05-19-2015, 12:00 AM
Artifact #1 - The "Emabacus"
After much time searching through and careful examination of the all the sundry items we've been uncovering during our work here; my scholars have been pleased to inform me that they've come across a genuine magical artifact known as the "emabacus". Looking rather like a small abacus strapped to an adjustable band, the emabacus was worn by it's user in much the same fashion as a modern wrist-watch. Throughout the day, the beads would automatically move to reflect how many units of each type of emotion the wearer was feeling, adjusting themselves as necessary. According to some papers found with the artifact, it seems that only one emabacus was ever created. It was built by a wizard for one of his apprentices to make him become more self aware. Said the wizard "Whenever you have 14 units of any emotion, you lose total control of yourself to it." Unfortunately, the magic was designed only to work with the student for which the watch was created.
Archaeologist's note - Wow! What an amazing device. I wonder what a single unit of an emotion would be? I could certainly see how this would be useful for gaining self-awareness. Imagine visually seeing exactly how your building up units of various emotions throughout the day, and how you react to situations differently when your emotional unit levels are different. What happens to each of the emotions when you encounter the same situations multiple times? Or if you simply think about them? I think there's so many things a person might discover if they wore a "watch" like this. I wonder though if we might get some benefits though merely by pretending to be wearing such an item? As in, trying to visualize what the readout would say if we could see how many units of each sort of emotion we were experiencing at any time, and then tracking that over time. Seems like an effort worth considering.
After much time searching through and careful examination of the all the sundry items we've been uncovering during our work here; my scholars have been pleased to inform me that they've come across a genuine magical artifact known as the "emabacus". Looking rather like a small abacus strapped to an adjustable band, the emabacus was worn by it's user in much the same fashion as a modern wrist-watch. Throughout the day, the beads would automatically move to reflect how many units of each type of emotion the wearer was feeling, adjusting themselves as necessary. According to some papers found with the artifact, it seems that only one emabacus was ever created. It was built by a wizard for one of his apprentices to make him become more self aware. Said the wizard "Whenever you have 14 units of any emotion, you lose total control of yourself to it." Unfortunately, the magic was designed only to work with the student for which the watch was created.
Archaeologist's note - Wow! What an amazing device. I wonder what a single unit of an emotion would be? I could certainly see how this would be useful for gaining self-awareness. Imagine visually seeing exactly how your building up units of various emotions throughout the day, and how you react to situations differently when your emotional unit levels are different. What happens to each of the emotions when you encounter the same situations multiple times? Or if you simply think about them? I think there's so many things a person might discover if they wore a "watch" like this. I wonder though if we might get some benefits though merely by pretending to be wearing such an item? As in, trying to visualize what the readout would say if we could see how many units of each sort of emotion we were experiencing at any time, and then tracking that over time. Seems like an effort worth considering.