T-??? – The Inn
P-??? – Singularity Prime
The group enters ‘Rary’s Inn’, after paying the door price… ‘Something valuable’. There, they find a pretty standard fantasy themed inn, with a few notable exceptions. The other patrons are all wearing an eclectic mix of clothes from other worlds and/or time periods. They approach the bar, and proceed to drink. After a few hours, they retire to bed.
When they wake the inn has changed. It now resembles an upscale gentlemen’s club from the 1800s. They receive an invitation to meet with their host, Rary, and accept. The meeting is short. Rary simply tells them that they are now members of the club, he knows about there history, and he asks them one question: ‘What’s next?’
The group decides to stock up on supplies, and visits a far-future earth. After exchanging some gold for local credits, they buy some electronics and return to the club to plan their next steps.
Universal Communicator (Unicom)
The unicom is an all-in-one piece of equipment that handles the communication needs of a single person. Each unicom has its own frequency and can send transmissions both directly to another individual unicom as well as to an entire group of unicoms. The unicom also has a data port so that it can be linked to a computer system and receive data as well as audio and visual communications.
(Mark’s Unicom also incorporates a hologram recorder and projector, a Neural Computer Link, and a Polyvox).
Hologram Player
When activated, the device projects a three-dimensional image in full color as small as three inches in height or as large as a Medium-size character. The hologram player can play back information from a hologram recorder, or from the unicom to receive three-dimensional images for real-time communications.
Hologram Recorder
The device can make a three-dimensional recording of anything within its cone-shaped recording area. It can store up to one hour of three-dimensional images to be played back or transferred to a computer as video data.
Neural Computer Link
The neural computer link creates a direct connection between the brain and a computer system. The neural computer link eliminates the need for a physical interface. Instead, the user simply “thinks” commands to the computer. Output from the computer is sent straight to the user’s brain, tapping into the visualization centers to project images and displays directly into the user’s mind, eliminating the need for any sort of display device. In all other ways, the neural computer link allows the user to access the computer as if used conventionally.
One advantage this gives a character is that information may be downloaded directly into the brain. The character’s own mind becomes a hard drive for basic information, granting the character direct knowledge of a particular subject almost instantaneously.
Polyvox
The polyvox translates the languages of different cultures and species.