Contingency Trigger Effects
Rote · Mage
Combining Time 4 with Entropy 3 (for objects or events), 4 (for living things), or 5 (for ideas), the mage can “hang” an Effect until some event, activity, or meme comes to pass. Again, the base number of successes depends upon the scale of the Effect, as seen on the Feats of Time Magick chart. In this case, the duration is “until the circumstance occurs” – until the princess kisses her True Love, until a gray cat crosses the threshold, until the Stones finally break up, and so forth. At that time, the suspended Effect bides its time, hovering in a temporal ripple that other Time mages might notice… and, with countermagick, possibly dispel. (See Temporal Disturbances, above.)
If that Effect is tied to a particular object or living thing, then the mage also needs to tie in Matter or Life to “set” that spell into the Pattern of its intended target.
See also 5
Rotes & Procedures
- Temporal Disturbances mage/power/rote/temporal-disturbances