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INTRODUCTION .............. poralis

The Nature of Magickal Energies .... .I3 (Temporal Engine) . . 67

Ingenium Integrita (Integrity Engine) .................. Ingenium Sustentaculus (Li Sustenance Engine) ...........

The Theory of Harnessing Magick ... .14

Magick Through Mechanical Contrivance ....................... .I6

" . ........... Ingenium Curareus Miscellany and Addenda .I8

BOOK ONE: 1495 .............. .20 (Healing Engine) .. ............ .74

Infundibulum Potentia Ingenium Phlogiston (Draining Engine) ................. .21 (Levitation Engine) Imagum Illusorius BOOK SIX: 1500 . (Optical Illusion Engine) ........... .25 Via Peregreus Imagum Melos (Dimensional Engine)

Ingenium Perplexus Ingenum Infernus (Inferno Engine) . .30 (Cipher Engin Ingenium Frigidus (Glacial Engine) . .32 Ingenium Ma

(Magnetic Force Engine BOOK TWO: 1496 ............. .36 Censurum Veraceus Ingenium Fascium

(Imprisonment Engine) ............. Ingenium Confunderus Ingenium Gnocereus (Intellect

Embodiment Engine) .............. .39 Ingenium Auditorius (Clairaudience Engine) ............. .41

Ingenium Vedereum (Clairvoyance Engine) ............. -43

BOOK THREE: 1497 ........... .47 Ingenium Meteoricus (Weather Engine). ................. .48

Ingenium Alchymia (Alchemical Engine) ....... Ingenium Defl exus (E thereal Interference Engine) ............... -52

BOOK FOUR: 1498 ............ .55 Imagum Somnus (Dream Engine) ... .56

Ingenium Insanus (Madness Engine) .58

Ingenum Vaderus (Imparted

(Auditorial Illusion Engine) ........ .28

Ingenium Tulmultuosus

Dissolventum Universalis

Testudo ElementaIis

(Earthshaker Engine) .......

(Elemental Engine) ........

SORCEROUS AUTOMATA IN THE GREAT GAME . . . . MAKING A SORCEROUS

Motion Engine) ................... .61 TIONS & GAME STATISTICS ...... i i 8

BOOKFIVE: 1499 ............. .66 STAR IRO

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Se guarderai le stelle savua raxzzi (come si fa vederle per un piccolo fovo fatto

colla strema punta de la sottile acucchia, e que1 post0 quasi a toccaw I'occhio),

tu vedrai esse stelle a s e r e tanto minime, &e nulla wsu pare -sere minore.

veramente la lunga distanzia d A low ragionevole dimunizione, ancora &e

molte vi sono, che son moltissime volte maggiore che la stella cV& la terra col- I'acqua. Ora pensa que1 che parrebbe qfiessa no* stella in tanta distanzia, e

considera poi quante delle s i me+terebbe'e per longitudine e latitudime inpa

seminate per esso spazio tenebvoso.

mondo, B dato per penetevuia &e lor medesimi sivazino essa vita, e che MOM possegghino la utilitb e bellezzza del wondo.

case has at last arrived, and just as the world about is in.fwed wi

are my puvsuits, as my benefactor has increased his benevolence.

Fov with g w t a-d pageantvs Ill\aximilian I, now the tIoly Roman &peror/ with the passing of

Frederick 11, may he rest in peace, has indeed invested our grand Lodovico Sforza with the Duchy of milano, gracious city of the Alps. At last, a duke,

and no longer a regent, to give Milano the place among the cities of the

world as she so richly deserves. And 31 mora, though born but a

grandson of a lowly condottiere, is how royalty, a n d 3 find that his patronage i s now greater, and also that J have acquired grea te r

renown for my work among this Jtaly, for 3 am seen as one wo&y of being

retained by the illustvious House ofsforza, which is as it should be, as there i s not one whom 3 find excels m e in any manner of avt or architecture, let alone industdous invention and such puvswits.

(2 must also make mention that he, that is, /2/la,ximilian 4 has faken for a bride Bianca maria Sforza. may fheir marriage be f;MiifuI and a joy to all. A n d

speaking ofmarriages, &e sforza family has fltrher expanded their connec-

yet fail to fitlfill the intent for which 3 developed them, which, inescapablB indi-

cates that my observations or deductions are at times found wanting.This 3 find most appalling, and thoroughly inexcusable. Fovtunately, the Duke is a patient man with my dabblings.

h e covered chariot w a s the device which most appea led to the Duke, a n d the one upon which 3 embarked most enthusiastically.

hen at last J had completed construction of the first example of this

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my method of Orga must be organized in this mannev of investigation, more so, Jadmit , 3 &an is my usual wont, for J too readily allow my enthusiasm to overrun

and stampede down my deliberation, and as a result my work can suffer

f k m oversights and ineficiency, as J have learned anew with my invention

of the armored chariot. Jsha l l here, then, apply to myself an unaccustomed

oPganization, that, while pursuing &is heretfore unexplored sciene, J might

avoid the glaring e r w r ofoverlooking significa in my haste to reach the ends.

Tshusly shall my newest Codex be orde

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ny and Addenda Tshere. POW J a m ovganized.

shall have to conduct my researches careful

spection, for His Holiness the Pope JnnocentV great circum-

a papal bull Summis Desiderantes condemning non-Church witchcraft and sorcery only ten years ago, and Stalians have a long memory, esp 11y &e pious ones, Jt is tragic to see fear of the unknown impede the explo n of same. Or pel.-

haps i t i s the abuses of some self-styled practitiomers of black a&, the like of which abound in this superstitious 1and.these unhallowed few bring unwar-

ranted disgrace upon those of us who, with scientific reasonimg, a c M t e percep- tion, and a clear conscience, seek to shed light upon Mnivevsal Force. 2

Fohnatel% the old goat was called ngregate Direct Superior a few years ago at the ripe old age of too long, so pevhaps this bull will not be prosecuted with as much energy as perhaps it would have befow. Jndeed J have hopes that filexandervl will be a more curious and forgiving Pope. Mnfoviunatels old Rodrigo Borgia-no, he no longer exists, indeed c\e is now

the pevfect filexandevVI-hhas already revised his Jnter cetera divina within

two months of i t s original pevfect incarnation, and i t was by and large ignored anyway.this Pope may not have a significant impact on history, despite appointing family membevs like his son Cesare to impovtant clergical posts. fit l e a s t so 3 hope, for 3 find that those who impact histo in an injurious manner.

e that as it may, 3 find 3 have attr some atkention the woman reputed to be a witch, and hen 11 have to shelve these

inspections for the nonceu 3 shall resume them wh madonna of the Rocks, and can move fL1l-y d

3 have finished the madonna ofthe Rocks, and find now that the world i s at

wa*tl?eTurkmen have invaded Hungary and Dalmatia.l%is they did long

since, although word took some time to arrive in these places. J n a similar

mannev CharlesVI11 of France has sent his h o p s against ztalia, and taken

Rrenza and Roma.

ttte Pope is said to have

wodd not see the head ofthe church thhreatened.

d to Castel Sant'Angelo. J a m glad for it/ for J

TtE jVATURE OFjWAGJCK$IL E.ERG3ES udicious eFamination, and no small part of surreptitious and secre-

tive meetings with the woman from the village, who at last, with some plying of wine a M d gold, has condescended to share with me some of her insights, although she has a tendency to stray +m the 3 swbject at hand, has demonstrated to my satisfaction that here are

indeed four facets of the magickal powers which permeate the Gav&.Tlqis is

as 3 had surmised, for the effervescence which these powers eFude can be seen to be offour slightly differing aspects, that i s color and vibrancy, and, for

lack of a better word, taste, indicating that they indeed are separate manifes-

tations ofthis unknown and

3t is my belief, and by watc

with the world abowt, that the best naming of these facets is &at they are

hea~enl.2r, spiritual, natural, and mundane, this being the best eFplanation of

the method by which God might cause these powers to be apportioned

among His creation.

e method with which these energies interact

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0, Mmxw&ly Power of t k c a w e w l y Delights eavenly power is that which flows from Heaven, borne upon the wings tL angels, and connects the ea& to the divine. J am uncertain whether

or not the heavenly power may also be used by the Deceiver and his minions,

trapped between Heaven and Hell as though the poles of a magnet, o r

whether the Lord smote S a t a n such that he and his angels m y no longer touch the heavenly powevs. tleavenly powers may be what divine spark remains within these paltry and sinfMl human shells. With the heavenly powers

might one supersede &e limitations placed upon us by God as w e live within

His Creation, and perhaps even +avel to sit at +tis feet.

Spiritual magicks are those which impinge directly upon the human spirit,

that eternal and inviolate part of all of us, granted to us for our eternal salva-

tion by our Creator.'tt.\e health and state of our spirit i s of paramount import

to the health of our bodies, as c a n be demonstrated by the dilapidated posi-

tion of hose most sinf..l and corrupt people, who then succumb to leprosy and

other ailments. With spiritual magicks might one influence or dominate the

activities of the pevson.6

OMS effovts of human or

mechanical will u p o ~ he magickal enevgies, pre-

venting them from wnvav-

eling, as is their wont.

Since hamans ate pc~ sessed of weukness

mechanical contvol of magi ckal energies .

]MEctlfiJvJCfiL CON have studied ca~~?fLlly the manners in whi

mt e+*, as i t is most illclsh.ative of the manner in which Mzechanical devices might c w t e s w c k aberrations in the lines of magi&l fovce.

-these ave some methods by which J believe we might be able to entangle &e magickal ene-ies such that they shall pvoduce unusual resulf~, for the wntor-

tion of natural lines ofmagickal energy shall itself cause a contohaon ofthe Cmtion about tfie entanglement, and hence what might be termed an abnormal situation, al&ough magick is, itsel5 natwral. /Much as credting an alchemical $re

causes an abnormal heat, yet all is perfectly natural.

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that the tireless appliccltion of the machine to the task shall be balanced

discrimination, and that the result shall be as efficacious as

any as might be obtained by human will alone. A n d 3 have no training in

magick thvough the application ofthe will besides.

3 do not believe that the magickal energies ave infinite in nature,

in a given time. For although they may gvow, AS does the grass, there is never

a n infinite supply of gwss for the harvesting, either. CJt is unfortunate that the mechanical devices shall consume the magickal energies in the i y i m g of&

bindings, or knots, o r what have you, and therefore that it shall be impossible

to create a permanent magickal effect, for to have a building suppov+ed aloft

on ai5 by means of a magickal contrivance, would be most impressive to all, and a sure construction to draw the curious from across the continent, and bolster trade. And intewst in my works shall be widespvead indeed. 11

jA~other CovMlnissioM to paint a vendition of The Last Supper.

monastery of Santa maria delle Grazie has asked, and the sum he has ofered is most wo.thY, especially in the service of these men ofGod. J

find it somewhat amusing that they wish for me to pla dining hall of their monasteT. Perhaps hey wish the with Our Savior, or pedqaps some of them prefer to think of their bvethven as

3udas. J a m certainly merely jed’ng, here. J p n d the monks most pious indi-

viduals, quite unlike he i r spiritual leader, filexander VI. J look forward gveat-

ly io this task, for Jsha l l endeavor to exceed all my works gone before with

this one, for their benept and approbation. they are suvely most intelligent to

turn to me for such a decoration, as none is my compare.

painting in &e

that they dine

d that the methods of powering the magickal mechanisms which all design a r e few indeed, especially when 3 co esirable that the method of power rely upon living creatures,

like men, or mules, or the like. J have at my disposal water wheels,

and clockwork springs, and muscular effovt as from a team of ho-es. And 3 have counterweights as well, which, with severe gearing and &e assistance

of a clocksmith, J might be able to generate a steady, though small, amount

of f o r e for a lengthy period of time. Of these, only the clockspring is particu-

larly suited to being moved abotct, and the water wh-I not at all.

3 shall have to create new methods of powering these mac

therance of my testing and experimentation.

3 visit from UM old f r i e m d icardo Del Cantone, the philosophe9 is in T=i home in Milano. Good old reliable Ricardo! How often w e sat upon the

cout+yard and practiced our perception of the huma pipit bz) scrutinizing

e first metho It" creation of many knots of magickal force, tying them together by mechanical means, in an endless supply.These knots shall be tied to have n o particular effects; at least 3 know not yet how to e n g a g e them

with effect, however, by their creation, they shall deplete the magickal

potential of the region, cofisuming the magickal energies in a M s e l e s s

fashion, much as a fire in the daytime burns scrap wood to no use other than for its disposal.

( O F t Y C f i L Y U W Y O f l EJVG3flG) iven that J have been able to create an 3ngenium Solaris,

although indeed a faulty and short-lived version, for my own

metallccrgical skills, despite m y learnings, are less than expert, it should be possible, to create an ingenium which shall create

an entire image. Comprised of a series of Jngenia Solarii, each of which contvibutes one portion ofthe image, a shape and projecting a certain color of light, each of which pieces is seen to provide a portion of the whole image. that is, by carefLI arrangement of patches of light a n d color, a n entire

illt-tstration might be made.

-temptation has arisen, that J make my rendering of The Last Supper of

such ingenia, instead of a standard painting. t h i s will ceriainly Cause the rendering to be more detailed, to have a more smoky aspect, &an &e normal

fresco painting method. find, since the vision so created shall be of three-

dimensional nature, i t shall better appear that Our Lord were seated with his

twelve in the very dining hall, which shall be most pvofowndly moving, J a m

sure.

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the entirety of the image shall require a

um, far beeer than J can possibly create here, and would take much time.

Furthermore, i t i s doubtful that the monks, being disposed to follow the writs

of the Pope, will tolerate such a piece of artwovk, being magickally created.

J am instead working with a new and experimental compound, of my own

invention, a paint which shall allow me to take my time, and render t h e Last

Supper in great detail and realism, and with &e smoky pavor which others

have found so appealing in my work. Fresco is

Of &kxgikaI r i e s o ~ u ~ c e i s my belief that the flare of light, or iIIum eratea by the 3 unraveling of one of these magickal knots, is caused by the magickal

resonance of friction as the magickal lines of force pu

much as among mundane ropes, such friction produ

to my best observations, the color of light so disposed a knot shall depend upon its shape, which is to say what additional

shapes are bound into the knot, beyond the basic form which produces light. A n d the aspect of paleness or deepness of the light so produced

against each other,

. shall depend on how much extra of the lines is pulle which is to say, how much slack is afforded the kno

or intensiv, or translucence of the light so created s the tightness of the magickal knot so bound. 3

3 had originally believed that it would be necessa

Jngenia Solarii to cause a detailed image to be created, linked together and carefully arranged. But MOW 3 see that is a single device, an Jmagum

Jllusorius c a n be built to perform the work of many 3ngenia Solarii, by the addition to the Jvlgeniam Solaris of several adjustments, each of which shall affect the creation of the knots which the Jngenium produces at that moment, and, which moving, cause their effects to wax and wane in a peri-

odic fashion.the adjustments ofthis, as Y shall c a l l it, Jmagum Jllusorius, in

their orbit and rotation a b o w t the central portion wherein the magickal knots

are tied, efigender differences between the knots, and hence can b e so cal-

ibrated, through careful a n d studious efforts, to cause an image of any sort

which might be imagined, and the more conscientious the calibration and

alignment of these effectors, the more detailed and pleasing the image shall be to the eye. Given a sufficient speed of operation of the Jmagum

Jllusorius, the rapidity with which the knots a r e tied shall be of such great moment that the created illusion shall not be seen to flicker or pulsate, much as the wings of a hummingbird proceed with such swiftmess that appea r to be a mist, and not solid. O n c e 3 have found a suitable crafisman

here in Milano, perhaps 3 shall pursue this for the pleasure of the Duke, for 3 could create a statue of his father far greater than any 3 could of metal

alone. J n the meantime, 3 shall not build this ingenium, for J find the City Watch makes frequent passes by my w

ince J have demonstrated to my satisfaction, that a n ingeni-

um which shall create a visual image is completely feasible, even within the current limits of technical expertise, although

preferably engineered by o n e more practiced than 3, it shall be likewise possible to create a n ingenium wliich shall manifest a n unre-

ril sound for the hearing a n d entertainment.

This ingenium J most certainly cannot test, for the presence of disem-

bodied voices or sounds which are not seen to Le caused by any natur-

al resource shall indeed cause me to be seized by the authorities and

burned as a spiritist, my reputation for invention notwithstanding. t h e

Jtal ians a re a superstitious lot, love them though Jdo, but they a re

offen obtuse, especially when i t comes to manifestation of experimen-

tation, which they a r e at a loss to explain. Jt i s certain that the average

ept, my explanation peasant would not understand, nor even wish to a

of magickal ingenia, and even were J to make su n undertaking,

they should seize upon the w o r d magickal, and the same fate should

befall me again.

Desig~ of- this Y~ge~icrm he design of this ingenium requires a differing sor t of magickal

knot, which shall be as illustrated here, with the alignment of the gears not in right angles, as with the Jmagum JIIusorius, but instead at

a n angle of sixty degrees, as illustrated here, which shall create the sort

of knot requived.

