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A common teleportation stunt involves ducking through a door, into a booth, or out a window. This way, the mage seems to be leaving through a perfectly reasonable exit, or pulling the old “vanishing lady” trick.

Is this coincidental or not? As a general rule, assume that…

• If a witness watches the mage vanish, and has no reason to believe that she could vanish, then it probably vulgar with witnesses.

• If the mage disappears into darkness (see The Batman, below), and the witness would have reason to believe she could have gone somewhere else, then it’s probably coincidental.

• And if the mage goes somewhere and then vanishes, but nobody sees her vanish, then it’s probably vulgar without witnesses.

As an example, we’ll say that Nix is pulling three types of disappearing act:

• Nix vanishes right in front of people = vulgar with witnesses.

• Nix ducks into the darkness and disappears = coincidental.

• Nix jumps out a window in broad daylight; no one sees Nix on the other side of that window, but if someone did, then they’d see Nix vanish = vulgar without witnesses.

There’s a confounding amount of wiggle-room in such situations, and the Storyteller has the ultimate right to decide where vulgar magick ends and coincidence begins.

Now you see why teleportation devices and magician’s-cab-inet “illusions” have held such high priorities among the Awakened throughout the centuries.