Suspension of Incantation
This ritual binds one spell inside itself with conditions for release, effectively creating a triggered enchantment. Suspension of Incantation can easily create cunning traps or displays of "effortless" power to impress or intimidate later onlookers.
System: The caster carefully chants a long series of binding wards and activation clauses, and her player rolls Wits + Occult (difficulty 6). The difficulty increases by one for every spell the thaumaturge currently has suspended with prior castings of this ritual, to a maximum difficulty of 10. If successful, the caster must immediately invoke one power of any Thaumaturgy path she knows. Her player spends blood and rolls willpower normally to determine the success of the effect, but the magic does not manifest until the stated conditions are met. If the conditions never take place, the magic dissipates after a number of months equal to the successes rolled on the initial casting roll. Path effects can only be bound to specific inanimate objects or locations. Trigger clauses may be as simple or complicated as desired, so long as any observed conditions take place within sight of the ritual's focus. For example, a caster could use delayed Movement of the Mind to enchant a door to throw a spear at anyone who opened it without speaking the correct password. Alternately, the caster could enchant his journal to immolate itself through Creo Ignem (The Lure of Flames) upon his demise. However, if the caster perished out of sight of his journal, the book would not catch fire.