While the Jmagum JIIusorius should be a visually

necessary that this ingeniwm be of a pleasing sound, that is, that i t b e forged of pmrest metals, a n d carefully engineered that the operation of

the ingenium shall be pleasing a n d not jarriMg to the ear. Jndeed, it must b e a well-turned ingenium, the better to support the noises which shall emanate from it. For myself, 3 believe that silver be the best of

materials, or else brass, both of which are most pleasing when formed

into bell shapes, or carefdly forged to be the stuff of tubular bells or

Germanic glockenspiels. this also requires that the pieces of the Jmagum /Melos be of uniform thickness a n d cross-section, a n d b e test- ed to ring true. Or else that their diminishment in size over the course of

their length b e aga in desiqned for a pleasinq effect to the ear. Glass and

leasing device, it is a

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tion of such a contrivance is carried out, and i t is engaged to operate,

shall cr-eate a great warmth, as though A fire burned in the ai5 but without

scorching.

t h i s i s done by creating knots which produce heat, and not light, as they a p e pulled apart. 3t is possible to -use this to crea te a fire, just as plac- ing a piece of wood on the top of a very hot fu rnace wight cause i t to

ignite, though i t not be in contact with a ~ y actual flame.

J have in mind a method of pvoving great power, for which purpose i t is

unimportant, which relies upon this Jngenium Jnfernus. J call it my Jnferno

ssary to place an Jngenium Jnfernus

era1 version of the water wheel. 9 s the Jngenium Jnfernus operates, which shall have fo be for a lengthy time, and hence shall require a very large and powerflrl mainspring, i t shall cause the water within the sealed contain-

moving against the paddles of the wheel, it shall cause it to rotate. A n d

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Ir been captured at Rapallo, and these prizes which have been captured

might become suitable experiments for Jnferno-empowered vessels, which

shall not then be forced to rely upon oatrsmen o r the winds for their mobility.

But with these prizes tests may be undertaken without removing any ready warships from commission.The design of such a vessel will mean that the Jnferno jMechanism shall propel a sort of water wheel, which instead of

using moving water to propel an engine, i t shall move the engine along sta-

tionary w a t q propelling the ship forward. J n this manner might a vessel

run directly into the wind, without tacking, and escape pursuit, or ovevtake

those sailing vessels which i t pursues . Similavly, while an enemy oarship i l l be forced to contend with the exhaustion of those pulling strokes, the

vessel powered by an Jnferno jMechanism shall find greater energy in the

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' pwtrsuit, for leaving an area where its operation had depleted the local magickal energies shall increase the efficacy of the ingenium. 7

BOOM to jUaMk;Md e Znferno Mechanism c a n also be used for the heating of build- 7? i n g s . t h e pipings which e m a n a t e from the Mechanism itself shall be

distributed about the building, a n d shall convey the steam so produced by %

the Mechanism to the variows rooms. When inside these rooms, the steam

shall be made to pass through an array of thin pipes, the better with which to c a u s e the s t eam to yield M p its heat, a n d condense once more into wate9

whereupon the water shall drain of its own accord, a n d gravity, back to the bottom of the building, there to poMr aga in into the ,Mechanism, where it may be heated once more into steam, in a continuous cycle.

J derive great enjoyment from the fact that Alexander VI i s being &owe to

be ineffective, and cannot even control one fiery Firenzan preacher, while Ferdinand II is waging a very effective campaign against the French. For if i t

were not for his interference, J should be better able io publish these ft'nd-

ings ofmine, and gain by the exchange of ideas with other learned men.

J. .S Jave now heard tell that the French have been defeated utterlyj

that their army has capitulated at Novara, and that CharlesV1II and his soldiers have retreated back into F r a n c e . n i s has shown that Ferdinand I1 has more of God about him than the

entirety of the self-proclaimed Holy League, for they crumbled in battle,

while Ferdinand's troops enacted the will of God by driving the French back home, a n d freeing Jtalia from their tyranny.

J have not heard thai the Pope has made a n omment on the matte

has run its course , a n d CJ a m devoid of new a n d interesting ideas at this moment . this i s met with much approbation on my part, as i t will

give my hands a better c h a n c e to heal, that 3 might not only write, but also continme the painting of’the Last Suppet; which J have had to

postpone temporarily, d u e to the incident of which 3 have already m a d e mention. 8

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the lack of

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my previous invention, to

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which i s simi-

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into dissolution, they radiate coldness, which causes the area about the Jngenium to increase in the amount of coldness i t possesses.-this is done b e c a u s e although the knot is virtually identical to that of those which emit heat, these knots a r e tied in a mannev which, stepwise, i s the opposite of the other; a n d thcts, they emit coldness which infuses the su r -

roctndings, even to the point of smmmoning frost. Or so is my theory.

Jt is to the grea t credit of Duke Lodovico Sforza, of our city, that there is peace once more in fair Jtalia. Perhaps J shall endeavor to

build one ofthese for the Duke, which eforts would make him the most

renowned host in al l the Coniinent, for J a m certain h e would put this

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lar concept, but a differing knot. J n this case, as the knots are driven

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is Jngenium Frigidus is perhaps the most serviceable a

i l e of the magickal inventions which 3 have yet created, and per-

haps as well of those 3 have yet to create, for the more 3 think upon it,

the more it becomes obvious, that this accomplishes an effect which

could aught but be carried out by magickal influence.that is, we have

mundane, or non-magickal, inventions and methods, by which we can

readily produce light, or heat. Or paintings and sculptures. OP beautiful

music. And perhaps each of these methods is more easily accomplished

than the design and engineering and assemblag of a magickal ingeni-

urn, and some have the benefits of social interaction in their accomplish-

ment, as well. But here, with the Jngeoium Frigidus, 3 have created an

effect which is most difficult to obtain, and is far the lighter for the effort,

which is involved in the creation.

hut) in the midst of the city, SAY in Roma,

where i t i s large and thick, and dusty with the passage of many people, and, with the Jngenium Frigidus engaged, in mid-3uly or

August, charge to the passers-by admission

for the opportunity to relax, however briefly) and a cool breeze AS from early spring. J could also sell from the other side of the hut

beverages of any sort) and a l l as cold as

from A mountain stream. Gven including hot tea, although i t would be as if iced.

t h e Jngenium Frigidus can also be used in

f a cold voom, which 3 hereby term a"fbigidatou;"as illustrated

best to isolate it from the heat of the outside, and surrounded by thick stone

or wood, and tlTe walls covered with fmrs. 3 n h i s frigidator might wine and

other foodstuffs be safely stored, and for a great length of time. As no spoilage will occur when the corruption of the heat is done away with.

fi smaller ingenium) but well powered, might also be used to properly

chill a bottle of wine, when events unforeseen necessitate the immediate

replenishment of same when none is to be had. Which would be a great

embarrassment to any host.

of any torch or lantern which i s brought withi

irolamo Savonavola is again the talk ofthe town, even this far

from where he preaches. And, all tliings being taken into con-

sideration, 3 a m most pleased, and shower my kudos upon his name, although J a m cautious to whom 3 divulge my preferc

en-. Friar Savonatbla has been quite no tewohy these past months, and his sermons are always well-attended. 3 myself would attend him speaking

whenever possible, were 3 back in Ptrenze, howeve6 here in jUiIano, my sta-

tion is comfovtable, and the kip to Grenze for a Sabbath s e w o n is too difficult.

fi shame i t is, for word has finally reached here that SavonarOla was actual-

ly oideved to Roma, by the Pope, and =fused to go. tte has stated that, “3t is not the will of God that 3 leave Ptrenze,”or so it is said.The Pope is apparent-

ly most anxious to hear of his divine revelation, with which the friar predicted

dire punishment of the Roman Cutholic ChMrch, and in fact all Ztalia, for the immorality of Pope AlexanderVI, which effects, in fact, are already being felt, in my opinion, for the corruption spreads.

For me, 3 think the presence of highwaymen is more to the tvuth, both in remoti

pa& of3talia and in theVatican itself, but cevtainly obedience to filexander the Borgia cannot b e said to be the will of God, not fvom what 3 have seen

and heard. Other stories have been related to me as well, but 3 find them less

credible. For altlqomgh 3 have it upon reliable resource that Savonawla’s

language is at times colorfLl, there are stories attvibmted to him which 3 sin-

cerely doubt that such a good-hearted and noble gentleman preacher

would ever convey to his pious audience. 3 believe some of these stories

might be deliberate slandevs engendered by those who suppovt the Pope filexanderV1, whom S a ~ o n a ~ ~ l a is most vehement in denouncing.

ut in contemplating these matters, 3 have imagined a new and cre-

ative magickal ingenium/ which could be m s e d to retain Savonawla

within Firenze, Papal edicts to the contvary.this ingeniam sc\all use the

powers of the magickal forces to prevent a person +om cwssing a certain

barrieq which is erected by the power of the ingenimm, for the imprison-

ment. J t shall function not by creating a great steel wall, for although 3 a m

certain it i s possible, 3 have m o t yet developed my theories enough to admit

such an invention, but instead by the impressing of a state of mind upon

those subject to its influence, that they s t o m t l y and without reserve believe

that they may not cross the barrier so presented. Francesca is always fond

of saying that only that which one believes is impossible truly is impossible,

therefore this ingenium shall make those people within its grasp believe exit is so, and it shall be so.

mation to thirteen.'there shall be a gvouping of numerical arrangement plates as is necessary for the calculations expected fvom the Jngenium.

tl?e method of operation ofthe Jngenium upon the numbevs given is enacted

by the dial set to the right ofthe nccmerical plate, which can be set for addi- tion, subtraction, multiplication, division, &c.

A M d iM Wutbevs most Lmporal ope Alexander VI forbade Friar Savonarola from the pulpit earlier 13 this year, well before Gaster. J wonder if i t might be possible to

design a more complicated Jngenium Gnocereus, which shall be pos-

sessed of a capacity more akin to personal intellect. J n this fashion, might Savonarola speak with the Jngenium, and give the device homiletic coaching and explanation, and then let the Jngenium itself speak from the pdpit in his stead. no, while i t may be possible, J do not believe that Firenzan churchgoers wil l consent to being lectured by a machine, espe-

cially affer their lengthy exposure to the passionate and theatrical Savonarola. Jt is a pity, however, for the Jngenium would have no fear of

excommunication, execution, or the like. Jt may, however, be said that Savonarola likewise evinces no such feaps. 4

J n a similar manner to this Jngenium, it should be possible to create a n

Jngenium Fatidicus, which, by means of a variety of protrusions, not unlike the antennae of insects, shall detect the present weather conditions about, and calculate the future weather conditions which shall occur. 'these cal- culations shall be based upon what the surroundings are currently like, for

i t is evident that there is a cause for al l weather. And this Jngenium shall be able to make those calculations, and predict, for example, that here shall be rain, which a human being canno6 at least not until the rain has begun to fall. 5

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is now the Sunday after Gaster, and while attending services this

that the Fiar Savonavola has continued to cause grief to the Pope. the story i s that Savonarola, despite being enjoined from preach-

ing, cont in~ed to do so all thvough Lent, and with more passion and fervor than before, as he is now quite fiwly considered to be a leading figure in the

city. Why, i t appeaw that the entire city of Rrewze shall rally unto him and

tmrn i t s back upon this Pope, and not a moment too soon, for my opinion, for

this Alexander i s so vile, that to tmrn away from him is to embrace God. 3t is time that these protestevs sought to reform the church. Bcct 3 wonder what

for very much longer.

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no o n e knows), has been wed to juana of Castile. t h a t is, the daughter

of King Ferdinand and Queen Jsabella of Spain.

f ind this so shortly after the discovery of the flew World by the Spanish expedition, 3 would not b e surprised if i t i s jus t for this V ~ A S O M that l\/taximilian a r r anged the marriage, for it is well known that he, a t labsburg, seeks to expand his family's power. t labsburgs have ruled

the tIo1y Roman Empire since, 3 believe, 1438, a n d have held thrones

about the continent for nigh OM 300 yLars. ZJf juana is to bear to him a

son, then i t shall be'cevtain that a t labsburg shall also sit upom the throne of Spain. J a m not certain that 3 apprec ia te this effort, for cer-

tainly the more power the family holds the more g rave the situation for

the entire continent. For in m y opinion, no squabbles a r e so grand or

vicious as those within one family, a n d a family s q u le of this nature would be so broad in scope as could embroil all of us.

P Columbus, &c., shall b e the sole purview of Spain , the Jnter

Cete ra Divina notwithstanding, nor even paid heed, a n d that therefore

rhaps jVIaximilian hopes that the entire new discoveries of

the power of the t labsburg family will thence be extended across the

Akl Yklgekliclm most Pleasiklg e r e it is, as illustrated upon these pages, althoctgh the materials t thereof must be of a most pleasing manner to the eye, which is to say

any gold present, and all metals used in the construction should b e of

gold, must be most highly polished, and smooth of surface. And that the wood, which is used in areas , must needs be carefully sanded as though

to a mirror, and layered with several applications of lacquer, that i t be smooth and glossy, as well as d e e p and lusterful to the eye.T&e operation

a w d aiming of the Jngenium shall be done in a manner much similar to

that of the Jngenium jE\udiforius. Howevev) as the funnel brings back visu-

h t l a n t e a n Ocean.

J have also noted that Frederick 111 i s now c ing of jVaples. may he have a long a n d glorious reign well into the next millennium.

Whatever the c a u s e of the arrangement of the marriage, i t is certain that is was a splendid affaiu; a n d o n e which 3 had hoped to see, for the pageantry. Perhaps 3 shall spend some time, MOW, as i t is raining out-

side, and quite heavily, to postulate a n Jngenium Vedereus, which could do jus t that, by creating a funnel for visions which may be piped back from afaq as though they w e r e water.

al images, and not those of sound, the aiming shall be much facilitated, wi& visctal references for assistance. t h i s also means that for those OM

one side of the ingenium, they shall see in one direction, while those upon

the other shall see from the opposite side. So that it may be necessary for

all attending to the images directed hereto by the magickal effects shall set themselves upon the same side of the inqenium, for viewinu.

o much has happened already this yea5 it is indeed trouble- some. Worst of all calamities, is the news +m Firenze and the

-Vatican, where the spiritual struggle has raged, since the

L, Dominican GiroIamo Savonarola first began to speak, in a

who poses to b e n e Pope fileyanderV1, has struck a blow against him, that is, Savonarola, and all those who attend his church, and 3 a m certain

attendance has never been be t tq nor more regulaq than of late.n\e Pope

notewovthy fashion, for the last five or ten years. find now: Rodrigo Borgia,

has ordered Savonarola to surrender to his autlqori% to answer for his continued preaching, in spite of the fact of his excommunication.

Worst upon this, i s that the Pope has leveled a threat against all Firenze,

which, as 3 witmess is this: that the ent i re city of Firenze, or perhaps it i s

the ent i re Republic, for the sins of their capital, shall b e placed and held under interdiction, until s M c h time as they yield up Savonarola to be sacri-

ficed. fis this news w a s old when i t reached my ears, i t is certain that he has already suwevxdered, 1

J have now heard that he has indeed given himself u p to the civil authorities

in Firenze, and they have dutifully, though 3 am certain with great regret,

turned him over to the auspices of the Roman Catholic Church. 3 have

heard that he has been s e n t back to Roma, to face the old holy hog himself.

M t on top of everyihing else, 3 hnve heard that there i s also a famine in I3 Firemze! How c a n this be? 3s there no God? Cuuld He actually invoke

His wrath against Firenze at the behest of one like Rodrigo Borgia, Pope ' though he be? J t cannot be so! But a famine there is, and all those 3 know in

1 Firenze are reported to b e going hungry, and suffering for it. find 3 know that many fear the Wrath of God for the supposed sins of that Dominican.

3 e* Perhaps i t has been unseasonably dry, or hot, or the rain has trampled down the c v o p s . Or perhaps there have been floods, which have

killed the grains. 3 do not know, and the information 3 have garmered

+om travelers whom 3 have met in the taverns and public shops are dif- ferent stories, all sworn t r m e .

Perhaps it is that the Pope has also quietly ordered merchants to avoid

selling foodstuffs to Firenze under pain of eternal damnation, or perhaps

they have enacted this oftheir own accord, having themselves witnessed

the impending threat of interdiction, and thence avoiding the city at all

costs, so save their own sorry hides, in such case as interdiction might

come. t h i s is a logical conclusion, that the Firenzen countryside has not

d, but has instead been robbed of its food by th

I

have had no reliable reports on the climate in firenze, nor the wenth-

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A m 3 m g e m ; u W L Perma~utlAs stead, 3 shall consider a lesser version of this, a n Jnge~ ium

rmuiaftts, which shall not alter the substance of the mattev; but merely

its manifestation.-this i s a different matter entirels and may be accomplished

with this constvuction, where the plate which is inserted into the i ~ g e ~ i u m shall cause the material, whatever it may be, to be altered in shape to &e new fom,

according to the carving ofthe plate.ne material to be altered must be placed in the center ofthe spherical chambe3 using a support to hold it there,

if such is ~CXESSAVY for small or limpid objects. With this, might a bmken sword be made as new, a large block of cheese evenly divided into pevfect cubes, or

scraps of wood be made into the best of tvays. 3 is possible, as well, 3 believe, kat a bowl ofgraiw and yeast and water be made into a loa$ w d y for the baking, or possibly that a small cat be made into a large rat, though for what pctrpose 3 cannot imagine. Perhaps &e reverse woctld be bettecz 6

ve just had word back from Ricardo Del Cantone, in Firenze.

as, the philosopheu; although persuasive in his arguments and vig- orous in his presentation, was unable to sway the city coctncil of Firenze.

t h e y have had enough of trouble with the Holy Roman Catholic Church,

and although 3 a m there revered, the final decision was that, the ingeMium

i s said to work through the transference and manipalation of magickal

powers, which, they believe, is sorcery, which i t is not, for sorcery is a black magic.yet sorcery, by papal bull, has been condemned, and the city shall not avail itself of this technology for the mitigation of their famine, for they wish not to run afoul of the Pope again, and risk interdiction once more..

