Lore: In the industrial districts of Saṃsāra’s floating metropolises, the flow of Rhodium and aetheric steam must be tracked with absolute precision. The Auditor’s Boundless Ledger was first commissioned by the high-accountants of the Silver Mint to solve a common logistical nightmare: carrying the sheer volume of receipts, verification pins, and tax-seals required for a planar audit. It is said the first Ledger was stitched from the hide of a beast that could “swallow its own shadow,” granting the item its signature ability to compress physical space. For a Tier 1 avatar, this item represents the first step into the “Order of the Balanced Sheet,” where organization is not just a habit, but a form of survival.
Description: This item appears as a heavy, charcoal-grey leather waist-sash integrated with a reinforced, tabbed ledger book that hangs at the hip. The leather is etched with silver-inked grids and ledger columns that seem to shift and update as items are stored. Along the belt and the ledger’s cover are specialized brass grommets, magnetic clips, and translucent silken pockets designed to display the tools of the trade.
Stats
- Tier: 1
- Rarity: Common
- Weight: 2 lbs (Does not increase regardless of contents)
- Specific Slot: Worn Item (Waist/Sash)
- Storage Capacity: 10 specialized Micro-Slots (for pins, trinkets, or talismans) and 2 Tool/Weapon loops.
Skills Gained While Openly Worn
- Meticulous Record-Keeper: +3 to all Investigation and Perception checks involving paperwork, currency, or hidden compartments.
- Audit Intuition: +3 to Insight checks when determining if a merchant or NPC is being honest about prices or quantities.
- Rapid Retrieval: +2 to Initiative; the user can draw any small item or tool stored in the Ledger as a free action once per turn.
Passives Magic
- Balanced Burden: Items stored within the Ledger’s specialized slots have their weight reduced to zero. The sash itself remains a constant 2 lbs, preventing the wearer from becoming encumbered by bureaucratic supplies.
- Categorical Display: Any talisman, pin, or symbol displayed in the 10 Micro-Slots is magically protected from being stolen or lost. They remain perfectly visible to others, radiating the avatar’s professional status.
- Ink-Proof Integrity: The Ledger and all its contents are immune to damage from water, ink spills, or common environmental acids, ensuring the “books” are always clean.
Activable Magics
- Summon Receipt (1 Mana): The wearer can instantly produce a perfectly accurate physical record (on parchment) of any transaction or item exchange they have witnessed in the last 24 hours.
- The Bottom Line (2 Mana): As an action, the wearer focuses on a pile of items or a container. The Ledger pulses, and the user instantly knows the exact count, total weight, and average market value (in Gold or Rhodium) of everything within the container.
- Red-Ink Revision (1/Day): When the wearer fails a check related to math, appraisal, or logical reasoning, they can “audit” the result. They may reroll the check and must take the new result.
Tags: Accounting, Organization, Spatial-Compression, Bureaucratic, Tier-1, Common, Tool-Holder, Financial-Insight, Archival, Meticulous, Efficiency, Ledger-Linked, Fiscal-Focus, Administrative-Anchor, Inventory-Sync, Precise-Sorting, Compliance-Grade, Resource-Tracker, Metric-Mesh, Transactional-Talisman, Orderly-Access, Valuation-Vessel
In the world of Saṃsāra, obtaining the Slots 912 of the Auditor’s Boundless Ledger is often the first milestone for an avatar dedicated to the path of organization and financial oversight.
Methods of Acquisition
- Institutional Commission Most commonly, these ledgers are issued to junior auditors upon their entry into the Silver Mint or the various Trade Guilds of the subterranean megacities. An avatar can obtain one by completing a “Trial of Reconciliation,” which involves successfully balancing a corrupted merchant ledger or identifying a discrepancy in a local resource shipment.
- Inheritance and Apprenticeship Because the Ledger is a Tier 1 item of common rarity, they are frequently passed down from master accountants to their apprentices. Finding one may be as simple as inheriting the gear of a retired clerk or discovering a discarded unit in the archives of a collapsed island’s administrative center.
