What this page would be: An Item article
Detrimental Disk was the very first idea I came up with when I first started here as a member. Sadly it was not able to hold its own and is now gone1 Hopefully this rewrite would breathe new interest into it.
What it is: A stone disk with an aluminum circular button etched with a symbol located in the center of the disk.
Item is activated by touching the center of the disk itself. Upon activation item will spin and whine before draining all electrical and thermal energy2 from the surrounding area.
The item's effects are measured based on the effects it has on the surrounding area.
The effects only deactivate when the button on top is touched again
Hook: The device was created by an ancient civilization to insure that technology would be reset and to regress the progress of civilizations or stop progress.
OR
The item actually belongs to an unknown alien civilization that may or may not exist and is using this device to monitor and analyze the technological progress of other planetary lifeforms.
OR
The item is being used by an active alien civilization to supply basic power as their equivalent of pencil batteries that was accidentally left on our planet. The CI is in communication with the civilization to strike a deal.
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