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Title: TIme taken to Disenchant
Post by: spuwdsda on <11-24-13/0903:35>
p307

"With the Disenchanting skill, a focus can be effectively recycled, as a portion of the freed mana can recharge spent reagents. To break a focus down into reagents and totally destroy it, a magician must have touch contact with it. Breaking down a focus requires an Opposed Disenchanting + Magic [Astral] v. target’s Force (+ owner’s Magic if bonded and if the focus isn’t yours) Test. If you succeed in this test, the focus ceases to be.The telesma at the heart of it disintegrates and is unusable.

The mana released from the destruction of the astral construct can be channeled into objects of the magician’s tradition, making them into reagents. Make an Alchemy + Magic [Astral] Test. Every success creates one reagent, up to maximum of one-third of the reagents used in creating the focus (see step 4 of Artificing, p. 306). This process takes a number of hours equal to the target’s Force."

There appears to be two separate processes here. The Disenchanting process and the Alchemy recycling process. The [force x hours] time frame appears to refer to the Alchemy process.

It is not clear how long the Disenchanting test takes. i.e. If it were a complex action it might be use offensively in combat situations.