- The Scavenger’s Find In the industrial ruins of Saṃsāra, these items are often found in the wreckage of derelict transport vessels or abandoned customs houses. While the leather may be dusty, the “Ink-Proof Integrity” ensures the internal slots and magical storage remain functional even after decades of neglect.
Shops and Marketplaces
- Guild Supply Depots (Industrial Districts) Located in high-traffic steam-districts, these shops cater specifically to the bureaucratic class. They are orderly, smelling strongly of vellum and metallic ink, with items displayed in precise, numbered glass cases. Cost: 8 to 12 Gold Pieces. Acquisition: These shops sell the Ledger as a standard piece of professional equipment. They may offer a small discount if the buyer provides proof of guild membership or a letter of intent from a recognized trading house.
- Curio and Stationery Emporiums (Urban Centers) Found in the middle-tier districts of floating cities, these shops sell a mix of mundane writing supplies and minor magical tools. The atmosphere is quiet and studious, often featuring rolling ladders and floor-to-ceiling shelves. Cost: 10 to 15 Gold Pieces. Acquisition: The Ledger is sold here as a high-end organizational tool for wealthy merchants and estate managers. They often keep several in stock, varying in leather color and brass trim.
- General Outfitters (Frontier Atolls) On the edges of uncharted islands, general stores carry a wide variety of survival and utility gear. These shops are cluttered and aromatic, selling everything from climbing rope to minor talismans. Cost: 15 to 20 Gold Pieces. Acquisition: Due to the scarcity of specialized bureaucratic gear in frontier zones, the price is higher. The shopkeepers here treat the Ledger as a “luxury utility” item for travelers who need to keep their small trinkets and permits organized during long expeditions.
- Second-Hand Exchange Vaults (Subterranean Tunnels) In the darker, more humid corners of megacities, exchange vaults deal in used and refurbished gear. The lighting is dim, provided by flickering aether-lamps. Cost: 5 to 7 Gold Pieces. Acquisition: Items bought here are significantly cheaper but may come with “Ghost Data”—residual ink markings or previous transaction records from the former owner that require a basic cleaning ritual to remove.
Logistical Supremacy of the Auditor’s Boundless Ledger
The roleplay of the Slots 912 of the Auditor’s Boundless Ledger centers on the power of information and the lethal efficiency of a perfectly organized kit. While it lacks the raw destructive power of higher-tier artifacts, it excels at tactical preparation and resource management.
Defense: The Shield of Order
- Subterranean Megacities and Industrial Zones
- Roleplay: In the chaotic, steam-filled industrial sectors, the avatar uses the Audit Intuition to detect “financial friction.” Defensively, this is roleplayed as spotting a rigged elevator mechanism or a sabotaged steam-pipe by noticing that the maintenance seals on the brass grommets don’t match the official ledger records. By identifying the inconsistency, the avatar avoids the trap before it triggers.
- Floating Atolls and High-Altitude Docks
- Roleplay: When caught in a sudden localized storm or aerial raid, the Ink-Proof Integrity ensures that vital navigation charms and permits remain dry and functional. The avatar can confidently dive for cover or move through heavy rain, knowing their displayed talismans won’t lose potency due to environmental wear, maintaining their defensive buffs while others’ gear fails.
- Diplomatic Councils and Guarded Safe Areas
- Roleplay: In a den of spies, the Categorical Display acts as a deterrent. The avatar openly displays signets of high-ranking guilds or “Protection Talismans” in the micro-slots. Because these items cannot be pickpocketed or shifted, the avatar moves through crowds with a calculated coolness, knowing their “professional armor” is physically unassailable.
