Gear

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Primary Item (H2)

A prop­er out­fit of gear may spell the dif­fer­ence between suc­cess and fail­ure, in grim climes and hos­tile ter­ri­to­ries.

camp & field

ITEM Info Bur­den Price
Armory pli­ers Used for repair­ing armor S 15p
Blan­ket, woolen — 1# £1
Blow­torch Uses kerosene fuel S £2
Crow­bar — 1# 10p
Sleep­ing bag — 1# 10p
Can­teen, tin or leather Con­tain­er; Holds 2 units water. S emp­ty,
1# full. 		 5p
Mess kit — S 5p
Tent half — 1# 15p
Tent poles — S £1
Samovar, pack, insu­lat­ed Con­tain­er;  Holds 8 units of water. 1# emp­ty, 4# full. £3
Leather awl Used for repair­ing armor. S 15p
Lock­pick — XS £1
Shov­el — 1# 15p
Sinew/cord, spool of 200 meters Used for repair­ing armor S 10p
Pack stove 7|5 back, but takes wear if hit 5# £10
Stove lamp — 1# £2
Rope, cot­ton, meter — XXS ¼ p
Rope, hemp, meter — XXS ½ p
Sad­dle — 2# £15
Tele­scop­ic pike haft Best com­bined with a pike head 2# £5
Car­ry har­ness — 1# £15
Chain, 1cm weld­ed steel, yard — S 3p

Tents
It takes 2 tent halves and 1 set of poles to build a two per­son tent. The mod­u­lar can­vas­es allows an addi­tion­al half to be added per per­son. +1 set of poles required per 2 halves.

Pack stove
A small cop­per stove with a lou­vered chim­ney and flat top. Built into an insu­lat­ed, remov­able back­plate. It can be worn, toasti­ly, full of coals. The top has a remov­able “eye” for a pot or ket­tle to be set on top. It can be lit and tend­ed with Match­smithy.
  • Low. Can be worn,  pro­vid­ing the wear­er 4 warmth. Wood: 1 unit/day. Kerosene: 1 unit/day.
  • High. As camp­fire. Too hot to wear. Can be cooked on. Wood: 1 unit/hour. Kerosene: 1 unit/6 hours.

Can be con­vert­ed to burn, or bought able to burn, kerosene at +50% base price. 

INSULATED PACK SAMOVAR
An urn-shaped brass drink dis­penser spout. Fit­ted with straps, meant for wear around the neck. Has a chim­ney and a tiny wood burn­ing boil­er. 18 por­tions of tea can be kept hot for 4 hours. 3# when full. 7|5 back armor.

STOVE LAMP
A squat kerosene lamp with a flat hot­plate atop its cylin­der. With­in the glass, a brass heat­ing ele­ment  snakes up to coil around the bot­tom of the plate. With the turn of a dial, the lamp acti­vates its func­tion as a stove while still shed­ding light.

containers & packs

item info bur­den price
Back­pack, leather 12# cap. S £3
Back­pack, frame 12# cap. 4/2 back armor 1# £6
Back­pack, cas­ket  12# cap. armor 7|3 Back 2# £8
Bar­rel,  aging, oak, 53 gal, new 80# cap.  15# £1.4
Bar­rel, keg, oak, new, 15.5 gal 6# cap. 2# 8p
Burlap sack 12# cap. S 1p
Mouse sack 6 pock­et space — £2

The buden col­umn describes a con­tain­er’s weight when worn. Only small (S) con­tain­ers are non­bur­den­some when worn.

Backpack, leather
A qual­i­ty pack. Resis­tant to cut­ting and, to a lim­it­ed extent, fire.

Backpack, Casket
A steel-bound cedar chest with straps. Resists water dam­age, impacts, and fire.

Mouse Sack
The cul­tur­al lug­gage of mice coast­wide. A soft, expan­si­ble pouch, most often of suede or knit. Pro­vides 6 pock­et space.

cooking gear

ITEM Info Bur­den Price
Percolator/kettle — 1# £1.5
Rotis­serie spit, small  small ani­mals 1# £1
Rotis­serie spit, large  large ani­mals 2# £2 5p
Skil­let or pot, cop­per serves 3-5 1# £5
Skil­let or pot, cop­per, big  serves 6-8 2# £10
Skil­let or pot, cast iron serves 3-5 2# £1 10p
Skil­let or pot, cast iron, big  serves 6-8 3# £3
Wood­en spoon — XXS ¼p
Wood­en bowl — S 1p
Tin cup — XS 2p
Tin bowl — XS 3p
Pock­et flask, pewter — S £1
Large flask, steel 5u water S emp­ty. 2# full.  £2
Ladle, wood­en — XS ½ p 

explosives

item Bur­den Price
Det­o­na­tor XXS 12p
Det­o­na­tion cord XS 3p/meter
Dyna­mite, 50/50 strength, stick XS £1
Fuse, safe­ty XXS 1.5p/meter

Percolator
A steel ket­tle with a glass knob on top. It cycles boil­ing water over what­ev­er is in its brew bas­ket (most often cof­fee.)

