Artifacts In the case of technological items, “artifact” refers to an item that is beyond the means of anyone within the campaign setting to create or replicate, as well as beyond conventional measures of value Unlike magical artifacts, technological artifacts can be destroyed just as other items can THE ULTRA-VIOLET RESONATOR Weight 25 lbs.; Capacity charges; Usage charge The Ultra-Violet Resonator summons 1d4 random entities from other planes (as a summon monster IX spell, but they can also be any creatures from Chapter 9) into its plane of existence, allowing the user to see them, touch them, and communicate with them The entities remain for only 1d6 rounds, then return to their proper plane of existence The resonator recharges charge per month No live organism can continue for long to exist sanely under conditions of absolute reality; even larks and katydids are supposed, by some, to dream —Shirley Jackson, The Haunting of Hill House 154