| Leon Herrmann's Sword and Playing Cards | |
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Origin |
Leon Herrmann |
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Type |
Rapier and Cards |
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Effects |
Stops time when scattered until Ace of Spades is pierced. |
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Downsides |
None |
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Activation |
Throwing cards |
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Collected by |
Agent Jolene Littman |
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Section |
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Aisle |
673847-2904 |
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Shelf |
348219-6482-488 |
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Date of Collection |
June 25, 1967 |
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Origin[]
Leon Herrmann was a noted magician in the late nineteenth century who is credited with inventing, or at least popularizing, the famous magic trick of card stabbing. The trick involves the performer tossing a deck of playing cards into the air after declaring a card (or having an audience emeber select one), then while they fall piercing the target card with a thin sword.
This artifact can be briefly spotted on a monitor in the Warehouse 13 episode "The Sky's the Limit".
Effects[]
When the deck of cards is thrown into the air, time in the area is slowed and eventually frozen in a radius effect. The thrower can move freely, though at a distance movement from others is reported as feeling like moving through molasses. Closer to the cards time slows to a complete stop.
The only way to neutralize the effect is to pierce the Ace of Spades with the sword used by Herrmann, making the sword and cards a set. Until the sword is used, the area is considered a temporal dead-zone.