Eyes of the Arkati

The Eyes of the Arkati are a scripted divination prop designed by GM Thandiwe that debuted at Ebon Gate 2023 at the shop Entranced. They are highly scripted and provide an extreme variety of randomized visions, with minor visions available both OTS and at Tier 2 while major visions are limited to just Tier 2. Individual disks are considered pin-worn fluff. Tier 1 Tier 1 Eyes of the Arkati have access to minor visions. Analyze You analyze your flimsy violet disks and sense that the creator has provided the following information: Eyes of the Arkati These disks are designed to be worn over the eyes, where they will safely hide from view. However, while worn they will, every 8 - 12 hours, provide a random vision. They can also help you slip into a trance, and you can even trigger a vision on your own. GAZE: Trigger a Minor Vision WHISPER disks START: Causes you to slip into a trance. WHISPER disks STOP: Causes you to come out of a trance. Additional verbs can be used to do special messaging while in a trance. Verbs: Blanch, Gaze, Grin, Whisper The disks are Tier 1 out of 2. Since the disks do not appear, even when manipulating them with the above verbs, there aren't any customizations available for them. However, you can change the deity or energy they are aligned to. Attunement: Zelia Verb Trance First Third BLANCH Trance A fleeting ripple of fear grips you, momentarily causing the blood to drain from your face before the lassitude of your trance reclaims your emotionless state. This section has not been added yet; please add to it now! GAZE No Trance Focusing upon Zelia, you gaze through the disks in your eyes, and the image of <something> appears before you. This section has not been added yet; please add to it now! GAZE Trance You gaze about without any true recognition of where you are as the heavy malaise of your trance causes your features to remain slack and your limbs to feel heavy. After a time, your vision changes... (Random minor vision.) This section has not been added yet; please add to it now! Triggers a minor vision. GRIN Trance A smile slowly builds upon your face as your eyes grow distant and you fall into a deep trance. This section has not been added yet; please add to it now! WEAR Opening your eyes terribly wide, you carefully fit the flimsy violet disks over your irises and then blink several times while they settle into place. A milky film spreads across your vision for a brief moment but slowly seeps away, and your vision returns to normal. This section has not been added yet; please add to it now! WHISPER START You silently slip into a deep trance, your body stilling and your breath slowing. This section has not been added yet; please add to it now! Enters a trance state. WHISPER STOP Trance Slowly, you feel yourself returning to your body, and you feel a prickling of pins and needles upon your limp limbs. You blink several times and feel as if you are struggling through thick layers of cobwebs before your vision finally returns to normal. This section has not been added yet; please add to it now! Exits a trance state. Tier 2 Tier 2 Eyes of the Arkati have access to minor visions and major visions. Analyze You analyze your flimsy violet disks and sense that the creator has provided the following information: Eyes of the Arkati These disks are designed to be worn over the eyes, where they will safely hide from view. However, while worn they will, every 8 - 12 hours, provide a random vision. They can also help you slip into a trance, and you can even trigger a vision on your own. GAZE: Trigger a Minor Vision. STARE: Triggers a Major Vision once every hour. WHISPER disks START: Causes you to slip into a trance. WHISPER disks STOP: Causes you to come out of a trance. Additional verbs can be used to do special messaging while in a trance. Verbs: Blanch, Breathe, Cry, Gaze, Grin, Laugh, Point, Stare, Whisper The disks are Tier 2 out of 2. Since the disks do not appear, even when manipulating them with the above verbs, there aren't any customizations available for them. However, you can change the deity or energy they are aligned to. Attunement: Zelia Verb Trance First Third BREATHE Trance Template:After several moments of motionless gazing, you feel yourself stilling, your pulse slowing and your breath becoming so faint that you begin to wonder if you are even alive. This section has not been added yet; please add to it now! CRY Trance Template:Your breath catches in your throat, and you recognize the sound of sobbing, only belatedly realizing that you made the sound. Despondency and sorrow fill you as you sway slightly in the deep trance that grips you. This section has not been added yet; please add to it now! LAUGH Trance Template:Laughter bubbles over your lips, tumbling to the ground around you as something within your trance fills you with unbridled joy. Moments later, that feeling has passed, and you return to your quiescent state. This section has not been