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* The two hours count is reset at rollover, i.e. leftover time from one day does not roll to the next day. | * 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 actual time spent. That is, if one gains a shorter turn though [[Prepunctuality]] or through any of the [[Joiner's Club and Furrier's Den|chairs]], a shorter amount of time is counted. | * The time counted is the actual time spent. That is, if one gains a shorter turn though [[Prepunctuality]] or through any of the [[Joiner's Club and Furrier's Den|chairs]], a shorter amount of time is counted. | ||
| − | * The only exception to the above rule is time gained through the use of [[ | + | * The only exception to the above rule is time gained through the use of [[throwing star - black hole]]. As this takes the user a minute back in time, the time gained was spent adventuring and it does count. |
* The time counted includes additional time lost when being [[Defeated]]. | * The time counted includes additional time lost when being [[Defeated]]. | ||
* Time spent [[resting]] or [[Virtual Reality Gaming Center|playing games]] does not count. | * Time spent [[resting]] or [[Virtual Reality Gaming Center|playing games]] does not count. | ||
Revision as of 13:41, 9 November 2009
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 Sherlock & Poirot, Crime Analysts
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 actual time spent. That is, if one gains a shorter turn though Prepunctuality or through any of the chairs, a shorter amount of time is counted.
- The only exception to the above rule is time gained through the use of throwing star - black hole. As this takes the user a minute back in time, the time gained was spent adventuring and it does count.
- The time counted includes additional time lost when being Defeated.
- Time spent resting or playing games does not count.
