FortunesSeeds

Fortune’s Seeds (Artifact 1) These coins, stamped from green jade with the characters for fortune and prosperity, are a merchant’s best friend. Anyone who possesses a coin adds two dice to Bureaucracy rolls involving trade and bartering. Should the coin be invested in a venture, it will return in the first profit of that venture. Should the venture be destined to fail, the coin will be mysteriously absent from the merchant’s purse, giving the wise warning of a bad investment. The extremely greedy never profit from trying to collect these coins, as anyone who gathers more than two together suffers a terrible setback, botching an important roll at the worst possible moment, usually leading to financial ruin. If a coin is given freely to a worthy recipient, the giver immediately regains all temporary Willpower and comes to feel a great contentment, reducing the difficulty for all Virtue rolls by one for the rest of the scene.