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 :• -- <span style="color:#9400D3;">A relatively private space to conduct experiments, meditate, practice your arts, and so on. Again, this privacy is relative; Technocratic operatives rarely have such places to themselves. Unless a group or individual is extremely wealthy and connected, a Technocratic Laboratory is actually owned and managed by the Union, not by the operatives themselves. Thus, your superiors have their eyes on you even within your sanctuary, and its privacy is more of a courtesy than an absolute.
-:• -- A stock of materials you can use – herbs, cauldrons,
+:• -- A stock of materials you can use – herbs, cauldrons, diagrams, elaborate glyphs carved into the floors, martial arts practice weapons, chemistry arrays, telescopes, microscopes, whatever. This stock depends upon the Background rating and allows you constant access to whatever it is (within reason) that you need.
-:• -- A Sanctum’s specially prepared ritual space (or a Lab’s
+:• -- <span style="color:#9400D3;">A Sanctum’s specially prepared ritual space (or a Lab’s experimental space) reduces the difficulty of rituals or experiments performed in that area. That reduction depends on the Background trait’s rating, as shown below.
-:• -- A cloaking effect safeguards the place’s location. Essentially,
+:• -- A cloaking effect safeguards the place’s location. Essentially, the Sanctum/ Laboratory has an Arcane/ Cloaking rating based on the place’s Background rating. You could consider this effect a result of protection wards, concealment fields, an aura of ordinariness... that sort of thing. As long as they stay within the protected area, characters enjoy the protection of this Arcane effect too. (A character who already has the Arcane/ Cloaking Background gets whichever Arcane
-the Sanctum/ Laboratory has an Arcane/ Cloaking rating
+rating is highest – the rating of the Sanctum or the rating of her Arcane rating – not a combination of both.)
-:• -- All Effects cast within the Sanctum are considered
+:• -- <span style="color:#9400D3;">All Effects cast within the Sanctum are considered coincidental magick, so long as those Effects follow the definition of reality within that sanctuary. Cloning would be coincidental within an Iteration X or Progenitor lab; spirit-summoning would be coincidental on a shaman’s sacred ground; a witch could conjure imps or heal gaping wounds within his Sanctum; but the Black Suit busting down the door would find himself at a distinct disadvantage there because...
-:• -- The Effects of rival mages are considered vulgar in your
+:• -- The Effects of rival mages are considered vulgar in your space. That Man in Black’s procedures go against the prevailing reality within that witch’s sanctuary, whereas the witch’s spells run counter to the established reality of a NWO Construct. Rivals who use the same style of magick would be considered equally at home in a Sanctum – two Verbenae, for example, who hate each other’s guts but who employ the same paradigms and tools would both be considered coincidental within the same sanctum; an Etherite, however, would find that her weird science is vulgar within that witch’s sacred ground, even if she was allied with one of the rival Verbenae.
-:• -- Mystic Sanctums have an additional benefit over
+:• -- <span style="color:#9400D3;">Mystic Sanctums have an additional benefit over technological Laboratories: the Gauntlet rating is one level lower in a place that’s been dedicated to magick than it is in a similar place than has not been so dedicated. The Gauntlet in a technomagickal Laboratory, on the other hand – like those used by the Society of Ether or Virtual Adepts – is one level higher than it would be otherwise. And a Technocracy Laboratory has a Gauntlet rating of except with regards to Dimensional Science procedures, whose Effects are considered coincidental in an appropriate Technocratic Lab.
 Because of these many benefits, a Sanctum costs TWO

Bruce: /* Sanctum/ Laboratory $ */

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	:• -- <span style="color:#~~6A5ACD~~;">A relatively private space to conduct experiments, meditate, practice your arts, and so on. Again, this privacy is relative; Technocratic operatives rarely have such places to themselves. Unless a group or individual is extremely wealthy and connected, a Technocratic Laboratory is actually owned and managed by the Union, not by the operatives themselves. Thus, your superiors have their eyes on you even within your sanctuary, and its privacy is more of a courtesy than an absolute.		:• -- <span style="color:#9400D3;">A relatively private space to conduct experiments, meditate, practice your arts, and so on. Again, this privacy is relative; Technocratic operatives rarely have such places to themselves. Unless a group or individual is extremely wealthy and connected, a Technocratic Laboratory is actually owned and managed by the Union, not by the operatives themselves. Thus, your superiors have their eyes on you even within your sanctuary, and its privacy is more of a courtesy than an absolute.

