(Cost: 8 pts.)
This is the latest gadget from Vaputech's Division of
Metaphysical Engineering (motto: "Our stuff doesn't
blow up as much. More or less.") and has been
getting favorable responses from the Horde. That is
to say, it was deemed worthwhile to actually include
comment cards with this one; some of them actually
come back minus scorch marks/non-radioactive/free
of various byproducts of corporeal bodily functions/without scrawled obscenities in various languages both
dead and alive. That's impressive, for Vaputech.
What the Angelotron does is perfectly (no, really)
simulate the celestial appearance and ineffable
'signature' of the angelic counterpart of the wearer.
This works everywhere, even in Heaven, costs no
Essence, causes no disturbance and will fool everyone
- including, yes, Superiors who aren't making the
effort to look. You'd be surprised at how often that
happens. It's safe to operate, too: as far as anyone
can tell, there are no hidden pitfalls to using an
Angelotron.
Not that an Angelotron is some sort of perfect
disguise, of course. There are a few drawbacks.
First off, it doesn't give the user access to the
appropriate angelic resonance, or allow him, her or it
to use Songs and relics that are only accessible to
members of the Host. The guys at DME are working on
it, but nobody's promising anything. Also, the
demon's dissonance conditions are emphatically still
in effect, which makes using this thing to infiltrate
groups of angels or Soldiers of God risky in the long
term. The guys at DME are not allowed to work on that
problem... um, 'feature' ... as most of the Princes
have made it clear that those conditions exist for a
reason. There's also the small issue that anybody
caught using an Angelotron is going to be in serious
trouble with both Heaven (for obvious reasons) and
Fate (Kronos doesn't approve of competition when it
comes to fielding angel impersonators). Still, it's a
popular item, especially since it's one of the few
items that Shedim can automatically take with them
whomever they go. The downsides are sufficiently mild
to make an Angelotron worth it.
(Pause)
OK, there is one, small, practically meaningless
problem. The Angelotron has been known to have, shall
we say, existential issues sometimes. If its owner
rolls an Intervention (either Infernal or Divine, the
relic is faced with the problem of working out how to
react to it. Unfortunately, despite the best efforts
of the guys at DME its standard method of dealing with
such an insoluble problem is to explode. This will
cause 4d6 damage (of the same type as the current
plane) (in the case of a Divine Intervention), which
is usually bad, and always immediately break the
illusion, which is sometimes worse. This makes
infiltration of Heaven problematical, as Divine
Interventions tend to show up quite often up there:
worse, a demon suddenly exposed to the Light of Heaven
because of the disintegration of an Angelotron takes
damage for the next ten rounds as if he, she or it
were in the locus of a Heavenly Tether. Yes, this
would look exactly like someone 'burning with
goodness' because, well, it's essentially what's
happening.
Still, worth it, right?
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