Tsuchiya Rika wrote:I want to trap my conceal arcana as a trunk with a false bottom (Enchanting - the power is a gizmo similar to Weird Science).
Is there a way to make this work somehow? This is how its worded right now.
Trunk of Deceit (Conceal Arcana; 2 PPE) [Novice]
Range: Special
Duration 1 Hour(1/Hour)
Trapping: This power is integrated within a large trunk. The trunk itself is 4 foot long, 2 foot wide, four foot deep and heavy when empty. It has a false bottom, and when activated, it will conceal the arcane nature of any objects contained within the false bottom at the cost of 2 PPE per item.
This seems pretty straightforward to me. Given the bulky nature of the device (and thus it being somewhat impractical to just carry around all the time), I'd actually give the power a slight bit more flexibility--essentially, you can 'pre-spend' the PPE needed to maintain the power at the time of casting, letting you set it as a time-lock. Doing this turns the casting time into a full-round action. Obviously, opening the false bottom prematurely ends the effect.
The one thing I'm not sure about is... is it necessary? A mundane trunk with an airtight seal (to prevent scent-tracking by dogboys) would actually hide an item from Detect Arcana, anyway (the spell requires you to actually see the item/person being scanned). The actual main benefit of the Conceal Arcana effect then, isn't defeating Detect Arcana--it's blocking attempts to use Divination/Communion to locate the item.