Tasks / Frank Frink's Colt .45
Create a counterfeit artifact.
1 to 100 players
15 points
Level 1
In the zone of: Society For Nihilistic Intent And Disruptive Efforts
Created by Blue
23 completed :: 52 in progress
Interested in collaborating on this: (no one yet!)
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Goddammit, I just realized the counterfeit I'm currently hoping to unload is a prior completion and thus not worth posting for fifteen points.
Hey, anybody want to buy a prior completion?
I really like this task, and I think the title may've had something to do with the relative lack of completions. Ergo, "Rasputin's Penis" is dead, long live "Frank Frink's Colt .45"! Should alliteration and Philip K. Dick references fail this time around, next in line is "The James Ossuary"
does it have to be a specific artifact or just anything in general? and how realistic does it need to be?
I used to have the perfect thing for this.
I kept my green flock (a powder you glue to the bases of wargames minis to look like wee ickle grass) in an old glass coffee jar labelled " Genuine Powdered Dragon Spleen."
I "antiqued" a label for it using teabags.
Wait a minute. If you create something, as instructed, then ipso facto, it's an artifact, and not a counterfeit at being an artifact.
Perhaps you can try to find some natural structure and claim you created it. This would be a counterfeit artifact. But then you wouldn't have created it.
I conclude that this task is logically impossible.
Praxis
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