Unweaving (Optional)
By using the most sophisticated form of countermagick,
a mage can unweave another mage's existing Effects. Curses,
gateways, wards, trigger-spells, transformations, and so on can
be untangled by a sufficiently successful unweaving endeavor.
Story-wise, the unweaver draws upon his understanding of
the Spheres, Prime energy, and the methods of enchantment,
then begins a ritual that unravels the original caster's work.
Game-wise, the character needs at least one dot in Prime, plus
at least one dot in each of the Spheres used in the original spell.
Rolling at +1 to the basic countermagick difficulty (again, see
above), the player tries to overcome each of the original caster's
successes.
How Many Successes Does It Take?
If the Effect has been in place for a while – like for a ward,
a gateway, a curse-in-progress, or a living construct that has been
put together through magick – unweaving demands at least 10
successes, possibly 20 or more in the case of major creations or
Great Works. Certain Effects – Gilgul, instant damage, sensory
magicks, and the titanic magicks used to craft Horizon Realms
– cannot be unwoven. Others might have precautions woven
into them, like the Primium armor used in many Technocratic
cyborgs and bio-constructs. In this case, the protection acts as
countermagick to the unweaving, subtracting successes from
the mage who's trying to unweave the original creation. The
moral: it's damn near impossible to unweave a HIT Mark. Still,
a gateway can be closed, a summoning circle destroyed, or an
enchantment broken by successful unweaving.
