There are times when you just need
a machine to work a certain way and
you don’t have time to adjust it or they
just don’t make one that does everything
you need. Jury Rig is the answer.
The spell allows a mage to swiftly superimpose
pieces of various machines
into one another in such a way as to
produce a desired result. With this
spell, a mage could, for example, integrate
a nail-gun and shotgun together
to produce a weapon that fires a barrage
of nails with each pull of the
trigger. Or he could combine a
coffeemaker and an ice-cream mixer
for making one-step, coffee-flavored
ice cream, or a washer and dryer together
to do laundry in one cycle.
For each success, the mage may transpose
one quality (such as a rotisserie’s
generation of heat or its ability to rotate
another object within it) from a given
mechanical object onto another mechanical
object. In the case of combining
firearms with other firearms, one weapon
characteristic can be swapped out for
another (creating a pistol, for example,
that uses shotgun shells for ammunition).
A firearm can also be incorporated
fully into another device, effectively disguising
the weapon until it is first used
(or it undergoes close mystic or mundane inspection).
At this level, the mage must touch
the jury-rigged object. With Matter 4,
he can cast this spell at sensory range.
Mysterium Rote: Hybridized Device
Mysterium mages find a wide variety
of uses for this rote. A last-resort handgun
can be integrated into a stapler or a
hairdryer, for example, or a pen and a
flashlight can be merged to produce a
writing implement that provides its own
illumination (for taking notes in the
dark). Some Guardians of the Veil transpose
a number of different objects into
one another to create
elaborate multipurpose
tools for all situations.
