User:Norseman
From: Eamon Honan <Spire@Indigo.ie> Subject: The Gloves of Pygmalion System: Call of Cthulhu
The Gloves of Pygmalion: An Artifact for CoC
APPEARANCE
The gloves appear to be a pair of ordinary gloves, made out of some strange metallic fabric of a blueish, purple hue. The back of the gloves and the fingers are encrusted with strange iridescent lozenze shaped jewels. Any jeweler or geologist will be baffled as to the jewel's origin; they have obviously been cut, but apart from that bear no resemblance to any terrestrial jewel, looking somewhat like jewels found in meteorites and not of Earthly origin.
The gloves are connected by a thin cord of the same fabric. It stretches between the gloves for about a yard. However, should the wearer wish to spread their arms, the cord will stretch with surprising elasticity for over two and a half yards.
The gloves always appear to be just a little too small for the person viewing them, but if the are put on, they are just right, fitting the wearer like a second skin.
Once worn, the wearer quickly comes to like the feel of the glove's fabric moving over his (or her) hands and will be loath to remove them. The jewels make little clicking sounds when the gloves are worn, as they seem to move and slide past each other. Anybody studying the gloves for any period of time will notice that the jewels actually move, as if they were not really attached to the fabric. Careful study will see jewels move from finger to finger, around the glove and back again.
ABILITIES
The gloves allow the wearer to mould organic matter, including living tissue, as if it were clay. The wearer has no control over this; the gloves affect any material he touches (including himself) as if it were modeling clay. The material shaped does not change in any other way, apart from its malleability. A statue made out of a tree would still smell and feel like wood, it would still contain sap and grow leaves, it would just look like a statue. The material does not suffer any ill affects from the reshaping unless something vital was removed. For example a man who was reshaped into a table would retain stomach, kidneys, liver, etc and would continue to live, he just wouldn't be able to move. However if the shaper reached into somebody and removed their heart, they would obviously die instantly. The gloves also impart the wearer with an insatiable desire to shape, who or what does not matter. The gloves do not give the wearer any ability to sculpt, which is something the wearer must learn by himself.
The wearer will become obsessed by sculpture, making statues and "works of art" out of anything or anybody he can lay his hands on. He will dream of the ancient cities of the serpent people in the steamy jungles of Valusia and of a fellow sculptor to whom he is related to by art, if not by species. Eventually, the wearer will never be able to take the gloves off and will become obsessed by the idea of reshaping himself. This he will enevitably do with fatal conseqences.