Gear and Services

Ammunition Bandolier: Holds 30 rounds or 20 rounds and four explosives ready to hand. Drawing a round or explosive from it is a free action once per round.

Climbing Harness: Straps, buckles and clips. +2 bonus on Climb checks. If the wearer is clipped to a fixed line, a fall stops at the end of the line.

Drop Sail: A packed canvas canopy that airship crews wear in case they go over the rail. Opening it is a free action while falling (DC 10 Reflex save if the wearer is unconscious or grappled, which fails automatically). The wearer then falls 60 feet per round and lands without taking damage. Repacking it takes 10 minutes.

Fibrolite Lamp: A sealed glass lamp with no flame. It gives bright light in a 30-ft. radius and shadowy light to 60 ft. It works in wind and rain and under water. A 1st-level chip (2 gl) lights it for 24 hours.

Fibrolite Striker: A brass lighter with a chip of spent fibrolite that sparks when it's struck. It lights a fire as a move action (like a tindertwig) and lasts for 100 uses.

Goggles: Leather and brass, with smoked lenses. They give a +4 bonus on saves against blinding and dazzling light, including flash charges, and they keep wind, sand, sparks and smoke out of the eyes. Almost everyone who works around machines wears a pair.

Goggles, Spotter's: Goggles with a set of flip-down magnifying lenses. +2 bonus on Spot checks against anything more than 30 feet away.

Grapple Gun: A wide-barreled pistol that fires a grapnel trailing 60 feet of thin steel cable. Hitting a target point is a ranged touch attack against AC 10 (AC 15 for a small or awkward point). A winch in the grip can then reel in up to 300 pounds at 20 feet per round, enough to haul the wielder up a wall. A 1st-level chip (2 gl) powers five shots and winches.

Holster, Concealed: A thin holster worn under the arm, at the small of the back or strapped to the shin. +4 bonus on Sleight of Hand checks to hide a pocket pistol or revolver on the body.

Lock, Aetheric: A lock whose tumblers are held by a stored pattern rather than springs. Open Lock DC 35. It can't be opened by knock unless the caster beats DC 20 on a caster level check. A 1st-level chip keeps it sealed for a month, after which it fails open.

Pocket Watch: A wound brass watch. Sovereigni wear gold ones as a sign of status, and Sullied wear brass ones because the shift whistle doesn't wait.

Rebreather Mask: A leather mask with a filter canister over the mouth. +4 bonus on Fortitude saves against inhaled poisons, smoke and gases, including stinking cloud. Each filter lasts 1 hour of use. Foundry workers, Ashborne miners and anyone who has stood near the Mourning's fog wear them.

Safety Line: 50 feet of rope with a harness hook at each end. Airship crews clip it to the rail in a storm.

Signal Flare: A paper tube that burns bright red for 1 minute. It can be seen for miles at night, and from airships by day.

Telescopic Sight: A brass scope that clamps to a rifle or repeating rifle. If the wielder spends a move action aiming, their next shot that round takes only a –1 penalty per range increment beyond the first, instead of –2.

Renderers are smooth stones made in linked pairs. The holder of one can speak with the holder of the other across any distance. Using one is a standard action, and the conversation can last up to 10 minutes. The recipient feels a strong pull to answer. When the call ends, each user must make a DC 12 Fortitude save or be sickened for 1 minute by the nausea of returning to their body.

A renderer pair costs 3,000 gl. Setting one into a circlet, so it can be used without holding it, costs 500 gl more. Renderer houses in most large cities rent time on their stones for 5 gl a minute, to anyone whose recipient also has one. Couriers carry renderers, not letters, these days. The Elastiquery can listen in on renderer conversations, though almost nobody knows that.

Mechanoids have no soul. They do one job, the way they were built to do it, and nothing else. Each is a Medium construct with hardness 5 and 20 hit points. It obeys only its keyed owner and runs on a 2nd-level chip (8 gl) per week. Mechanoids are frowned on in Usmon and can't be sold there.