Ancient Artifacts
Ancient Artifacts posted in Gamma World forum comment posted by derek_holland Deadman's switches are usually modified medical tech but there are some that were created by paranoid national leaders of the Shadow Age.
One of these is still functioning and is implanted in a tribal leader. When they die, the implant is places within another as the switch is no longer instantaneous. In fact it never was- there was a 5 minute delay originally and now it is about 12 hours.
If the switch does go off, the city of the original host will be teleported to Mars. The leader had hoped to keep some of their people alive during the Final Wars but was terrified of the teleportation technology and could never will themselves to activated it even as the bombs fell. Now if the city does teleport to Mars, the inhabitants will find a strange world populated by reptile people defending themselves against insectoids that love using insect-based biotech (i.e. of the official Gamma Mars).
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Subliminal signals were used by most of the population of the Shadow Age to enhance their enjoyment of their location, occupation, activity, etc. People did this willingly as it deceased their stress levels to a bare minimum.
Now these signals can make things feel easier, but only for PSH and mutant humans. Other species find them distracting. Mechanically, this decreases humans' Action Checks by 4 (they are blissed out) and inflicts a +2 step penalty to the skill checks of all other species. Androids are affect and robots are not.
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