There are actually quite a few of these: the Demon
Prince of Heresy usually carries around with him a
satchel or overnight bag. Unfortunately, what with
the standard Calabite entropy field present at all
times (at Superior level, no less), it's a rare bag
that lasts more than a week. When that happens,
Maurice will swear a bit, do some quick and dirty
repairs... and hand the bag over to the next celestial
he sees with an irritated "Here".
As of yet, nobody has dared refuse the 'gift'.
The first property of the Bag is that it becomes
effectively indestructible once it leaves Maurice's
side (although the original damage cannot ever be
repaired): furthermore, the new owner will never, ever
lose it - no matter how hard he or she might try.
This includes Trauma and Limbo: naturally, the
artifact manifests on all three planes. The mechanism
by which the Bag stays with its new owner is never
overt: the relic is just somehow always around.
The second property of the Bag is its contents. All
Bags come with a legal-sized notepad, two or three
pencils and pens, a variety of loose change and two or
three books. Needless to say, it is impossible to
write anything True on the notepad or with the pencils
or pens, the change includes coins for countries that
haven't existed in centuries and/or have never existed
and the books are all on either Asmodeus', Dominic's,
Kronos' or Yves' Restricted lists (sometimes, all
four). Also needless to say, getting rid of any of
these items is effectively impossible, too.
The third property is the really interesting one, in
the Chinese sense of the term. The owner can stuff
anything into this artifact that can fit through the
opening - and that means anything. No one has found
an upper limit to capacity: no matter how much is put
in, the Bag stays at a steady weight of about ten
pounds. This would be greatly useful, except anything
that is put into the relic will come out of it
changed, to a type and degree equal to the current
mood and inherent cruelty of the GM. Anything changed
in this manner can never be transformed back.
Bags are technically, kind-of-sort-of living
artifacts: this manifests itself as mostly a desire to
have things put into it. If the owner doesn't on a
regular basis, it will look for things to 'eat' and
later regurgitate on its own. It won't actually
attack anything living - or at least, nobody's ever
seen one attack somebody - but watching a Bag stalk
and swallow (for example) a toaster is not nearly as
amusing as one would think and a whole lot more
disturbing.
Some celestials who have received Bags have just tried
to use them as permanent memory holes, but that
experiment never ends well: anything left in the
artifact for too long will end up crawling out of the
Bag under its own power, usually at the most
inappropriate time possible. Whether anyone has ever
tried to put anything living into a Bag is unknown:
it's certainly possible, but the utter lack of even
solid rumor about the results is indicative of
something.
Cost: Don't be absurd.
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