Mage ●
Spells ● Transubstantiation of Content
Despite the popular image of wizards poring over
ponderous hoards of obscure and dusty tomes, many
modern mages prefer the compact elegance of sophisticated
electronic media. With this spell, a mage
can freely mix and convert data across any storage
medium, provided the original object stores deliberate
data in some fashion.
With a successful casting of this spell, a mage can
alter the medium of any data without altering the underlying meaning of the content. At the subtler
end, this spell can recode electronic files so they must
be read with a different operating system or translate
a book written in one language to become written in
another. More dramatic uses of the spell can condense
a stack of tomes into a single flash drive or vice versa,
though the total size of all objects before and after
transformation cannot exceed 5, and the mage cannot
create any data medium that he is not personally
familiar with.
Mysterium Rote: Mutable Media
For every young Mysterium scholar looking to upgrade
inherited texts to more technologically-driven
and user-friendly forms, an older or more traditional
member labors to distill useful knowledge from
meaningless technobabble and superfluous gadgetry.
In short, this rote facilitates cooperation between
colleagues who might not otherwise have a frame of
reference to understand each other’s efforts.