Offense: The Precision of the Bottom Line
- Dark Cave Systems and Uncharted Ruins
- Roleplay: When exploring a dark vault, the avatar activates The Bottom Line. Instead of manually searching, they pulse the ledger to instantly “audit” a pile of rubble. Offensively, this identifies the single most valuable or magically volatile object in a hoard, allowing the avatar to seize the “Tactical Asset” (like a Tier 2 explosive or a key mechanical part) while enemies are still distracted by worthless trinkets.
- Wilderness and Overgrown Environments
- Roleplay: Against a pack of wild creatures, the avatar utilizes Rapid Retrieval. They reach for a specialized “Scent-Masking Charm” or a “Flash-Powder Vial” stored in a tool loop. Because the Ledger compresses the space, the hand movement is a blur—drawing the exact counter-measure needed for the specific beast in a fraction of a second, catching the creature off-guard.
- Urban Combat and Marketplace Skirmishes
- Roleplay: During a chase or a street fight, the avatar uses Summon Receipt. By instantly producing a physical record of a corrupt guard’s previous illegal transaction, they can “attack” the target’s social standing or legal protection mid-combat. This forces a distraction or a surrender as the target realizes their “ledger” has been balanced against them in real-time.
Tactical Synergy: Red-Ink Revision
In any environment, the Red-Ink Revision is roleplayed as the avatar literally “striking through” a mistake. If they misjudge the distance of a jump across a steam-vent or fail to correctly appraise a trap’s trigger, they manifest a spectral quill and rewrite the moment. The world shudders as the “accounting error” is corrected, giving the avatar a second chance to execute their maneuver with the precision an auditor demands.

Perception of Activation:
User’s Perspective
- Sight: When I trigger a search, the charcoal leather of the sash bleeds a faint, neon-red light from the etched grid lines. The ledger pages flip with supernatural speed, settling on a sheet where ink manifests into a glowing, 3D wireframe diagram of the audited object.
- Sound: I hear the crisp, rhythmic “snapping” of a high-speed abacus and the scratching of a thousand invisible quills against parchment. When an item is summoned, there is a sharp, metallic click—the sound of space folding into place.
- Touch: The sash tightens slightly against my waist, providing a reassuring, firm “grip” that centers my gravity. My fingertips tingle with a static charge, making the tools and talismans in the slots feel like natural extensions of my own hands.
- Smell: The sharp, acidic tang of fresh iron-gall ink and the dry, dusty aroma of an ancient library fill my nose, regardless of the surrounding environment.
- Extra-Sensory – Numerical Synchronization: I feel a mental “alignment” where the world stops being a mess of shapes and starts being a series of balanced equations. I perceive “value-weight”—the air feels heavier around expensive or magically significant objects, guiding my eyes to the “bottom line” of any room.
Observer’s Perspective
- Sight: The auditor suddenly stands straighter, their eyes darting with unnatural precision. The brass grommets on the belt emit a low, golden hum, and the trinkets displayed in the silken pockets seem to shimmer as if protected by a thin layer of glass.
- Sound: A soft, rapid-fire ticking sound—like a mechanical clock running at quadruple speed—emanates from the ledger book.
- Touch: Nearby allies feel a subtle “organizational pressure,” a sense that the chaos around them is being cataloged and filed away, which strangely reduces their urge to panic.
Positives
- User: I gain a sense of total situational control. The “Rapid Retrieval” eliminates the fumbling of combat, and the “Audit Intuition” makes me feel ten steps ahead of any deception. The weightlessness of my gear allows me to move with a grace usually reserved for unburdened scouts.
- Observer: The party benefits from the auditor’s ability to instantly identify the most important loot or threats, streamlining the group’s decision-making process during high-stress encounters.
Negatives
- User: “Analytical Blindness”—the intense focus on numbers and records can make me slow to react to purely emotional or non-logical threats, such as a monster acting out of pure madness rather than hunger or defense.
- Observer: The auditor can appear cold or detached during activation, sometimes prioritizing the “value” of a situation over the immediate safety of individuals if the “math” doesn’t immediately show the danger.
