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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Raven Crowking" data-source="post: 3643397" data-attributes="member: 18280">Sonic Screwdriver:  The sonic screwdriver is a multiuse tool that, while ostensibly a device for unscrewing screws without having to contact them, has a multitude of other, far more useful abilities.  Among them are:•    A sonic screwdriver grants a +5 bonus to Security Systems checks to open (or lock) locks.  It is, however, ineffective against a deadlock seal. •    A sonic screwdriver grants a +3 bonus to Demolitions checks to disarm bombs, or to set them off from a distance. •    A sonic screwdriver can disrupt or excite energy at a range of 15 meters, allowing its user to render the ionic creations of an Isolus inanimate, or to cause flammable marsh gas to ignite. •    At closer range, this ability can be used to detect energy fields, such as the telepathic field used by the Nestene Consciousness to control its plastic Autons.  You may make a Sciences (Psionics) skill check (DC 15) with a sonic screwdriver to determine the Psionic Potential of a willing target. •    A sonic screwdriver can cut through or mend thin metal, rope, or other materials.  Doing so requires 1 round per point of hardness of the material to severe, and twice that time to mend. •    A sonic screwdriver can be used to cause an Automated Teller Machine to provide money.  If you don’t want anyone to notice, this requires a DC 20 Security Systems skill check.  If you don’t care that anyone notices – perhaps because android scavengers dressed like Father Christmas are training their weapons on you – you can do this without a skill check. •    A sonic screwdriver can be used as a computer mouse or a remote control.Space Suit:  Space suits are extremely useful when travelling to areas that have a dangerous atmosphere or no atmosphere at all, including Earth’s moon, the interior of the Impossible Planet, and pre-colonization Mars.  Space suits provide their own atmosphere and environment, protecting to some degree from both heat and cold.  At the Game Master’s discretion, space suits might offer protection against other environmental effects.Space-Time Cell Phone:  This is a cell phone that has been modified to allow it to make phone calls to the user’s home timeline, even when travelling in time – going so far as to calibrate differently for separate users.  It can send and receive signals in places that ordinary phones cannot, including the ability to adaptively accept signals from new sources.  This service is called “Universal Roaming”.  The first space-time cell phone was a Nokia 3200 mobile phone belonging to Rose Tyler that the 9th Doctor modified using Jiggery-Pokery in The End of the World, and the second space-time cell phone was a Samsung D500. Space-time Telegraph:  A device given by the Doctor to Brigadier Lethbridge-Stewart that can contact the Doctor throughout time and space.  It was supposed to be used only in the gravest of emergencies.  The Doctor received its signal at the end of Revenge of the Cybermen, leading to the events of Terror of the Zygons. Stattenheim Remote Control:  A device used by the Rani to control her TARDIS remotely.  The 2nd Doctor also had a Stattenheim in The Two Doctors, although remote controls are known to shorten the lifespan of TT Capsules of all types (including TARDISes), and may lead to equipment failure within the machines themselves. SUV:  The Torchwood 3 Hub's converted SUV is a large, black Range Rover with tinted windows and blue lights running along the A-frames.  The vehicle has a white-on-black non-standard typeface for the registration plate, usually found only on military vehicles and vehicles from before 1973 on British car number plates, and its registration number, CF06 FDU (indicating the vehicle was registered in Cardiff between March and September 2006), does not appear in the DVLA vehicle register.  It contains computers that can connect to the Torchwood Hub and to various databases, including those operated by the police.  The SUV is considered a Fast vehicle.</blockquote>

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