Vessel of Unbecoming

🔮Cypher System

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Vessel of Unbecoming

potion· 500-800 shins·daniels.douglas

A translucent vial filled with liquid that seems to forget what color it is — shifting from violet to nothing and back again.

Properties

•Level 7 cypher (manifest)
•Single-use consumable
•When consumed, the drinker's physical form partially phases out of the current dimension for up to 10 minutes
•During this time, the drinker is immune to all physical damage but cannot physically interact with objects or creatures
•The drinker may end the effect early as an action
•Mental and energy-based attacks still affect the drinker normally
•At the moment of re-solidification, the drinker may choose to reassemble at any point within short range of their original position

Special Ability

While phased, the drinker exists partially in the datasphere — they can perceive datasphere signals, ghostly echoes of prior-world communications, and sense the emotional residue of anyone who has died within long range in the past decade. Any information perceived this way is fragmented and requires a difficulty 5 Intellect task to interpret meaningfully. On a failed roll, the GM may introduce a datasphere intrusion — a fragment of a prior-world mind attempting to hitch a ride back into solidity.

GM Only — Hidden Secrets

The vertebra stopper is not decorative — it belongs to a prior-world entity called the Unmade Cartographer, who spent centuries learning to phase in and out of reality and eventually forgot how to fully return. Each use of this vial releases a tiny thread of the Cartographer's fragmented consciousness into the datasphere. After 3 uses by anyone (track across the campaign), the Cartographer has enough coherence to begin sending targeted visions to whoever last used it, begging to be reassembled. The Cartographer knows the location of a prior-world installation but is also dangerously unstable — fulfilling its request risks a difficulty 8 Intellect hazard as its alien thought-patterns bleed into the helper's mind.