	:• -- A stock of materials you can use – herbs, cauldrons,		:• -- A stock of materials you can use – herbs, cauldrons,

Bruce: /* Sanctum/ Laboratory $ */

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	:• -- <span style="color:#~~8B008B~~;">A relatively private space to conduct experiments, meditate, practice your arts, and so on. Again, this privacy is relative; Technocratic operatives rarely have such places to themselves. Unless a group or individual is extremely wealthy and connected, a Technocratic Laboratory is actually owned and managed by the Union, not by the operatives themselves. Thus, your superiors have their eyes on you even within your sanctuary, and its privacy is more of a courtesy than an absolute.		:• -- <span style="color:#6A5ACD;">A relatively private space to conduct experiments, meditate, practice your arts, and so on. Again, this privacy is relative; Technocratic operatives rarely have such places to themselves. Unless a group or individual is extremely wealthy and connected, a Technocratic Laboratory is actually owned and managed by the Union, not by the operatives themselves. Thus, your superiors have their eyes on you even within your sanctuary, and its privacy is more of a courtesy than an absolute.

	:• -- A stock of materials you can use – herbs, cauldrons,		:• -- A stock of materials you can use – herbs, cauldrons,

Bruce: /* Sanctum/ Laboratory $ */

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	:• -- <span style="color:#~~9932CC~~;">A relatively private space to conduct experiments, meditate, practice your arts, and so on. Again, this privacy is relative; Technocratic operatives rarely have such places to themselves. Unless a group or individual is extremely wealthy and connected, a Technocratic Laboratory is actually owned and managed by the Union, not by the operatives themselves. Thus, your superiors have their eyes on you even within your sanctuary, and its privacy is more of a courtesy than an absolute.		:• -- <span style="color:#8B008B;">A relatively private space to conduct experiments, meditate, practice your arts, and so on. Again, this privacy is relative; Technocratic operatives rarely have such places to themselves. Unless a group or individual is extremely wealthy and connected, a Technocratic Laboratory is actually owned and managed by the Union, not by the operatives themselves. Thus, your superiors have their eyes on you even within your sanctuary, and its privacy is more of a courtesy than an absolute.

	:• -- A stock of materials you can use – herbs, cauldrons,		:• -- A stock of materials you can use – herbs, cauldrons,

Bruce: /* Sanctum/ Laboratory $ */

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	:• -- <span style="color:#9932CC;">A relatively private space to conduct experiments, meditate, practice your arts, and so on. Again, this privacy is relative; Technocratic operatives rarely have such places		:• -- <span style="color:#9932CC;">A relatively private space to conduct experiments, meditate, practice your arts, and so on. Again, this privacy is relative; Technocratic operatives rarely have such places to themselves. Unless a group or individual is extremely wealthy and connected, a Technocratic Laboratory is actually owned and managed by the Union, not by the operatives themselves. Thus, your superiors have their eyes on you even within your sanctuary, and its privacy is more of a courtesy than an absolute.
	to themselves. Unless a group or individual is extremely wealthy and connected, a Technocratic Laboratory is actually owned and managed by the Union, not by the operatives themselves. Thus, your superiors have their
	eyes on you even within your sanctuary, and its privacy is more of a courtesy than an absolute.

	:• -- A stock of materials you can use – herbs, cauldrons,		:• -- A stock of materials you can use – herbs, cauldrons,

Bruce: /* Sanctum/ Laboratory $ */

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	:• -- A relatively private space to conduct experiments,		:• -- <span style="color:#9932CC;">A relatively private space to conduct experiments, meditate, practice your arts, and so on. Again, this privacy is relative; Technocratic operatives rarely have such places
	meditate, practice your arts, and so on. Again, this privacy		to themselves. Unless a group or individual is extremely wealthy and connected, a Technocratic Laboratory is actually owned and managed by the Union, not by the operatives themselves. Thus, your superiors have their
	is relative; Technocratic operatives rarely have such places		eyes on you even within your sanctuary, and its privacy is more of a courtesy than an absolute.
	to themselves. Unless a group or individual is extremely
	wealthy and connected, a Technocratic Laboratory is
	actually owned and managed by the Union, not by the
	operatives themselves. Thus, your superiors have their
	eyes on you even within your sanctuary, and its privacy
	is more of a courtesy than an absolute.

	:• -- A stock of materials you can use – herbs, cauldrons,		:• -- A stock of materials you can use – herbs, cauldrons,

Bruce at 15:45, 25 July 2017

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	== <span style="color:#4B0082;"> ==		== <span style="color:#4B0082;"> Sanctum/ Laboratory $ ==
			You have a place where you can get away from it all – said
			“all” being the consensual reality that hinders your Arts and
			Enlightened Sciences. Oh, this place still exists on the Earthly
			plane, and it’s subject to the Paradox Effect. Still, your Lab or
			Sanctum is a place of power and privacy, set to fulfill your needs
			and allow you to hone your skills in relative safety.

			A Sanctum can range from a small herb-garden with wards
			set against intruders and trees planted to screen the place off from
			casual viewing to small laboratories filled with gleaming scientific
			gear. Martial-arts studios, yoga lofts, sacred groves, basement dens,
			band practice spaces, penthouse suites, photography studios,
			tiny shrines on remote mountaintops – the Sanctum or Lab is
			whatever you want it to be. Essentially, a mage or group secures
			the place, dedicates it to reflect their needs and wishes, and sets
			the reality of that space to suit the owners’ purposes. A Progenitor
			lab might gleam under sterile lights, polished surfaces of steel
			and glass ready to advance the call of Science. A ritual clearing
			might nestle in amongst thick forests, old runes cut into trees
			and stones artfully arranged to emphasize the mystic nature of
			the place. You might have a blood-spattered basement with chairs
			of human bones; a ‘70s-style seduction pad; a bookstore that’s
			open only at night; a hobbit-hole straight out of a Peter Jackson
			Tolkien flick – whatever suits your fancy (and your available
			resources) is within the grasp of this Background Trait.

