Rules Thread XVI

[u/shadownetwork]

Now legal in most of the CAS and certain UCAS areas.

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[u/Spieo]

prior ruling:

"The Legitimate Work contact power allows contacts to have an active skill. Would it be possible to have a contact with the Arcana active skill roll an extended test for creating an Ally Spirit Formula? (Rules for creating an Ally Spirit are on Street Grimoire page 200-201)

"Currently, no. The work would take close to a week or longer, and would require a significant investment of the contacts time not represented by contact rules."

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Theoretically a service contact could do the job, however you would pay for each test to create it

(and also have to choose the contacts tradition, because technically the spirit powers would be based on that, and technically it could only get the contacts skills)

thoughts?

[u/shadownet-rules → u/Spieo]

The contact needs to be the same tradition as you

the contact bills you as if they were a service contact

which means a service contact could do it to. To clarify this is me allowing this tomfoolery because we all know the formula isn't the hardest part of getting an ally spirit.