“‘And another thing. We can’t have everybody talking at once. We’ll have to have ‘Hands up’ like at school.’
He held the conch before his face and glanced round the mouth.
‘Then I’ll give him the conch.'”

Power: Significant
Effect: Whoever holds The Conch has the ability to command the attention of his audience. As long as The Conch is being held in plain sight by the speaker all Soul checks having to do with speaking in front of a group receive a +30 shift. In addition, the holder is the only person physically capable of speaking until The Conch is out of view unless the holder gives the audience permission to speak. The realization of The Conch’s effects prompt a Rank 2 Unnatural and Helplessness check on the audience. Unless willingly passed along to an audience member who wishes to speak next, random members of the audience become filled with a jealous desire to take The Conch for themselves. The lengths they will go to acquire it depend on the speaker’s performance and whether or not they failed their stress checks but can result in anything from heckling to physical violence. The power of The Conch only effects groups of five or more people.
Description: This unassuming conch shell was the result of a Bibliomancer’s Major Charge after acquiring the original manuscript of William Golding’s Lord of the Flies some time in the early 2000s. Its powers reflect those of the shell featured in the novel. The Bookworm realized too late that the reflection was all too accurate when he was killed in a home invasion by a member of his book club days after making some very convincing points about why David Foster Wallace was full of shit. The Conch has been missing ever since but every time a political demonstration turns into a riot or a seemingly minor power struggle turns into a total clusterfuck rumors of The Conch’s reemergence soon follow. Some say that if The Conch is ever broken during an attempt at seizing its power society itself may crumble.