Relic Card TC-003-A: Chronoglyph of Relentless Focus

🎴 RELIC CARD – TC-003-A

🕰️ Chronoglyph of Relentless Focus
“Time will not hold your hand.”

🔍 RELIC TYPE

⚙️ Temporal Enforcement Relic
🧠 Cognition-Bound / Caffeinated Binding Class
🔢 Vault Code: TC-003-A

📇 FRONT – Abilities

⏳ Passive Field – Temporal Pressure Halo

• +2 Focus

• -1 Mercy

• Tasks seem achievable—but only for the exact time shown

• Causes mild time-based anxiety in small mammals and creatives

🔔 Active Effect – Shrikeburst Alarm (1x per cycle)

• Emits a deafening, high-frequency digital shriek

• All beings within 15 feet suffer Startled Roll

• Vault patrons must roll for either:

  • “Sudden Genius Surge”

  • OR “I Quit This Project Forever” reflex

• The sound bypasses headphones. Even the noise-canceling kind. Especially those.

🧿 Psychological Binding:
Once you set it down and flip it, you’ve already agreed.
You may lie to yourself. The Cube knows.

🪞 Engraving – Card Back

“You asked for structure.
I gave you judgment with digits.”

Beneath that, a smaller inscription:

“Productivity is just fear with a timer.”

📍 VAULT CAFÉ PLACEMENT:

Mounted in the Vault Café near the Community To-Do Scrollboard
📌 Tucked in a corner beneath the “Hourly Intention Bell” (which now rings itself out of fear)

Aura Effects in Café Zone:

• All creative conversations quicken by 20%

• At least one person mutters “I feel like I’m being watched” every 30 minutes

• Gnomy will not go near it. Claims it “smells like panic.”

☕️ NEW VAULT DRINK SPECIAL:

The Chronoglyph Shot

“30 minutes of inspiration. Followed by 10 hours of shaking.”

Ingredients:

• 2x espresso shots (concentrated from beans grown in volcanic stress zones)

• Splash of citrus bitter for urgency

• Dusting of matcha for the illusion of health

• Served in a clock-faced demitasse

• Optional: a sidecar of water labeled “Regret Neutralizer”

SIDE EFFECTS:

• Pupils dilate to record size

• Sudden compulsion to reorganize desktop icons

• May accidentally clean entire drawer system while “waiting for something to load”

• Deep shame if you don’t finish your task before the Cube screams