Steam compass skill

Skill 'steam compass', a clan skill of the Artificers.

• This is a passive skill, it works automatically.

Usage: use multitool compass target

Under a brass lid on the side of the multitool ticks a steam compass: a jittery needle, a thimble-sized boiler and a dial scratched full of someone's notes. Name a creature, a player or an item, and the needle swings round with a clank and jabs the way to go, and tells you how many steps it is. No need to retune the tool: the compass works in any mode. An item is found where it lies, or wherever its carrier stands. Some items do not show up at all, and neither does anything carried by a player you could attack, or by that player's pet: the compass points at people, not into their pockets.

Every search that finds a way to the target spends one charge of steam. A new multitool's boiler holds three charges and each tier of the mechanism adds one more. The boiler refills on its own, faster at higher tiers. Check the pressure with use multitool compass and no target.

A tier 1 compass only reaches the zone you stand in, and that zone is always searched first. From tier 2 the boiler can push the needle past the horizon to the whole world, and the better you know the skill, the more often it gets there. At tier 3 it always does.

CLAN UPGRADE steam-compass+ from the clan catalog: the boiler holds one more charge and refills faster, and when the needle finds a creature, the pressure gauge tells you how dangerous it is for you. Works only for the multitool's owner.