Spell:Coin of Distant Vision
Source: Book of the Emerald Circle by Brian Hon/Limited Reagent
Cost: 10m, 1wp
Circle: Emerald
Type: Simple (1 action)
Keywords: Component, Limited (Essence), Scrying
Duration: Until dismissed
The sorcerer spits into her palm and forms in her hand a black ceramic coin inscribed with arcane sigils. She can place the coin where she likes. Thereafter she can concentrate, performing a miscellaneous action to project her consciousness to the coin. While doing so, her body is considered Inactive. As her sense of touch is not projected, she still has awareness of her own body and she can stay standing or upright, and she knows instantly if her body is shaken or injured. The sorcerer may return her consciousness to her own body as a reflexive action.
While her mind is projected to the coin, the sorcerer sees, hears and smells everything as if she stood at the coin's location. If the coin is in a pocket, pouch or container with at least one opening, she can sense the environment both inside and outside that container. She senses only the inside of a container that's completely enclosed, such as a strongbox. As they occupy the coin's vicinity, her senses are identical to her senses in her body, and she may benefit normally from all sense-enhancing Charms.
The sorcerer instinctively knows the distance of her senses from her body and the direction to the coin. She can find the coin just by traveling toward it, concentrating periodically to discover if it has moved. She also can, when the spell is cast, set a trigger event that will possibly alert her. The trigger must be something she could theoretically perceive via the coin, but can otherwise be anything. When the trigger activates, roll (Essence). If successful, the sorcerer is granted a vague perception of the event as if through the arcane coin.
This spell is Limited, thus the sorcerer may have only one Coin of Distant Vision at a time. To create a new one, she must first concentrate a moment to dismiss the spell, reducing her existing coin to dust. Doing so is a miscellaneous action identical to projecting her senses, but it costs five motes of Essence. She may immediately form a new coin by spitting into her hand as a miscellaneous action, paying nothing extra. The coin functions as an arcane link to the sorcerer if someone discovers it, but the dust does not.
Some sorcerers may not want the coin to be quite so obviously a sorcerous production. She (or anyone else) may take efforts to disguise the arcane coin as a more mundane type, like silver or jade. Doing so is a dramatic (Intelligence + Larceny) action that takes about an hour. It is difficulty 3 for silver or gold (for it is not too difficult to fill the inscriptions with lead and plate the coin in precious metal) and difficulty 5 for jade (for it is much more challenging to successfully forge jade). When the spell is dismissed and the coin turns to dust, the disguise materials are left behind.
Component: This spell requires that the sorcerer spit into the palm of her hand, as a somatic component. If she is unable to do so, she cannot cast the spell.