Ricardo has said im his message that some present tkoctght to fuvther

appease the Pope by revealing to him my dabblings in these experiments,

blnt that he was able to discourage such a C O L W S ~ of action. 3 a m glad to have such a friend as Del Cantone.

T OntinMe to be a w a z e d at the arrogance of our AIexaHderVI. No, he i s not ours really, he i s a Spaniard, for no Jtalian that 3 know could act with shch an unashamed abandon, and so fla- grantly violate the laws of ethics. Here 3 have had news that the

Pope has annulled the marriage of Lctcrezia of the Borgias, to Giovanni

Sforza.that which the Pope himself arranged is now annulled! H e has, with a Pick of his ringed hand, declared that all that has happened

between Ciiovanni a n d Lucrezia has never occurred! As if he had the power to rewrite history.

-they were only married fow years ago. 3 witnessed the ceremony.they

entered togethev the bridal suite, after much E.,,elry of course, a n d have

been together since. And MOW the Pope is going to pretend for all time that these events never occurred. 3 must wondeu; what of their consummation?

Does this annulment of the marriage make Lucrezia into an adulteress? O r has that been swept away by divine license as well? Perhaps she is a virgin

anew. Next, the Pope may annul the fact that the wind blows. What then? And at all this, he still has the audacity to have Savonarola arrested. 3 hear he is to stand trial, but 3 have no hopes that right will win out, for he is indeed a devilish Pope. 3t may be blasphemy to say it, for the Pope is

held to be infallible'by the grace of God, but it is true, and 3 shall say it. 3 shall not, however; repeat it to others.

Ah' fruit. For no sooner is Lctcrezia's marriage annulled, than she is

betrothed to Alfonso of Napoli. Her father and brothers kick her about like

a ball on the street! And with as much concern for her happiness, or well-

being. Or her respect, for J am certain that in the upper circle of society

she is now looked upon as a doing or a prize horse, to be had for favors to

the Pope. Ah, 3 am incensed.

now the plot is seen to thicken, and the plans of the Pope to bear

Of the F'mi-e f i g a i m have been wondering of late ofthis famine in Firenze.There has been a 3 papal bull against sovcery, which is now in its thirteenth offourteenth

year. And who better to know about sorcery than the Pope, who is the great

leader in the war against deviltry? And they say a man must know his enemy

All of this has caused me to wonder at the fortuitous timing of this famine

which tortures my people. Jt cannot be the will of God, and the possibility of

a coincidence of this sort is far to remote. 3 believe, then, that it is the Pope

himself, who has caused &ere to be a famine, by exercise of black arts.

Small indeed the chance he would be caught, when all other practicing

sorcerers have abandoned their craft or fled across the Mediterranean.

find none would dare question him, at least not in the publ' IC square.

3- eHgiure f i g a i m s t S o r c e ~ y o contest this, 3 shall here illwstrate the construction of an ingenium T which shall detect and destroy any such evil spells which are cast into

its protective encirclement.The diffcul* of this creation is that it must be of

a different construction of the aspects of magick, that is, a fundamental

ingevrimm cannot be designed, for both the aspect of magick against which

one seeks protection must by its very nature be itself employed in the

defense, and because the knots which are produced of the ingevrimm must

be constrmcted of a manner in which best to employ the auspices of each

aspect in the withstanding of assaults. For example, the knots prodmced by the forces of nature must be stout and inflexible, while those which seek to

mitigate the magicks of the mind are more slippery, like unto slipknots, and

malleable.therefore, you need to build a different ingevrium to defend against each different sphere of magick. 7

have not been a b l e to apply much effort to this Codex, in

recent weeks, as J have been embroiled in the completion of

The Last Supper in the monastety, a n d a mighiy task i t is. Gqxxially since 3 am assailed by the most effervescent a n d

odors o f the monks’culinary skills all the day, while J a m at work. J am most definitively favored of plain a n d simple cookery. t h e monks here are most kind a n d gracious hosts, a n d Godly men, and 3 believe 3 have put on a hearty girth in the months,

which J have been at work upon this project.

At last J c a n see the completion of he pai-tin

a month more or so to see it throccgh, so 3 sha aside to finish this employment. 3t is cx bea have ever done. 3 am most pavticularly praud efthe composition of he entire

assemblage of disciples. A n d of O u r Lord Himself, J humbly believe hat even He would find the vended

shall fake me but and other works

J a m most pleased.

J t is finished. J am going back out to the plaza, for Giovanni, bless his doughty heart, i s relieved to see me completed at %e monaster3 that J might design fuvther buildings, in jVIilano, for to challenge his skills, and has vowed to drink me under the table this evening, in celebration.

am cursed above all people. t h i s is a horrendous occurrence. no J sooner have J completed my masterpiece at the monastery, than 3 discover that my most inventive experimental compound, that with which

J coated the walls of the monastevy, the beiter to hold the paiat, a n d

allow m e to work in light a n d shadow, in m y smoky technique, which i s

MOW famous, for the betterment of realism, that this compound is a fail-

ure! Ah! maria incarnate! What ignominy! zt has begun to peel itself

away from the walls, curling itself up into flakes as a damaged insect,

a n d carrying a w a y my work of these past three years upon its feckless back to the floor. Why, dear God in Heaven, why? 3t worsens, every day, 3 c a n see it. Others cannot, they am envisioning the worst, that i t i s but the slightest bit worse, a n d shall soon stop, for certain, but J c a n see it. 3 see students of art, a n d monks,

stand about, a n d render my work for themselves, for their own experi- e n c e a n d s t w d y , a n d 3 know that soon theirs &a e only executions of my masterpiece left upon this Earth. J a m torn een asking them to hurry, to complete their studies of my art, befor instead asking them to be patient, a n d copy i t

preserve the image a n d color for postdty. 3

tain that 3

~ eye poked asunder, for carelessness. J n my brown

moods, J a m likely to be careless.

ing to the labels given, of durationj pace or swiftness of

' color o r in shades ofgrayj and temporal basis, or when in

including fear, love, a n d enjoyment, a n d

' J have not the funds at this tim e patience, to cre-

potentially, neither shall work.

(jVWDflESS EflGYNE)

at 3 were not forced to endure all that has transpired! J have just now learned of the fate which has befallen the Dominican friar GiroIamo Savonarola , a n d 3 am outraged! 3t

of Pope Alexander VI, a n d to forever silence the voice, of Sauonarola,

which called him to task for his e)ccesses, a n d his sins! 3 a m

certain that this ecclesiastical

court, which has convicted

Sauonarola , must to a man be poisoned of the mind by the Borgia Pope, OIL else be wracked with guilt for having

man as Sauonarola . But, no, they shall surely mollify their consciences with the fact that lie did indeed preach, despite beiwg

banned from so doing by the

Jt shall render the subject with incoheent thought, in compensation for which, the brain will be forced to rely upon those instinctive behaviors, which, given

the sinful naiiire of man, and &e Pope especially, shall be akin to madness.

3f the operator of the device were to mount it upon a central axle, which should spin the ingenimm about as it operated, then the ingenium

shall have effects upon all who stand about it, such that it might strike

a n entire crowd with the frenzy. Pe rhaps 3 should build many of these, a n d secret them inside crates a n d wagons about Roma, a n d drive the entire city into the madness which lives incarnate in thevat ican. 3

erhaps J am being too cruel. Better still, instead of inflicting chaos if3 upon the recipient, to implant more coherent though$ by means of

controlling the subject. t h e n J c o u l d have the Pope fall upon his own

sword.

t h e settings must be made

operation. t h i s J do not recommend, for if the alignment i s careless, the

subject may be able to cast off the efects. no, this shall never work, for

rehand, or else carefully aligned during

the Pope does not car ry a sword, cursed be his clerical restrictions. 4

(YjWPARtED ]\/207JOjV EjVGYjVE) ow many months now, has it been, since 3 have browsed

through this Codex? 3 a m not certain, for 3 a m not in the habit of dating my thoughts, but instead of returning to past pages a n d inscribing additional ideas or illustrations as

od. 3 do not therefore know. J t has indeed been a long

time, however., judging by the last entries which 3 made upon these pages, a n d by the dust which has accumulated, upon these pages, betwixt that d a r k time a n d now. 3 have healed myself of my grief, and despaiu; a n d self-reproach for the loss of t h e Last Supper, for lose it 3 shall, eventually, but for the nonce, it s tands still, a n d elicits much inter-

est a n d excitement, among the peoples of&lilano, a n d all those who

travel to view it. 3t is a very good painting, a n d more poignant still that it fades, even before our eyes. 3 t is in that fashion, much like a summer.,

which we shall never se

A11 must eventually pas this Carth, and it i s simply my i l l fortune,

that 3 shall see this pass, or at least begin to do so. flow 3 c a n better

understand the grief of those who, through calamitous accident, lose

one of their children, before they are grown.

ain, as i t fades to autumn.

JR new Conazption shall move ahead upon these theories, and build new ingenia, with 3 which to harness 1 forces which envelop the globe in

with spikes, for the impaling of

made of a size large enough to scale city walls without assistance of

ladders o r siege towers, and would be stout enough to resist everything

short of a direct str ike with a cannonball, a n d then only if the artillerists used an increased charge of powder. 6

be able to move

properly arranged, the barrel of the cannon

ould be elevated to angles far higher

propel explosive shells, as rain,

over the battlements and down upon

the heads of the enemy.

Upon the defensive, in the resistance

of a siege, the Jngenium Vaderus can

be used to deceive the enemy, as to

the strength of the city garrison. t h e ingenium shall be connected by tortuous linkages, to a plethora of spears

and pikes and other arms, placed about the wal ls for the city, and set to

waving in the sun by the action of the ingenium.

n this fashion shall the garrison appear to b e doable o r more its si

and the enemy, set to inaction for fear of the great garrison which appears apon the walls, may b e se t ctpon by sarprise by the trcte garrison

of the city, and destroyed.

' there a r e less savage applications of this Jngenium Vaderus, as well. Jt may be set to any task required. Jt may be used in the plowing of

land, for example, when applied t9 an automaton similar to this design:

(TejU-POTIJ\L EjVG3jVE)

c o u r s e of recent events. Relations between the Duchy of

Milano a n d France are strained, a n d J fear that Lodovico El Moro, despite all that h e has done for his people, will head into

yet another fruitless w a r much to the dilapidation of the Duchy in general.

3 have taken my leave, to pursue a sabbatical in my home city of Firenze,

Most JIIustrious Duke himself, to render his wife, Jsabella d’Este, for

the purpose of posterity, a n d presumably so that he might be able to rem-

all beneath its feet, for even the pyramids, though they s tand yet, show

the deleterious effects of time, as does the most regal profile of the

along with it, as though down a stream, o r instead an aqueduct, which

cor\struct an ingenium which shall overcome the natural current of time,

which is to say s tand fast against i ts flow, such that it might be seen to c a u s e time within its effect to stand s t i l l . 3

Ofcourse, it i s obvious that an ingenium which is to be used for the stoppage of the flow of time must of course constrain the operator with- out exception, for i t shaN encompass all around. However, it is also readily seen that the interior of the ingenium i tselfmay not be affected

by the rnagickal bindings upon the times, but instead be allowed to

operate freely, for if the ingenium does not experience the passage of

time, i t may not operate, hence time will not be stopped, and a conun-

drum or paradox becomes evident. t h e workings of the interior mecha-

nism ofthe ingenium must thus be shielded against the magickal

t -. .

sure, a n d the magickal re nts thereunto would be certain to pre- clude the employment of my 3nferno mechanism to the generation of sucl

strengths, as the Jnferno mechanism itself has need of magickal power

such as shall b e consumed in the reversal of time.

3 find 3 have no theoretical or observational basis upon which to deduce the effects of such a temporal treversal, except perhaps to believe that the images seen through such a portal would themselves be mere images, the stuff of dreams, in much the same manner that when we remember events, the people whom are seen to occupy our memo-

ries are not the true flesh a n d blood relations w e know. J n a like man-

ner, J hope that by reversing time, w e do not c a u s e people to exist in

any real manner within the field, for such would be an impossibility, they being extant elsewhere, a n d very much alive.

0 creation of a means of preserving the life of one ill o r mortally

wounded until such time as a chirurgeon might be found to administer a

remedy. J n this fashion, the patient is lain upon a table, beneath which the ingenium processes its magickal knots. Then, when the chirurgeon

appears, and all is in readiness, the Jngenium may be halted, and the healing commence.

Jt becomes obvious that for this ingenium, a timed method of empower-

ing the unit is requi~ed, or else that a shielded line of control from the

operator of the Jngenium, be extended through the time-stopping

efects, and to the fundamental source of operation. dsewise, i t will be impossible to control the function of the machine, but merely to allow i t to run its course, until at last i t winds down, spent of power, fop any

who endeavored to penetrate the magickal restraints would find their

time, too, had been halted in its flow, and they would be unable to halt

ne conceivable u s e for the Jngeniumtempora l i s would be in the

the 3ngenium's progress. 5

(3IVTGGR3Ty C N G Y N E ) am now visiting Venezia, the city of the canals, and have passed many an enjoyable hour tomring at the whim of the gondoliers,

a n d attending the ballets. 3t is a beautifml city, and 3 enjoy my 3 recreation here greatly, but the days are soured with the talk of

the war which has broken out between theturkmen of the Ottoman

Empire and fairvenezia.

t h i s darkening of my relaxation i s doubled by word of the defeat of the fleet at Sapienza, although 3 have heard so many varied stories that 3 ai

unsure which are true. Verily do these common Jtal ians embellish every

story, for J have heard the same person inflate the drama of his discoutrst

over the short span of one day, and he swore that fleet at Sapienza! A4ayhap he was there indeed,

head, that he has gone silly.

J t i s painful to m e to hear of the defeat of the fleet, with so

was struck upon the

being upon the coast, where any barbarous i n may put ashore. With this concern in mind, 3 went to the shipyard to speak with the shipwrights,

and to endeavor to find the truth of the matter. As it befell, when 3 arrived,

they were in the process of keeling a vessel for th and they were putting about the task in a most un

ke of repairing her, ly and inefficient

manner, that 3 had to exclaim, as though to children, my astonishment.

to which exclamation, more than one of the workers at the d great offense, and brandished a boathook with which

extort an apology out of me, or blood, or perhaps bot nately recognized by a learned man, who c

3 must remind myself to hold to my tongue

the future with seamen, for they are roguish rapscall'

After speaking with the shipwright, for such my defender turned out to be, J designed for them a system of lines and pulleys ly tvansfer the forces of their strength against the s

will more effective-

which effovts they were most gratefi.1, and tveated rancid establishment 3 have ever had the displeas bread was quite coa-ely ground, and the beef wa though i t had been hacked off the cow with a halberd. And the wine is best left without description, especially the way 3 feel this morn.

inner, at the most

hile inspecting the damage to the vessel, of which 3 knew little, as 3 have m a d e no serious study of n a ~ t i c a l sciences, i t occ

thut a magickal ingenium emplaced upon a vessel could be used to enhance its durability in battle, most specifically against the power of an enemy ves-

sel stviking i t in the side, below the waterline, with a vam. A different ingeni-

um would have to be used to protect the vessel, against attack by Greek fire, o r other pyrotechnical assaults, b m t J shall here work upon an

Jngenium Jfitegritas, which will be employed in the defense against raws,

collisions, and bombardments, and would also be useful were the vessel to be plying t w c h e r o u s waters, where there might be rocky s

sctrface of the water, invisible reefs, 8tc.

t h e method by which the ingenium sC\all work will into a webwork, l i k e undoing a net or fabric, the gleaned by watch those skilled at knitting, and in

webworks, one contained completely within the (of which 3 have one here before me) has an inn

glass, and i s hollow, yet the inner and outer SM

like manner shall the webworks of magickal

the otheu; yet be separ the hull of the vessel, which they in turn shall press upon, the better with which it shall keep its shape, as any attack by bombardment or ram shall have to overcome the durability of the magickal

net as well as the stvength of the hull of the ship.

Agaiurst the 'timkmeur o afford any efect, this ingenimm must by means be very well powered, T as to protect a vessel against the hostiliiy of theTurkmen or the irve-

sistibiliiy of an underwater rock, half-measures will be woefully inadeqmate.

any vessel upon which this ingenimm might be employed, is neces-

sarily a larger vessel, and therefore may admit to a larger source of power

for this ingenicrm, for its increased efects, of which 3 believe a mundane

revision of my previous Jvlferno mechanism for empowerment might well be adequate, for although such a motivator is unforgiving of damages inflicted

upon it, i t shall be protected within the interio9 below decks, of a magickally

reinforced hull of a n Jtalian-built warship, and there is no place more safe

than that. Previous incidents at Sapienza notwithstanding.

