Warehouse 13: Artifact Guide

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16th-century ear trumpe: Works in tandem with a smaller version of the ear trumpet much like a CB radio. Allows user to speak into the smaller trumpet and communicate over great distances without actually being present.

John Logie Barid's Scanning Disk: Facilitates the transfer of electromagnetic energy through any medium. Used in 1926 for the world's first demonstration of the live transmission of moving images.

Hippocrates' Fibula: Gold clasp for a cape or cloak. Properties unknown.

Folsom Prison Ball and Chain: Attached to the shadow of a person or object and renders them unable to leave a certain area. Seems to chafe a little.

Mesopotamian Bronze Steel: A key component of the Warehouse's bronzer system. When used outside the bronzer, produces unstable 'bronzings' that crumble to dust after a period of time.

Copper Bowls of Life and Death: When combined with the proper alchemical formula, allows the user to become immortal. Requires the sacrifice of many living persons to achieve this end.

Barry Seal's Aviation Radio and Headset: Allows communication between two parties over any distance and through any obstacle, even when other methods will not work.

Binnacle from USS Squalus: Taken from the USS Squalus, a submarine that sank in 1939. A lot of the crew survived for forty hours on a minimal amount of oxygen. Removes oxygen from an area and allows it to be stored inside the binnacle for later use.

Coleridge's Fishing Net: Paralyzes victims caught in its snare, with powerful electric shocks. Not suggested for use on individuals suffering from heart conditions.

Hawaiian Kaula: Ancient memory device first used by Queen Lili'uokalani and currently used by the Warehouse 13 'Keeper' to store and remember highly classified Warehouse secrets.

Vintage New Year Noise Makers: Imbued with the cheer from a wild and crazy 1937 New Year’s Eve party. When used, creates streamers and balloons and an appropriately cheerful “Happy New Year!” Also induces a slight alcohol-like buzz in whoever holds them when activated.

Ruby Studded Universal Hexagram Necklac: Belonged to notorious occultist Aleister Crowley, who after devoting much of his life to studying and mastering the art of astral projection, imbued it with the power to create a smoke-like spectral projection lasting beyond the life of the user’s corporeal form.

Philosopher's Stone: The legendary Lapis Philosophorum, is said to be capable of transmuting base metals into gold. Also used to create a universal medicine – the elixir of life – that can be used for physical rejuvenation and achieving immortality.

Franz Mesmer's Magnet: Once physically touched by a magnet, they create a ‘whammy field’ that causes the victim to see illusions through the power of suggestion.

Orville Wright's Aviator Goggles: Once belonged to the less talented of the Wright Brothers who imbued them with the ability to augment your thought process by stealing brainpower from another person. Causes seizures – leading to death – in the person whose brainpower is being stolen.

Sodom and Gommorah Salt Mask: Salt from Sodom and Gomorrah. When ingested, victims suffer a unique punishment related to their greatest un-confessed sin, usually ending in death. Artifact neutralization is only possible if the victim confesses their sin aloud.

Duarte Barbosa's Pocket Watch: Property of the Portuguese writer. Part of a pair of fail-safe artifacts that are only to be used in the direst of emergencies: the destruction of the Warehouse. Once activated, the watch points to the location of Magellan's Astrolabe and counts down a period of twenty-four hours beginning the moment the Warehouse is destroyed.

Angry Birdcage: When held, attracts the attention and rouses the anger of any feathered, winged, bipedal, endothermic, egg laying, vertebrate animals within a one-mile radius. Also, causes the user to smell strongly of bacon for many days afterward.

Richard Byrd's Smoking Pipe: Property of the famed explorer. Allows the user to create and control weather events in the form of lightning and tornados. Prolonged use causes an uncontrollable rage to build in the user.

Chinese Orchid: Releases a disease known as the English Sweating Sickness. An incurable epidemic, victims die within twenty-four hours, literally sweating themselves to death. When Warehouse 8 agents finally snagged and bagged the Orchid, they encased it inside an impenetrable container to ensure the Sweating Sickness could never again be released.

Binocular: Imbued with the frightening power of an atomic bomb, the Enola Gay Binoculars (named for the plane that dropped the first nuclear device) can atomize living tissue in an instant, leaving behind only a dark, ashy shadow of their victim. Once belonging to the pilot of the plane that dropped the bomb on Hiroshima, they are said to have absorbed all of the horror of that moment.

Claudia's Farnsworth: Created by Philo Farnsworth as his personal warehouse communications device, Claudia's Farnsworth is a hacker's dream – more modular than the standard issue device, many of the components can be easily swapped to create a device that's perfect for hacking and modding. Also, it comes in black.

Bobby Fischer Bag of Marbles: Property of the chess genius. Holding a marble gives the user intense focus and determination on any goal they set out to accomplish. Prolonged use causes a thinning of the user's skin and leads to obsession and violence against anything that stands in their way.

Sigmund Freud's Clock: Allows a person's subconscious to interact with that of another, at the cost of increasing attraction to your mother for a short time after use.

Mahatma Gandhi Dhoti: Imbued with the ability to emanate pure peace, Gandhi wore this simple homespun cotton cloth during his fast for non-violence.

William Hornaday's Zookeeper Cap: Once belonged to William Hornaday, Director of the Bronx Zoo. When activated, it bursts into entwining, creeping threads that shoot out and wrap up its victims in cocoons completely restricting all movement.

