Virtual Lad's goggles
Virtual Lad's goggles
Plural: copies of Virtual Lad's goggles
Virtual Lad was another well known sidekick back in the Silver Age of Twilight. He had what was called "holo-graphical powers", whatever that meant. Honestly, as far as anyone can tell, it meant he ran around in a ridiculous costume full of then-high tech doodads and wizzbang gimcrackery.
Nobody really noticed when he retired to play VR games full time. But hey, these goggles were pretty swell.
They come bundled with a targeting suite, high-speed access to your computer, gaming uplinks, and a clock. Hey, they can't all be winners.
August 2014 Item of the Month
Helmet
Power: 10
Item cannot be auto-sold
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Increases the power of your triggered software
Can't stop playing VR games
-5 seconds to the duration of each turn***
+5% to hit
*** Maximum time benefit of -60 seconds, total, including Heroic Efficiency.
How Obtained
- Available for 10 silver stars during August 2014
Notes
- While wearing it, the Can't stop playing VR games effect will change to the last type of game you played in the Virtual Reality Gaming Center and be replaced with one of the following messages:
- Flight Simulator:
- Can't stop playing flying games (+5% chance of enemy fumbles**)
- Empire Building Game:
- Can't stop playing strategy games (+5% chance of spell critical hits**)
- Virtual Sports:
- Can't stop playing sports games (+5% chance of critical hits**)
- The following note will also be added to the items description
- ** Fumble and critical hit values are capped at +/- 20%.
- Retcon will reset the VR game pick to none.
- When bought: The shopkeeper accepts your 10 silver stars and hands you a pair of goggles, surreptitiously removing the "Warning: Do not use with VR games! Extremely addictive!" sticker as he does so.
References
- Refers to the Virtual Boy video game console.
| Item of the Month | ||
|---|---|---|
| Preceded by satchel of independence |
August 2014 Virtual Lad's goggles |
Succeeded by extra-dimensional taffy puller |