This will require that a f i v e or some alchemical source of heat b e employed

below decks, but as 3 understand that fire is likewise used by a ship's cook, 3 cannot see that here would be any objection to such an equippage. the

only difficulty arises in that if it were necessary, d M e to the great length of a

protvacted naval battle, to buvn for consumption unimpovtant portions of the ship itself, the stvength of the ingen;crm's magick would prevent even hardy

sai1ov.s +om prying ornamental planks or woodwork from the hull to be burned. Mpon the other hand, i t should be noted that should the ingenium run

completely out of fuel and cease to function, i t is likely that the vessel in

sHch a grave position shall take damage from the enemy, which shall cause

here to be an immediate supply of scrap and flammable woodstmffs. 6

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per 3 had completed the design of my Jngeniuwr Jmtegritas, 3 r e t ~ ~ n e d to the docks to display my invention to the shipwright

who favowd my cause when J fret visit& that place. Sad13 he was not receptive to my ideas fov the impmvement ofthe s, and in fact was appalled at the idea of employing a five-pow-

ered version of my Jnferno mechanism below decks of a warship engaged in

battle. He could not see that the Jngenimm Jntegritas would protect itself,

and with itself also &e cww a m d the ship herself, +om enemy activities as

well as the mechanism's fire. J t i s perhaps as well; here are significantly

fewervenezian warships now, and a given one which were to employ my

Jmgenimm JMtegritas has a greater chance of being caphtred by theTurkmen,

at which time w e should see all &e vessels of the Ottoman &+re invincible.

The Lost

734s ingenium = l i e s upon the technique of infising additional life energies into he subject even as these energies ave extinguished by whatever means.The heat+ being the mmcle which pumps these enevgies abomt the bo& it is most necessavy

that the ingenium be held within close pvoximify to the heat+, or else that the inge- nium be of lavge design. 7

Swll ingenia

exceedingly stiff steel, and pvotected against water or whatever elements might

impede i t s fCcnction. So made, the ingenium shall allow the weclrev being the peec son affeded by i t s mgickal infctsions, to opemte in places under water, or wheve there m a i n s but only bad ai9 as in a mine shap OF in a building ablaze. tIew 3 must tell that the ingenium only pvotecis the vital ovgans from beiy destv0ye.d by suffocation or poisons; it shall not provide any pvotection against the inferno, which

be safely opemted by clockwork, with a mainspring of

hall dive+ axme the weaver's flesh to be roasted until it no longer fctnctions,

althowh the weare? by the grace of my ingenium, shall not be ovecow\e by the smoke before the fire.

a larger version, this ingenium might be d to power a ship which would

h ~ v e l under the waves as do whales and &er fish. Pockets of air must be m i n t a i d in cases ofmevgen- and to allow forthe maintenance ofthe

ingeuium itself, as well as any smaller ingenia which might be used for personal depavtuves from the vessel for explomtion, &c. Such a ves-

the CWoman Empire, and thence sewe to launch mines,

which shall goat up, a d ax- brecldes to the keel

'this undersea vessel has a n

advantage ovev my pevious

design for a non-magickal

submersible cr~lfi, wheve-

&is vessel is not vul-

erable to having its

W C k S O P o t h e r

yf the sea, as its magickal effects preclude ti$

inside the craff. 8

Stat ionary edifices may a Is0 be constmcted,

sion of the windmill common in the lowlands

/vetherlands, which mill, by using the force

upon it, might afford a comfortable living environment without unduly depleting the area of magickal potential, and

ne vepc

ing the occupants in IuXury. 9

ith this ingenium, it might also b e pos great heights, where the air become

normal human endt-trance, and thence to e

inventions. This modification of my previous JngeniMm

Sustentaculus, which, by inuerting the ratios a n d realigning the mecha-

nisms to work in the reverse ordeq would from those surrounding, c a u s e

the vital force to be depleted, instead of held buoyant. J n this fashion, tlqe crowds would grow weary before they colnld bombard me with their praise, a n d 3 should have a moment’s peace. 10

New Work to C o m m e m c e is a better day, now, a n d my temperament is less stormy than i t

was in the previous days, for surely MOW 3 reap the benefits of my

fame in this town. Firenze is building a new hall to house her city council,

and the government has retained me to decorate the walls of the new

edifice with my works, representing the many Firenzen victories on the field of battle. 3 n light of recent events, 3 cannot resist but to base my first work upon the Battle of Anghiari, wherein Firenzen forces defeated the Milanese army some sixty years previous. 3 have cartooned this work, a n d a m pleased by my initial resfilts, of tense a n d fervent soldiers,

hovses rampant, a n d clouds ofdlnst kicked up by the tumult. 3 shall have

to revise the plans, howeveu; a n d find a Letter method of working than

fresco. 3 have in mind a new paint which should suffice my needs.

/My high repute has also attracted the attentions of several young and

aspiring gentlemen, each of whom hopes to paint as J do. Raffaelo Santi

shows promise, but J find that Andrea del Sarto is yet too young. J have a/% that one ,Michelangelo Buonarroti is interested in my

I

heard complimentary reports about his statues of Bacchus, a n d Pie+& at

St. Peter’s. J myself shall withhold judgment until J can see his work personally, which J shall be able to do, since J a m told he also has been commissioned to help to decorate the hall of the city council.

ut my work on this painting has led me to think of warfare, and what J c a n perhaps accomplish for the betterment of the welfare of the

soldiers of Firenze, a n d J have devised another variation upon the theme

elucidated by my Jngenium Sustentaculus, which, by infusion of vital enev-

gies into the body of one wounded or ill, as from battle or plague, and

focused in the manner by which the Jngenium Jntegritas effects its

works, shall c a u s e the decrepitude to be flushed from the patient’s sys- tem, that they might spring whole a n d hale from their beds anew.

J t is J fear a most difficult ifigenium to design a n d calibrate, for insuf-

ficient infusion of vitality will not have the desired effect, while J believe an excessive infusion will c a u s e the i l l person to evoke such a

fever as might prove fatal, or else to feel cured of all i l l s while yet uuhealthy, that is, a wounded man might feel so vital that he arise from

the chirurgical table a n d walk away, with his arm yet dangling from the socket, a n d bleeding, which would be most unseemly.

r the most accurate imparting of the effects into the ailing person, the effects of the ingenium must be conveyed with a wrapping woven skill-

fully of gold a n d silken threads, which may cover the patient all around, as

though a cocoon or a sh roud . the silk should be of the brightest and most

cheerful colors available, that the patient may not believe a shroud it i s

indeed, a n d thereby panic a n d damage the ingenium, which is very delicate by nature and design, and poorly-disposed to abrupt shocks or motions.

t h i s is because of the fact that the ingenium itself must be blown of

glass, so as to afford itself to b e perfectly unreceptive of the energies it

produces, for any build-up, whether in the ivrgenium or of the surround-

ings themselves, c a n c a u s e a wave, which, suddenly imparted upon the patient by whatever circumstance, c a n be deleterious in effects. 6 s yet J know of no J ta l ians so well-versed in the art of glass blowi-g that 3 deem them skilled enough to undertake the prodcrction of eccentric

gears a n d precision-cast meclqanicat contrivances. Perhaps J c a n per- s u a d e the government to announce a reward for whichever artist c a n

produce the best blown-glass clockworks, a n d then employ that person in the production of this most merciful Jngenium C u r a r e ~ s . 11

O n e final word of warning: t h e machine itself must not only be of glass,

but it m M s t also necessarily be kept fastidiously clean. t h i s cleanliness i s

not for the pleasure of the patient, for certainly his awareness will likely not proceed past the wrappings in which he is laid, but for the prevention of any build-up of magickal potential upon the engine itself 12

invention, a n

enced a n d skilled in artifice.there was q u i t e some argument among

those present upon which of these worthies stood indeed above the oth- ers, a n d while the debate gvew more heated, J quietly excused myself

a n d paid a call upon o n e of the gentlemen whose name had ar isen fre-

eppone 3 fouiZd a most interesting a n d energetic character., a n d he 73 a g r e e d at o n c e to build a machine to my specifications. H e seemed

a most curious man, a n d never ceased moving the entire time w e spoke,

not even to partake of wine, which he did while working ~ p o n his lathe, a custom which J found mildly alarming. 3 gave him a n advance sum,

have no doubts but that he shall complete the project in the stated time.

t h i s is the evening of the day M p o n which he began his labors, so 3 shall

m y hands.

the combination to bear a great rock aloft. T h e kite shall cause the assemblage to drift in a downwind direction, while t h e Jngenium shall

hold the missile aloft. By manipulating the kite from the ground, i t shall be possible to aim the rock most accurately. By a calculation employing the triangle formed by the string of the kite, the elevation of the kite, and the angle of elevation of the kite string itsel5 the true distance from

the holder of the string to the city may be readily calculated, and the rock sighted along the string to drop where i t wil l.

Great calamity Befulls is a most calamitous effect which has resmlted from Camillo’s engi- 3 neering my ingenium. the technician has taken the presumption of

testing his skills by powering the ingenium, befove informing me of the completion of his labors. 3 can only assume that he had the device

switched to maximum effect, since that w a s the position in which J

and only two of each kind, each with a forwards and backwards mech-

anism, J can ensure that rival inventors shall not be able to steal each ofhers' letters, saving only by theft of the competitor's Jngenium Perplex us. 2

e Jngenium shall be equipped with several quills, e a c h well- 't" equipped with ink, according to the design for an improved quill,

which J have in another Codex around, though 3 cannot find i t at this moment.3 t h e s e quills shall b e set in a free-floating manne9 balanced as

illustrated here, to be manipulated by the magickal energies caused by the written parchment passing into the center of the ingenium. t h e s e quills must be most finely balanced, as to react to the slightest pressure,

for surely the pressLtres engendered by the magickal field of the ingenium

shall be delicate indeed. A n d the ingenium must be operated on a solid stone flooq in a sealed room free from drafts, o r insects, a n d the operator

mtmt remain perfectly still, lest h e also reduce the ingenium's work to nonsense by jarring one o r more of the quills. A n d an Jngenium Solairs

must be built inside, to illuminate the pages as they are encrypted.

Jt is also possible to send drawings encoded, as the magickal opera- tion of the Jngenium only encodes the pvesence of lines; the Jngenium

Perplexus knows not a line of a letter from a line of a drawing, hence

drawings and illustrations shall likewise be reduced to nonsense.

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t h e sheets of parchment upon which the enciphered marks shall be m a d e must be fed individually, however. For items which are of utmost

importance, such as messages sen t to clever agents operating in for-

eign cities, there c a n be attached several thin blades, which shall reduce the original parchment to ribbons. B u t 3 need not this me

of security, for 3 intend to make several copies of my Codex, twenty or

more, for the selling, although each shall also be given with an J n g e n i ~ m PerplexMs, which shall at once pro

No, this 3 c a n n o t do, for i t would break me, o

a n d prove my work.

e the fees which 3 would be forced to levy upon those, who are interested in my book, to

pay, would drive them away, a n d again 3 shall ha to share my enthusiasm. 3 shall have to publish thi course, certain comments edited out, to avoid the find also, 3 shall leave certain ingenia out of thi the Viu Peregreus. the copies shall be ready in

have thought again upon the effects of magnetic axes o f f o v c

curved across the landscape from one end of the earth to other. ;In this 3 recalled my visit tovenezia, where the ca

are plied by boatsmen, a n d where 3 saw gondoliers at work,

and also provided technical aid in the shipwrights in keeling a vessel for

repairs. 3 n this, the magnetic forces J believe are as invisible and

unbreakable ropes, bmt deformed not by stresses in a down

but actually buoyed in a graceful arc above the lands from

Earth to the other, where each line of magnetic force is rooted or attached. fi gondolier pulling a boat with a pole propels his craft forward, a n d in

a likewise manner, do men pull at a boat with ropes. W e v e the ropes to

b e grounded miles away, it would make no difference to the work of the shipwrights, a n d w e r e the gondolier’s pole to extend from the end of the ear th to the end of the earth, h e could still ply his craft by pulling his body along its length. J n this manner, i t c a n be readily seen that the lines of magnetic force, being of themselves inviolate a n d permanent,

may be used, with a n ingenium designed for such a purpose, to propel

a craft across the smrface of the planet in much

gears c a n be used to propel links ofa chain.

3 system, which, using lines of magnetic force hi& are intangible

a n d invisible, yet approaching the infinite in number a n d of exquisite fin-

e ry of detail, may b e passed through its system repeatedly a n d without

1

n essence, the ingenium will act as though i t were a

loss of efficacy, excepting by which the ingeni

t h e orientation of the device is most easily accomplished, being mere-

ly the direction of the pulleys with respect to the ingenium, that is, the ingenium will be drawn irresistibly towards the magnetic pulleys as they perform the eforts on the magnetic lines. J\s designed here, the ingeni-

um cannot be worked in reverse, for the pulleys rely upon the tension of

the magnetic lines to d r a w themselves towards them, and in reversed

effect, by pushing against the ethereal rope, the magnetic lines would

become hopelessly snarled, magnetizing the ingenium beyond use . 5

Arise, 0 , M e c k a w i s m ! uch a n ingenium would necessarily require the use of some sort of S elevating mechanism, in avoidance of having to ovel*come the

forces of friction M p o n that which is to be transported. J t i s far easier to

propel a craft through the ai5 which is frictionless, than through the ground, which i s filled with resistance. t h u s , employing the Jagenium

jMagneticLts into a suspensible craft of my own design, we find A vehicle

suited to the comveyance of people rapidly over g r e a t distances.

ind that the balance of su device is no+ in ordeq that used in 3 such a manner J might rotate forward, a n d be thrust into the grounc

by t h e rocket as the Jngemium /\/lagneticMs pulls me forward. Truly walking the ear th should be far easier on the constitution than

it. Pe rhaps this shall be more balanced.

No, this would be a most undignified manner of transport. J shall have to counterweight a n d balance the initial design. fib, but i f 3 were to 7

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ve had plenty enough of the Borgia family! 3 a m furious!

hesevalencian nobles-they are mothing of the sort-have

m a d e a complete mockery of all that is tloly, let alone all that is Jtalian. We have heard tell that the husband of Lucrezia

Borgia, a n d this is her first hwsband, since the other marr iages were

annulled, a n d hence never existed, has died. Presumably he died of a

weakening of the heart, which is not a surprise since many hearts have

been weakened when Cesare skewers them with a stiletto. With Cesare’s bloody hands, he should t ake the name Cardinal S in . tt a m fuvious!

Of course, Cesare being a Cardinal, it is certain that he shall d e M y any wrong doing, a n d as h e is an ordained member of the clergy, he is inca-

pable of lying, thus w e shall all have to accept his innocence in the mat-

ter. tle is as innocent as a mongrel dog, or a plague-ridden rat! What this country needs, in fact what the entire Catholic Church around th

gears being the ratio of five to seven, this being according to my calcula-

tion that which will

untruth, without the loss of the imperative to speak, for it does no good

to force someone to speak the truth, if he will not answer the questions

put to them.

Of course, tr r as possible, so it is required that

the ingenium be created of the purest materials possible, however sil- ver shall be of no use. Better much that it be made of beaten gold or

perhaps platinum, and lubricated with pure oil or perhaps holy water, if

r i m g from the imperative field the opportunity for

is as pure a ma

significamt amount can be had withoHt complaimt from the local

to make thi it is my intention to imstall it in a room ofa tower built among the banks

of a fast-flowing stream, therewith to build a water wheel with which to

provide the ingeduw a constant and unwavering source of motivation,

which shall be seen to invest most thoroughly the area with the impera-

tive for veracity. 3t will be necessary to admit a disengagement mecha-

nism to allow the imgenium to rest while the magickal energies of the area are being restored.

geniuw powevful in aspect and irresistible in dominance,

Anotlqer Ydea 0 OM must know, of course, &at to interrogate any of the Borgia fam-

ing ingenium would cause

great calamity to befall all who dertook the pursuit of the Lord’s truth

in the matter. Especially if those who questioned the Borg ia (whichever

one i t was) were themselves under the influence of my Censurum

Veraceus, and thence spoke freely and honestly of their own disposi-

tions towards this most powerful and corrupt family. To that end, i t is

but a simple endeavor to make a secondary ingenium which shall work

at the same time as the CensurumVeraceus, and which shall have a

similar impact upon the person’s psyche, by using a different construc-

t ion of wagickal enkrgies to influence the mental processes of the per-

son. This 3ngenium Obfuscarus would cause those so affected to forget

all which had occurred while the mechanism of the engine were

engaged. Jt would be required to be of smaller impact in radius, so as

not to cause the police to forget the confession as well, although the inclusion of a large glass lens would be ea) assistance in causing the effect to be focused in nature. 8

-day 3 a m dismayed by the slow pace with which bad news

c a n sometimes travel through Jtalia. J t i s suvprising to me, as - - well, for J ta l ians are fain to talk at great a n d exhausting

length about all manner of subjects, and to gesticulate with

such force that they cause your inkwell to spill upon yomr papers. 3t is in

just such a manner that 3 have received this latest a n d most ~ n w e l c o m e

bit of tidings.

