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black box
Plural: black boxen
Inside this black box are recorders for time, geophysical location, temperature, humidity, acceleration, and deceleration; video recorders of your foe; chemical analyzers of your sweat; spectral analyzers for the powers unleashed by you or your opponents; audio compression and analysis tools; air quality samplers; and about half a dozen meters of more questionable merit (the aura interpreter isn't talking about the psion aura, for instance, and the I Ching caster, Electric Sheep subliminizer, and Electric Monk guilt processor seem to be right out.) Weirdly, the one thing it doesn't have is a compass.
Offhand Item
Item cannot be traded or sold
Item cannot traded, sold, or placed in a memento display
Item cannot be auto-sold
Collects crime data for Dirk Douglass.
Rental equipment is lost at rollover
How Obtained
Accept Dirk's job at Magnum Matlock MacGyver De-Mysterizers
After every two hours of adventuring with this equipped:
Your little black box beeps quietly, letting you know that it's full of data. You swing by the lab and let Dirk download everything. He puts a little tick in your IOU tally sheet, saying you've earned one favor from the group.
You got an item: crimebusters IOU 
Notes
- The two hours count is reset at rollover, i.e. leftover time from one day does not roll to the next day.
- The time counted is the time that the adventure would have taken, even if at the end the adventure took less, due to Prepunctuality or the use of Throwing star - black hole.
