Item:Clear tessera

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clear tessera
Look:	The tiny cube is almost perfectly transparent to the point of ephemerality, like crystallized thought rather than anything natural. Upon closer inspection, you difficultly notice its surfaces engraved with even tinier script, some you know to be numerals.
Metal:	Unknown
Properties:	This item has more than normal or unusual verbs. This item is styled or has special functions for Traders.
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• Your Starlight Aura must be full to be able to get one from the Negotiants. Notes: Able to retrieve one at circle 3 with a full aura as of 01/2022

When checking your Starlight Aura you must get the message Your aura contains as much starlight as you can safely handle. or you will get the below message:

You sense the Negotiants' incurious recognition at your touch. Your starlight aura is drawn, measured, then dismissed.

• To get one you can stand before the Negotiants in the Crossing Trader Hall and GET NEGOTIANT:

You sense the Negotiants' incurious recognition at your touch. Their delicate machinery reconfigures itself, spun glass limbs and spines opening in an embrace, and you are telekinetically pulled into the midst of the flurrying crystals!

Inside the airless, dark coldness that is the center, your ability to think falters into stasis. Your starlight aura is drawn, measured, then shunted internally and processed with swift efficiency.

The Negotiants release you after several moments, a clear tessera now in your hand.

• STUDY: You recall the Negotiants; the impersonal benefactors and jailers, the great cornucopia and burden of the Trader Guild. They are the manifestation of the deal struck between House Turmar and the extraplanar entity known as Arbiter in Darkness -- magical power for never touching the Plane of Probability. Their name, or 'Tutors' as some call them, is a polite term for what they truly are: ruthless guarantors poised to take away the boon as quickly as it was granted.

Although there have been other enchantments that emulate a thinking mind, nothing you know of comes close to the capabilities of the Negotiants. Indisputably, the device can teach spells as well as any guildleader of magicians. Theories abound, especially among Moon Mages, about the source of such consummate spell knowledge. Did it come preloaded? Is it getting all that from the Arbiter? Still more alarmingly, could it have been devising the spells it teaches?

This particular device is a piece of the Negotiants, allowing you to learn spells anywhere should you ask the tessera about magic. Additionally, you can ask the tessera about DEALS for additional functionality. Whether such a piece works by itself or communicates with the greater whole is impossible to say.

• INVOKE: You send your clear tessera a wordless thought of acquiescence.

The clear tessera instantly frosts over. Your starlight aura is drawn and concentrated to a geometric point inside the crystal. As the point becomes a bright white bolus, you begin to feel the psychic thrum of the Negotiant's activation.

• note: after the invoke, you can:

• ASK TESSERA ABOUT MAGIC to find out which spells you can learn.
• ASK TESSERA ABOUT <SPELL NAME> SPELL to learn about a spell.
• CHOOSE <SPELL NAME> SPELL to acquire a spell if you have enough slots.

Note: You don't need to being holding the tessera to ask it something, but you must be holding it to invoke it or choose a spell.

Invoking the tessera will drain your starlight aura and teach a moderate amount of Trading skill and Arcana skill.

• When you circle and get a new spell slot, your tessera will signal you:

Your clear tessera chimes softly inside your thigh quiver.

• ASK TESSERA ABOUT DEALS

Your head fills with the psychic backlash of the Negotiants' chatter, "... STANCHION QUERY-CLARIFICATION TOPIC PRIME PROTOCOLS SUBHEADING DEALS REALIGN COMMUNICATION-PARADIGM...", cut short when the tesserae swiftly rearrange in a series of involutions, and a silvery-voiced message ringing of glass and order echoes in your mind, "Additional valuations-opportunities have been arranged-brokered."

"We are authorized to provide a short term loan-future-infusion of starlight, repayable within three anlaen at the rate of twice the proffered principal. Please note, collections-consequence-remuneration for late collection of dues will result in death-exsanguination-trepanation. Ask us about LOAN again to agree-bind to these terms. Repayment(s) may be made via asking us about LOAN again." [This means full death if you cannot repay the aura. Use with caution.]

"We are also authorized to retune-logic resection-amplify your Avtalia Array to supercharge-harvest-absorb more starlight. Increased exposure-liability in stellar emissions will amplify returns. However, understand-disclaimer, nearby star shine will result in non-allocated dividends, which may cause saccadic flesh charring or logic rebound-repeal. This effect will last one day. Ask us about EXPOSURE to agree-bind to these terms."

"Additionally, we are accepting investment-reinforcement of a portion of your accrued Starlight Aura not to exceed greater than a fourth parts of your current capital in exchange for dividend-understanding of the nature of protocols-negotiations-trading. The frequency of the availability of this deal is proportional to the amount exchanged. Ask us about INVEST to agree-bind to these terms."

"Finally, as per the agreement, we may discuss Lunar magic with you at any time. Ask us about MAGIC to learn more."

Roundtime: 2 sec.

• ASK TESSERA ABOUT INVEST: Transfers Your Starlight Aura To The Tessera. Teaches Trading And Arana.

You send your clear tessera a wordless thought of acquiescence.

Your head fills with the psychic backlash of the Negotiants' chatter, "... STANCHION-INVESTMENT-EXCHANGE ACCEPTED REVEALING UNDISCLOSED INSIGHT-SECRET-TOOLS, PROPORTIONING ASSET CLASS...", before you are unable to continue focusing and find the cacophony losing coherence and fading into whispers.

The clear tessera instantly frosts over. Your starlight aura is drawn and concentrated to a geometric point inside the crystal. As the point becomes a bright white bolus, you begin to feel the psychic thrum of the Negotiant's activation.

Roundtime: 15 sec.

Seems To Only Last A Few Minutes Until This Message

You sense that your clear tessera has run out of starlight.

• Eating the tessera will cause it to disappear.

A frosty tessera flickers and vanishes.