The Angier-Kaarvok Galvanic Duplication Device
The machine from “The Prestige” - the last great work of Nikola Tesla.
Use of this machine creates a duplicate of the person 300 metres away in the direction they entered the machine. Vast amounts of galvonic energy are used and it does cause brown-out on any machines powered by the local Tessla Array within 400 metres.
The duplicate is exactly the same, but with Corruption of 4 in whatever area the original had the most Corruption.
Plot ideas-
- The PCs acquire the machine and use it, discovering the inherent Corruption quite quickly when something occurs to the duplicate to give them one more.
- The PCs are aware of the inherent Corruption, but try to use it to create a less-mad version of a PC that had previously gained 5 Corruption. This poses the problem of what to do with the original, and how to capture it.
- The machine is mass produced as a transportation device before the duplication or Corruption problems are discovered.
- A mad scientist sets up a number of these machines around the city for transportation for themselves only, and corrupt duplicates start using them to create a megalomaniacal army of one to take over the city.