added yet; please add to it now! POINT Trance Template:You feel yourself falling deeper into your trance, your breath slowing as a deep lassitude overcomes you. Without any warning, you are suddenly filled with an overpowering sense of dread that you can only barely comprehend. This section has not been added yet; please add to it now! STARE Trance Concentrating on your connection to Zelia, you stare through the flimsy violet disks that cover your eyes, causing a vision to blossom to life before you... (Random major vision.) This section has not been added yet; please add to it now! Triggers a major vision. Trance State The trance state is activated by WHISPER DISK START and ended by WHISPER DISK STOP. While under the effects of a trance, you can not cast or attack or eat or a number of other minor things. Features When activated so that the wearer has fallen into a trance, their LOOK description adds a unique feature line that appears directly below eyes, hair, wings, etc.: Her features appear slack, her eyes covered in a milky white film as she stares transfixed at something in the distance. This feature line remains in effect so long as the wearer is in an activated trance state. Minor Visions Minor visions are available with both Tier 1 and Tier 2 Eyes of the Arkati. There are ten sets of minor visions that have over 900 possible combinations. The minor visions utilize the TATTOO table to build the combinations. If NOT in a trance, this is what you may see: >gaze my disk Focusing upon Zelia, you gaze through the disks in your eyes, and the image of <something> appears before you. If IN a trance, this is what you may see: You gaze about without any true recognition of where you are as the heavy malaise of your trance causes your features to remain slack and your limbs to feel heavy. After a time, your vision changes... Music fills the air, the sound of a party drifting to you as you gaze out upon the balcony onto a sprawling city that is in the throes of a celebration. Just as you turn to head inside, the sound of fireworks explodes behind you, and you glance up to see <item> burst across the sky in a colorful pageantry of light. Some visions have more than one random component. You may trigger a minor trance anytime that you desire. Major Visions Major visions come in sets of 15 and are much larger visions. They provide a location and can have as many as 7 random components. They are limited to one per hour. The major vision themes are: Beach, Bog, Cave, Clouds, Deert, Forest, Garden, Library, Mountain, Ocean, Snow, Tropical, Workshop. An example of what you might see is: Concentrating on your connection to Zelia, you stare through the flimsy violet disks that cover your eyes, causing a vision to blossom to life before you... As your vision clears, you find yourself on your hands and knees, crawling through the hot desert. Parched and exhausted, you contemplate giving up, your swollen tongue filled with sand and the taste of blood from your cracked lips. Each movement causes your sunburned muscles to scream in protest as you continue to crawl through the sand. Time has no meaning, the endless hours stretching before you as heat causes the air around you to waver. You find yourself staring at something green beneath your fingers and glance up numbly to see you've stumbled upon an oasis. Hope fills your body with adrenaline, and you surge to the edge of a pool, nearly choking as you suck water into your body. Sated, you roll to your back to find <random animal> beside you and stumble back, accidentally putting your hand through an old skull where <random creature> has made its home. In the below example, phrases in parentheses show the part of the vision that is randomized: Blinding white light lances across your vision, and you feel the familiar effects of a trance come over you. Your limbs grow heavy, your body stills, and the world around you swims with rapidly swirling lights. As your vision clears, you find yourself surrounded by large clusters of (pink fuchsia) on all sides. Your feet dangle over a ledge, your eyes upon the majestic waterfall off to your right, the turquoise waters falling into a moonlit pool hundreds of feet below. Despite the serenity and beauty of your location, you find yourself filled with a deep sadness that causes your throat to constrict and your eyes to sting. A movement at your side startles you from your melancholy brooding, and you find several woodland creatures watching you from the sheltering leaves. Among them are tiny pixies with (peridot grasshopper wings streaked with jade), who all look at you with concern. Slowly, they start to flutter their wings and sing a single name. (Sunnydust). Bathed in moonlight, a regal pixie queen flutters down to the ground at your side. Her skin is pearlescent with dewdrops, her hair woven into an intricate braid of (seaglass aqua) tresses, and her body adorned with a ribbon-tied dress of (cream-colored lily petals). She