{"id":"mage/trait/instrument/household-tools","type":"trait","system":"instrument","line":"mage","name":"Household Tools","sources":[{"source":"M20","page":593}],"entries":["Especially among the practical Arts, household tools – pitchforks, hammers, nails, brooms, ovens, horseshoes – hold traditional power as magical implements. The same holds true for technological tools, as well… witness the atavistic terror that’s invoked by a chainsaw.","Because magick so often depends upon directing energy and intentions toward a goal, household tools have all kinds of uses. Six silver dollars might be hammered into place around your property to keep the cops away; a specially brewed floor wash might cleanse tainted Resonance; a Roomba (with or without a shark-dressed cat) could patrol your Chantry-house. And when the spells are done, those tools serve double duty around the home. A witch, after all, can use her broom to fly to the gathering and then sweep the house clean once she comes home again."],"category":"Instrument","_links":{"self":"/api/v1/records/mage/trait/instrument/household-tools","html":"/records/mage/trait/instrument/household-tools","parent":null,"children":"/api/v1/records/mage/trait/instrument/household-tools/children","sources":[{"abbr":"M20","page":593,"folio":593,"title":"Mage: The Ascension 20th Anniversary Edition"}]},"_db":{"title":"Household Tools","props":[["Type","Instrument"]],"parent_id":null,"level":null,"category":"Instrument","summary":"Especially among the practical Arts, household tools – pitchforks, hammers, nails, brooms, ovens, horseshoes – hold traditional power as magical implements. The same holds true for technological tools, as well… witness","tags":[],"children":[]}}