Extra-Sensory Perceptions
- Chronological Receipt: I can sense the “history of ownership” on an object. By touching a coin, I feel a fleeting phantom sensation of the last three people who spent it.
- Inventory Presence: I have a constant “mental map” of exactly where every pin, tool, and scrap of paper is located within the slots. Even in total darkness, I know the exact coordinates of my equipment to the millimeter.
- The Auditor’s Mark: When targeting an NPC for a “Bottom Line” check, I see a spectral red ink-mark over their heart if they are hiding a financial or logistical secret.
The Scribe’s Protocol: Crafting the Auditor’s Boundless Ledger
This recipe details the construction of a Tier 1 logistical sash. While common in rarity, the crafting process requires a disciplined mind and the ability to weave spatial magic into physical leather to ensure the “additional slots” function without adding weight to the wearer.
Materials Needed
- Void-Cured Leather: 3 square feet of hide from a creature known for spatial displacement (or leather treated in a vacuum chamber).
- Mnemonium Ink: 1 vial of ink infused with ground memory crystals to facilitate the Summon Receipt ability.
- Aether-Brass Grommets: 12 reinforced brass rings to serve as the anchors for the Micro-Slots.
- Translucent Silken Mesh: 1 yard of mana-woven silk to create the “windowed” pockets for displaying talismans.
- Magnetic Lodestone Dust: 1 ounce, used to prime the tool loops for Rapid Retrieval.
- Vellum of the Infinite Margin: 50 sheets of enchanted, thin-set parchment that never runs out of space for writing.
Tools Required
- Master Calligrapher’s Station: For inscribing the shifting ledger columns with absolute precision.
- Leatherworker’s Heavy Kit: Including awls, waxed linen thread, and edge-burnishers.
- Alchemist’s Hot-Plate: To heat the Mnemonium ink to the exact temperature required for soul-binding.
- Precision Calipers: To ensure the brass grommets are spaced at perfect mathematical intervals.
Skill Requirements
- Accounting (Level 1): The crafter must understand the principles of balance to properly “align” the ledger.
- Leatherworking (Apprentice): Necessary for the structural integrity of the sash and tool loops.
- Arcana (Tier 1 Attunement): Needed to perform the spatial-compression ritual on the internal pockets.
Crafting Steps
- Preparation of the Foundation: Cut the Void-Cured Leather into a wide sash and a matching hip-cradle for the ledger. Use the burnishers to smooth the edges until they feel “seamless,” symbolizing a closed loop of logic.
- Inscribing the Columns: Using the Master Calligrapher’s Station, draw the intricate grid patterns onto the leather and the first page of the vellum. The lines must be drawn with Mnemonium Ink while the crafter recites a series of multiplication tables to anchor the “Audit Intuition” into the fibers.
- Setting the Display Slots: Punch twelve holes into the sash using the calipers for spacing. Set the Aether-Brass Grommets and back them with the Translucent Silken Mesh. These pockets must be “vacuum-sealed” with a minor mana-tap to ensure the Categorical Display magic keeps items secure.
- Spatial Compression Ritual: Treat the internal pockets of the ledger with the Magnetic Lodestone Dust. The crafter must then perform a “Weight-Balancing Meditation,” channeling mana into the sash until the weight of the leather feels identical to the weight of the parchment. This locks in the Balanced Burden passive.
- Binding the Boundless: Sew the Vellum of the Infinite Margin into the leather cradle using the high-tensile linen thread. The final stitch must be tied in a “Square-Knot of Compliance,” sealing the magic within the item.
- The Opening Audit: To activate the Ledger, the crafter must record a single, perfectly accurate entry of every material used in its construction. Once the “books match,” the Ledger will pulse with a soft red light, signaling it is ready for use.
