Antiquarian's Apparatus

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Sold at Ebon Gate's Antiquarian Manor, Antiquarian's Apparatus can store rare materials, colloquially called alter fodder.

Analyze

You take a closer look at a suede-wrapped storage apparatus.
You analyze the storage apparatus and sense that the creator has provided the following information:

The Antiquarian's Apparatus

Introduced at the Ebon Gate Festival in 5122, the apparatus is designed to hold 20 types of rare materials.
They are allowed to stack.
It must remain some kind of container that has a glass front or shield, gears on the side, and suede both wrapping and lining it.

It has the following actions: look (see the stored items), pluck (remove a stored item), put (add an item), and whisper (move the items to make them easier to pluck)

Customizations:
Suede Color or Descriptor - blue
Gear Material - copper

Usage

Verb First Third
LOOK Surrounded in complex copper gears, the apparatus is a mechanical marvel. Blue encircles the exterior as well as the tiny cubbies that are visible beyond a pane of lead-reinforced glass. Despite the metallic reinforcements, the pane is quite translucent, allowing for a view of the cubbies beyond. Within them, you see:

1. a nodule of snow jade (10 pieces)
2. a piece of celestial agate (10 pieces)
3. a delicate zelflyr bead (10 pieces)
4. a twisted branch of wyrwood (1 piece)
...

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PLUCK Twisting one of the copper gears on the side of your storage apparatus, you wait for the opening process to complete before plucking a [ALTER FODDER] from its confines. A moment later, the protective glass slides back into place and the gears still.

You realize this is the last of its kind in your storage apparatus. (if removal reduces count below 1)

Twisting one of the copper gears on the side of his storage apparatus, [CHARACTER] waits for the opening process to complete before plucking a bit of beetle agate from its confines. A moment later, the protective glass slides back into place and the gears still.
PUT Twisting one of the copper gears, you wait as the apparatus shifts and whirs through its opening process and then deposit [ALTER FODDER] into its blue suede-lined confines. A moment later, the telltale sounds of the apparatus closing fill the air. Twisting one of the copper gears, [CHARACTER] waits as the apparatus shifts and whirs through its opening process and then deposits a bit of beetle agate into its blue suede-lined confines. A moment later, the telltale sounds of the apparatus closing fill the air.
WHISPER Syntax: WHISPER {my} apparatus MATERIAL #

You whisper under your breath how you'd like to have [ALTER FODDER] ready to be retrieved, and you suddenly notice that the [ALTER FODDER NOUN] seems to be in a better position for quick plucking.

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Antiquarian's Apparatus Information
Type Fluff
Item Classification Container
Item(s) Applied to
Alterable Yes
Light/Deep
Original Release Venue Evermore Hollow
Original Release Year 2022
Item Verbs
LOOK PLUCK PUT WHISPER