Khalil's spirit box

Khalil Moghadam artifact

Written by Doctor Weather

This is an evolving item that has seen two uses in it's original construction. Originally, Khalil designed it to detect the energies of the spirit of a long-dead sorceror that had snuck aboard the Caliban Crow as it passed the Dziban-Ghodar portal. During a subsequent battle within an abandoned First-come, Dark-science facility, Khalil repurposed his invention to contain the Dark energy of hundreds of tortured spirits, twisted by years of fear-of-death experimentation (long story). In doing so he - inadvertently - created a box to trap and torture spirits. As was only logicaly, the party then used the box to lure the spirit of the aforementioned evil sorceror out of their ship by firing the box into the star of Ghodar.
Khalil has since built another box, this time with a refined understanding of the science involved - a story for another time - and this time the box is a perfect trap for future spirits of long-dead evil sorcerors who are twisted by the Dark science of their past. It's a tricky thing to explain but Khalil would be more than happy to talk you through it. This box was used to capture the spirit of the sorcecer Avihu, after which the crew of Caliban Crow lanuched box and spirit into the star of Ghodar.

Appearance

Original tool

In its first incarnation the device was a scanning tool.

Altered by good intentions and Dark energy

In its second incarnation the tool physically changed shape, obtaining a compartment that made it more of a box than a scanner. The outer metal of the box also changed, showing a smoky, ever-chaning red and black pattern reminiscent of the energies that permanently changed the device.

Mechanics & Inner Workings

Origin	Requires	Science / mystics powers roll	DP cost to use
Khalil Moghadam	-	-	0

Operation of the first spirit box

See secrets...

Manufacturing process

Original scanner

Normal tech and a gearhead talent roll

First spirit box

The energies that attacked the party within the abandoned First-come, Dark-science facility within Yesheriti Diri were the physical embodiment of the negative energy of hundreds of people who had been subjected to fear-of-death experimentation by members of the Abouelkassem family. This was the energy that Khalil sought to trap within his device, which originally had been used to detect the twisted spirits of Abouelkassem sorcerers. Though different energies, had enough in common for Khalil's inventiveness to work with.
Trapped as the energy was within Khalil's device it underwent a second changed under the shock, radiation and resonance waves emenating from the destruction of the First-come, Dark-science facility. An overloaded fusion core combined with the tortured spirits trapped within the facility created a 'unique' blast effect that permanently changed the original scanner into a spirit-torture box.
You wouldn't want to recreate this process presumably, and fortunately the required circumstances would be hard to repeat.

Second spirit box

Khalil 'recovered' the science of the now-lost Abouelkassem facility before its destruction and so has the know-how to pursue a dedicated spirit box that can detect and contain the specific, unique energies of the Abouelkassem sorcerer spirits.
Ask him about it if you like...

CC 61, segment of The Deckhand

Item type

Tool

Rarity

Unique