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giving away these strange goings-on. Whispers of the
Living only works at night. As with Two World Vision,
Whispers of the Living does not allow a ghost to listen in
from Creation into the Underworld.
PYRE SMOKE FORM
Cost: 2 motes
Duration: One turn per success
Type: Simple
Minimum Temperance: 2
Minimum Essence: 2
Prerequisite Charms: None
With Pyre Smoke Form, a ghost may become incorporeal
even in environments where he would ordinarily be
manifest — in the Underworld, for instance, or in a
shadowland during Calibration. Using this Arcanos requires
a Stamina + Temperance roll, and each success
allows one turn of incorporeality.
BREEZE-CARRIED ASH FORM
Cost: 5 motes
Duration: One turn per success
Type: Simple
Minimum Conviction: 2
Minimum Essence: 2
Prerequisite Charms: Pyre Smoke Form
Breeze-Carried Ash Form allows a ghost to fly through
the air at any speed up to his maximum running pace, so
long as he is incorporeal as he does so (this Charm is
primarily effective only in the land of the living). His
player must make a Dexterity + Athletics roll, and each
success allows one turn of flight. If the ghost is above
ground level when the Charm expires, he falls toward the
ground as though solid. He does not take any damage from
the fall, however, because he must be incorporeal to use
this Arcanos.
ASSASSIN’S SUBTLE ESCAPE
Cost: 5 motes, 1 Willpower
Duration: One hour per success
Type: Simple
Minimum Temperance: 2
Minimum Essence: 2
Prerequisite Charms: None
Assassin’s Subtle Escape allows a ghost to temporarily
inhabit a mundane object in the living world. The
ghost simply lays his hand upon the object, and his
physical essence is absorbed into the thing. The ghost’s
presence cannot be detected by mundane means, though
Charms such as Superior Sight Focus (see Exalted: The
Abyssals, p. 205) allow others to detect him. While
inhabiting an object, the ghost cannot be directly harmed.
Damage to the object does not harm the inhabiting
ghost, but the item’s destruction by fire, pulverization or
magic sends the ghost to Lethe. The ghost’s player must
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succeed in a Manipulation + Crafts roll for the ghost to
successfully inhabit the object, and he remains within it
for up to one hour per success or until he decides to leave
— note that once the ghost leaves the object the Charm
expires. The ghost may expend an additional 5 motes and
a point of Willpower in order for his player to reroll his
duration at any time. However, the new duration of the
Charm is measured from the new expenditure and roll
(rather than being tacked onto the end of the existing use
of the Charm).
Assassin’s Subtle Escape does not allow a ghost residing
in an object to animate the object in any fashion. He
is only a passenger. Only one ghost can reside in a given
object at a time.
MOTIVATED SHELL
Cost: 8 motes + 1 Willpower
Duration: One turn per success
Type: Simple
Minimum Valor: 3
Minimum Essence: 2
Prerequisite Charms: Assassin’s Subtle Escape
Motivated Shell can only be activated once a ghost
inhabits an object through Assassin’s Subtle Escape
(above). This Arcanos enables the ghost to control the
motions of an object he inhabits. The motions must be
the sorts of things that the object could ordinarily do or
be made to do by hand. A door swings open or closed; a
lock turns or opens; a cart’s wheels roll on their own. The
ghost’s player rolls Manipulation + Craft, and each success
allows the ghost to control the object’s ordinary
movements for one turn.
RIDE THE MYSTIC VESSEL
Cost: 3 motes
Duration: One turn
Type: Simple
Minimum Valor: 3
Minimum Essence: 2
Prerequisite Charms: Assassin’s Subtle Escape
This Charm allows the ghost to use Assassin’s Subtle
Escape to inhabit an object made of the Five Magical
Materials. Ride the Mystic Vessel does not allow the ghost
to inhabit highly enchanted items (those requiring Artifact
•• or higher) unless those items are made of soulsteel
or jade. Even then, the ghost cannot inhabit an item if it
is Artifact •••• or above or attuned to an Exalt.
Ghosts cannot combine Arcanoi into Combos, so
this Arcanos cannot be activated simultaneously with
Assassin’s Subtle Escape. Instead, the ghost must activate
Ride the Mystic Vessel and then, the following
turn, activate Assassin’s Subtle Escape and enter the
object in question.