[quote=Cale Tucker]
Yeah, that will be shown as provocation. It's gonna lash out. Some of the Esurienti will stay to a certain area or try to keep back from the device, but on others they will just attack it
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It's essentially a little handle in the Tinkerer's hand. And how would they know that it's even the little item? They go too far ahead, and they get the feeling that they should turn back, and stuff starts getting kinda itchy-ish. It's not ON them, it's not on the floor or anything.