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You trick out your water clock with some epicyclic gearing. Yeah, now you're cooking with gas... errr, keeping time with water. | You trick out your water clock with some epicyclic gearing. Yeah, now you're cooking with gas... errr, keeping time with water. | ||
*''Elemental'' | *''Elemental'' | ||
| − | + | You aerate the water with your vast elemental powers to create a bubbler. It's sort of like a water fountain, just way cooler. | |
| + | <br>{{obtain|December bubbler|decbubbler.gif}} | ||
*''Naturalist'' | *''Naturalist'' | ||
| − | + | You make a tiny pond and summon a flock of ducks to it. Okay, so the ducks actually already flew South for the winter... so you get some rubber ducks instead. | |
| + | <br>{{obtain|December duck pond|decduckpond.gif}} | ||
*''Psion'' | *''Psion'' | ||
Latest revision as of 22:12, 9 August 2014
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.
- Gadgeteer
You trick out your water clock with some epicyclic gearing. Yeah, now you're cooking with gas... errr, keeping time with water.
- Elemental
You aerate the water with your vast elemental powers to create a bubbler. It's sort of like a water fountain, just way cooler.
You got an item: December bubbler 
- Naturalist
You make a tiny pond and summon a flock of ducks to it. Okay, so the ducks actually already flew South for the winter... so you get some rubber ducks instead.
You got an item: December duck pond 
- Psion
You make a wish upon a star, but find out that the force of a wish is related to the inverse square of the distance to the wished-upon body. True story.
So you end up wishing on a nearby bit of water instead.
You got an item: December wishing well 
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.