Infinite Counting and Sash of No-Heavy
In the age when the 73 islands were but small pebbles in the mouth of the Great Sky-Whale, and the steam had not yet learned to turn the wheels of the world, there was a man of the “Small-Eye-Glass” named Ak-Kaun-Tan. This Ak-Kaun-Tan was a keeper of the “Bone-Sticks” (the tallies). In the ancient scrap-papers (mostly stained by the black-blood of squids), it is whispered that Ak-Kaun-Tan served the Golden-King, a master whose greed was so wide it had no “End-Wall.”
The King demanded that Ak-Kaun-Tan count every grain of sand on the shores of the Floating Atoll and every spark in the belly of the Fire-Islands. The Auditor, carrying a thousand heavy books of stone-paper, found his back was “Crying-Like-A-Bowed-Branch.” His knees were “Shaking-Like-Dry-Leaves,” for the weight of the King’s numbers was a mountain upon his spine.
The translation becomes “Thick-Like-Mud” here, but it says that Ak-Kaun-Tan wandered into the Deep-Archives of the First City, where the “Ghost-Spiders” spin webs of pure logic. There, he found a beast called the “Space-Eater,” a creature that could swallow a whole forest and still look as “Empty-As-A-Jug.”
Ak-Kaun-Tan, with a “Sharp-Tooth-Blade,” took the skin of the Space-Eater. He did not make a coat, nor did he make a tent. He made a “Belly-Wrap” (the sash). As he stitched the skin with the “Hair-of-a-Star,” he sang a song of “One-Plus-One” and “Take-Away-Three.”
The poorly-translated scroll says: “And the leather did stretch into the ‘Nowhere-Place.’ The Auditor took his thousand stone-books and pushed them into the tiny-holes of the wrap. The books did vanish like ‘Smoke-in-a-Gale,’ yet Ak-Kaun-Tan felt no pull upon his hips. He stood as ‘Light-as-a-Dandelion-Seed,’ though he carried the history of the world’s gold.”
But the sash was “Blind.” It swallowed the books, but it would not give them back. It was a “Void-of-No-Return.”
To “Open-the-Mouth” of the sash, Ak-Kaun-Tan took the “Paper-of-Always-Writing” (the vellum) and the “Ink-of-Never-Forgetting” (the mnemonium). He drew the “Lines-of-the-Grid” upon the skin. These lines were the “Bars-of-the-Cage” for the space-magic. He placed the “Eye-of-the-Brass” (the grommets) so he could see into the pockets.
When the King’s tax-men came to beat Ak-Kaun-Tan for losing the counts, the Auditor reached into a hole no bigger than a “Beetle’s-Wing.” He pulled out a receipt for a million bars of Rhodium. He pulled out the King’s own signet-ring, which had been lost in the “Year-of-the-Screaming-Wind.” He pulled out a tool for measuring the “Truth-of-Gold.”
The translation says: “The tax-men were ‘Struck-with-the-Dumb-Stone.’ They saw the Auditor move with the ‘Speed-of-the-Strike-Snake,’ pulling the ‘Right-Thing’ from the ‘Wrong-Place’ in the ‘Fast-Time.’”
The story tells of a Thief-of-Shadows who tried to cut the sash from Ak-Kaun-Tan’s waist. But the “Living-Grid” of the leather saw the thief’s “Bad-Math” (his evil intent). The sash tightened like a “Python-of-Logic,” and the thief was squeezed until he confessed his “False-Debts.” The Auditor then recorded the thief’s name in the “Red-Ink-of-Shame,” and the thief vanished into the “Empty-Margin” of the book, never to be counted again.
For ten-thousand sun-turns, the Boundless Ledger was the “Anchor-of-the-Market.” It kept the islands from drifting into the “Chaos-of-Wrong-Prices.” It taught the clumsy to be “Sharp-as-a-Quill” and the heavy-hearted to be “Unburdened-by-Possessions.” But when the Great Steam rose and the cities began to “Whistle-with-Greed,” the original Ledger was locked in a vault of “Cold-Iron,” for the world grew too “Dishonest-in-its-Counting” to bear the weight of its absolute truth.