			In game terms, this Trait provides several benefits:

			:• -- A relatively private space to conduct experiments,
			meditate, practice your arts, and so on. Again, this privacy
			is relative; Technocratic operatives rarely have such places
			to themselves. Unless a group or individual is extremely
			wealthy and connected, a Technocratic Laboratory is
			actually owned and managed by the Union, not by the
			operatives themselves. Thus, your superiors have their
			eyes on you even within your sanctuary, and its privacy
			is more of a courtesy than an absolute.

			:• -- A stock of materials you can use – herbs, cauldrons,
			diagrams, elaborate glyphs carved into the floors, martial
			arts practice weapons, chemistry arrays, telescopes,
			microscopes, whatever. This stock depends upon the
			Background rating and allows you constant access to
			whatever it is (within reason) that you need.

			:• -- A Sanctum’s specially prepared ritual space (or a Lab’s
			experimental space) reduces the difficulty of rituals or
			experiments performed in that area. That reduction
			depends on the Background trait’s rating, as shown below.

			:• -- A cloaking effect safeguards the place’s location. Essentially,
			the Sanctum/ Laboratory has an Arcane/ Cloaking rating
			based on the place’s Background rating. You could consider
			this effect a result of protection wards, concealment fields, an
			aura of ordinariness... that sort of thing. As long as they stay
			within the protected area, characters enjoy the protection
			of this Arcane effect too. (A character who already has the
			Arcane/ Cloaking Background gets whichever Arcane
			rating is highest – the rating of the Sanctum or the rating
			of her Arcane rating – not a combination of both.)

			:• -- All Effects cast within the Sanctum are considered
			coincidental magick, so long as those Effects follow the
			definition of reality within that sanctuary. Cloning would
			be coincidental within an Iteration X or Progenitor lab;
			spirit-summoning would be coincidental on a shaman’s
			sacred ground; a witch could conjure imps or heal
			gaping wounds within his Sanctum; but the Black Suit
			busting down the door would find himself at a distinct
			disadvantage there because...

			:• -- The Effects of rival mages are considered vulgar in your
			space. That Man in Black’s procedures go against the
			prevailing reality within that witch’s sanctuary, whereas
			the witch’s spells run counter to the established reality
			of a NWO Construct. Rivals who use the same style
			of magick would be considered equally at home in a
			Sanctum – two Verbenae, for example, who hate each
			other’s guts but who employ the same paradigms and
			tools would both be considered coincidental within the
			same sanctum; an Etherite, however, would find that her
			weird science is vulgar within that witch’s sacred ground,
			even if she was allied with one of the rival Verbenae.

			:• -- Mystic Sanctums have an additional benefit over
			technological Laboratories: the Gauntlet rating is one
			level lower in a place that’s been dedicated to magick than
			it is in a similar place than has not been so dedicated.
			The Gauntlet in a technomagickal Laboratory, on the
			other hand – like those used by the Society of Ether or
			Virtual Adepts – is one level higher than it would be
			otherwise. And a Technocracy Laboratory has a Gauntlet
			rating of except with regards to Dimensional Science
			procedures, whose Effects are considered coincidental
			in an appropriate Technocratic Lab.

			Because of these many benefits, a Sanctum costs TWO
			Background dots for each dot in the Sanctum. Like the
			'''''Enhancements''''' Background, it offers an unusual amount of value
			per dot. If you’re allowed to purchase Backgrounds with experience
			points, Sanctum costs double the usual Background price.

			Regardless of its nature, this space must be specially
			prepared by the group or mage who uses it, with constant
			maintenance (no less than once per month) to keep the space
			attuned to the people who use it. A Sanctum can be no larger
			than 500 square feet, and most of them are much smaller than
			that... typically a room or two. Because this is personal space, it’s
			often wise to limit the people coming and going throughout your
			Sanctum. Too much traffic can render a Sanctuary mundane,
			as far as reality’s Consensus is concerned.

			:X -- No special space.
			:• -- A tiny stock of goods; no reduction of ritual difficulties, though your magick is coincidental here. One dot in Arcane.
			:•• -- Small stock of goods; ritual difficulties reduced by 1. Two dots in Arcane.
			:••• -- Decent stock of goods; ritual difficulties reduced by 1. Three dots in Arcane.
			:•••• -- Fine stock of materials; ritual difficulties reduced by 2. Four dots in Arcane.
			:••••• -- Excellent stock of materials; ritual difficulties reduced by 2. Five dots in Arcane.

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