DETONATION CORD
Flex­i­ble, wax-var­nished cord con­tain­ing a nitroglycerine/stabilizer filler. When exposed to fire, it det­o­nates, also det­o­nat­ing any con­nect­ed sticks of dyna­mite.

DETONATORS
Point­ed cop­per caps con­tain­ing a small charge of nitro­glyc­er­ine. The points are intend­ed for inser­tion into dyna­mite sticks. The ends may be crimped around ends of fuse or det­cord.

DYNAMITE
Card­board tubes of 50/50 nitroglycerin/diatomaceous earth sta­bi­liz­er. Con­tains a small hole for the place­ment of det­o­na­tors. The sticks are rel­a­tive­ly sta­ble, and may be cut and halved or quar­tered, Dyna­mite may not be used in freez­ing tem­per­a­tures with­out being warmed up, a dan­ger­ous task.

SAFETY FUSE
A length of thin, extrud­ed cordite wrapped in var­nished jute cord. When lit, burns at a rate of 15 sec­onds per foot.

light & fire

ITEM Bur­den Price
Can­dle, taper or bar­rel-shaped XS 1p
Can­dle, vig­il 1# £2
Lamp, kerosene 1# full, S empt. 10p
Torch, muni­tions S 2p
Torch, mag­ne­sium S £1
Lighter, kerosene or fusee XS £1
Match­es, box of 20 XXS 1p
Fire­wood, bun­dle (1 unit fuel) 1# ½ p
Kerosene, 1-liter can (2 units fuel) 1# full, S empt. 3p
Firesteel XS 1p
Fusee XS 2p

See dark­ness for more info on light sources, and match­smithy for fire­light­ing rules.

Vigil candle
A fat wax cylin­der. Wrapped in tin leaf stamped with sacred imagery. A somber thing, meant for altars or hol­i­day pro­ces­sions. Usu­al­ly borne by church­mice, who stoop under its weight.

Munitions Torch
Cheap pine dow­el & pine tar head. Comes wrapped in brown paper to pre­vent stick­i­ness. Mass-pro­duced, and intend­ed to illu­mi­nate mil­i­tary retrench­ments and oth­er out­door for­ti­fi­ca­tions.When lit: 6 meter radius, dura­tion 1 hour. Requires Match­smithy to light in haste.

Magnesium Torch
For inhos­pitable places. A half-meter fusee of com­pact­ed mag­ne­sium fuel packed between cheap met­al struts and con­nect­ed to a tin haft. Comes in a tin tube, the cap of which can strike up the torch like a match. Burns bril­liant ice-blue. When lit: 10 meter radius, dura­tion 1 hour. Burns under water and in wind. 4 meter radius under water. 

Fusee
A red-burn­ing flare with a paper cas­ing. Can be lit like a match on any rough sur­face. Typ­i­cal­ly used for sig­nal­ing by rail­ways or cara­biniers.  Lasts 20 min­utes. Light as torch, but can be seen at triple the usu­al dis­tance. 

LAMP
A thin glass cylin­der pro­tect­ing the wick of a steel fuel reser­voir. Has a small hatch in the side for light­ing, and an unscre­w­able cap on the reser­voir for fill­ing. 50% chance to break if wield­er falls and does­n’t tum­ble suc­cess­ful­ly.  A good lamp can be adjust­ed, allow­ing it to burn at the bright­ness of a torch, albeit at twice the rate of fuel con­sump­tion. Sheds good light in a 4-meter radius. When filled with a half pint of kerosene, it burns for 12  hours.

military gear

item Weight  Price
Exten­si­ble bar 3 # £30
Gas mask S £10
Con­certi­na wire, spool 1# £1 1p
Portable bar­ri­cade 6# £15
Sad­dle, cav­al­ry 6# £30
Palm frog XS 10p
Armor patch, leather (requires  leather nee­dle and twine/sinew) S 3p
Armor patch, chain maille (require pli­ers) S 10p
Armor patch, hard leather (requires leather nee­dle and twine/sinew/wire) S 12p
Armor patch, steel plate (required blow­torch) S £1

Concertina Wire
A heavy spool of razor-sharp barbed wire pressed and con­tained with­in two wood­en disks. May be opened, enabling the spool to stretch and occu­py up to 8 total squares. Open­ing the spool requires an action. Throw­ing the spool will cause it to expand rapid­ly and unpre­dictably into a thick­et of wire. 

