An occult lucky dip for the pryotechnically inclined.

This particular artifact (technically, artifacts) is the bizarre creation of a reclusive cabal of adepts based in Boston named The Order of Heaven’s Ignition.
No-one knows how they created these things, but apparently they’re still doing it and distributing them for sale on the underground market across several Western countries, despite disappearing completely 3 years ago.
Usually, they cost a little less than your average one-use Significant artifact.
The best places to look for them are the major cities of West Coast America, London, Berlin, Osaka, Sydney, Perth and pretty much any big Italian city.

Power: Minor if just a single match, maybe Significant for a whole box (10 matches).

Description: Just somewhat normal matches, with the stick part a crimson red. The box is slightly less than professional looking, with bright colourings and vague instructions (that don’t tell you what the matches do or how they work) in small type on the back. The box cover also features an unknown, uncopyrighted brand, “Starstain”.

Effects: Lighting a candle with a match grants the user a random magickal benefit (GMs determine them in secret, see below) for as long as the fire burns.
The flame will be a pure, blood red, as will its’ light, making its mundane ulitity as a torch questionable at best.
The candle (lighting anything else with a match does nothing) will also burn out far faster than normal (GM decides exactly when the fire burns out by itself, if it burns out by itself).
Of course, outside forces may extinguish the flame like any other normal fire, with water or blowing it out. This also cancels the benefit.
The user will instinctively know when they are no longer receiving any benefit from the candle the moment the flame goes out. However, the user will NOT instinctively know the exact benefit they are receiving, when the flame is close to going out, for how long the flame will burn or how to use the matches (the instructions, by the way, do not list anything about the matches other than how to activate them and that they grant benefits to those who light them).
Oh, and a person can not receive any more than ONE benefit from any ONE of the matches at a time. If the user tries, s/he will instinctively decide against lighting another candle at the last moment, figuring that it probably wouldn’t work ‘on a whim’.

NOTE: GMs ONLY beyond this point.

Benefits:

GMs roll 1 die to randomly decide which benefit (or may ‘roll 1 die’ to ‘randomly’ decide which benefit, nudge nudge, wink wink):

1 or 2: All stress checks faced are treated as if they are 1 rank lower (i.e. Violence 5 becomes Violence 4). The user feels suddenly cheerful and optimistic constantly.

3 or 4: Any Soul stat or skill roll is flip-flopped for the better result unless at least one of the dice rolled is a 3, 6 or 9. While receiving this benefit, everyone seems to see the person as somehow shadowy, threatening or intimidating, like the universe is trying to make the person look as dark and evil as possible. The person’s shadow grows longer, his/her gaze seems predatory, his/her voice sounds inexplictably cold, horrid or screechy and every movement the person makes gives an impression of being unnatural or monstrous. (This may be worth certain shifts to various Soul skills, like Charm or Intimidation.)

5 or 6: All Dodge, Notice, Lie and General Athletics rolls get a +10 shift. To anyone who has a magick or avatar skill of at least 45%, the person appears to be of a different race than they really are.

7 or 8: The user can not be targeted by any ritual or tilt magick unless he is wearing red clothing. Any person making eye contact with the user will suddenly feel uncomfortably hotter, as if placed under an heater.

9 or 10: The user suffers no fire damage and can not feel pain or even heat from any kind of flame. The user’s blood will, bizarrely, have the texture and constiency of jelly, although this seems to have no effect on the user’s bodily functions at all.