ITEMS

The Multidex

An Old Work survey instrument repaired around a Codex spine, able to read the danger of ground and thresholds, identify living subjects, and fix what it sees as Field Plates in the book.

The first plate is dark brass, the second clouded glass, and the third appears only when the instrument is held to the eye. Old Work marks along the rim compare the viewed world against whatever has been bound into the bearer's Codex. A road becomes a danger estimate. A delve mouth gives the strength of its entry galleries without betraying what waits deeper. A living creature held steady in the nested frame gives a combat reading and, when fixed as a Field Plate, opens its place in the book. The Explorer's Guild does not make Multidexes. It recovers them, repairs what it can, and gives the first working one to a new surveyor because the instrument makes the Guild's rule practical: go far, come home, and tell true. It carries no charge, film, or ration. Its cost is attention.

KIND

relic

SLOT

held

RARITY

artifact

EFFECTS SUMMARY

While raised, reads ambient and threshold danger, assesses focused creatures, fixes Field Plates, and provides the fiction for tracked-quest guidance.

Connected

Old WorkCONCEPT · The Multidex is an Old Work survey instrument whose …

In-Game Render

The real files this entity resolves to in-game (ItemModels / IconKit / HumanoidRig), read live — not a copy.

no static preview

shape — pouchno pack mesh fits — renders as the procedural ClutterKit 'pouch' shape (see the Item bench)

icon — shape__pouch.pngbaked from the ClutterKit shape

Game Data (1)

Read live off disk from data/content/*.json — the game data itself, not a copy.

data/content/items.json

idmultidex

canon_refitem.the-multidex

quest_sourceexplorers_first_survey

nameThe Multidex

typetool

rarityartifact

value0

weight0.8

triggeron_use

scope{"mag":2.2}

multidex{}

loreAn Old Work survey instrument repaired around the spine of your Codex. Its nested lenses compare ground, thresholds and living subjects against records held in the book. The same mechanism fixes a clean Field Plate without ink or film.

quotePoint. Attend. Fix what was true.

Type Fields

kindrelic

slotheld

rarityartifact

effects_summaryWhile raised, reads ambient and threshold danger, assesses focused creatures, fixes Field Plates, and provides the fiction for tracked-quest guidance.

All Relationships (3)

references

←quest.the-first-survey (unresolved) — The First Survey is the recovery and repair through which a new explorer earns the Multidex.
←quest.a-plate-in-the-book (unresolved) — A Plate in the Book teaches the repaired Multidex through binding, reading, and a first Field Plate.

created_by

→Old Work — The Multidex is an Old Work survey instrument whose original makers are no longer known.

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