Steam loupe skill

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

• This is a passive skill, it works automatically.

Usage: use multitool loupe item

Folded into the multitool, next to the compass, sits a jeweler's loupe on a brass arm, with a focus screw and a tiny steam jet that blows the dust off whatever you are looking at. Name an item in your hands or in the room, and you take it apart with your eyes: everything a full identify would tell a sage, including the spells on scrolls and wands and the item's hidden effects, no detect magic needed. Items that refuse any identify stay shut to the loupe too.

The loupe also tells you what the item breaks down into in a blacksmith's forge or the cuisinart -- how many bars, filings or other scraps come out -- or that it will not break down at all.

The loupe costs nothing, but its lens fogs up after every look: a minute at tier 1 of the mechanism, twelve seconds less with each tier after that. The better you know the skill, the less often the lens fogs up right in the middle of a look.