Comprises a smooth, dull, gray stone orb (about 3 inches in diameter) sitting on top of what looks like a green vase (about 6 inches tall). The vase has a grainy finish, like stone, but reacts like metal (i.e., feels like metal, sounds like metal when you hit it, conducts heat and cold like metal, etc.). The orb can spin in all directions (like the tip of a ball-point pen), but will not come off.
Earthmaster Artifact No. 2
A disk (6 inches in diameter, 1/2 inch thick) with a hole in middle (3 inches in diameter). It appears to be made of a copper-like metal, but does not dent, scratch, or mar. If struck, it produces a high-pitched clear ringing. If flipped like a coin, it bounces in a strange manner and frequently comes to rest on its edge.
Earthmaster Artifact No. 3
Looks like a thin cylinder on top of a solid bell-shaped base. The base is 41/2 inches tall, and the cylinder is 11/2 inches tall and 1/2 inch in diameter. The entire object is made of the same dull gray metal. If the top is twisted, the entire object warms slightly, the degree of warmth increasing with the amount of twisting. If the top is pushed downward (like a button), the top will depress about 1/4 inch, the entire object will cool (almost instantly) to its normal temperature, and then the top will pop back to its normal position.
Earthmaster Artifact No. 4
A 6-sided bar, 12 inches long, with sides shaped like hexagons (2 inches across). It looks like it is made of gold, and it feels like solid metal, but it is about the weight of aluminum (i.e., it weighs about 4 pounds instead of the nearly 30 pounds it would weigh if made of pure gold). It behaves in all other ways like rubber, except that it does not break or scratch.
Earthmaster Artifact No. 5
Comprises 36 balls, each 1/2 inch in diameter, made of shiny, reddish stone. They behave as if they are connected magnetically, but they cannot be separated. They can be shaped into any configuration, as long as each ball is touching at least one other ball. Over a period of days, however, they will gradually reorganize themselves back into a "default" shape. The "default" shape changes very slowly (almost imperceptibly) over time.
Earthmaster Artifact No. 6
A 6-inch tall solid cone made of shiny black stone. Although there is no apparent joint or seam, the top third of the cone can be twisted. When the top is twisted 180 in either direction, rotation stops and the whole object vibrates and becomes slightly warm for a moment. Then, the top can again be twisted.
Earthmaster Artifact No. 7
A 3-inch diameter metal disk, 1/8 inch thick. One side has a flat gray finish; the other side has a flat black finish. The edge is highly polished and reflective. The disk is very resistant to scratching, especially on the edge. The edge even resists dirt, water, oil, and other substances, which appear to slide right off.
Earthmaster Artifact No. 8
A 4-inch tall, 2-inch thick yellow stone triangle surmounted by an 8-inch long black metallic bar (which cannot be removed). The black bar has a red glass orb at one end and a blue glass orb at the other, and can be moved up and down like a see-saw. When the bar is tilted more than 30 in either direction, the object will emit an low-pitched hum and the elevated orb will glow. The bar will return to equilibrium as soon as it is released.
Earthmaster Artifact No. 9
A 2-foot long cylinder (4-inch diameter) made of a very heavy blue metal (it weighs 280 pounds, compared to the 125 pounds it would weigh if made of solid lead). Attached to one end of the cylinder is a small gray cylinder. When this small cylinder is pushed (like a button), the color of the large blue cylinder changes to red over a period of about 10 seconds. Pushing the "button" again restores the original color.
Earthmaster Artifact No. 10
Thin (2 mm) metallic strip 8 inches long by 1 inch wide. One side of the strip is glossy black and the other side has 8 colored squares in a row (also with a glossy finish). The strip will securely attach itself to any non-living surface with which it comes into contact for several seconds; removal requires an Aura-based Invocation Roll. The strip will be stiff and straight when held in the air, but it will conform to any surface to which it adheres.
Earthmaster Artifact No. 11
Comprises a thin, cylindrical, metallic black shaft (7 inches long, 1 inch diameter) with a pointed tip, piercing the center of 3 thin parallel metallic disks (51/2 inches in diameter, about 1/2 mm thick) situated about 3/4 inch apart. When spun like a top, the object will remain anchored in its position and rapidly accelerate to an alarmingly large number of rotations per second. It will remain at that speed until stopped by an Aura-based Invocation Roll or by physically grabbing the shaft. (Grabbing the disks while they are spinning would be a Bad Idea - finger sandwiches, anyone?)
Earthmaster Artifact No. 12
A square slab (or slabs) of gray pseudostone, usually about one inch thick, ranging in size from about 3 to 18 inches per side. When held in the air and successfully invoked (the usual Aura-based Invocation Roll with physical contact required), the slab will remain in position in midair. Once in position, the slab is virtually immovable by any physical force, and can only be moved by successful invocation. (GM Note: these slabs are often used as midair bases holding other Earthmaster artifacts.)
Earthmaster Artifact No. 13
A perfectly spherical orb made of polished red stone, approximately 3 inches in diameter. The orb always acts as if the surface on which it is sitting is angled downward towards the north by 21deg.. In other words, if placed on a level surface, it will roll northward as if on a 21deg. slope; if placed on a northward rising 10deg. slope, it will roll northward (uphill) as if on an 11deg. downward slope; if placed on a northward rising 30deg. slope, it will roll southward (downhill) as if on a 9deg. downward slope; if placed on a southward rising 10deg. slope, it will roll northward (downhill) as if on a 31deg. downward slope. If placed on a 21deg. northward rising slope, it will remain stationary, as if on level ground. Therefore, the orb will probably be found sitting on a wedge-shaped stone slab with a 21deg. northward rising slope.
Earthmaster Artifact No. 14
Comprises two halves of a perfectly spherical 12-inch diameter hollow orb made of thin, lightweight, shiny blue metal. If put together and twisted about 2 inches, the two halves form a hollow orb with no visible seam. If the user can remember where the seam was, the two halves can be separated again by twisting 2 inches in the opposite direction. No liquid or gas can escape from the orb once it is sealed. A hemisphere holds approximately 2 gallons of liquid.
Crystals of all kinds make good items for Earthmaster sites. Spherical or roughly spherical crystals can be described as "die-sized," "golf-ball-sized," "baseball-sized," and so forth. They can be cylindrical, conical, pyramidal, cubical, egg-shaped, or whatever shapes you prefer. They can be arranged in strange groupings or found singly (perhaps floating in midair on a pseudostone slab). They can be rough or polished, natural or cut. The main concern is not to make them worth a king's ransom, so they are usually not gem quality (i.e., not very transparent -- poor clarity).
Immobile Items
There would probably be some sort of "furniture," although its function might not be recognizable. Perhaps some large colored pseudostone cubes sitting in the middle of the room or some large pseudostone "control panels" with strangely-shaped recesses/depressions in which some of the mobile artifacts may be sitting. They can be made entirely of gray pseudostone, or can be multi-colored. Parts of them may flash, glow, hum, or be warm to the touch. Most would emit aural "noise" of some sort.