A more powerful version of the rote might actually cause the smoker to alter time and circumstance in accord with lighting up a cigarette, though! Use the usual Arete roll successes to determine how close the smoker cuts his prediction. System: This rote is very simple the smoker doesn't so much force an event to happen as garner a precognitive timing and happen to light up a cigarette at just the right (or wrong) time. The phenomenon almost always takes place nigh-immediately thereafter. The smoker can be waiting for traffic to move, for a meal to arrive, for a bus to show up - all he has to do is pull out a smoke, light it and take a drag. The smoker's timing relies upon the well-established urban legend that any time a smoker waits for something, he need only start a new cigarette and it'll arrive. As such, this rote relies more on the superstitions surrounding smoking than upon any sort of Tradition paradigm. Smokers have their own library of small tricks and amusements relating to their particular vice. Also, this effect does not require constant concentration, but does count as a running effect.Ī fair number of Tradition mages are smokers - probably a by-product of the stress of the lifestyle. Note that the mage must also generate a duration from the successes scored. This negates interpersonal relationship penalties for resonance on a one-success-for-one-die basis. Successes allow the mage to send off a weave of harmlessness and calm along with his normal resonance. System: The mage applies this rote to himself. With this rote, the Traditionalist seems more like an eccentric but otherwise harmless individual, instead of a strange and potentially threatening outsider. While some unscrupulous mages might directly take control of other peoples' emotions to circumvent this problem, most subtle Traditionalists prefer to give off 'harmless' vibes. Resonance and mystical quirkiness tend to set mundane humans on edge around mages.

3.5 Singing by Moonlight - European Shamanism.

3.4.25 Huli Shjálmr ('Helmet of Hiding').

3.4.24 Sjónhverfing ('Deceiving of the Sight').

3.4 In the Shadows of the World Ash - The Norse.

3.3 And the Beat Goes On - Shakti and Shiva.

3.2.10 Presentation of the Passage Stick.

3.2 Wide Awake in the Dreamtime - Native Australia.

3.1.11 Mokupuni Palahalaha Wiki (Coral Island Bloom).3.1 Sad Islands in Strange Seas - Polynesia.2.5 The Top of the World - The Arctic Circle.2.4 Pillars of Philosophy - Greece and Rome.

2.2 The Cradle of Civilization - Mesopotamia.2.1 The Lands of Nod - Sub-Saharan Africa.

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