258 - The Man Who Shot God

Artifact: The Man Who Shot God

Power: Major.

Description: A piece of abstract art sculpted from highly polished black stone, A collection of irregular curves and sudden outcroppings, in the right light the sum shape is suggestive of a person falling headlong down a flight of stairs with something in their right hand. It is large and absurdly heavy.

Effect: Within three yards of the statue sound stops working properly. Everything sounds tinny and distant in one spot and as though it's happening right next to your ear in another. This is only perceptual, recorded noises playback normally.

The exception is discussing plans or intentions assumption or ascension, that comes out normally to those present but any recordings are garbled. The statosphere picks up on it just fine though, the accuracy with which the Invisible Clergy can perceive such conversation is frankly pinpoint in comparison to it's typical myopia. Of course it's impossible to tell this personally unless you're able to stretch your perception all the way up there.

There is one side effect, any sincere plans made are subject to the Clergy's intense scrutiny and rough synchronicity twisting. The balance of power and attention at any one time is delicate and inscrutable so the effect is that the next roll made to seriously pursue such a plan (decided at the GMs discretion) is made with a single d10 counted twice, producing an automatic matched success or failure. Succeeding at a milestone related to that action adds an additional +1d10% to an objective progress. Theoretically this could be used repeatedly to rush an ascension along, in practice there's heavy blowback after any attempt to use it.

Discussing assumption/ascension attempts as the Two-Faced Man always produce a matched failure result for some reason, reroll until you get one if the exact result matters. The objective boost still applies though.