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Player > Items > Technological > Autocartographer
Level: 9
Price: 13500
Hands: 1
Bulk: 1
Capacity: 100; Usage: 10/hour
This handheld holographic display unit has an underslung rack
housing dozens of miniaturized flying microbots. When you
activate the autocartographer, you pick a grid intersection
within 50 feet to which you have line of effect. The microbots
scatter in a 100-foot cube, scanning the environment and
sending data back to the display unit for aggregation and
analysis. The microbots transmit the dimensions and basic
layout of rooms, corridors, and sizable natural features, including
large furnishings. Their sensors ignore living creatures, fine
details (such as images on computer screens), and temporary
magical effects, but they record permanent ones, including
illusory obstacles. They can't differentiate between illusions or
holograms and real objects. The microbots' data is sent by a
wireless signal and is therefore vulnerable to countermeasures
such as signal jammers.
Individual microbots are small enough to pass through
any opening at least an inch wide. They can operate both in
air or vacuum, but heavy gravity or strong or stronger winds
overwhelm their delicate propulsion systems and render them
inactive. The microbots emit a distinctive whir and can be
detected with a successful DC 15 Perception check.
One minute after you release the microbots, the
autocartographer displays a composite map showing all features
within the scanned 100-foot cube as a three-dimensional
holographic image, and the microbots return to the unit. You
can save these images in a data file that can be displayed
later, although you need to rescan an area to obtain updated
information, such as opened doors or repositioned furniture.
Each file is tagged with global or astronomical positioning
data, allowing you to connect multiple maps in space and scroll
between them.
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