Thomas Jeffries' Boomerang: From the notorious 19th century serial killer. Once thrown, this boomerang will continue to circle until it is either caught or the intended target is maimed or killed.

Scott Joplin's Cigarette Case: Property of the famed composer and pianist. While touching the Cigarette Case, the user can absorb the grief, fear, sorrow, pain and suffering of any person they touch. The user will continue to experience this pain and suffering at the cost of their health until the artifact is neutralized.

H.P. Lovecraft's Key: Referred to by Lovecraft, the noted author, as "the key to the gate of dreams," once touched, the key causes those around you to see you as a horrible monster for a short time.

Johann Maelzel's Metronome: From the inventor of the metronome, this will resuscitate any individual after death as long as it continues to tick. The downside is severe: the person using the metronome will feel the pain from any harm done to the person they resurrect.

Ferdinand Magellan's Astrolabe: Imbued with the ability to allow the user to go back twenty-four hours in time and make any adjustments necessary. Once used, the Astrolabe will cause the user to create an evil in the world unique to that person that they must live with the rest of their days.

Beatrix Potter’s Teapot: From the Peter Rabbit author. Used for brewing teas derived from the rare fungi cultivated by Potter during her time as a mycologist, the teapot is known to stimulate the precuneus region – the imagination center – of the brain. Essentially, it makes you trip bunnies.

Rhodes Marble Bowl: Marble bowl carved from the ruins of the Colossus of Rhodes. Any contact with the marble triggers a supernatural period of growth. Unless the artifact is quickly neutralized, victims will stretch to the point of severe internal and external tissue damage, eventually leading to death.

The Schlage: In the 1920s, Walter Schlage created an artifact lock pick that can open any lock after he grew tired of locking himself out of his own inventions.

Compte de Saint Germain's Ring: Contains a piece of the famous "Philosopher's Stone" that can, among other uses, reanimate and restore dead or dying plant life.

The Football: An artifact tracker, the football constantly collects information on the various artifacts all over the world and automatically downloads that information into the Warehouse computer systems as it passes overhead.

Harriet Tubman's Thimble: Used by famed abolitionist Harriet Tubman to stitch the rags of her fellow slaves, this thimble is imbued with the ability to refract light so that the wearer can take on the appearance of any person she or he chooses.

Maurice Vermersch's Waffle Iron: Property of the inventor of the waffle. Capable of making the greatest, most delicious waffles in the world, but causes the user's skin to melt from their body. Definitely not worth the hassle.

Vintage Clothes Iron: When improperly stored, the iron will steadily increase in temperature causing any item it comes in contact with to combust. Must be handled with extreme care!

Antique Miner's Lantern: Once belonging to the survivors of the Courrieres Mine Disaster of 1906 where thirteen miners made it twenty days underground as they tried to tunnel out. They were so singularly focused on their goal, that the lantern was imbued with the ability to move and control the earth.

Hans von Bülow's Piano Wire: Hans von Bülow was a brilliant conductor, but notoriously tactless. Whatever he thought or felt would flow out of him in an unstoppable torrent, resulting in many of his instruments becoming superconductors for all types of physical energy and emotional vibrations. This Piano Wire is capable of perfect conductivity of any sound or current that passes through it.

Vyasa's Jade Elephant: Created by revered Hindu scribe Vyasa as a result of his work with electricity. Imbued with the ability to absorb and project electrical energy, great care must be taken to not overcharge the artifact beyond its capacity.

Anthony Bishop Manuscrip: The unfinished loose-leaf manuscript of Kiss Me, Forever by Anthony Bishop. While writing the novel, Bishop's wife died, filling him with grief and giving him such terrible writer's block that he apparently killed himself. In reality, Bishop threw himself so completely into his work that he created an artifact and actually became a part of his own story.

Cupertino Medallion of Levitation: Allows user to levitate the person of their choice – including themselves – but causes the last person levitated to uncontrollably ascend into the stratosphere, eventually leading to hypoxia and a rapid decent back to earth. Talk about your rough landings…

Kamehameha Hawaiian Le: Transports the wearer to a tropical paradise in their mind by making you see, feel, and think that life is LITERALLY a beach.

Sitting Bull's Riding Blanket: Enables horse and rider to become one – transfers adrenaline from rider to horse allowing the horse to perform great feats of speed and strength at the cost of the rider's life. And that’s no bull.

Pancho Villa's Boot: Imbued with the power to numb any guilt or grief caused by one's own actions. Users must first walk approximately one mile before the artifact will activate.

Prehistoric Hyena Jawbone: Imbued with the power to put victims into a state of primal fear so powerful that extended exposure can literally frighten a person to death. Also temporarily physically devolves victim's appearance into a primal state. Places the user into a predatory mindset that clouds judgment and increases aggression.

Pompeii Amphor: After surviving the destruction of Pompeii, the amphora was possessed with the destructive force of a volcanic eruption. Basically, it sprays lava… LOTS and LOTS of lava.

The Original Bouncing ball: The ORIGINAL Bouncing ball is filled with the energy of about a billion sing-alongs. If disturbed, it bounces uncontrollably, making it incredibly hard to follow.

Beethoven's Clock: A gift from Beethoven's teacher – another master – to his pupil. The clock causes its victims to hear Beethoven's Opuses, culminating with the onset of deafness.

Alfred Hitchcock’s Pinwheel: Induces crippling vertigo that can instantly render a person unconscious. Reports indicate an increase in attraction to morose and/or horrifying stories after use.

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