Beating Sludge Heart

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Description	The lump of congealed sludge, assisted by the occasional jolt of electricity, beats and spasms in your hand like a living heart. Something, perhaps the way your fingers sink into the sludge when it spasms, makes it even more disgusting than a real disembodied heart would be.
Type	Offhand
Requires	6 Base Will
Use	First use of the day: You squeeze the beating sludge heart. It spasms and thrashes around, as though it's in terrible pain. In the process, it pumps out a stream of thick petrol sludge. Gain 1 petrol sludge Subsequent uses: You squeeze your beating sludge heart. It thrashes and twitches wildly, but it doesn't produce any more oil.
Multi	You squeeze the beating sludge hearts. They spasm and thrash around, as though you're causing them terrible pain. OR You squeeze your hearts. They thrash and thump widly, but don't produce any more oil. OR You grab each heart firmly. Some of them just thrash and twitch, but the rest bleed a thick petrol sludge. OR One of the hearts seems to have run out already, but you squeeze the others. They all but explode, bleeding a thick petrol sludge.
Effect	+3 Etheric Power +3 Fire Power

Note

You can't get more than 999 samples of petrol sludge/day by using beating sludge hearts

Sources

Give a Sludge Heart some semblance of life with a Biomonitor Circuit and a Capacitor Array

Sludge Heart Biomonitor Circuit

Living Sludge Heart Capacitor Array

=	Beating Sludge Heart

Uses

This item is not a component for any kind of crafting.

This item cannot be salvaged.

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