Time Limit

Time	●
Instant	Mana
Covert	Compelling
Tome of the Mysteries, p. 132 Rotes
The Mysterium :	Acceptable Expiration
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This spell is not allowed.

The mage relinquishes control over a finishing spell, by accepting a time limit on the item’s operations.

• Practice: Compelling
• Action: Instant
• Duration: Lasting
• Aspect: Covert
• Cost: 1 Mana

This spell is cast during item creation. The Storyteller secretly makes the spell roll for the character, noting the interval on the following chart.

Successes / Interval

• 1 success = 1 day
• 2 successes = 1 week
• 3 successes = 1 month
• 4 successes = 6 months
• 5 successes = 1 year

At the end of the interval, all of the item’s magical properties — not only the spell to which “Time Limit” originally applied — cease to function for the item’s current owner. After a transfer of ownership, the item again functions for its inherent interval, then shuts down again. Previous owners may never again access the item’s powers. If multiple instances of Time Limit are cast on the same item, the lowest interval applies.

Mysterium Rote: Acceptable Expiration

• Dice Pool: Intelligence + Crafts + Time

Though this spell results in eventually unusable items, the peripatetic experimenters of the Mysterium rely heavily on this technique of spell relinquishment when playing around with new concepts. If an item proves unsatisfactory after preliminary testing, no great inconvenience arises from the item’s eventual shutdown. Truly compelling concepts, on the other hand, can later be remade using more costly but reliable relinquishment methods.