By Paul Strack (pfstrack@chgrp.com) (28 June 1995)
Artificers regularly work with relics, including those created during a wraith's death, and those claimed and brought across the shroud by other Artificers. By examining a relic, the wraith can tell if it is a more durable death-relic, or one that was created via Inhabit. The wraith can also tell if the relic is Empowered or Invested, if it has any unusual properties, who the original "creator" of the relic was, etc.
System: The Artificer rolls Perception + Inhabit (difficulty 6). Each success reveals one fact about the relic, starting with the most basic information and moving on to the more complex.
System: The player must roll Wits + Inhabit (difficulty of the local Shroud level). The number of successes gained subtracts from the successes of the living person currently using the object. For example, this power can be used to deflect weapons. The power only blocks a single "use" of the object; further deflection requires additional rolls. The wraith can also "yank" the objects short distances, one inch per success, but in an uncontrolled fashion (chose the direction at random).
System: The wraith must spend 1 Pathos, and make a Wits + Inhabit roll (again, difficulty depending on the level of Shroud). The wraith's successes add to the successes of the user. However, the wraith cannot add more successes than her rating in the Ability needed to use the object properly. Thus, if the wraith had a Firearm skill of 3, she could add no more than three successes to someone using a gun. With this level of power, she can pull an object 1 inch per success, and control the direction.
System: The wraith must spend a number of Pathos depending on the relic's size as described under the Level 4 power, Claim. The wraith makes a Stamina + Inhabit roll (difficulty 7). Each success adds a year to the life of death-relics, but only a month to the life of relics created via Claiming. The roll is botched, the relic is completely destroyed, ceasing to exist.
With three successes, the wraith can fix broken relics as well. If the art is used in this way, the Artificer must also spend Corpus equal to the Pathos needed for the size of the object, to provide the necessary plasm for the repair.