Lost phone
lost phone
Plural: Unknown
You'd fire this thing up, but the battery's dead and you don't have an appropriate adapter for it, so you don't have any way to figure out what the number is, or who it belongs to. There's something spooky about a lost phone, anyway. It makes you wonder if the owner is also lost. Like if, once you turned it on, Amelia Earhart might call. Or Jimmy Hoffa. Or the crew of the Flying Dutchman. Wouldn't that be creepy?
Miscellaneous Item
Autosell value: 5
Usable
How Obtained
Using a Pouch of Many Lost Things or its derivatives.
You pull out your long-lost cell phone. Hey, it's still got pre-paid minutes on it! What luck! Time to start calling some friends and family. With these superhero nights, you're probably on at least a couple of people's blacklists for never calling. You get an effect, In Communicado. (Added for 60 minutes.)
Using multiple: Unspecified
Can be "returned to owner". You get the message:
Unknown Message
The receiver gets the following message:
<sender> has buffed you with In Communicado.
You pull out your long-lost cell phone. Hey, it's still got pre-paid minutes on it! What luck! Time to start calling some friends and family. With these superhero nights, you're probably on at least a couple of people's blacklists for never calling. You get an effect, In Communicado. (Added for 60 minutes.)
It's hard to believe there are still people nice enough to return your lost belongings instead of keeping it or pawning it on eBay. Your whole heart feels full and warm: ventricles, atria, cockles, and all. You get an effect: Toasty Heart. (Added for 30 minutes.)
Trying to return the item to yourself:
You start to return this lost item to yourself, but then you realize: this is not your beautiful house, this is not your beautiful lost item. By definition, if it's in your possession and it's lost, then it can't belong to you. Thus you can't return it to yourself, or it wouldn't be lost. Ergo, lost items must be returned to other people, who, by definition, are the only ones for whom this lost item might become found. Comprende?
