The wizard wars of Polynesia have left modem kahunas with a large repertoire of deadly rotes; among the most popular of these is the death prayer. The kahuna casts this rote in her sanctum by beating out a martial rhythm on a drum and chanting the reasons why she wants her target to die. The target, meanwhile, begins to sicken almost immediately, and has only a limited time to seek out the kahuna she offended.

System: If the kahuna  is using Life magic, the target will sicken and die over the course of three days following the completion of the rote. While this rote is similar to (if slower than) Effects used by many Tradition mages (Rip the Man Body, et al.), it has the advantage of being coincidental, as the target simply seems to catch something horrible and die. The disease need not be anything dramatic (and suspicious) like Ebola — anthrax, pneumonia, influenza, appendicitis and systemic strep infections are all quite capable of killing a target in three days.

If the kahuna is using the Spirit version of this spell, Banes or disease spirits might afflict the target to death in the same timeframe and in much the same way. Alternatively, the spirits could simply cause a freak accident to befall the target: He might, for instance, trip over a piece of litter and fall into traffic or the pilot light on his stove might go out, filling his apartment, with gas that then explodes, or he might be pulled under the water by a riptide. In any case, spirits can be pretty creative.