The Investigator's Field Guide

The Investigator's Field Guide is a magical tome containing lore on any person, location, creature, or item encountered by Irian Investigations. The Guide is a living, breathing document constantly being changed and updated by Lead Loremonger Percyval Parker. The guide has been a great boon to the company as unlike a database or server, it cannot be hacked.

Description
The Field Guide is a small, unassuming black leather bound journal similar to other ruled notebooks found at the checkout counter at any bookstore in the UCAS. Although the Guide can contain any amount of information it never appears larger than a 240 page, 5 x 9" book that easily fits in any pocket or purse.

If an unattuned individual were to pick up a Field Guide and scan through the pages all they would be able to read would be childish sketches, horrible poetry, and grocery lists. Only by spending an hour meditating with the Guide can someone attune and read the information therein.

Powers
Anything written down in one Field Guide by an attuned individual is instantly transcribed into every copy, and if the author marks the message as *urgent* then the books will jump into the hands of their owners and open to the new entry. If the author wishes the message to be private they need only to write the indiviual's name followed by a colon and it will appear in only that persons journal.

Additionally the book can sketch a map of any location it is carried in and keep live updates of where other copies are, making it useful for Irian to keep track of their personnel. The Guide also contains all the information Irian has ever collected on anything, and with a simple command can flip open to any specific entry Parker has written in her master copy.

When not in use the Guide remains in an extradimensional space until summoned to the hand of the investigator it is attuned to, similar to the warlock's 'Pack of the Tome' feature. This is possible due to the Light of Irian being present in every copy and the Investigators swearing an oath upon the book, binding the tome to the user.

Due to the sensitive nature of the information contained within the Field Guide if attunement to the book is ever broken for any reason the journal self immolates, leaving behind only a pile of ash. For added protection, once the book turns to ash a delayed spell of Gust of Wind is cast that scatters the ashes rendering it impossible to restore.