[UA] Artifact- The Typewriter

[Chad Eagleton]

--- LORDCADWALLON1 at wmconnect.com wrote:
>   As chronicled in Hush, Hush, in 1966, Dirk Allen
> grabed a swig from the 
> Fountain of Youth and used the resulting major
> charge to get a glimpse of the 
> true nature of the cosmos. He used the resulting
> knowledge  to write a "novel", 
> 333. Unfortuneately for dirk, the Sleepers caught up
> with him just as he was 
> putting the finishing touches on it. The result was
> that the Sleepers got the 
> manuscript and Dirk got his memories shreddsd and
> made such an incredible ass of 
> homself on BBC that no on would ever take him
> seriously again. 
>   What the Sleepers didn't know was this. At that
> time typewriters use as ink 
> covered ribbon to transfet the keystrokes to the
> paper.  Every keystroke made 
> is recordered on the ribon. Thus it is a quite
> possible, if painstaking , 
> task to reconstruct any document from the typewriter
> ribbon used to type it. 
>   So what happened to the typewriter? After the
> Sleepers attentions, Dirk 
> went on a long drunken binge. When he neglected to
> pay the rent on his London 
> flat, the landlord confiscated Allen's possessions
> for back rent. After decades 
> on the back shelf of some storage locker, the
> typewriter was:  (pick one or 
> make up your own):
> -donated to the local Salvation Army Thriftshop
> -donated to the local church's rummage sale
> -  sold to a wax museum for its  "Dirk Allen- Writer
> and Rogue" exibit
> -put up for auction on e-bay.
>   Reading 333 should give the character a 10% skill
> in something like 
> Knowledge: Invisable Clergy. I will leave the
> rection of Dirk Allen, if confronted 
> with a copy of his lost manuscript, as an exercise
> to the reader.
>   In addition, don't forget that the typewriter
> would be a significant 
> artifact in its own right. Unnatural Phenomena are
> likely to occur in its immediate 
> vicinity, perhaps as often as once a month. (I tell
> you Bert, that storeroom 
> is haunted!") The Typewriter would also make a good
> basis for some Mechanomancy 
> artifact. And who knows what special powers it may
> have developed on its own?
>   What the Sleepers will do is anyone's guess.

It's a cool idea, but I don't think the Sleepers would
be that stupid...unless maybe it was a newbie who
fucked up...

"Did you get the book?"
"Yeah."
"All the copies?"
"Yeah."
"Did you remember to grab the ribbon?"
"Ribbon?"

In which case I'd imagine the next few hours of the
recruit's life were fairly unpleasant...maybe they've
been chasing this damn ribbon around for years?

--chad

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