[UA] Artifact- The Typewriter

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  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.

       
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