The Cereceph

Description

The crown jewel of the marvels created by the shadowy guild of 17th-century artisans, the Cereceph is the most baffling and remarkable of the family heirlooms that Tim inherits from his Uncle Mitch. About the size of a large ripe pumpkin, the Cereceph houses a mind-boggling matrix of complex circuitry, electromagnets, and solid-state devices, of extraordinary workmanship even by 21st-century standards. As with the other Shoemaker family heirlooms, it is unknown how the Cereceph entered into the Shoemaker Clan’s possession or what its exact purpose is, other than that it apparently functions as some sort of sophisticated information processor. However, preliminary studies of its design and contours suggest that it may be involved somehow in mind-modeling and neural mimicry.