Moral of the Story: He who carries the weight of the world in his mind needs not carry its weight upon his back, for a spirit that is “Ordered-and-Aligned” can find the “Sum-of-All-Things” without stumbling under the “Burden-of-Plenty.”
Suggested conversions to other systems:
Call of Cthulhu (7th Edition) The Sash of Forensic Reconciliation
- Item Type: Professional Utility Gear
- Cost: $40 (1920s) / $250 (Modern)
- Skills: +15% to Accounting, +10% to Appraise, +5% to Library Use.
- Balanced Burden: The investigator may carry an additional 10 small items (pens, magnifying glasses, talismans, pistols) without these items counting toward their Encumbrance or Build penalties.
- The Bottom Line: Spend 1D4 Sanity and 5 minutes inspecting a room or container. Make an Accounting or Appraise roll. Success reveals the total monetary value of all items present and highlights any item that is “counterfeit” or magically “out of place.”
- Summon Receipt: By succeeding on an Idea roll, the investigator can produce a paper record of any transaction they witnessed within the last 48 hours, providing legal “proof” in social encounters.
- Rapid Retrieval: The investigator gains a bonus die on any Dexterity test made to draw a tool or small weapon stored in the sash during a surprise round.
Blades in the Dark The Auditor’s Load-Wrap
- Item Quality: Fine (Tier I)
- Load: 0 (The sash itself provides its own storage, effectively granting +2 Load slots that do not count against your total).
- Meticulous Record-Keeper: You get +1d to Study or Survey rolls when investigating financial documents, cargo manifests, or hidden vaults.
- Balanced Burden: You may carry two “heavy” items (like a Sledgehammer or Large Weapon) in the tool loops, and they only count as 1 Load total.
- The Bottom Line: When you Survey a score’s potential loot, you can ask the GM: “What is the most valuable single item here?” and “Is any of this coin counterfeit?” without spending a stress point.
- Red-Ink Revision: Once per score, you may ignore a “Complication” result related to a social or mental action (Sway, Consort, or Study) by “auditing” the situation.
Dungeons & Dragons (5th Edition) Slots 912 of the Auditor’s Boundless Ledger
- Wondrous item, common
- Balanced Burden: While wearing this sash, any item stored in its 10 specialized slots or 2 tool loops has its weight reduced to 0 lbs.
- Audit Intuition: You have proficiency in the Insight skill. If you are already proficient, you add double your proficiency bonus to Insight checks made to determine if someone is lying about money, trade, or quantities.
- The Bottom Line: You can cast the Identify spell as a ritual, but only to determine the gold value and mundane properties of an object.
- Rapid Retrieval: You can stow or retrieve an item from the sash as a free object interaction on your turn, rather than an action.
- Activable Magic (3 Charges):
- Summon Receipt (1 Charge): As an action, you manifest a piece of parchment detailing a transaction you saw in the last 24 hours.
- Red-Ink Revision (3 Charges): When you fail an Intelligence or Wisdom check, you can use your reaction to reroll the die. You must use the new roll.
- Recharge: The sash regains all expended charges daily at dawn.
Knave (2nd Edition) The Tax-Man’s Waist-Binder
- Item Slots: 0 (This item occupies no slots and instead provides 3 “free” sub-slots for small items like pins, rings, or keys).
- Quality: Tier 1 (Common)
- Skill Bonus: You gain a +3 bonus to all rolls made to appraise treasures or detect forgeries.
- Ink-Proof: The item and everything inside it are immune to liquid damage (water, oil, ink).
- The Bottom Line: Once per day, you may look at a chest or pile of gold and instantly know the exact copper-piece value.
- Rapid Retrieval: You may swap a held item for an item in the sash even during an enemy’s turn if they miss an attack against you.
