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Days & Times

Sundial Stone</b> (EndlessChase)

<b>Manse •, Solar
Trigger: Constant

This stone is a roughly rectangular cut gem the color of amber. When attuned, several long black lines appear radiating from the center of the gem which look strangely like the hands of a watch. When the owner looks at the gem, she is instantly aware of not only the time of day, but the phase of the moon and the date. The stone also tells the wearer how much time has passed since it was last checked. For the expenditure of a willpower point the stone will grow warm after an amount of time has passed determined by the owner.

Orrery Stone</b> - by Falcon

<b>Sidereal
Manse ••
Trigger: Constant

This stone is octagonal, sharply cut and vaguely translucent. Every day it seems suffused with a different colour, following the cycle yellow, red, purple, blue, green. However, during Calibration the stone goes dark and grants no powers, not even the hastened regeneration of essence. No one knows why. The stone grants a +2 dice bonus to any use of certain skills, the skills varying with the colour.

Yellow - Ride and Sail
Red - Melee and Brawl
Purple - Martial Arts and Medicine
Blue - Socialise and Performance
Green - Investigation and Stealth

A Sidereal Exalt using this stone can reflexively spend a Willpower point to force it to shift to the colour associated with his patron Maiden for the rest of the scene.

The Times Stone</b> - by Halloween

<b>Manse •••, Sidereal
Trigger: Touching the stone to blank paper

This stone is a dull grayish lump of what appears to be congealed paper. Its powers are not immediately apparent and there have been several owners of these stones who have never divined their true purpose. While it gives the bearer increased essence regeneration as a level three hearthstone the stone’s real power only comes into play when the stone is touched to a pile of blank parchment. Immediately after being touched by the stone a fine tracery of lines spills out across the paper. These bands of ink gradually form into blurry but readable lines of text. The text, written by immaterial hands, details any significant events that have taken place within a twenty-mile radius that can be considered general knowledge. These things include the raising or lowering of tax laws, sudden inexplicable weather phenomena, major social or political events, or anything that is considered of “general interest.”

While this stone is not capable of uncovering things deliberately kept secret many Exalts find them invaluable for keeping abreast of the important things that have been happening in their immediate vicinity. The ink that this stone creates is perminant and paper cannot have this stone used on them more then once and an Exalt using this stone often requires a continuous supply of paper. The manses that produce these stones seldom exist in the wilderness.

Know the Cycles Crystal - By SpicyMcHaggis
Manse •••• - Lunar
Trigger: Concentration

This crystal appears as a simple clear thing. Only when you stare at it intently can you see...nope, nothing it is still clear when you do that too.

The wise hunter knows when and where his victims will be. You do not look for an owl in flight in morning, it is easier to try and catch salmon in breeding season. This stone lets a hunter do just that by letting him know the schedules of those around him. After focusing on a specific animal, species, group or person for a while they begin to know their schedule and when they are in it. One with this stone can sense when the fox is ready to retire home to his den, or when a particularly vicious lion is about to rest for the night. The wise hunter can take advantage of this knowledge.

In more urban settinings a few Lunar assassins and thiefs have become masters of their craft with this technique. No longer do they need to study a person or potential crime site for days on end, with a simple thought they can access the entire time table for an entire orginization. Many a criminal and noble has met his end on his regular walk from his home to his buisness because of the help of this stone.

The manses that produce these stones are natural places, usually in the wilderness. Often they are the sight of scheduled celestial or other phenomona. A famous one is the Stone Temple in the east, a grouping of standing stones that no one put there but correspond to diffrent celestial bodies and phenomona.

Malfeas Head - by FourWillowsWeeping

Solar Manse •••••

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This Hearthstone takes the shape of a stylized human head, with angular, sloping, elongated features. Its scalp is peeled away to reveal a patterned jewel. This jewel allows the attuned Exalt to summon demons with more speed and flexibility; by sacrificing three First-Circle demons, she may summon the Second-Circle that is their parent at any time. Siilarly, on the new moon, she may summon a Third-Circle demon by drawing on the bindings she has to three of that demon's souls. This sends the three Second Circles in question back to Malfeas.

The Exalt has two automatic successes on summoning and binding rolls on the new moon, and five automatic successes during Calibration.

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Comments

The Sundial Stone: a temporary WP? Just for an alarm? Yech. Make it a mote of essence, and call it a day. The Orrery Stone: I like this one alot. - Scrollreader

Halloween HA! Ok, that's pretty funny. I like it. -FlowsLikeBits