Yeet-Beeper
The Yeet-Beeper was a Magical Artifact from the Mage Wars. It consisted of a small rectangular box with controls at one end, which enabled Inter-Dimensional Transport to a series of pre-coded locations. The device is similar in function to the Waystone Network, but did not require any magical ability or a permanent ritual site. The name of the builder and complete list of codes is lost to history, as is the nature of the device's operation. Most scholars regaurd it as a form of Magic-Tech, though it could have been a simple enchantment. No working extant examples survived into the Golden Age, unless the Foundation has one hidden away.
The devices were once common enough to be widely known, though little information exists as primary sources.
Description
The Arsenal of Freedom on Arden Song preserves the only widely-known extant example of a Yeet-Beeper. Their piece is non-functional and possibly an early Golden Age-era replica.
The device is described as being a small, silver-grey box about the size of a modern pocket pager. It as a series of crystal knobs at one end, and indicator crystal, and two contacts or buttons, one on either side. It is shaped to be easily held in one hand and operated with the other.
The dials are marked with a series of symbols that do not correspond to any known language. It is assumed they were invented by the device's creator to give it a more mysterious quality. Information from secondary sources indicates the "yeeters" were simple, practical, and may even have been quite common at some distant time.
To operate the device, when keys in a code using the three knobs. Holding the device in the left hand with what is accepted to be the top facing up, from left to right the number of symbols on each dial are as follows: 7, 11, and 14. This presumes the number of possible destinations numbers a little over one thousand, however information from secondary sources indicates the number was substantially higher.
The known operation of the device involved keying in a code, waiting for the indicator to confirm a lock, holding the left button, then depressing the right. The Yeet-Beeper could move up to five people or a small heard of llamas.
Extant Examples
The one on display at Arden Song is the only unit that was ever accessible by modern-day researchers. Five other examples were known to have survived the Mage Wars(though their level of functionality was unconfirmed). These were all contained in private collections, and their whereabouts after the Golden Age are unknown.
It is presumed that the Gudersnipe Foundation holds at least one example, most likely many more, but this has never been confirmed or denied. All that is known for certain is that, early in the Golden Age, the Foundation gathered as much material on Inter-Dimensional Transport as it could find, yet no attempt was made to purchase or even secure for study what would later become known as the "Arden Beeper". Some suspect they simply knew it to be a fraud.
History
The earliest confirmed surviving record of a Yeet-Beeper comes from the First Chaotic Period around 3600 B.G.A.. An off-hand mention in a surviving fragment of a personal journal, the entry seems to imply they were quite widespread and possibly even common at the time.
