>look at art
The artifact floats eerily in the air.  Its surface is made of an assortment of various metal plates, including bronze and silver.  A ring of eight copper nodules encircles the device, but only four are visible at a time from any one side.  Flashing blasts of azure and crimson arc between these nodules regularly.

Four of the copper nodules appear to be depressed, no longer sparking with blue and red light.
>touch art
You lay your hand on the artifact.
None of the nodules react.
Roundtime: 2 seconds.
>focus art
You focus your magical senses on a spherical metal artifact.
A burning sensation rises up your arms and into your body.
You sense an incredibly powerful and complex matrix within the artifact, but it is masked by the sparking of energy from the copper nodules.
You learn nothing.
Roundtime: 15 seconds.
>health