{"id":"mage/power/rote/accessing-tass-or-periapt-quintessence","type":"power","system":"rote","line":"mage","name":"Accessing Tass or Periapt Quintessence","sources":[{"source":"HDYDT","page":46}],"entries":["Under normal circumstances, a mage with Tass, a Periapt, or a Matrix on his person can access that battery’s Quintessence reflexively – that is, without using an additional Effect. If that battery is within reach but not touching the character, he can use a {@sphere Prime|M20} 2 Effect to get the energy. And if the battery is some distance away, he can use {@sphere Correspondence|M20} 2/ {@sphere Prime|M20} 2 in order to draw upon the energy within the Periapt.","The amount of Quintessence your mage can use reflexively depends upon that mage’s Avatar rating; a character with Avatar 3, for instance, can use three points of Quintessence in a single turn without resorting to an additional {@sphere Prime|M20} Effect, while one with Avatar 1 could access only one point per turn.","If your mage uses an additional {@sphere Prime|M20} Effect, he can drain energy (or add it) in the usual successes-based amounts; three successes, for instance, would let him shunt up to six Quintessence into or out of the battery. At {@sphere Prime|M20} 4, he can recharge the Periapt anytime, anyplace, anywhere.","For more rules about {@system Periapts|BoS}, see the optional expanded"],"tags":["hdydt","feat"],"_qa":{"flags":[],"parser":"headed_entries","confidence":0.9,"extracted":"2026-10-12","job":"hdydt-feats"},"level":null,"_links":{"self":"/api/v1/records/mage/power/rote/accessing-tass-or-periapt-quintessence","html":"/records/mage/power/rote/accessing-tass-or-periapt-quintessence","parent":null,"children":"/api/v1/records/mage/power/rote/accessing-tass-or-periapt-quintessence/children","sources":[{"abbr":"HDYDT","page":46,"folio":46,"title":"How Do You DO That?"}]},"_db":{"title":"Accessing Tass or Periapt Quintessence","props":[],"parent_id":null,"level":null,"category":null,"summary":"Under normal circumstances, a mage with Tass, a Periapt, or a Matrix on his person can access that battery’s Quintessence reflexively – that is, without using an additional Effect. If that battery is within reach but","tags":["feat","hdydt"],"children":[]}}