By speaking this constructs command word, you can call it to your hand. Upon close examination, this construct has a clock built into its chest. The bird requires no winding, drawing energy from the ambient vibrations and movements around it. When held, its internal ticking mechanism momentarily aligns with its master's heartbeat, suggesting a deep, subtle synchronization with the Monk's temporal flow.
This construct can not take the Attack Action.
Future Whisper (1/Day): If the Monk asks a simple, direct question about their immediate future (the next hour) while this construct is in its item form, it the bird responds non-verbally:
Tick Slower- Indicates a relatively safe or uneventful hour ahead.
Tick Faster- Indicates impending danger or a critical, high-stakes event.
Stop Ticking Entirely- Indicates the future is truly unknowable at this moment, dependent on an immediate, unmade choice.
Return: As a reaction, this construct can fly or teleport into the hand of its master and revert back into an object. When teleporting, no reactions are provoked from any creature with hostile intent.
Description
A small, 4-inch automaton crafted from polished brass, fine copper wire, and delicate gears visible beneath hardened crystal panels. Its eyes are minute facets of amethyst, and its tail feathers are springs of spun electrum. It moves with an almost disturbing efficiency and exactitude. Its flight paths are always the most direct and geometrically perfect route possible, exhibiting no wasted motion. Emits a constant, low, steady "tick-tick-tick" like a miniaturized timepiece. When flying, this sound becomes a rapid, precise whirring. Occasionally, the bird will stop mid-movement and simply freeze for exactly one second, often in an unstable position (balancing on one toe or a wingtip). This pause invariably occurs just before its master decides on their next major action, as if waiting for the future to be definitively chosen before proceeding.
Previous Versions
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11/17/2025 1:15:36 PM
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12/4/2025 6:06:02 AM
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