This spell enables the caster to act in
a social situation with perfect grace and
timing, saying just the right thing at just
the right moment. The mage does not
really think out what he will do; he goes
with the flow, letting Fate and his instincts
guide him. He must not have
foreknowledge of what he will encounter
(a good hunch is one thing, but
extensive scrying or a detailed description
from someone on the scene via cell
phone is not acceptable; such intimate
understanding of the circumstances ruins
the necessary randomness). For
example, if the mage casts this spell in a
bar upon meeting someone whom he
considers ideal, he might easily wind up
getting her phone number, thanks to his
Fate-guided panache.
Casting this spell over and over again
in regard to the same subject (such as
the girl at the bar) muddles the threads
of destiny and may even hopelessly
entangle them (the girl turns out to
actually be a creepy stalker type or
suffers from some less-than-ideal complication).
In the most extreme cases,
repeated castings may sever threads
entirely (ending the relationship and
perhaps even a life if the mage has been
exceptionally presumptuous).
More a roleplaying issue than anything
else, this spell moves out of the
realm of dice rolls and into that of
manipulating the story. The mage effectively
chooses some small thing that
he wishes to see come to pass and
makes it so through his magic. A Storyteller
may levy dice penalties for
highly improbable results (such as a
pierced, tattooed and leather-garbed
punk making a great impression at a
black-tie affair). Generally speaking,
favorable results of this spell do not last
longer than the spell’s Duration (unless
the mage has subsequently taken
non-magical steps to that effect).
Unfavorable side effects can haunt a
mage for quite some time. These are usually
reversals of the exact same fortune the spell
provided. Using this spell repeatedly against
the woman in the bar might lead to an
unfortunate encounter with her jealous ex-
Mafia boyfriend, for example.
Mysterium Rote: Everything's Zen
It’s not always the ideal way to do so,
but a socially inept bookworm of the
Mysterium is occasionally put into a
position in his search for knowledge
that renders this rote the only way to
attain that which he seeks.
