Dessicate

+ Life	●●●
Prime	●●●●●
Instant	Mana
Vulgar	Unmaking
Duration	Lasting
Banishers, pps.65-66 Rotes
Banishers :	Weaken the Alien
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The mage can drain the subject of one of her Physical Attributes, her Mana (if Awakened) or her Health and augment his own pool.

• Practice: Unmaking
• Action: Instant and Contested
• Duration: Lasting
• Aspect: Vulgar
• Cost: 1 Mana

The caster cannot increase his pool beyond the maximum he can have (for example, an individual with a Strength 3 can only increase his Strength to 5 and cannot exceed the amount of Mana he can hold according to his Gnosis rating). Similar to the spell “Siphon Mana”, successive castings against the same target within the same scene suffer a cumulative –2 dice penalty.

If an Attribute or Health is reduced to 0, the caster has the option of returning a portion of the siphoned energy to bring the Attribute or Health rating up to 1. Otherwise, the victim dies.

An Awakened target can attempt to resist through a contested roll: Willpower versus the caster’s successes. A Sleeper has no defense unless otherwise protected by a mage. Protective spells apply.

This is House-Ruled as Automated Resistance rather than Contested as is appropriate for damaging spells which can be ablative. Subtract Resolve + Supernatural Advantage from the casting pool.

• Dice Pool: Wits + Occult + Prime versus Willpower

The Translator version of this spell, used by Morris, is intended to keep any aliens or suspected aliens (or even alien sympathizers) from operat- ing at their full capacity and posing a threat to the Banishers during questioning and up to the time of “translation.”