3 have been given word that the French have retaken the City ofIl/\ilano

from the forces of the Duke Sforza of Milano, my former patron, J t is said that Lodovico now languishes in prison, awaiting the pleasture of

Louis FII. S u c h are the forttunes of war a n d politicking, but 3 had better hopes for 31 Moro, a n d now i t is apparent that 3 shall never be granted

the pleasure of completing the s t a t u e he wished of his father. A n d a

magnificent statue it would be, with not its equal in all the world! 3 will not return to that city of Milano again, for 3 am certain that should 3 appear, the French will force m e into making some archway commemo-

rating their trimmph at the city gates, a n d 3 have no desire to bring their t reachery to qlory. Or perhaps they would press me into devisinq a new

means of interrogating the Duke. Bah!

cannot bear the thought of the S h a s soured m y stomach, a n d now 3 must abstain from wine a n d

rzas imprisoned by the French. 3 t

spicy dishes, a n d restrain myself to pastas . J shall have to find a means

of purging myself of this phlegmatism, a n d so shall pursue the invention

shall affect but a small portion of t

can arrange for the effects of the iMgeMium to b of metallic cords, so as to erase more evenly t

which distribution was designed and tested by constructing a man-

m e q u i n of cantaloupes, Necessarily, large people might r e q u i v e a differ- ent distribution. Fdditionally, an independent sot,wce of motivation is not

feasible, as an escapee cann

especially on a dark Nedite be empowered by a* small but vigor

ith the distribution of the tra

Z, shown here, the small effects of the imgefiium will be distrib-

pe-d on the blowing of the wind, ium shall have to

s shown in drawing

uted in an arrangement such that it shall conceal the entirety of the

A hile meeting with Albert0 Rizzutto again, over dinner this day, he chanced to bring to me some i l l tidings, which is

that thetmrkmen have at last wrested the city of Durazzo

fromvenezian presence, therewith robbing their army of

its strongest hold upon the lands of Asia Mino9 south of Dalmatia, which

could be said to be more of the Balkans than Asia Minor propenthis alarms me greatly, for i t is a possibility now that theturkmen will launch a

great fleet, with the intent and purpose of landing upon thevenezian coast,

striking at that fair city, a n d conquering her at once for subjugation into

the Ottoman Empire. Or else that they may march along the Adriatic Coast, moving against Zara, a n d dismemberVenezian holdings piece- meal for consumption by Constantinople.this is worrisome to me, for the effects of the Mohammedan zealots linger s t i l l in Spain, and J wodd il l see that happen to fairvenezia.

E w g q i w e to Smite the earth! v

n preparation for such an event, 3 must c a l c m l a t e &e necessary engi-

neering of a device of magnificent destructive capabilities, with which 3 might b e ab le to bring to a sudden demise any Ottoman aspirations to J ta l ian

lands, whether by invasion of fleet o v march of army. t h e brightest inspiva-

tion J have had is to create an engine which acts upon the ground as does the wind against ao ill-rigged sail, which causes it to whip itself,that is, an ingenium which shall, by its nature, cause a great trembling among the ele- mental forces of the earth, and thereby the tangible earth propeu; for the dis- array and disruption of the enemy. Also for the destruction of his fortifica-

tions and siege engines. J n wihess of which, the terror of his people would

b e grea t such that they would break at the sight of the approach of the Venezian army, and the new magickal engines of war employed by same.

J n this manneu; i t is necessary to c a u s e oscillations among the lines of ele- mental force. Or perhaps random vacillations would be better. yes, that i s

the solution, for although cyclic forces c a n indeed create large disruptions,

as evidenced by the method by which children disrupt a piece of rope in a

regular fashion to play at jumping it (3 can see them doing so outside my

window, and 3 hope that they will cease their squealing, the better to help m e concentrate), but in a similar fashion, it is possible that such a disruption

will result in a minou; or even a pleasing effect, much as a violin string is set

to vibrating for our ammsement. Furthermore, regular disrmptions depend in

large part on the regularity of the medium of transmission, and the grounds tyss && of a battlefield are likely to be very poorly homogenous, a mix of stone and -

dirt and sand. 3rregular stimulation i t must be.

inner suvface of the ingenum. J cCZose seventeen grapnels, s ince seven-

teen is a prime numbeq a n d not divisible by any other. A n d the gear ing

of the many c a m s is such that the grapnels will not align themselves in

the same sequence for some several thousand revolutions of the main drive

shaft, which shall require several houvs of continuous effort, on &e part of he ivlgeniuuur. the beatings ofthe grapnels causes the sphere to vibrate (these

vibrations also facilitate the continuing revolutions of the cams). Fu&emore,

the engine is not created to be stable in aspect, and in fact is detachable from

i t s stand. Once the correct vibratory fequency is acheived, &e braces holding

the ingenum in place are =leased, and the sphere set f&e to bounce about

the landsdcape, transmitting its vibrations into the very ground, and causing

it to convulse with tremovs AS the suvface of the sea i s convcllsed with waves,

until such time as its cams cease mtating. j+er the compete cycle of

sequences is played out, i t is impossible that the ingenium shall be seen to be standing in the same position as when i t was fbst begun to operate, and his

shall continue to cause the machine to have an irregular effect. when a violinist bows the s a m e notes but holds his wrists at a different angle, he plays a different string, so shall the Jngenium-tumuliuosus provide a

nevev-ending sequence of random and aberrant pluckings of he elemental

as

forces. A n d musing tvemovs as a result.

fter great thought a n d meditation upon the am unable to secure a suitable testing location for my Jngenium

ect, J find +ha+ J now

Ifuosus. Jts effect would be so great, that any nearby would suffer

needlessly, a n d doubtless c a u s e the full force of the law to fall upon my

balding head. Furthermore, after great concentration, J a m Mnable to elu-

cidate the manner in which 3 might transport the effect of my ingenium to a

location more remote than that of the device, for it would be an ill-advised

endeavor to c a u s e a tremor of the eav-th at any location within twenty miles

of the ingenium, to say nothing of the ingenium being the very center of the trembling. 3 shall have to shelve this design Mntil J have a better patron, funding, a n d someone more reliable than Camillo to do my engineering. 1

DYSSOLUTYOJV EJVG - ince 3 a m unable to test m y Jngenium tt,tmulfuosus, 3 have r -a

instead decided to undevtake a different approach to creating AM

effective ingenium for making war upon theTurkmen.n\is device,

properly deployed and employed byVene2ian or Firenzan tvoops Id, will hold inviolate Jtalian fvontievs against &e most ingenious inven-

tions and stvongest forces which &e m o m a n Empire array agaiMst

thing that theturkmen have so as to bring them to a peaceable and favor-

able resolution of this war With that 3 thought of endeavoring to create

the direct destruction of their fortifications, instead of employing the indi-

rect method of shaking their uery foundations through a quaking earth.

Of course, poor Rizwtto may have been taken somewhat aback, as he did not understand whereof J ejaculated my excitement of inspivation, and 3 left him abandoned in the plaza without explanation. Jt is unfortunate, at

times, that 3 must write my inspirations immediately, lest 3 forget them.

Perhaps the remainder of my biscotti and the bottle of wine which 3 fov-

got by the side of the table both will have served to solace my effrontevy.

this device has a smaller radius of invocation, and is thereby consum-

mately easier to aim and set off without Mndue effects upon the user of the

device or the device mechanism pvoper For its effect itself, it is best

described, that it imparts to the affected material an acute lack of cohesion

ofthe stuffs of which it is made, causing it to fall into disarray, or powdeu;

as though eaten by termites or rusted through completely, although even if

the item affected were not iron or wood, even were it stone or glass.'the

Greeks might say the targeted material were rendered into atoms.

t h e dewice is aimed by the dishes mounted on top of the contraption,

which, being geared together that they a lways move in tandem, a n d by equal amount of tlqe radius, a n d being properly al igned a s to be syn-

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chronous, produce a n isosceles triangle of projection, which point, being

the focus of aiiack, is rendered dissolute.

X’ime Pvesses ince the days are pressing upon the welfare ofvenezia, 3 have

determined that J must make every effort to create and demonstrate

this device for the benefit of the city, a n d theveby a l l Jtalia. For the purpose

of the demonstration, i t would be most seemly were the device to be self-

motivated, to which end 3 shall use a tightly wound spring of metal, as a

mainspring, the tensile power of which shall be enough to motivate the m. Of course, for the winding of the spring, 3 shall have to use a

< lever a rm of sufficient moment, but J believe 3 c a n borrow a wrench to

suit my needs from Ciniffa, who makes carriages outside of town.

Despite the recent results obtained by that careless Camillo, J have been able to retain the services of one f lernani Bellizzi, a very excel- lent metal smith a n d maker of clocks. Jt is most important that the entire assemblage of this Dissolventum Universalis be made entirely of

closely- fitted a n d studiously calibrated metals, for the device itself is tolerant of nothing in the line of deviation; even the flexibility of wooden boxes is too g r e a t for its admission. 2

O n c e the device i s tightly wound upon the mains

set up i M a suitable location, it is only necessary to aim the dishes and engage the mechanism into operation. T h e aiming of the dishes involves

determining tiie d is tance of the height of the tr iangle formed by their foci,

the estimation of which is difficult for even experienced artillerists.

H e n c e 3 have also desigMed A system of reflecting mirrors a n d lenses,

which lenses are mounted above the dishes, but so close in aspect to their position as to be nearly identical, a n d which transmit the focus of

the dishes to their various reflecting mirrors, which guide the light to a

single plate, thusly generating a double image, which c a n therefore b e used for aiming the device. For when the image on the viewing plate i s

least distorted by the twin images, then the operator of the Dissolventum

Universalis knows that the device is properly aimed upon that spot. a

E ~ o r t i ~ ~ ! Robbery! y mother! t h e prices which that t lernani Bellizzi has levied

aga ins t m e for this project are exorbitant! Gvidently h e has had a m that rascal Camillo, who J c a n only assume g a v e him a heavily-

embroidered version of the incident, and though being disposed of aban-

doning the job thromgh Camillo’s detractions, nonetheless found himself

unable to renege upon his word, a n d in purpose of forcing m e to abandon

his services, raised his prices to levels which he thought J w a s unable to

afford. He has underestimated me, howeve6 for 3 have sequestered quite

a fair reserve in my years, a n d paid his inflated prices, in surprise of which he vowed to perform for me his finest craftsmanship.

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bloody hands. Perhaps he thinks Louis will not remember his resistance to his cousin Charles. 3 do not pretend to understaMd tlqat man's mind.There

is no telling to what depths Alexander the Borgia will MOW stoop.

/Michelangelo Buoncxrroti confides to me that he aspires to paint a fresco

next to those of Botticelli, Signorell i, et al; in the Sist ine Chapel. tle is a

dreamer, and J myself would distance my work from that ofthe church. t h e need for this Testudo €lementalis is now greater than eve5 for w e find

omvselves SurroMnded with enemies, from thetctrkmen to the French to &e

Church. With Bianca maria Sforza's marriage to &Iaximilian I, the tIoly Roman Empire i s s t i l l on our side, although even h e i r valme is qmestioned

at this time, with Switzerland MOW standing in sovereign testimony to the tloly Roman Gmpire's ineffectuality in enforcing their will thmugh military

means. With these notifications in mind have 3 constructed the design for

Yur Fmurctiour s illustrated in drawing a, the transmission pod of the

surround my invention. J n this, the circumscription of the rod must Ly its

that through the creative

impediments io the motion of the rod, that a n elliptical perimeter to the testudo €lementalis c a n be derived, the beitev io protect a line of men

without needless waste of magickal enevgy a n d abrogating the expan-

sion of the protection to incorporate empty space in front of the soldiers,

into which a body of brave enemies might breach a n d cause havoc.

the central mechanism of this ingenium is, as illustrated here, the cru-

cible, which contains the material to be consumed by the ingenium, which in turn, shall be sekn to affect the elemental manifestation of the output of

the device, thereby determining what manner of wall shall be erected, for

the protection. 3 must consult with those versed in the alchemical arts to

understand exactly which materials are best suited to the consecration of

the ingenium to certain elements, although from conversations with a

chirurgeon, 3 am led to believe that bile, blood, phlegm, a n d urine are the

lication of a tvammel o r other such elaborate

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materials associated most efficaciously. 4

3ts Msuges e ingenium, being designed foe and eminedy suited to, the pvotection of T k a body of soldievy, in maneuvevs against the foe, i t shall be obvious that i t is

best powered by manual eyevtions, which are most readily obtained by soldiery. J n this fashion, the ingenium MM be carried upon the back of one of the soldievs

to allow for maXimal povtability, or else, should the size afthe device be prohibi- tive, as might be the case for a device large enough to protect a fLll regiment, it a n be povted about in a small wagon designed for that purpose, with a modi-

fied crank made expressly fov the use by two or four men, or possibly mules.

And now 3 have indeed once more, at great personal expense and consid-

erable diff;culty, obtained the materials needed for the constvuction of this ingenium, for with it 3 can prove once and for all time that indeed my

designs are sound. No more will the craftsmen here build of these engines in

their completeness, but instead 3 w a s forced to dispevse the pieces of the

ingenium among several craftsmen, and undevtake the completion of the

parts and the assemblage of the ingenium myself. 3t appeavs that word of

GmiIIo’s roof and Bellizzi’s workshop has spvead rapidly about the city, and

none othevs will risk their own houses.

jh&er Fu;!mve. .. e experiment is a failure. After cranking the handle ofthe ingenium until T ‘ 3 m y arms ached, no ctwtain of fire arose in testament to my labors. 3

moved about and felt the grass at the radius ofthe testudo Elementalis

which should have arisen, according to my calcuIations, and felt about wih

my hands.-e grass was most cevtainly parched and withered, and a rev-

fect ring of browned grass stood about me, but unfovtunately this is not enomgl/t to forestall an enemy. J endeavored to wake another s h n g e r spring

with wlqiclq to wind the inaeMium, but durinq the crankinq the linchpin split due v

to inferior constvuction. L v

received word this day that JV(aximiIian I, the Esteemed Holy oman €mperor, has, in wha t is now known as the Peace of

Trent, recognized the French occupation of her conquests in

our fair 3talia as legitimate. 3t i s now obvious that tttalia is a

broken and divided-land, which both a n g e r s a n d s a d d e n s me, a n d more

so that s h e shall not have the benefit offoreig

France . Jtalia shall have to drive out the Fre ass i s tance to defeat

h herself, even if i t takes twenty years, but dr ive them out w e shall!

Ordinarily 3 do not like to lose my temper,

routing the Frenc

the news from Ciiovanni while breaking fa

er, even as 3 did so, 3 was able to draw explosion of rage a n d that which indeed shall be most productive in

h from the field. 3 t is such a simple variation of my own previo

a n d less destructive to homes than the JngeMi yy I~ I~~.L(os~s, that 3 wonder that 3 had not previously invented its mechanism. However, 3 find that my thoughts a n d successes both flow more readily when J am

OM the contemplation of matters martial in nature. 5 e ingenium should be constructed of purest iron, the better to focus

a n d ampl ik the destructive forces which this shall unleash, a n d aim-

ing may be effected through the manipulation of the scope mounted OM top of the device. 312 keeping with the necessity of military ingenia to be portable a n d independent of water, wind, &c, a n d other sources of exte nal power, it is necessary to turn the central axle of the ingenium manuallyj

however, wiih a proper series of gears, this method of empowering the device c a n be calibrated to any strength or rapidity of fire desired. J esti-

mate that in o rde r to bombard a n d destroy a city wall, with a series of

fiery projectiles like unto a storm, that a team of twenty horses or more

might be required, but although a lesser amount might not strike down the

rock, the conflagration would cause great fear a n d con sion among +he defenders. J must also someday test this device, however, to enswe that i t does not heat up as a result of generating such temperatures itself. 6

t last the worst event which 3 have feared has come

standing only that of being b as cruel a n d unseemly a fashion a

Alexande r VI, that vile scheming uswper of the noble of mortal man and the Church, has now ordered, by papal bull, for

all books which are said to be set aga ins

----- - "... the Church, through fiat of his own personal distastes J am certain, to be burned, as though in the fires of Hell itself. Foremost of these books which a r e to b e consumed by flames a r e the mere two dozen copies of

my own latest notebook which J have published, a n d at my own expense

a n d great t ravai1. the offense which my book has c a u s e d is so great,

a n d engende r s such tremulous feelings in the hearts of the church, that the pope has ordered, as well, with g r e a t solemnity of purpose, that no written record of my notebooks having existed is to be made, and all kr\owledge of this Cudex having been created is to be smitten from the minds of men for all time, under penalty of excommunication, eternal

damnation, purgatory, &c. my Cudex is to be struck from the pages of

history, destroyed utterly as w e r e the untold volumes of the Library of

Alexandria . Although J myself face charges of heresy, this 3 cannot

allow to happen, for J have spent my y e a r s in a tireless ques t for the uncovering of much knowledge to the betterment a n d enjoyment of the common man, a n d to tMrn my back so upon my own discoveries into this most mystical of powers i s a burden more heinous and wearying to me

than any other. 3 cannot let it be so.

have items of such great power as this ingeMium of fire a n d

brimstone in the hands of the u n s c r u p ~ l o u s Borgias would

c a u s e g r e a t calamity, upon the rest of Jtalia, a n d perhaps all of Europe .

