The studious wizards rank among the busiest and most pressed-for-time people in the world. Fewer than 50 percent of all these arcanists can even entertain the notion of holding a day job. How, then, do they pay for necessities like gas and electricity? Caesar's Due, a relatively recent innovation from the great minds of transmuters specialized in fortune magic, is certainly one solution to the problem.
The rote, most often focused through a circle of seven bank cards (which need not be the mage's, or even active,) scribed with Draconic sigils and arranged around a stack of the mage's monthly bills, creates an aetheric matrix , through which a purely conceptual force (electronic money) will move. Next, through the principle of contagion the spell, sifts through bank records and ongoing fiscal calculations, "latching onto" tens of thousands of the fractions of a cent that are normally discarded by electronic transactions. It then shuffles all of this "phantom money" into the mystical pattern within the circle, dispersing it from there to the institutions to which the wizard owes money.
At the end of an hour long ritual, a DC 20 check is made. A result of 20-29 indicated the spell has fully paid off the bills for the month. A result of 10-19 leaves a few dollars in arrears, a result of 30+ may leave credit for a month or more, and anything less than a 10 indicates that the ritual has failed completely.
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