Exclusive Pentacle Ritual

E/F/M:

This Ritual creates one of the various forms of Exclusive Pentacles in an Area surrounding the caster. The Exclusive Pentacle serves as protection fort. personas Inside, also enabling forth er casting without. interruption by outside forces if a "door for such is provided for by the practitioner. The caster and any associates must remain within the Pentacle at all times, or else the protection or the Pentacle itself, if temporal), is negated. The types of Pentacles which can be created, and their effectiveness. are listed below: MI Pentacles keep out spirits, and at the caster s option, the Pentacle may also serve in addition to keep out: (1) Heka (DR as .listed) with a Resistance strength determined by the caster through additional Heka investment at time of activation. No more heka can be invested than the total of the caster's TRAIT (SM CATEGORY if a Partial Practitioner) plus 2 times STEEP (in this Sub-Area) in points. For details of how a Pentacle's STR is applied in defending against Helm attacks. see Chapter 4 of this book (2) heka (as above) and Partial Physical Manifestations (one DR harder). (3) He. (as above) and Partial and Pull Physical Manifestations (two DRs harder). However, for each doubling of Casting duationTime (time spent preparing and working on the Pentacle) the Difficulty Rating is decreased by one step, up to three steps easier or "Hard" DR. whichever is the lesser (less favorable) modification.