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The Pocket Watch

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The pocket watch is an incredibly rare and complex piece of magical machinery. In a nutshell, it gives the user Chronokinesis- the ability to manipulate the passage of time.

When wound backwards, it allows the user to speed up to the point where everything else seems to be standing still, and when wound forwards, the user is “frozen” in place as their perception of time speeds up, essentially shooting them forward in time while they remain unaged.

However, it cannot transport anyone back to the past, and the watch has time limits (if you stay in too long, the watch gets stuck). Only one person can use the watch at one time, and if the watch stops while the person is still using it, they’ll either be fast-forwarding through time for the rest of eternity or will be frozen in time forever- or, more likely, their bodies will implode from the strain and they’ll be warped out of existence.

There are only a few genuine pocket watches known to exist, and this particular one has been changing hands for decades before ending up in the possession of Don Mako (a crime boss from the Midwestern United States) and later, Charlie Gibson (a con man and small-time criminal formerly in Mako's employ).

Copies of the watch have been made, but it’s such a ridiculously complex design that even the best copies were only able to do a fraction of what the original could, and besides that, were much more volatile. Users of these watches are recommended to drink a stabilizing potion before starting the watch, or they could quite easily be torn apart by its power (but even then, it’s not a guarantee).

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