Magical Structures: Slowing a Connection

This is a specialty of the trickle-fey.

Imagine that there is already a fast connection between two groups. And imagine that you want to make a slow one.

Normally the slow connection would become immediately dormant—magic won't flow through a slow connection when there's a fast one. Instead of creating a new slow connection in this circumstance, you can convert one or more of the fast connections into slow ones.

Here's how this works.

First, you divide the component into two subgroups. These are the groups you'd want to make the slow connection between. Then you look at the fast connections between them. In order to slow these connections, replacing all of them with slow connections, you'll need to make a Praxis roll that beats the quality of the highest-quality connection. If you fail, then nothing happens.

This is treated exactly as creating a slow connection, but for everyone but the trickle-fey there's a base difficulty of -3. The trickle-fey instead lose their standard bonus of a free success.