Agains t those who would consign knowledge to oblivion, as though i t

tion.

The objective is to snave a line of magickal force and raw it towards the i M g e M i M m itself, but without consmming

in the act of capturing it, much a s a fish is captured and

drawn in to the fisher’s vessel, by means of a barbed hook

line itself, presenting a tangential line to the ingeni-

urn, with a great amount of additional power d u e to the stresses imparted upon the elasticity of the force, a n d here shall be illustrated that i n g e ~ i u m

which c a n d r a w magickal powers into the area

from lands far beyond.

.

o f a s F U M C t i O M UMd Jvu.tcrwe ne begins with snares , which shall b e as hooks, but formed in complete circles, a n d

turned o n c e a round back upon themselves a n d fashioned of purest

gold, to afford the greatest protection to the u s e r . t h e s e are wound in

the manner so illustrated, in drawings b through e, for the making of the spool - itself is intricate, al though schematically i t is difficult to illumi-

lawdl so, 3 jUUSt Close ven thowgh my burning of wy notebook was seen, although

bered to b e forgotten by the most fearing of the pious, indeed the suspi-

rough papal edict not recorded, a n d even deliberately remem-

cious a n d untrfisting manner of the Pope a n d his evident s t i l l . 3 returned to my domicile last week, a n d upon entering,

found that the sanct i ty of m y domain had indeed been violated, a n d many

of my works in progress had been taken a n d removed. Fortunately, J practiced foresight, for indeed 3 had observed that such an event might

take place, a n d had taken care to hide this manu-

scr ipt beneath the ashes in

the fireplace, which is above all the last place one might expect A stu-

* dious a n d careful man

such as 3 to seques te r

invaluable documents. my

ained henchmen is

stolefi works have bee@ now returned to me, peremptorily, by an unnamed priest, but as the vandals acted upon the guidance of the most

obnoxiofis Pope, they offered, a-d in fact required, no explanation of

their activities.

3 cannot ab ide this type of hounding, to be trea

to have my propriety a n d privacy violated, a n d with such a casua l dis- regard for morality.truly now do 3 understand better the words of the Christ when +le s p o k e to the Pharisees of his time, althowgh 3 cannot

remember exactly wha t they were, a n d 3 do not wish to misquote Him in

these pages, so 3 shall have to look up the passage in qmestion this evening. But suffice i t to say that J agree with t l im that the holy men of

Without respect, a n d

the day were, a n d for

m e yet are, corrupt

individuals who hold not God sac red , but instead revere more

their poweq a n d their privilege, and their

position. Why, the word i s that the Pope has s i red another child. By immaculate conception, 3 am s w r e , since he is unwarried. 3 c a n only pray that this Pope AlexanderVI and his scheming offspring receive

their just rewards both in this world a n d in the I~ereafteu; for the sooner

they r e a p the t reachery a n d corruption they have sown, the sooner 3 shall b e able to continue these studies. J n fact, w e r e the Pope to die next yea6 3 couldn’t be more elated.

may perhaps know why these illegal and affronting sea rches w e r e J m a d e upon my house. J have had word that a n f i r a b merchant h a s c a u s e d one copy of my manuscript to disappear. He claims to have

burned the papers upon hearing of the edict, bat the church authorities

doubt his word as he is merely A heathen and not at all a Christian.They

sea rched his house a n d those items which he w a s shipping back to his homelands, but they found not my book. He claims that it cannot b e reclaimed from the fires which consumed it, a n d so is held in prison at

this time at the Pope’s 1eiswre.There are those who say he consorts with

supernatwral forces, a n d may have used d a r k arts to secrete my Codex

hatever the trath of that sfory, 3 will leave these magickal

researches to l i e fallow for the present time, until the Papal fires

nation are cooled. perhaps 3 c a n divert my own attention from

3gh ia r i yet awaits m y brush. 3 have also received not ice from the mer-

chant Ciiacondo that he would like m e to render his wife, Lisa, for pos- terity. 3 hope this will help divert me, although the fashion of shaving

one’s eyebrows does not e n d e a r f i r e n z a n women to me. P e r h a p s w e r e

3 to include more of her in the drawing, this farcical depilation will not

b e as noticeable, a n d the painting will also look less like a decapitation

as do so many portraits. B u t these are thoughts for another day. 3 must

MOLL, sequester this Codex among my most personal belongings, a n d 10 think a g a i n upon i t no more.

~ are pretty predictable, although I can tell you that

8 they are not all alike. Not 1 even the engines we use for 1 our aerodreadnoughts, all ! made to the same plans, are I alike. That’s because of the

way they are built and

Wheo +he PVOPeV e M e V -

qies are used,

e),, Mike. You’re probably wondering all this stuff is stLlcli at the back ofthis book. well, there’s two reasons.

there, though not many. 1 ended up malung a bunch of little slips of paper, each with the name of one engine, and sorting the list that way, and then copving it over by hand again. Sigh. Well,

stuff to write down all the game mechanics for these things, wondrous as they are. Second, when you’re playing a role-playing

really getting popular over here), you real- ly shouldn’t worry about petty things like difficulty numbers. We don’t in real life, right? We just make a reckoning of the odds

So, when someone in the Great Game wants to make a mag- ickal engine, or if he finds a copy of the Codex, or just a page, or whatever, you can hand him the book, and use a heavy-duty clip to hold these pages shut. That way, he’ll deal with the info as he would in real life, without suits and feat difficulty num- bers and required skills. It’ll make suspension of disbelief eas- ier, role-playing more realistic, and what the heck, it lets you, the Host, fiidge all the numbers if you have to for the sake of dra- matic interest. Speaking of dramatic inter- est, I have a dinner date with Marianne tonight, and-well, never mind.

I’ve taken the time to alphabetize the list of engines described in this book, and reference them all by the page number lvhere they appear. And let me tell JTOU,

Have fun-

HOW SORCEROUS EflCiJflES game, especially the Great Game (which is WORK Jfl REAL LXE

npredictably No, wait, that’s not what I meant to say. Actually, sorcerous engines

types of sorcerous automata: spontaneous and continuous. Spontaneous engines gather up enough power to fire off an instant spell, and when they have it, the spell gets cast. An exam- ple of a spontaneous magickal engine is the destruction engine on page 104: Crank it up, and a few moments later a blazing fireball vom- its forth to smite the enemy, as Morrolan would put it. I<eep the destruction engine running, and fireballs will continue to be spit Out at slightly irregular intervals, depending on the

v tuned and maintained; har- monics can be different for each one. Furthermore,

utkenfions there is some unpredictabil- f ity in a magickal engine, E because the energies it con- [, sumes to do its work can

peu.fectjy bOMnd 1 cause some strange effects. 11 Unlike gasoline back there,

+he mechanical

1 create

8 - I which is pretty much uni-

1 form, magickal power varies

Anyway, there are two

energies I t

greatly.

enough power to create a temporary change in conditions, enact that change, and then they’re done. They act just like wizards do, drawing up power and using it-except they cannot selec- tivelv eliminate unwanted power. The brainless things just use it all.

Continuous engines are different. They weave a complex and long-lasting spell, creating all these subethric ltnots which can redefine the reality around the machine. Since these Imots try to unravel themselves, the magickal engine has to hold them together, which it does by contin- uing to run. It keeps the tension off the knots so they won’t untie, if you want to think of it that way So what they do is gather up large quanti- ties of energy, larger quantities than the sponta- neous engines do, and use them to alter the qualities of the world immediately around them. The reason they need to usc so much energy is that the spells must be able to last for a lot longer.

The curious thing is that the engine itself is what does the work, not the magickal power.

The engine uses thc magicli as a catalyst, but when it is shut off, it releases the magicltd ener- gy back into its surroundings. This means that when a continuous sorcerous automata starts up, it gathers up a bunch of power, depleting the area. When it’s shut off, the power returns pret- ty rapidly. However, if you moire the magiclcal engine, the power it has accumulated goes with it, held by its mechanical arms. If it’s shut down somewhere else, that place will have more power than normal.

We haven’t done much experimenting on what happens when a place has more than a nor- mal amount of magickal energy. Mer all, we’ve only had these aerodreadnoughts a short while, and we’re keeping the few other engines we’ve built securely under guard back at Falkenstein.

So what happens when an area is ovcrstoclted on magick? It could be that anyone casicing a spell in the area gathers more power than intended. You could simulate this in the game, if you like. Take your normal sorcerv deck, and shuffle in extra cards from another deck. When

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someone draws a card from the sorcery deck, and the top card on the deck after they draw is a card from the extra deck, they automatically draw that card too, and add it to their hand. If the top card after that is also an extra card, they draw that one too, and so on, until the top card is a normal sorcery deck card. Perhaps the wiz- ard has the option of discarding these extra cards forced upon him or her, or perhaps not. Not is definitely more fun., and I think it’s more realistic. Casting a spell in an area supersaturat- ed with magick would seem to be as risky as lighting a torch in a fireworks warehouse. Especially if there’s another joker or two in the extra cards.

You could take a simi- lar approach when some- one fires up a magickal engine in an area where there’s a lot of magickal power.

You can imagine that as magickal engines become more common, whatever wizards are in the area are going to get peeved. The things will suck up the energy and keep it, perhaps-if they’re a magnetic force engine or some thin g-even carry that energy away. This might be incidental to the engine operator’s purpos- es, or the user of the engine might even do it deliberatelv, to disarm the

have to wait for the normal regenerative proper- ties to generate enough extra magick before we can leave. Not a terribly great situation, espe- cially since this means that our magnetic force engine is a sitting duck for the capture. I’ve brought this problem to the attention of the king, and suggested we install auxiliary pro- pellers on the front of our aerobattleships as an emergency propulsion system.

HOW SORCGROMS EflCiJflCS WORU J f l GfijMGtERNS

very sorcerous automaton has an associated activation level, which is the amount of

magiclcal energy the engine needs to cast the

tinfo v e s e e n magickal mani- festations may

come into being

spell it’s designed for. If you look over the list at the end of these pages, you’ll notice that continuous engines require a lot more energy to activate than do sponta- neous engines. This is due to the effects I described above. However, there are spontaneous magickal engines which require more power than a mage would to do the same thing with a spell. For example, the transformation engine takes 16 points of power to acti- vate, while a Templar can change the shape of an item with a 12-point spell. This is because the effects of the Templar’s spell will fade, but the spontaneous engine’s -

local mages. Let me tell you, when we launched effects are permanent! Once a transformation the airships from Bayern, we were magickally engine changes the shape of an item, it will for- destitute back in Munchen. It was bad. ever be that new shape-that’s its new natural

This also means that continuous magickal condition. engines can be used to trap or disable other con- When a magiclcal engine is switched on, the tinuous magickal engines. For example, imagine Host begins to draw cards for it from the sor- one of our aerobattleships resting at anchor. cery deck, one card per round (or at whatever Someone comes in with another magickal frequency the Host deems suited for dramatic engine and sucks LIP all the power in the area for effect). All cards are added to the engine’s pile; its effect. Now our aerobattleship can’t gather the engine cannot refuse any card. Once the up enough power to get out of there; there sim- value of the cards in the engine’s pile equals or plv isn’t enough power left around, and we’ll exceeds the engine’s activation level, the mag-

pull the Star Iron-laced control arm back to nor-

automaton and apply any harmonics that are For spontaneous engines, backlash is a popu- called for. These harmonics will affect the indi- lar approach to take-the destruction engine vidual casting of the spell for spontaneous fires off such a powerful fireball that it also melts engines, and they will be- sustained with the itself in the process, that sort of thing. effects of a continuous engine for as long as it’s operating. Magiclral engines are designed to use AJMJflCi 14 SORCEROMS

engine exhibits no harmonics at that time.

associated with them, depending on how well it’s best if these fireballs hit the target. they were put together and calibrated. This Therefore, you have to aim them. craftsmanship value is added to the number of Aiming an engine is different from calibrat- cards Of the appropriate Suit that were drawn for ing it (calibrating an engine is covered under the purposes of determining harmonics. Thus, if Making a Sorcerous Automaton). Consider aim- an engine draws two cards of the appropriate ing the magickal engine to be like steering a car, suit, and three cards Of another suit, it would while calibrating it is like tuning h e engine and normally exhibit the harmonics of that second aligning the wheels. This is an especially appro- suit. However, if the engine had a craftsmanship priate simile for things lilre magnetic force of two, it would have effectively drawn four engines, which are used to move and steer the

harmonics. netic force, you need to be able to do it in a con-

deck as do human mages. Continuous engines deplete the deck temporarily; when a continuous engine is shut down, all of its cards are returned to the deck at whatever rate the Host deems appropriate (usually, unless the characters are ~mbroiled in combat, We just dump the whole slew back into the deck)

Aiming a magckal engine requires that the operator undertake a Tinkering feat, and the more difficult the job ofaiming, the tougher the feat becomes. Also, the more important it is that the magickal engine not affect anything else nearby, the more difficult the task becomes. For example, it’s easy to aim a destruction engine to

impact on the engine itself. The second time we launched the Vakyrie, one of the knots of mag- ickal energy got itself caught around the control arm for the magnetic force engine and Pulled it to maximum. Suddenly We found ourselves hurtling at an impossible speed out over the North Sea headed straight for the Arctic in win-

orphanage on the other. I haven’t bothered to note which engines

need to be aimed; it’s pretty obvious which Ones they are. Besides, players are so clever, they might think of a new way around such restric- tions.

c W

r skim a Madckal En&, is not as Y v ”

easy as it might seem. This is because J the technology, the knowledge of .how to create one, is not known to

the world at large. Unlike malung a new-fangled device with Tdiering, which relies on commonly held knowledge, the possibility of creating magick- al engines is an idea unknown to many. It’s sort of like trying to make an atomic bomb in 1950; you can only get the technology &om the Soviets or the American-British Manhattan Project. Yeah, right, and good luck to you.

This means the dramatic characters have to gain access to the knowledge of how to build mag- ickal engines through their own activities. That’s right: This isn’t invention by feats, this is Creation Through Adventure.

Creation Through Adventure requires that the dramatic characters jump through five hoops:

1) Get the Plans 2) Get the Materials 3) Build the Engine 4) Tune the Engine 5) Determine Its Efficiency

I’ll explain each of these in order. There may be one or two things you don’t understand at the moment I explain it, but all shall be made clear, so stick it out.

GETTtlE PLANS bviouslv, you ain’t a-goin’ nowhere untd you do this. You can obtain copies of the plans

fi-om my copy of Leo’s Codex, or discover a long- lost page of Leo’s original notebooks in some widow’s attic in Genoa, or acquire the plans from someone else who, by hook, crook, or genius, has a copy of his own. Or, hardest of all, you can design your own magiclial engine (don’t even try untd you’re Excellent at Sorcerous Engineering).

Getting the plans must be played through in the game. We of the Inner Circle are loathe to give up our secrets, as would be anyone else the Host decides has a plan for a magickal engine. Unless the dramatic characters have ingratiated themselves to

no end with the leaders of Bayern, they’ll have to come up with a darned interesting scheme to get hold of the plans.

f lEW SKJLL: SORCERO~S ENGJNEERJflG (e)

his is the ability to design and tune sorcer- ous automata (building them in and of

itself is a Tinkering feat). A Poor Sorcerous Engineering skill means you are technically illit- erate with magiclial engines; you don’t know how to operate them, and if you tried to design or tune one, others nearby would run for very solid cover from the impending blast. Good Sorcerous Engineering is still not particularly good; you can probably adjust very simple devices, but your designs are only the most basic, and are still unreliable at best. Tuning complex magickal engines is still a nervous undertaking. Great Sorcerous Engineering ability allows you to readily design very simple engines, and even undertake some more com- plex ones. Tuning engines is something which you perform with confidence. Those with Exceptional Sorcerous Engineering skills can design a wide variety of engines, and tune them quickly and efficiently. Characters with an Extraordinary ability at Sorcerous Engineering can create any magickal engine imaginable, and tune even the most temperamental and explo- sive engine without a fuss. Those with such skills are on par with Leo himself, and are prob- ably bent on global domination besides.

Designing an engine from scratch involves a Sorcerous Engineering feat. Use the complexi- ty of the engine as the difficulty of designing it, i.e., the harder it is to build, the harder it is to design as well, right? If the engine being devel- oped is a new one, use our complexities as guidelines. If it’s a combination of engines given in this book, you might want to take the higher difficulty and add half the lower to determine how tough a feat it is.