Portable barricade
Over­lap­ping plates of steel cov­er­ing an extend­able  scis­sor arm. When fold­ed, it is 25 by 50 cen­time­ters. When loaded with a gun­spring coil, the thing can be trig­gered to vio­lent­ly expand, cre­at­ing a steel bar­ri­er, 25cm by 3m, that can be posi­tioned ver­ti­cal­ly or hor­i­zon­tal­ly to obstruct or rein­force a hall­way or door. Cram­pons on either end allow the expand­ing bar to bite into sur­faces, secur­ing it to them. Once expand­ed, it can­not be safe­ly dis­armed with­out the accom­pa­ny­ing key. A han­dle and a well-posi­tioned strap allow the bar to be used as a muni­tions plate medi­um shield. 

Gas mask
A mask like the head of a great fly, with wide mica eye-lens­es and a bul­bous fil­ter-snout. Sewn from chem­i­cal-absorbent can­vas and leather, it fil­ters the wearer’s breath through a puri­fy­ing char­coal matrix, spar­ing them the effects of air­borne dan­gers, such as phos­phor bombs. 

Extensible bar
Thick, over­lap­ping armor plates cov­er­ing an exten­si­ble  steel scis­sor arm. When fold­ed, it is 30 cm by 100. When extend­ed, it pro­vides meter-high cov­er across 1 square. Wide, fold­ing feet with cram­pons allow it to be plant­ed firm­ly on any ter­rain. Requires 1 action to extend and plant. Han­dles and a well-posi­tioned strap allow the bar­ri­cade to be used as a muni­tions plate half-pavise shield when fold­ed and strapped to the arm.

Palm Frog
A thick leather loop, or “frog,” with buck­led straps designed to wrap between the fin­gers and around the back of the hand. Allows the grip of a weapon to stay in hand even if the fin­gers are relaxed, pre­vent­ing dis­ar­ma­ment. May be worn with gaunt­let or gloves.  It takes an action strap or remove a weapon from the frog. The hand may not be used for oth­er tasks, when strapped with a weapon.

photogravure

item Bur­den Price
Cam­era, box, Spice 0100 S £4
Cam­era, bel­lows, Atkins Mod­el 3 S £25
Cop­per­plate, pho­to­type, pre­pared XS 1S
Pho­to­graph ink, pot of 12 S 1S
Pho­to­graph paper, pack of 12 XXS 4p
Ink roller XS 3p
Flash­bulb XS 6p
Flash lamp, cam­era S 3P

SPICE 0100 BOX CAMERA
Brown hard-leather box with a sim­ple fixed-focus menis­cus lens. Comes with a pam­phlet allow­ing Pho­togravure 1. May be fit­ted with a flash lamp. In order to grave a pho­to­type, the box requires one pre­pared cop­per­plate. It takes an action to load the cam­era, and 2 actions to reload it. It takes an action to grave a pho­to­type, as described under Art: Pho­togravure.

CAMERA FLASH LAMP
A goose-neck arm with a reflec­tive shade. A sock­et with­in the shade accepts flash bulbs, and the end of the arm con­nects to ded­i­cat­ed mount­ing points on a cam­era. When the lamp is loaded with a flash­bulb and attached to a cam­era, it ignites the bulb upon depres­sion of the shut­ter, cre­at­ing a bril­liant flash and a fiz­zle of flame. It takes an action to load a flash bulb into the lamp, and 2 to change a spent one.

FLASHBULB
A thin blown-glass bulb filled with mag­ne­sium and fit­ted with an ignit­er. May be trig­gered with a flash lamp or by push­ing the ignit­er in.

PREPARED PHOTOTYPE COPPERPLATE
A thin sheet of cop­per treat­ed with light-sen­si­tive chem­i­cals. The treat­ed side is cov­ered in pro­tec­tive paper, which is stripped away when the plate is loaded into a cam­era.

INK, PAPER, AND ROLLERS
The means of pho­to­graph­ic repro­duc­tion.

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