Zenythri Triplicate

The Zenythri Triplicate is an impossibly ancient and barely understood artifact which consists of three brass cubes. Each pieces is a disquietingly perfect cube, made of brass or some similar metal which is engraved on every surface with bizarre geometrical patterns and runes. It is clear that the cubes are some kind of puzzle. There are various moving parts which can be manipulated to produce various subtle effects in the bizarre geometry of the cube, making it a "more perfect" cube or something completely new, which somehow is still a cube. The mathematics are disorienting and disquieting.

Being in close proximity to the cube produces wildly different emotions for different people. Some people are completely exhilarated by it. They feels their mind racing and expanding, opening to new mathematical possibilities and geometrical epiphanes. Some feel an odd kind of ambivalence towards it. They may be intellectually fascinated by it, but also feel it calling to him in a way that makes them distinctly uncomfortable. Others are absolutely repulsed by it. They feel physically nauseated and can't bring themselves to look at it for long. It almost seems to be mocking or ridiculing them. Still others have no reaction whatsoever to the cube. To them it is a nicely carved hunk of metal. The reaction seems to relate to the alignment of the person near the cube. The closer to Lawful Neutral the person is, the more positive their reaction to the cube.