There are several restrictions on the use of Sorcerous Engineering. First, anyone with the skill must also have Sorcery at a level equal to or

greater than didn’t work well, but that was after Bellizzi lost h s Engineering. You have to be able to see the disintegration engine-and, presumably, swept up subethric knots to be able to adjust the way the his Star Iron and threw it away.) engine Produrn them, and YOU can Only adjust ron you must have to build the engine as Well as YOU can S e e the knots. (well, the magickal engine depends on its size and the base O b 5 SOrneone with a @ magician for a men- complexity of its construction. This chart shows the tor might be able to deign an engine to tie spe- sizes of engine which can be created, how much CifiC bo@, but he C-Y COuldn’t tune the Star Iron is required for each one, and the increase engine Once it’s built-) second, dramatic CharaC- in the engine’s base cost given as a result of its size.

cannot take &mxmus Enginering as their Big engines get very, very expensive. mandatory Poor skill without the permission of

The amount of

the Host. Third, dramatic characters cannot have a Sorcerous Engineering skill greater than Good without having a great background story (feasi- ble, or at least interesting and fun) which the Host accepts. Generally, characters should only be able to improve their Sorcerous Engineering skill beyond Good through game play-and extraordinary activities, as well. The only method we know of in New Europa to leam this skill is by being a member of the Bayernese Inner Circle, which is composed of Ludwig, Rhyme, Morrolan, Auberon, and myself. We don’t even

Engine Comparison Complexity Range Cost Size Guide - S M Y Increase Tiny Toy 1/2 oz. 2 oz. 40z. x0.5 Small Chest xl Medium Desk x1.5 Large Carriage 8oz. 1 Ib. 2Ib. x3

Locomotive 1 lb. 2 lb. 4 lb. x8 2Ib. 4 Ib. 8 Ib. x20

Key: S Simple (Difficulty 1-20). M Moderately Complex (Difficulty 21-50). V: Very Complex (Difficulty 51+).

Obviously, this is just a guidehe. For better suspension of disbelief, the Host should adjust the

the better* numbers for engines at the edges of the complexi- a character must either join ty range, and promote or inhbit the development

of those engines which are deemed dangerous. Also, remember that the character building the

engine can subtract 100 times his Tinkering ability or glass that fi-om the base cost of the sorcerous automaton

a flick of the Host’s wrist, as role-playing a shop- increase due to size* ping expedition to the hardware store usually isn’t that exciting. The persons involved in the creation of the engine must part with a lot of cash at this time, in all likelihood.

Aside &om the mundane materials, it’s also necessary to have some St big secret of sorcerous some amount of Star Iron to work, otherwise the mechanical assembly will be unable to actually seize and control the magickal power around it. (As an aside, it seems that Leo was lucky enough to have had some Star Iron in whatever iron he used in his devices. Considering they were all small engnes, a very little bit would have been enough. Perhaps he also recycled his iron from his previous efforts, which would explain why his engines generally

let Or in On the saeq at least not much. The fewer who

to the Opefully the former*

whatever other materials fie the engine requires. A lot oftJGs can be done with before mdtiplfing COSt by the engine’s price

uilding a sorcerous autom B building a steamtech invention, as I covered in the basic game rules I sent last year.

First you have to figure out how difficult the 1

engme is to b d d . Take the complexity of the mag- 1 iclcal engine as gven under Sorcerous Automaton Definitions at the end of thls section. This is the ’ base difficulty. This base difficultv might be increased by the duration of its power source, and 1 the reliability of the power source, as shown in the following tabies: . .

~~ Power Source

source the magiclial engine uses, although one must be chosen. You never know when some cir- cumstance might make it impossible to power the engine. Pick any of the ones you \vmt from the base rules [that’s Cnstle Fmlhenstein page 210- Mike]. The Cost increase is added to the base cost of the engine after all other adjustments have been made-after subtracting for the slull of the builder, multiplying by the engine size, etc.

Tinkering Description of L e v e l C o s t P e a t the Craftsmanship Gross 0 10 Within a mile or two,

ponderous control, a lot of interfeknce

Poor 1 8 Within a thousand yards, sluggish control, high background

Good 2 6 Within a hundred yards, reasonable control, some slop

Fine 3 4 Within ten yards, room- by-room control, a little static or noise

control, no interference at all

Exact 4 2 Perfect aim, precise

Thus London-bombing destruction engines can have gross control, because even if they miss the Tower of London by a few

his kitchen well done by a magickal howitzer, Reliability is not defined here. Pretty much, and the desired effect of terror will be

it’s up to the Host to determine how unreliable achieved. Our Bayernese aerobattleships have a n unreliable power source is. Generally, good controls on their magnetic engines:

Thev can maneuver effectively on the battle- though, unreliable means that the engine’s operation can be interrupted relatively easilv; field, but their ability to drop bombs on

Prussian Landfestungen is marginal (thank the steam pressure must be kept hgh , so the God for our excellent pilots!). Victorian boiler is very susceptible to rupture, for esam- medicine would love to have an exacting ple, or the hand crank has a tendency to slip off clairvoyance device to allow for internal the main camshaft. Escellent means that the exams. power source is very difficult for an enemy to

disable; perhaps it is very simple or well It is Possible to upgrade Craftsmanship armored. An indestructible power source is just by one level. YOU Cannot go more than that, that; perhaps the magickal engine runs off a because YOU can only improve on bad en€$- radium pile or a giant well-armored battery or neering by SO much before You’re already geothermal power or something. rebuilding the thing from scratch with all

new parts. To upgrade, calculate cost and Next we must talk about craftsmanship. This time as if you were making the thing from determines how easily the engine can be direct- scratch, but cut the time involved to one half ed or aimed, or how tight the controls are. The normal and the cost to one tenth normal. actual mechanics of the control device are not

Engine Size Complexi

Immense

Yes, immense magickal engines get very expensive. What would you expect from an engine that could melt New York when fired from some mad scientist’s secret base in Antarctica?

Subtract the character’s Tinkering slull from this final value, and that number is the time in weeks it will take to manufacture the parts and assemble the engine.

t u j w ttE EjVGJflE nce the magicltal engine is all put together, no one’s going to guarantee it’s gonna

work right the first time. Lord knows when Rhyme flipped on his first engine, we thought the castle was a goner. After an engine is built, you’ve still got to tune it. This requires a sorcer- er. Well, it could be done by the guy ~ l 1 0 built it, assuming he was also magiclially inclined, but such people are rare.

But before you can tune it, you’ve got to flip it on. Put the controls u.here you think they ought to be and power it up. And hope for the best.

Magiclial engines are very temperamental things, and even after the best engineering and pre calibration, things can still go wrong. So, when first powering up an engine, add together the values of the building character’s Tinkering ability and the calibrating mage’s Sorcerous Engineering. The players can add 1/5 the value of any cards they wish to play at this time to this total (ix., diamond face cards are worth a little over two points). Once the players have played whatever cards they want, the Host turns over the top card of the Fortune Deck and compares the draw to this table:

Quality Result SE E WF RP DW BU

Tinkering t Sorcerous Engineering 0-8 9-12 13-16 17-20 21-24 &

A K-A -

A A Q-K 10-Q A K-A 10-K 9-K 6-J 3-9 I< J-Q 8-9 6-8 4-5 2 9-Q 7-10 5-7 4-5 3 2-8 2-6 2-4 2-3 2

Key: SE: Superefficient E: Efficient WP. Works Fine R E RunsPoorly 1 DW: Doesn’t Work BU: BlowsUp

The result of the draw of a joker is entirelv up to the Host.

Once the machine is running, and with any luck hasn’t blown vou to pieces, the magician must make a Sorcerous Engineering feat equal in difficulty to the activation ofthe spell to bring it into good run- ning form.

DGTERjMJjw n s PAl?jIjwtERS

ow that it’s built and running, we need to take note of exactly how it works, its activation

level, range, etc.. Every magiclial engine has an acti- vation level noted for it under Sorcerous Automaton Definitions. Ths activation level is how

Effect is what exactly the magickal engine does. If the engine can be adjusted in effect, it will be noted here. These effects are based upon the illustrations Leo gave’in this Codex. With a little bit of ingenuity, you can engineer the sor- cerous automaton differently to alter the effect it has-you know, customize it.

odd materials. After an engine is calibrated, it will only alter the substance for which it is pre- pared; if you calibrate the engine to change lead to gold, and put steel into the conversion cham-

of the spell, which is the amount of power it

goes off. Finally, I give the suit aligned to the engine’s spell. Engines require aligned energy just like human mages do; when drawing from EflGJflG (Pgn 28) the sorcery deck for an engine, non-aligned Effect: This creates sounds-

Making a Sorcerous Automaton, above. simple toot is easy, but a good rendition of a

crowns. The cost covers materials and costs asso- Operation: Continuous, 16 points (Y) ciated with crafting the device. If the dramatic Investment: Difficulty 20, Gost 1500 characters farm out the job to a contractor dwarf or something, or else hire a wizard to do the

Effect: This engine transforms the material put ed in this fashion

Operation: Spontaneous, 16 points (e) Investment: Difficulty 60, Cost 6000 c

C L f i m h D J E f l C E EflGJf lE (pg, 41) Effect: This engine creates a magickal pipeline of extradimensional nature, which carries the sounds made at a distant location back to the engine so that the operator can hear it. It does so without eliminating the sound at the source. The area of effect determines how much sound is pulled out; a large area of effect might trans- port every conversation in a large ball room, while a small engine will eavesdrop on just one corner of it. Also, the amount of energy used by the engine determines the quality of the sound: volume, static, distortion, minimum audible sound, etc. Operation: Continuous, 18 points (4) Investment: Difficulty 30, Cost 3500 c

CL~mvOyf i f lcE EflGJflE (Pg, 43) Effect: This creates an extradimensional gate, the location of which may be moved around. This gate is paired to another gate a t the engine by an ethereal tunnel which transcends normal space. This gate allows people at the engine to look through the gate and see what’s on the other side as if they were there. This means that people on opposite sides of the engine will be loolung in different directions of the target area, and will see opposite walls of the place the far gate is placed. This gate allows only for the transmission of light, yet it does not diminish the light present at the location being spied upon. Operation: Continuous, 20 points (4) Investment: Difficulty 3 5 , Cost 4000 c

cofll=EssJ~fl EflGJflE {pg. 89) Effect: This causes all persons within the field of its effect to want to speak the truth, no more and no less. They may endeavor to lie, but the difficulty of the task is the power drawn by the engine to start the spell, modified by the Host if the lie is particularly large. Evasions and half- truths can result in a slight decrease in the diff- culty. Obviously, then, a large and powerful engine will be nigh irresistible in its sodium pen- tatholic effect. Jokers make everyone speak the truth, the whole truth, and nothing but the

truth, no matter what, and no matter how trivial or pithy the remark. “Gee, that’s a terrible coat you have. You should really have it tailored. And you nicked yourself shaving again, you maladroit, but I should have guessed by the stumbling way you m7altz.” “I shall ignore your contemptible babbling. You’re always cutting me down, old chap, because you’re so conceited, and insulting someone as much more handsome than you as I am makes 370u feel better.” Oooh. Trouble. Operation: Continuous, 20 points (Y)

Investment: Difficulty 60, Cost 7000 c

DeTTRMCTJOfl GflGJflG (139,104) Effect: This unleashes blazing wads of doom, much akin to explosives or fireballs. It’s not exactly either, because it’s magickal in nature-it just tears stuff apart in a kmd of photon-torpedo mix of all the elements. Like maybe it engenders a molecular-level steam explosion like the one that took St. Helens apart up in Washington in 1980. The amount of damage the shot causes is equal to the amount of energy used in the cre- ation of the fireball. It is possible to build this engine with a higher or lower activation level, and in fact, it’s recommended that smaller engines have very small activation levels. You don’t want to hold onto something when it unleashes a fireball that’d take apart the World Trade Center. Operation: Spontaneous, 16 points (e) Investment: Difficulty 35, Cost 3500 c

DJf lEf lSJOf l f iL GflGJflE ( 1 3 ~ ~ 8 2 ) Effect: This creates a dimensional gate between the engine and whatever plane it is built for. Although it can be aimed at any place in the tar- get plane, a dimensional engine, once built, can only access that particular plane. It is possible to design the engine to create a different gate which will access a different plane, but frankly, we’re not going to play hunt-and-peck with a transdimensional doorway. You never know; the way things run around here, I’d expect to open a gate on Cthulhu himself? Whatever the case, when you draw a joker while operating this gate, expect company. Operation: Continuous, 24 points (4) Investment: Difficulty 25, Cost 2000 c

DJSSOLUtJOfl EflGJflE (Pg. 98) EjYlTttlStlfi

targets can resist the effects, both by force of which is dependent upon the amount of mag-

solution). The dissolution engine requires a I’d recommend that an exceptional Athletics variable amount of power, depending on the feat be required to shut one down before it runs

from there. The amount of power required also you want it, for example

into component atoms.

Investment: Difficulty 70, Cost 7000 c

DRAJflJflG GflGJflG (Pg. 24)

leech, used to disarm those sorcerers and wiz- is, the more difficult the engine is to build and ards who might oppose you. With a joker, you calibrate (the stats I give here are for a circular might consider having the magickal knot get wall). The strength of the wall is equal to the tangled in the engine, growing bigger and big- power put into it by the engine, though the ger until something has to happen ... exact effects depend on the elemental manifesta- Operation: Spontaneous, 1 point (any suit) tion. Earthen walls take damage equal to the

power before they are temporarily breached, Investment: Difficulty 15, Cost 1000 c while walls of fire will burn anything that tries to

DRGAjM GflGJflG (139.56)

to fill the person’s sleep. This can be used in psy- choanalysis, to help someone resurrect suppressed memories. It can be used as a punishment or GflGJflG (pg. 52)

Operation: Continuous, 16 points (Y)

against any person or place inside radius of effect is increased by the amount of power the engine has accumulated to trigger the spell. If a joker is drawn, perhaps the area acquires a permanent deflection against that type of spell, or perhaps the engine draws in a11 the power of its aspect in the area. Operation: Continuous, 14 points (any suit, by design) Investment: Difficulty 35, Cost 3500 c

CEjVERJC JLLMSJOjV EjVGJjVE

Effect: The engine is a vehicle for casting illu- sions. The actual illusion created depends on what module is attached to the engine, because it’s the module that contains the mechanisms that actually tie the subethric knots. Each mod- ule is a little easier and cheaper to build than a hll-fledged engine of that type, but the cost and complexity of the generic illusion engine more than makes up for the difference. Operation: Continuous, 16 points (0)

Investment: Difficulty 40, Cost 2500 c Difficulty 15, Cost 1200 c for an illusion mod-

Difficulty 20, Cost 1500 c for a moving illusion module (any q p e )

ule (any type)

Effect: This causes everything \;rrithin the area of effect of the engine to decrease in temperature, starting with the hottest items, &e torches, lamps, etc. Given enough time and magickal power, everythmg in the icy grip of a glacial engine will freeze solid. The lowest temperature to which the glacial engine cools the surroundmgs can be set with a control lever. As illustrated here in the Codex, the lever runs from about 4O0 F to a good step below zero. Humans inside its effect wdl like- wise decrease in temperature, although their spirit’s force acts as a bit of a buffer. Stay inside a glacial engine’s radius too long, though, and you’ll die from hypothermia. Here’s a clue: When you no longer feel the cold, run like hell and don’t stop until you’re sweating like a pig. Operation: Continuous, 14 points (e) Investment: Difficulty 20, Cost 2000 c

tlEJ\LJjVCi EflCiJjVC (Pg. 74) Effect: This causes all wounds and illnesses to be removed from the person wrapped in the gold and silk shroud of the engine. The amount of power the engine requires depends on how badly injured the person is. It takes one point of power per wound incurred to heal someone, plus extra power as determined by the Host to compensate for illness or poison. Once the acti- vation energy is acquired, the actual healing process is impossibly fast. If a person is healed with a joker, he gets hyperactive for a long while, and demands immediate action in all situations. Operation: Spontaneous, variable points (+) Investment: Difficulty 70, Cost 7000 c

JLLUjKJflfiTJOfl Ef lGJjW (Pg. 23) Effect: When activated, this engine creates light all around it. It does not glow of itself; it causes all itcms within its radius of effect to be illumi- nated, in essence to reflect a magickal light. The light has no source, so there are no shadows within its area of effect. The magick causes items outside its radius to be lit as well, simply because there is some reflected light from items within the engine’s radius. However, this reflected light is scant at best. By the way, you’ll notice that this is a hearts spell; it’s psychic magick. I think this is because the engine doesn’t actually cause real light, just the illusion of it. I’m not sure why it works that way, and Morrolan is tired of trying to explain it to me, so just accept the fact. Operation: Continuous, 14 points (0)

Investment: Difficulty 15, Cost 1500 c

Effect: This causes whatever device to which it is attached to move in a manner determined by the operator of the engine. This engine cannot be used on its own, but must be mechanically connected to whatever it is that the operator wants to move. In h s sense, the imparted motion engine is much like a magickal internal combustion engine. And when a joker is drawn, your accelerator gets stuck on 111 power! The difficulty of the Tinkering feat required to control the engine’s effects depends on what kind of mechanism is being moved. A go-cart is easy, but a giant robot battle suit is very difficult.

