Ring of the Intrepid Seeker
InVi 13, 50 uses per day.
R: Touch, D: Mom, T: Touch
This item is meant to assist young magi looking for places to found a covenant, or simply exploring mystic sites. It is a ring of hazel wood that goes around a walking staff. When someone touching the ring enters a magical aura, they feel a shiver. The strength of the shiver is proportional to the strength of the aura.
The laboratory text includes a +3 material modifier for hazel (divination). The creator's sigil usually modifies the sensation transmitted by the ring: shiver, prickling, heat, cold, etc.
(Design: Base 2, +1 Touch range, +1 Touch target. +3 levels Environmental trigger (change in aura), +6 levels 50 uses/day. Final effect level 13.)
Note: this item incorporates no Penetration, and thus has to be carried by a grog. Users are also warned that, while the item activates every time you enter or exit any mystical aura, the shiver only occurs if the aura is magical: if you are wandering through lots of intersecting auras, the item might run out of uses mid-day and you'd never know. A version of the lab text with Effect Level 17 (outside the scope of this exercise) allows for unlimited uses per day.