- Red-Ink Revision: Once per day, you may reroll a failed save against a magical effect that would confuse your mind or alter your memories.
Fate Condensed The Auditor’s Boundless Ledger (Slots 912)
- Item Type: Tier 1 Organizational Accessory
- Aspects: High Concept: “Precision Accounting Sash”; Passive: “A Place for Everything.”
- Stunt: Rapid Retrieval: Because I have the Boundless Ledger, I can instantly produce any small tool or trinket I’ve stored. Once per scene, I can automatically succeed on a Create an Advantage action to find a minor but perfectly suited tool for a logical or technical task.
- Stunt: Audit Intuition: I gain a +2 bonus to Empathy or Investigate when the goal is to detect financial deception, forgery, or hidden compartments in furniture and luggage.
- Stunt: Red-Ink Revision: Once per session, I can reroll a failed Careful or Clever action related to mental deduction or mathematical calculation. I must keep the new result.
- Balanced Burden: This item does not occupy a “special” slot and allows the user to carry up to 10 small, non-combative items (pins, keys, charms) without them counting toward any narrative encumbrance or hindering movement.
Numenera & Cypher System The Ledger of Spatial Reconciliation
- Level: 3 (Common Artifact)
- Form: A heavy leather sash with metallic-inked grids and 10 translucent pockets.
- Depletion: 1 in 1d100 (Check only when using Red-Ink Revision).
- Passive: Categorical Display: The wearer is trained in tasks related to identifying, valuing, and organizing mundane objects and trade goods.
- Passive: Balanced Burden: The first 10 small objects (size of a fist or smaller) and 2 medium tools stored in the sash do not count toward the character’s encumbrance limits.
- Active: The Bottom Line (2 Intellect Points): As an action, the user knows the exact number and approximate value of all items in a container within immediate range.
- Active: Red-Ink Revision: When the user fails an Intellect-based task involving logic or memory, they can spend 3 Intellect points to reroll the task.
Pathfinder (2nd Edition) Slots 912 Auditor’s Ledger
- Item 1: Common, Invested, Magical, Transmutation
- Usage: worn (belt); Bulk: L
- Passive: Meticulous Record-Keeper: You gain a +1 item bonus to Perception checks to Seek hidden objects and to Society checks to decipher financial codes or identify forgeries.
- Passive: Balanced Burden: The sash contains 10 miniature “extradimensional pockets.” Each can hold one item of negligible Bulk (such as a potion, a key, or a talisman). Items stored in these pockets do not count toward your total Bulk.
- Activate: The Bottom Line [One-Action] (Detection, Divination): You focus on a collection of items. You instantly learn the total number of items and their combined Price in gold pieces.
- Activate: Red-Ink Revision [Reaction]: Frequency: Once per day. Trigger: You fail an Intelligence-based skill check. Effect: You reroll the check with a +1 status bonus. You must use the second result.
- Activate: Summon Receipt [One-Action]: You manifest a physical record of a transaction you witnessed within the last 24 hours. This document lasts for 1 hour before dissolving into ink-smoke.
Savage Worlds (Adventure Edition) The Auditor’s Boundless Ledger
- Type: Tier 1 Minor Artifact
- Attributes: The user gains a +1 bonus to Research and Notice rolls involving documents, hoards, or financial records.
- Passives: Balanced Burden: The user can ignore up to 5 lbs of weight from small items (pins, trinkets, tools) stored specifically within the ledger’s slots.
- Passives: Rapid Retrieval: The user gains the Quick Draw Edge, but only for items stored within the Ledger’s loops or pockets.
- Powers: The Bottom Line: The user can cast detect arcana (limited to sensing value and quantity) using Smarts as their arcane skill.
- Powers: Red-Ink Revision: Once per session, the user may spend a Bennie to reroll any Smarts-based Trait roll and add +2 to the final total.
- Tags: Accounting, Organization, Spatial-Compression, Bureaucratic, Tier-1, Common, Tool-Holder, Financial-Insight.