Operation: Continuous, 14 points (+) Investment: Difficulty 40, Cost 4000 c

J~MIJSolVlM@J~ E f l G J W (Pga 37) Effect: On further discussion between Auberon and Morrolan, it was decided that Leo was wrong about the action ofthis engine. It actual- ly creates a sort of dimensional barrier, an invis- ible, intangible, but nonetheless very real wall, which is all but impossible to pass through. That’s how it’s possible to weave it with spikes; the spikes are there, and the person feels them,

Colder items are the first to be affected. Allowed to increase enough, and lacking any means of dissipating that heat, eventually something under the influence of an inferno engine will melt or burn or whatever. The mc&num tern- perature to which the inferno engine heats the surroundings can be set with a control lever. As Leo designed it, the lever runs from about 200’ F (boiling water) to just Over 450O (burning wood). Humans inside its effect will likewise increase in temperature, and although their willpower and the body’s natural mechanisms

well, actually a sphere, which traps intelligent deep yogurt.

to the amount of power drawn by the engine. Operation: Continuous, 16 points (4) Effect: This engine reinforces the natural Investment: Difficulty 35, Cost 3500 c , like the walls of a

J N t G G R W GflGJflE (Pg. 69)

tower or the hull

forms of attack. Add the energy accumulated by the integrity engine to the natural strength of whatever structure is reinforced. For example, if you’ve determined that a particular wall is strength 15, so that it’ll take a strength 16 blast from a destruction engine to breach it, and someone fires up an integrity engine which gath- ers ten points of power before it activates, then the new wall strength will be 25, and the attack- er will have to come up with a 26-point fireball from the destruction engine to put a hole in the defenses.

Effect: This causes all within its grasp to forget everything that occurs while the engine is oper- ating. I mean everything. It’s as if those affected by the engine are in a continuous state of com- plete confusion. Memories and training which occurred before the engine was switched on may still apply, so someone would probably remern- ber that he is facing his arch-enemy, although the moment someone turns his face away from his long-hated nemesis, he’d forget that person was there. While under this engine’s effects, acts

engine’s spell’s power. Yeah, use Courage for this, because it represents the difficulty in forc- ing your brain to work against all the effects of GNGJflc (Pg. 39)

Europa’s answer to the TI-59. It’s a calculator, pure and simple, and gives very accurate answers very quickly, even if the operators don’t exactly know the math involved. To generate an answer to any equation, no matter how difficult, the

Operation: Continuous, 16 points (Y)

Investment: Difficulty 50, Cost 5000 c

JjvFGRflO GNGJjVG (Pg. 30)

the Perception feat. [i

Calculating the escape velocity of the planet is Other senses are not affected; it's every bit as very easy; the result is easy to explain and obtain- easy to hear an invisible person as a normal guy. ing the gravitational contestant is simple. This makes it very important to calibrate an Calculating th ickness of steel necessary to invisibility engine properly. Finally, lower the withstand vac and provide protection feat difficulty for someone close at hand. And against asteroi nearly impossible, since no with a joker, it might be fun to have the invisi- one here really knows what's involved. bility field deflect all light, making the persons Remember, the intellect embodiment engine within perfectly invisible, no chance to be seen at isn't intimidated by math, just defi all, but also blind as a bat. Operation: Spontaneous, 6 points Operation: Continuous, 20 points (e) Investment: Difficulty 35, Cost 3500 c Investment: Difficulty 25, Cost 2500 c

I

JflTELLJGEflT GflGJflE (Pgm 41) Effect: This creates an artificial human Dersona.

LeVTtj4tJOfl EflGJjW (Pg. 77) Effect: This engine causes itself and evervthina

v

the personality of which depends on how the attached to it to rise up in the air, or else to grind - -

engine was tuned. You might ge n antisocial pacifist chauvinist schizo, or a de ly religious gluttonous child. Impossible blends are possible with poorly tuned engines, and in fact it is con- ceivable that with an abject failure of tuning, you might get a personality that deliberately lies to you. In any event, the persona is intelligent and can communicate with the operator. I suggested

ach a Morse code key to make things eas- ier. All information gathered from an intelligent engine should b gathered through role-play, not through fea and cards. It is, after all, another intelligence. Operation: Conti

itself firmly into the ground. The amount an individual engine can rise up depends on its area of effect; if all of the vehicle can't fit into the area of effect, it probably can't be held up. The more energy the engine gathers to activate the spell, the more rapidly it can cause its vehicle to rise and fall. Yeah, these are loose definitions, but I don't want to bog the Host down with all sorts of strict and exacting definitions about vehicles, size, shape, mass, and stuff like that. Even if I did, the players would just find a loophole and pilot an aerobattleship through it. Operation: Continuous, 18 point Investment: Difficulty 45, Cost 4500 c

Investment: Difficulty 80, Cost 8000 c

Jf lVJSmJLm ERIGJflE (Pg- Effect: This engine causes the light to flow about it at the periphery of its effect, though not uite all light, or else the person made invisible

would never be able As Leo

the invisibility field, t en through the which might poicon nr drown or ~ ~ ~ f f & - ~ ~ ~ nee- field seems to warble bout, as it coa- ple; don't coun, -__ -__- _- ---I-- lesces back into a natural state. Kind of like it did the inside of a volcano, because you'll burn like in Predator, although in that movie the light a flare as as you ht the lava. But against seemed less fluid and more like it was refracted smolte and water and poison gas, it's great. T~ through crystal. At longer distances, it will defend against smoke and thin ai appear to an observer that the invisible field is a must gather 20 points light smudge or shadow or dim spot, because nerve gas require 3 some of the light which strikes the field is held ered for activation. within it so that those inside can see. To spot an Operation: cor+:-,7n,,o invisible person, add the power of the engine to

Investment: Di

Effect: This engine turns all environments it encounters to c'np n1;t.lhlp fn,- hiirnan hqhita-

tion.

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v v other

that's fatal to something that's non-fatal. As I mentioned in his expi to those to understand the engine, it will only affect that

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fficulty 50, Cost 5000 c

MADNESS EflGJflE (Pgu 58) ]\/1ESjVER ENGJflE (139.61) Effect: This causes the basest measures of a man Effect: This is a variant of the madness engine, to come out to play. Essentially, it instills a sort of but instead of creating random chaos in the vic- immediate mob mentality on people, where tim’s brain, it imposes commands instead, and human ethics and social mores are suddenly no allows the operator to control the victim. The longer a consideration. The way each person engine must be calibrated for each command or reacts to this will vary from autism to cavorting to set of commands, but it is a flexible enough mayhem or murder. It’s up to the Host to decide design that it can deliver almost any type of con- what exactly shall happen. A person may resist the trol the owner wants. Despite its name, the mes- effects by making a Courage or Charisma feat mer engine does not allow for post-hypnotic which beats the strength of the spell. But if the suggestion. When its effects are ended, the vic- engine draws a joker from the deck ... tim returns to normal. The only after-effect is Operation: Continuous, 20 points (V)

Investment: Difficulty 60, Cost 6000 c

that it might be possible to cause the victim to immediately forget all events while under the control of the engine, although that’s doubtful,

NfiGflctJC FoRCc EflGJflE (pg, 86) because then he’d also immediately forget the Effect: When fired up, this engine causes itself commands the operator had given to him. and the vehicle in which it’s installed to move Operation: Continuous, 22 poi about, pulling itself along the magnetic force Investment: Difficulty 70, Cost 7000 c lines of the Earth. The amount an individual engine can push around depends on its size; the bigger the engine, the bigger the vehicle that can be hauled about. Yes, you can use under- sized engines in a vehicle, if you want something that moves ponderously slowly. The more ener- gy the engine gathers to activate the spell, the more rapidly it can move itself about. Yeah, as with the levitation engine, these are loose defin- itions, and for much the same reasons. Just use your common sense. Operation: Continuous, 16 points (+)

OLFjlCtQRy JLltZSJOfl EflGJflE (Pg. 29) Effect: This creates smells for the amusement of all. Obviously, some will choose to flood their apartments with nice smells; others, to flood the apartments of their enemies with foul stinks. Since it is the illusion of smell, and not the real smell itself, the bouquet (be it fair or foul) remains as fiesh with every breath as it was for the first. One of the worst tortures I can imag- ine would be to have an ever-changing foul

Investment: Difficulty 45, Cost 4500 c

MGGAPtlQNE GflGJW (Pg 42) Effect: This engine creates a magickal pipeline of extradimensional nature which carries the Investment: 20, Cost 1500 sounds made at the in8eniztm to a distant loca- tion. The area of effect and the amount of ener- g y used by the engine determine the quality of QptJcf iL JLLMSJQfl Ef lGJf lE the sound: volume, static, distortion, minimum audible sound, etc. If a joker is drawn, tlie megaphone engine might dl sound awa), from the source, leaving the operator unable to communicate with those close at hand. Plus there’s the difficulty of speaking when you can’t hear yourself do it-your volume and tone may take on weird characteristics. Operation: Continuous, 18 points (a) Investment: Difficulty 30, Cost 3000 c

stench illusion gagging some hapless prisoner for hours on end. This way, the foul bouquet is ever-fresh and ever-new. Yeaugh. Operation: Continuous, 16 points (0)

Difficulty 25, Cost 2500 c for a moving illusion

(Pg. 25) Effect: This creates an optical illusion, a mag- ickal hologram sort of thing. The exact illusion

enerated depends upon how the engine is cali- g brated more than on its engineering, although certain engines might not have enough flexibil- ity in their controls to allow them to create any illusion one might imagine. Ordinarily, the illu- sion will not move. With extra effort, though, a moving illusion can be created.

Operation: Continuous, 16 points (Y)

Investment: Difficulty 20, Cost 1500 c Difficulty 25, Cost 2500 c for a moving illusion

RCCORDJflCi EflCiJflE (Pg. 45) Effect: This combines the effects of the clairau- dience and clairvoyance engines, and directs their output into a derivation of the cipher engine, thereby recording all events that the engine perceives for future .playback. When the engine plays a recording back, it creates an opti- cal and auditorial illusion of sorts, but it is actu- ally the delayed imparting of the images of the actual event. Operation: Continuous, 24 points (4) Investment: Difficulty 50, Cost 5500 c

REPMEOR EflCiJflE (Pg. 39) Effect: The inversion of the imprisonment engine, this one is designed to keep people out of its radius of effect. Since it’s a magicltal barri- er, people may pass f?om the inside to the out- side freely, but they may not reenter. If 1 under- stand my magick, even a person half in and half out of the barrier will be unable to get back in- the thing ~ o r l t s sort of like those tire spikes they used to have at drive-ins. To overcome the strength of the wall, the persons who wish to cross must make a Courage or Etherealness feat equal in difficulty to the amount of power drawn by the engine. There is apparently some benefit to trying to rush the cvall en masse, but not a great one, so we’ll leave it to the Host to deter- mine, especially since “en masse” carries very different meanings for a small engine as com- pared to a huge one. Operation: Continuous, 16 points (4) Investment: Difficulty 35, Cost 3500 c

SJ lE f lCE GjVCiJjVE (Pg, 42) Effect: This engine dampens sound within its area of effect. This means that sounds inside the engine’s area of effect are made much quieter, and also that those within the sphere of influ- ence will be less able to hear sounds made out- side the engine’s reach. To simulate this in game terms, add the amount of energy the engine has accumulated to the difficulty of any Perception task involving sound. This is applied to those

within the engine’s effects, as ~7ell as to those outside trying to hear what’s going on inside. Operation: Continuous, 16 points (+) Investment: Difficulty 20, Cost 2000 c

TEjUPO&ilL EflCiJflE (Pg. 67) Effect: Wlien activated, this engine dramatically slows the passage of time for all within its grasp. The amount that time is slowed depends on how much power the engine gathers to do its work; for each point, time slows by a factor of one. Thus, if a temporal engine activates with 30 points of power, then for each 30 minutes of real time, one perspective minute will pass within the grip of the engine. It’s possible (at least in theory) to make a personal harness which will protect you from the engine’s effects. This lets you move through the engine’s field normally. Thus, in the above exam- ple, you’d be able to move thirty times as fast as the people who were trapped in the temporal amber. Operation: Continuous, 28 points (4) Investment: Difficulty 90, Cost 12,500 c Difficulty 40, Cost 5000 c for a protective harness

WflSFOR&lj4tJOjV EflCiJfiE (Pge 52) Effect: This takes any item and alters it in shape to something else. It does not make any chemi- cal changes to the item; something which starts as wood ends as wood. The shape of the item to be made is determined by a carved plate which is inserted into the machine (this also requires cal- ibration of the engine), but once the shapc to be made is determined, anything can be trans- formed. Given the shape of a sword, you could put sawdust and make a wooden sword, a book to make a paper sword, or a chandelier to make a glass sword. It works this may because the engine doesn’t actually change the molecules, it just rearranges them. It doesn’t even break mat- ter down to the molecular level, I don’t think, just to small chunks. Operation: Spontaneous, 16 points (4) Investment: Difficulty 45, Cost 4500 c

LtLtJjVj4tE EjVciJNE (Pg, 106) Effect: Although this was not completely described in the Codex, I thought I’d indude it

StAR ZfRoIV: W t l A t JS Jt? tar Iron, also laown as Cold Iron, is the key ingredient for a magickal engine- without its effects, a magickal engine cannot manipulate the raw power of sor-

cery. But what is Star Iron? I mean, to me, iron is iron is iron, right? Chemical symbol Fe, and that’s about all I remembered from my chem- istry class. It rusts, it melts, is presses clothes when heated, and you’re supposed to take some _ - every day with your vitamins. Iron.

But no, I was very wron great pains to demonstrate to me. See, over here, Mike, there’s two types of iron: the normal stuff, and Star Iron. Yeah, always spelled with caps. Normal iron is what the Prussians are beat- ing into sabers and bayo- nets and land fortresses even as we speak. Normal iron has some negative effects on magick, too. The iron railways the Prussians and English Steam Lords are building are hampering the normal flow of magicli about the land. But Star

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OF n s jvAtLRG s its name implies, Star Iron is extraterrestri- A 1 in origin (I had to explain that word to

the gang when I first used it, but now it’s become very chic among the salons). And Star Iron has a great effect upon magicli, far more so than normal iron. To hear Auberon explain it, Star Iron is a lot like plutonium to the Faerie. Yeesh. Star Iron’s effect is so pronounced that the Faerie can actually die just by being too close to it-they don’t even have to touch the stuff! And we’re talking the True Death here!

No one knows why Star Iron has these effects. Grey Morrolan believes that is it because other planets out there do not have magick. That may

or may not be, but it’s almost certain that there is no magick in deep space. Since the iron here has been exposed to the Earth’s magick for thou- sands of years, its suppressive effect on magick has been reduced over time. It’s been denatured. But Star Iron, Morrolan thinks, has never been exposed to a magickal field, and so has a very seri- ous effect on magick. Over a few hundred thou- sand years or so, he thinks Star Iron will be indw tinguishable from normal iron. This sounds pret- ty reasonable to me; I mean, the planet is sup- Dosed to have been made by a whole bunch of

iron-nickel asteroids mushing together, right? So, in theory, all the iron on the planet is Star Iron if you go back far enough. And since it doesn’t act that way, that indicates that maybe Star Iron can be denatured by chronic exposure to magickal energies.

Whatever the case, Star Iron is needed, so Star Iron the characters must get. As you might figure, you just can’t go trot on down to Fred’s Convenience Store on the corner and pick up half a pound of Star Iron. While it is possible to buy it fi-om time to time horn col- lectors and governments, i t is a rare instance indeed, and very very

expensive besides. Instead, the dramatic charac- ters must find a way to go where some Star Iron may be found, and get it themselves.

t o w to CiGt J-t ou have to go somewhere to get the Star Y Iron. This can either be a meteorite crater

or a museum which has a meteor on display. Whichever the case, the dramatic characters must first figure out where the stuff is. This can be accomplished through interviews, research, spying, or whatever, depending on what sort of Star Iron source they’re trying to pursue. For example, it might be easy to determine that the Smithsonian Museum has a few meteors on &s- play. But crossing the Atlantan to the New

& Amount Ari7~na Crater 50 Ibs.

Hudson Bay unknown

Bedinkhe Stadtvwseurn 10 lbs.

Smythe Estatej

Festung Falkenstein 3 lb.

South Africa 2-4 OZ.

Siberia Unknown?

Chateau Mousseau 7 oz.

Tokyo 2 Ibs.

___ How to k t It Prospecting a lot of small rocks, but the stuff is only 1/4 effective If the Bay is really a crater, go diving a t the center and look

Grand theft, defying the impeccable Prussian security

Pay a lot of money for his meteor Have a good reason, work for the Bayern Inner Circle Wait for the meteor (?) to hit in 1908 Break into Mousseau’s private estate Steal the Emperor’s katana, rumored to be forged of a meteor

Add your own ideas, and change these listed here so your players can’t get an unfair advantage.

There is no known way to refine iron ore or steel to extract the Star Iron which mav be

er-the better the character’s sorcery, the easier it is to identify the subethric changes Star Iron causes.

The easy way to tell if a chunk of ore has Star Iron in it is to walk up and bonk a Faerie with it. If the Faerie vaporizes, it’s Star Iron. Then it’s time to run like Hell before the rest of the Faerie roast your body alive.

Gwects OF S t f i R rrriofl tar Iron has a nasty effect on Faerie, Seelie S and Unseelie alike. This table shows what

kind of effects Star Iron has on them. The effect depends on the amount of Star Iron present, and the Faerie’s range from the Star Iron. Star Iron which has been denatured over time (very old Star Iron, in other words) should be treated as a lesser amount, in proportion to its effectiveness.

d Amount Disturbing 0 - 4 oz. 2ft 4 - 8 oz. 5 f t 8 - 16 OZ. 10 ft 1 - 2 Ib. 25 ft 2 - 4 lb. 50 ft 4 lb. and up 100 ft

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