The Platinum Yendorian Express Card
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( The Platinum Yendorian Express Card 
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| Base item | credit card |
| Affiliation | |
| When carried | |
| When applied | (none) |
| When invoked | |
| Base price | 7000 zm |
| Weight | 1 |
The Platinum Yendorian Express Card is the tourist quest artifact. It is neutral for wishing purposes. Its base item type is a credit card.
When carried, the Card confers magic resistance, telepathy and half spell damage. Invoking the Card charges objects just like the scroll of charging. However, only tourists can perform blessed charging.[1]
This artifact is a reference to the Commodore 64 version of the game Wizardry, whose manual states that players start with limited gold because "few adventurers have a Platinum Yendorian Express Card."
The PYEC is the only quest artifact whose name is not of the form “The X of [the] Y.”
Encyclopedia entry
This is an ancient artifact made of an unknown material. It is rectangular in shape, very thin, and inscribed with unreadable ancient runes. When carried, it grants the one who carries it ESP, and reduces all spell induced damage done to the carrier by half. It also protects from magic missile attacks. Finally, its power is such that when invoked, it can charge other objects.
