A suggested standard item to add to the 'Mage Crown' is the 'Mage Torc', or 'Mage Amplifier'. This is based on the idea of sharpening the user's mind from the point of view of intelligence, as used for magical purposes - other abilities which require related mental flexibility, focus, and concentration might also benefit.
Torcs are only any use if you don't have native or trained
intelligence sufficient to use magic efficiently (12 on the GURPS
scale). Use of a torc can develop some people with experience so they don't need one
any more, though they can safely go on wearing one. Occasionally people
wear active or inactive torcs when they don't need to (in GURPS terms they have 12+ Intelligence), possibly to help
others underestimate them, or think their magical talents have been
harmed by removing their torc.
A torc in this context is a necklace of twisted thick metal strands, worn as a necklace. In fact the effect it produces is not (or need not be) magical, as it directs stimulus into the wearer's brain. This is changed in real time, as the head moves on the neck. Seeing as stimulus just needs to be of brain areas, rather than individual neurones, much less precision is needed than the Mage Crown, so it can be further away, and not directly coupled to movement of the head.
There are carefully designed-in, redundant, cut-outs, so that if the torc is damaged, or might stimulate the wrong areas of the brain, it shuts down, until repaired. You'd need to be very expert and/or have some really sophisticated tools to tamper with a torc so that it might harm someone, by stimulating the wrong part of the brain.
Torcs do not need to be personalised, and no training is needed to use one. On putting one on if you haven't worn it previously there is a few seconds adjustment period, then it works at full effectiveness, indefinitely. Torcs do not require external power or battery replacement, and are powered by body heat or waste body energies.
Some torcs are ornamented on their end pieces, with things like the heads of beasts, or otherwise in a Celtic or Gaelic style, but this has little to do with their functionality. They are typically made of a metal like gold, non-corrosive 'waved silver, or on occasion non-corrosive 'waved copper; some technomages use titanium (and some use platinum or iridium).
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"It is the business of the future to be dangerous" - Hawkwind
Torcs are only any use if you don't have native or trained
intelligence sufficient to use magic efficiently (12 on the GURPS
scale). Use of a torc can develop some people with experience so they don't need one
any more, though they can safely go on wearing one. Occasionally people
wear active or inactive torcs when they don't need to (in GURPS terms they have 12+ Intelligence), possibly to help
others underestimate them, or think their magical talents have been
harmed by removing their torc.
A torc in this context is a necklace of twisted thick metal strands, worn as a necklace. In fact the effect it produces is not (or need not be) magical, as it directs stimulus into the wearer's brain. This is changed in real time, as the head moves on the neck. Seeing as stimulus just needs to be of brain areas, rather than individual neurones, much less precision is needed than the Mage Crown, so it can be further away, and not directly coupled to movement of the head.
There are carefully designed-in, redundant, cut-outs, so that if the torc is damaged, or might stimulate the wrong areas of the brain, it shuts down, until repaired. You'd need to be very expert and/or have some really sophisticated tools to tamper with a torc so that it might harm someone, by stimulating the wrong part of the brain.
Torcs do not need to be personalised, and no training is needed to use one. On putting one on if you haven't worn it previously there is a few seconds adjustment period, then it works at full effectiveness, indefinitely. Torcs do not require external power or battery replacement, and are powered by body heat or waste body energies.
Some torcs are ornamented on their end pieces, with things like the heads of beasts, or otherwise in a Celtic or Gaelic style, but this has little to do with their functionality. They are typically made of a metal like gold, non-corrosive 'waved silver, or on occasion non-corrosive 'waved copper; some technomages use titanium (and some use platinum or iridium).
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"It is the business of the future to be dangerous" - Hawkwind