Entropy Effects

• • • Slay Machine — Just as Entropy can protect a delicate Pattern from failure or decay, so too can chaos induce just such occurrences. By

accelerating the process of inaccuracy and failure, the student of Entropy can render a modern technological device a heap of rubble — or at least

cause it to fail badly enough that its compounded errors make it worthless.

The number of successes scored on the Effect determines how much chaos the mage manages to inject into a given system. For complex

machines, the mage can cause gears to br eak, belts to snap, axles to bend and rods to slip. Electronic components suffer surges or failures.

Computers and calculators get random errors and crashes along with computational problems. Simple material Patterns disperse in an accelerated

rate of decay: Water evaporates, steel rusts, wood rots and copper corrodes. Use the table on page 162 for guidelines on how badly the target is

damaged. A couple of successes would be sufficient to interrupt a personal computer, but 10 or more successes would be necessary to crumble a

large engine to broken pieces.