Artifact: Wishing Well
Power: Significant
Description: Built to look older than it is, the wishing well is a dilapidated landmark in a small public park. Despite poor upkeep and the obvious plasticity of its facade (and the grotesque garden gnomes on the path leading up to it) it remains a popular meeting spot and locals genuinely participate in the tradition of tossing in coins while making wishes.
Effect: It doesn’t grant wishes.
By tossing a coin into the well you are empowered with the ability to retrieve someone else’s wish, if you can obtain their coin. It doesn’t provide the means of physically achieving the feat or a way of identifying which coin belongs to who, it just means that dredging up some loose change from its murky depths provides you with more than fare for the parking meter. Getting a hold of someone else’s coin tells you their deepest wish. It isn’t necessarily the wish they made (especially if what they want has changed since) but the information does give you a considerable edge in coercion attempts (a +20% shift and +2 ranks to any check capitalizing on it).
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