Richard E. Byrd's Smoking Pipe
The Smoking Pipe
Vital statistics
Type	Tobacco Pipe
Effects	Controlling Climate
Source	Richard Evelyn Byrd, Jr
Danger	High
Activation	Putting pipe in mouth/Smoking from pipe

A white smoking pipe with a carving of a windmill on each side. The artifact activates when someone puts it in their mouth. Once activated, the windmills on each side of the pipe begin spinning and smoke comes out. The smoke can affect the weather and if used properly, the user can control the weather freely. This includes thunderstorms, tornadoes and even precise lightning strikes when the stem is pointed at the desired location. One of the artifacts formerly owned by Walter Sykes. Snagged by Peter Lattimer and Myka Bering after tracing it to Devil's Lake, ND in Personal Effects.

HistoryEdit

Rear Admiral Richard Evelyn Byrd, Jr. was a naval officer who specialized in feats of exploration. He was a pioneering American aviator, polar explorer, and organizer of polar logistics. Aircraft flights, in which he served as a

navigator and expedition leader, crossed the Atlantic Ocean, a segment of the Arctic Ocean, and a segment of the Antarctic Plateau. Byrd claimed that his expeditions had been the first to reach the North Pole and the South Pole by air.