pats your hand and smiles up at you. "Remember," she says. "(The melody of your laughter is the sweetest song in the forest.)" And then, she hands you a (miniature ivy tendril). Slowly, you feel yourself returning to your body, and you feel a prickling of pins and needles upon your limp limbs. You blink several times and feel as if you are struggling through thick layers of cobwebs before your vision finally returns to normal. Blinding white light lances across your vision, and you feel the familiar effects of a trance come over you. Your limbs grow heavy, your body stills, and the world around you swims with rapidly swirling lights. As your vision clears, you find yourself sitting on a bench in the middle of a winter scene. Snow-topped pine trees encircle a small frozen pond where dozens of halfling children are trying their hand at ice skating. Laughter fills the air as they slip and slide across the glassy surface. Glancing down, you note that you are wearing a pair of (stormy charcoal grey) (chevron-patterned vaslavilen) mittens and holding a steaming cup of (hibiscus tea). You sense motion to the side of you and see a chubby snowman sitting on the bench beside you. He has dark coal eyes and a bright orange carrot for a nose. Noticing your glance, he grins at you and leans over to say, ("My dream vacation? Somewhere tropical I'm curious about melting culture!") Slowly, you feel yourself returning to your body, and you feel a prickling of pins and needles upon your limp limbs. You blink several times and feel as if you are struggling through thick layers of cobwebs before your vision finally returns to normal. Lastly, upon wearing the disks a random timer goes on you. Once the timer is up, a RANDOM vision takes place. There is a 33% chance it will be a major vision, otherwise, it will be a minor vision. Random Messaging While under the effect of a trance, you provide ambient messaging about being in the trance. It fires every 20 seconds. It reminds you how to get out of the trance, though others do not see that information. You are still under the effect of your most recent trance. To exit the trance, WHISPER disks STOP. You distantly feel the flutter of your lashes against your cheek, though you know your eyes remain wide and unseeing. Your limbs remain heavy from the deep trance you find yourself in. Blinding white light lances across your vision, and you feel the familiar effects of a trance come over you. Your limbs grow heavy, your body stills, and the world around you swims with rapidly swirling lights. Mist slowly parts before you, causing the fleeting image of a black-striped tan gazelle to flicker in and out of existence. XXX's eyes grow wide and his features fall slack as he slips into a deep trance. XXX silently slips into a deep trance, his body stilling and his breathing slowing. Unblinking, XXX seems paralyzed by the trance that holds him and gazes vacantly into the distance. With slack feature, XXX gazes unseeingly about with a complete lack of expression or emotion. Slowly, you feel yourself returning to your body, and you feel a prickling of pins and needles upon your limp limbs. You blink several times and feel as if you are struggling through thick layers of cobwebs before your vision finally returns to normal. XXX blinks several times as he slowly comes out of his trance. There is a 1 in 8 chance for the trance to simply end. Additional Information Questions & Answers Major Visions 15 Location Settings that you will see 2-7 random options within each setting Random Options have anywhere from 15 - 100 individual options The Largest Major Vision Variety is in the Tropical and Snow Visions Some visions offer advice or hold conversations Minor Visions These are usually no larger than a sentence or two. These have 1-2 random options. Each option choice cycles through the Tattoo table and provides over 900 choices. Wearing the disks They are hidden in your inventory. Only you can see the disks on you. Arkati Choices Gosaena Zelia Jastev Lorminstra Psychic Energy Can the choices of Arkati/Energy be customized? Yes, you can change it to any Arkati. Yes, as long as it makes sense, you can change it to a different type of energy. Examples of energy that the disks can be changed to include the following: the ancestors, a bevy latten talents, a natural psychic energy, the cosmic forces, an extrasensory perception, some dormant paranormal powers, a well of internal energy, the patterns of natural forces, a deep, inner strength See Also Divination Divination: A Comprehensive Guide

Eyes of the Arkati Information Type Fluff Item Classification Accessory Item(s) Applied to Disk Alterable Light/Deep Feature(s) Altered Unique line Customizable Yes Custom Deity/Energy alignment Original Release Venue Ebon Gate Original Release Year 2023 Tiered Yes Number of Tiers 2 How to Unlock Certificate Restrictions Noun MUST remain disk. Item Verbs BLANCH BREATHE CRY GAZE GRIN LAUGH POINT STARE WEAR WHISPER