The Sheathed Locks

by Max Treblecock

Not every company or private individual has the budget to bring in Astral Security for their home or can afford to magically augment themselves via expensive Metamagic Quickening or Anchoring.

Bio-Chrome does it again with the Sheathed Spell lock. A few years ago everybody had Spell locks until the discovery of Offensive Grounding of Spells.

Spell Locks cost a fraction of the cost of Quickening or Anchoring and don’t need to be built specifically for you. Simply put, the Spell Lock is built into a small cyber implant which is then implanted into the relevant area of the body to be effective. The Lock is activated by a nerve impulse.

Best of all, the Spell Lock is housed within a sheath of our revolutionary Null-Weave™—therefore providing perfect astral defence against astral predators.

Game System

Essentially this is an implanted Spell lock (in accordance to all rules governing Foci), the only difference is that it is housed with a Null-Weave™ sheath, which minuses its level from an astral attack’s Power.

Spell Level	Effect	Essence per Level	Avail	ST/In	Cost per Level
1-10	-2 Force/Power*	0.2	2-7d	2	¥90,000

*For an additional ¥50,000 per level, the Null-Sheath™ can be increased to Level 6, +0.2 Essence per additional Level.

The idea of having a Spell lock within your body sounds decidedly dangerous

—Calen

What about the Null-Weave™—does it have similar effects as to its big brother?

—Grimaldy

No, the Weave is too small & localised to disrupt the aura, but having multiple spell locks would start the same effect as the proper Null-Weave™

—Kale