RPGaDay 2024: tick-tock trinkets (steampunk + create a random table)

[taichara]

I suppose there's not really anything that actually goes *tick-tock* here, but that's fine -- after all, it's not strictly "steampunk" either, depending on your definition.

( o/~ just stick a gear on it / and caaaaall it steeeaaampunk o/~ )

But clockworks and gears and mechanical thingers have a way of popping up in my stuff again and again, and that's close enough, I imagine *lol*

So here's a short table of ticktocky trinkets and small treasures and tinkery tool-bits, with hopefully at least a touch of steampunky flavour --

01. Pair of spectacles with a half-dozen extra lenses on either side, on small articulated arms that fold away
02. Satchel of thick leather, partitions filled with bits of metal, chunks of glass, wire coils and ciphered underground missives
03. Spring-loaded dart- or blade-thrower wand, slim steel and inscribed with guildmarks
04. A palm-sized thin brass plaque with rounded corners, punched with holes and grooves
05. A self-propelled strongchest, bound in brass and trundling along on a hexapedal chassis fuelled by the small galvanizer of reagents on its underside
06. Flat coffer the size of a respectable tome, tin and brass and secured with a devilish gear-and-cylinders lock
07. Complete set of gearwright's tools in flawless steel, fine and delicate, secured in a roll of felt and leather
08. A hand-sized planisphere and lunar phase tracker, bronze and glass and enamel
09. Breather mask of lacquered leather and wire mesh, with extra filter sachets of linen and charcoal
10. Egg-shaped luciferous lantern, rippled glass in brass; when shaken, fluid lights green-yellow for four hours
11. Pocket reference of tables and calculations, bound in rough leather, sooty and stained and annotated
12. Oversized wooden scrollcase on a shoulder-strap, filled with paper scrap and foolscap, pencils and chalks, silverpoints, engraver and cunningly fashioned miniature abacus