Shadowrun (6th Edition) The 912th Matrix-Linked Audit Sash
- Item Type: Qi Focus (Rating 1) / External Storage
- Availability: 2
- Cost: 5,000¥
- Audit Intuition: While the sash is active, the user gains a +1 dice pool modifier to all Perception and Judge Intentions tests when dealing with financial data, black-market transactions, or cargo manifests.
- Balanced Burden: The sash functions as a specialized harness. Up to 10 small items (knives, RFID tags, chips, or credsticks) and 2 small tools (sequencers, maglock passkeys) stored in the sash do not count toward any encumbrance-related penalties.
- Rapid Retrieval: Stowing or drawing an item from the sash is a Minor Action.
- Activable: The Bottom Line (Minor Action): The user’s vision overlays with a Matrix-fed spreadsheet. This provides an immediate estimate of the nuyen value of all unencrypted physical goods within 5 meters.
- Activable: Red-Ink Revision: Once per day, the user may spend 1 Edge to reroll a failed Logic-based test related to data analysis or appraisal.
Starfinder (1st Edition) Slots 912 Ledger-Sash
- Item Level: 1
- Price: 250 Credits
- Bulk: L
- Specific Slot: Worn (Waist)
- Passive: Balanced Burden: The sash features 10 miniature integrated null-space pockets. Each can hold an item of negligible bulk (L) without it counting toward the user’s total Bulk limit.
- Skills: Meticulous Record-Keeper: You gain a +2 insight bonus to Culture and Perception checks when identifying forgeries, navigating bureaucracy, or searching for hidden assets.
- Active: The Bottom Line (Standard Action): Once per day, you can activate the sash’s internal computer to scan a container within 10 feet. You learn the exact count and market value (in Credits) of its contents.
- Active: Red-Ink Revision (Reaction): Once per day, when you fail an Intelligence-based skill check, you may reroll the check. You must take the second result.
- Tags: Accounting, Tech, Utility, Tier-1, Common.
Traveller (Mongoose 2nd Edition) The 912th Broker’s Utility Belt
- TL: 10
- Weight: 1 kg
- Cost: Cr500
- Skills: Audit Intuition: The user receives a DM+1 to all Broker, Admin, and Investigate checks involving cargo, credits, or legal documents.
- Balanced Burden: The belt utilizes minor grav-plates to negate the weight of stored items. The user can store up to 10 small items (sensors, data wafers, specialized tools) and 2 tools (hand-computers, scanners) with zero effective weight.
- Rapid Retrieval: The user receives a DM+1 to any initiative check if they are drawing a tool from the belt at the start of combat.
- Active: The Bottom Line (Significant Action): The user can perform a quick scan of a cargo lot. With a successful Broker check (Easy, 4+), they determine the exact quantity and the current average market price of the goods.
- Active: Red-Ink Revision: Once per session, the user may reroll any failed Education-based check.
Warhammer Fantasy Roleplay (4th Edition) The 912th Scrivener’s Girdle
- Item Type: Professional Tool
- Encumbrance: 0 (Provides 10 “Small” slots and 2 “Tool” slots that do not count toward total Encumbrance).
- Price: 2 Gold Crowns
- Traits: Durable, Fine
- Audit Intuition: The wearer gains a +10 bonus to all Evaluate and Lore (Law or Heraldry) Tests.
- Ink-Proof Integrity: Any parchment or books stored in the girdle are immune to the “Bleeding Ink” condition caused by water or environmental dampness.
- Active: The Bottom Line (Action): The user may make an Average (+20) Evaluate Test to instantly count a pile of coins or items and determine their total value in Gold, Silver, and Brass.
- Active: Red-Ink Revision (Free Action): Once per day, the user may spend a Fortune Point to reroll a failed Intelligence Test. If they do so, they also gain +1 SL to the successful result as they “correct the error” with flair.
