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December water clock
Plural: December water clocks
Before calendars were used for inaccurately predicting the end of the world, people still needed some way to keep track of time. This complex gadget does it by tracking the height of swirling water.
It's sort of like a very large, very cold, very wet watch.
Offhand Item
Autosell value: 20
Usable
-2 seconds to the duration of each turn***
*** Maximum time benefit of -60 seconds, total, including Heroic Efficiency.
How Obtained
Using a December water balloon, or its other products, if you are a Gadgeteer.
When Used
- Gadgeteer
You trick out your water clock with some epicyclic gearing. Yeah, now you're cooking with gas... errr, keeping time with water.
- Elemental
- Naturalist
- Psion
References
- The description contains a reference to the 2012 phenomenon, the belief that the Mesoamerican Long Count calendar predicted that the world would end in 2012.