(i)To loose a point from a Personality Trait you must spend one week (not one month) in meditation and make a successful Mysticism roll.
(ii)To initiate a Ch'i with the guidance of a master of the appropriate Ch'i you must sacrafice 1 Mysticism point. Without the guidance of such a Ch'i master you must also make a successful Mysticism roll, -after- the sacrafice.
As for DM. I said you need a Worship (Deity) skill to get DM. Wrong, you need a Worship (Deity) Ch'i. To get DM you must first have 20 in Worship (Deity). To get the DM you have to make an opposed Trait roll, a Ch'i roll and expend -lots- of MP or Mysticism. If you spend MP the DM effect occurs -immediately-. I'm not sure what happens if you spend Mysticism. Probably you can recast the spell whenever you want by making an opposed Trait roll and Ch'i roll without spending any MP.
> Also I would adopt some exotic rules in using it to make it feel like it
> isn't standard Divine Magic, I'm working with.
It aint standard Divine Magic. That's why you have to make the Trait and Ch'i rolls. In theist DM the god lends you a bit of their magic. In mystic DM you become one with your god and thereby gain a tiny part of their magic power. Avatarhood is the extreme case. I don't think Ch'i should be easy to get someone with three or four Ch'i is probably the local equivalent of a Rune Lord.
> It would be more difficult for an orthodox mystic to do the Draconic
> Shapechanging that the Inner Circle does, so the Mandarins decry the
> Path magics as False Dragon Powers.
I see POIM as bearing the same resembelance to Dragon Mysticism as
alchemy did to Taoism in the RW China. Whereas the Exarchs seek to become
Dragons spiritual (the Traits), dumb-ass POIM cultists miss the point of
the draconic metaphors by turning themselves into Dragons hsunchen-style.
They are a lasting monument to the sterility of God-Learnerism. I agree
with the suggestion that Charismatic Wisdom was Mysticism under the FDR
but like all GL learning it turned into crap when the magic changed.
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Andrew Behan
ajbehan_at_alf2.tcd.ie
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