow to activate. This effect works even if the item is broken or reduced to 0 armor points.
MASTER ACHIEVEMENT: Mercenary
In reaction to entering bleedout, the bearer may spend 1 resolve and gain 1 fracture to call out “Immune to killing blow during bleedout, cannot be moved”. They may end this effect at any point before their bleedout ends and gain 1 body. This ability cannot be used if Fractured.
To Duplicate Print:
Skill: Basic Education
Resources: 2 Basic Herb
Mind: 5
Time: 20 Minutes
High Roller’s Unfair Advantage
Seasonal prints are blueprints where the blueprint will expire on the last day of the year listed on the print. These prints are then reviewed, adjusted, and new prints are added to the print database based on feedback and mechanic adjustment needs.
Required Crafting Area: Artisan’s Crafting Area
Item Type: Single-Use Gizmo
Skill Tree to Use: Larceny or Criminal Influence
Used With: N/A
Item Expiration: 3 Months
Details: Requires a Phys Rep
Visual Description: Whether a pair of carefully weighted dice, marked cards, or some hidden trick, an unscrupulous gambler is prepared to push luck in their favor.
Skill to Craft: Larceny or Criminal Influence
Mind: 5 Mind
Time: 20 Minutes
Resources to Build: 5 Basic Scrap, 1 Alloy Metal, 1 High Grade Lumber
basic Mechanics:
In order to use this item, spend 10 mind points to announce “CHEAT”. You may then set the result of any random factor of the game to any result you want. As far as onlookers are aware, of course, you’ve done nothing wrong.
In the event of multiple people attempting to use a CHEAT item during the same game, conduct a brief round of betting with each person “bidding” additional Mind points. (This is considered an OOG activity). The person that bids the most wins the game, though the Mind Points are spent. When bidding in a cheat war, you may only raise and never match an opponent’s bid.
This gizmo’s use is countered by a character with Proficient Social Influence that has been observing the game for at least one minute, by spending 5 mind points to declare “Check Your Sleeves”. This does not reveal the character has been cheating. If a player with Proficient Social Influence and the VETERAN achievement has been observing the game for at least one minute, when they declare “Check Your Sleeves!” it reveals the character has been cheating.
Use of this item constitutes a CvC action when other characters are involved.
MASTER ACHIEVEMENT: Fiscal Mysticist or Villon
Mechanic: If a player attempts to use Awareness to counter the use of this item, you may spend 1 Resolve to call “Cheat, no Social Influence!”. This prevents another person from detecting the cheating attempt or stopping it from occurring. A character with the Veteran achievement may spend 1 Resolve to call “Veteran Awareness” to realize that the cheating occured after 15 minutes have passed from when they make the call. The Veteran has no physical evidence the cheating occured and only has their word.
To Duplicate Print:
Skill: Basic Education or Criminal Influence
Resources: 2 Basic Herb
Mind: 5
Time: 20 Minutes
Crystodyne Regalia
Seasonal prints are blueprints where the blueprint will expire on the last day of the year listed on the print. These prints are then reviewed, adjusted, and new prints are added to the print database based on feedback and mechanic adjustment needs.
Required Crafting Area: Artisan Crafting Area
Item Type: Gizmo
Skill Tree to Use: Biogenetics
Used With: NA
Item Expiration: 3 Months
Details: Requires a Phys Rep
Visual Description: An elaborate lattice of interwoven psionic crystals that can channel a user’s uninterrupted focus to aid another.
Skill to Craft: Artisan
Mind: 30 Mind
Time: 20 Minutes
Resources to Build: 5 Psionic Crystals, 1 Basic Generic Handheld Item
Basic Mechanics:
When using the Basic Biogenetics skill, you and your target may instead spend 30 uninterrupted seconds channeling your psionic energies to imbue another. You may then spend 5 mind and make a Psionic Attack to call “Psionic: Restore 5 Mind”. The user then takes 2 Body damage from psychic feedback.
MASTER ACHIEVEMENT: Free Radical
Mechanic: Spend 1 Resolve and you can instantly heal your own Mangled limb. Alternatively, you can spend 1 Resolve and 30 uninterrupted seconds focusing and channeling your psionic energies to instantly heal another target’s single Mangled limb.
To Duplicate Print:
Skill: Proficient Education AND Lore: Aberrant
Resources: 2 Basic Herb, 1 Psionic Crystal
Mind: 10
Time: 20 Minutes
Essex Entertainer’s Kit
Seasonal prints are blueprints where the blueprint will expire on the last day of the year listed on the print. These prints are then reviewed, adjusted, and new prints are added to the print database based on feedback and mechanic adjustment needs.
Required Crafting Area: Artisan Crafting Area
Item Type: Gizmo
Skill Tree to Use: Social Influence
Used With: NA
Item Expiration: 3 Months
Details: Requires a Phys Rep
Visual Description: A collection of equipment to aid in keeping the attention of an audience, whether it be a musical instrument, sheet music, lights, or other props. This kind of gear is used by entertainers to assist with their performances.
Skill to Craft: Artisan
Mind: 10 Mind
Time: 20 Minutes
Resources to Build: 10 Basic Scrap, 2 Soft Metal, 2 Mechanical Components, 2 Machined Components, 2 Synthetic Fibers, 1 Basic Generic Handheld Item
Basic Mechanics:
When the Essex Entertainer’s Kit is created, the crafter must assign a character name to the kit. This Entertainer’s Kit is only usable by the person whose name is assigned to it. Example: Essex Entertainer’s Kit (Rajah).
The kit must be stationary and opened to use, and the performer must stay within 5 paces of the item at all times during the use of Social Influence.
The user may spend 1 Resolve during a performance that takes at least 10 minutes to complete to call “Entertain!”. They may choose up to five different targets to regain 10 Mind at the end of the performance. During a performance using this kit, you may spend an additional Resolve to add +10 mind to the effects of the Essex Entertainer’s Kit (up to a maximum of 20 Mind).
The Entertainer’s Kit counts as a container for the purpose of attaching Container Traps, and be opened safely without setting off the trap by the assigned character.
Master Achievement: None
To Duplicate Print:
Skill: Proficient Education AND Lore: Faith
Resources: 2 Uncommon Herb
Mind: 10
Time: 20 Minutes