Mage ●
Spells ● Manipulate Contingent Trigger
A mage might make use of an Imbued Item for a variety
of reasons: a way to carry magic that he doesn’t normally
possess or to cheat the limits of how many spells his pattern
can tolerate, or perhaps even to give certain limited
magical abilities to a Sleeper or Sleepwalker. By way of this
spell, however, the contingent triggers with which many
such objects are programmed can be temporarily altered,
potentially making the invocation of an item’s power difficult
— if not impossible — for its possessor.
This spell, if successfully cast, alters the contingent trigger
of an Imbued Item that has one to a trigger of the caster’s choice. This trigger may be extraordinarily difficult to accomplish
(“When sprinkled with lunar soil,”) or very easy
(“When grasped in hand,”, but the item’s powers cannot
be rendered either completely inaccessible or continual.
If the item is currently in the possession of an individual
unwilling to have its trigger altered, then the spell becomes
contested, with the possessor rolling Resolve + Gnosis in
opposition to the caster.
Seers of the Throne Rote: Exchange the Secret Key
While it is true that every advantage counts in a conflict,
so too does every enemy advantage that a willworker can
counter. Thus, Seers of the Throne who pursue the secrets of
the Prime and Fate Arcana learn to rob their foes of access
to the spells concealed within certain objects of power.
