Spirit Bottle and Spirit Recall

[Draven]

Jonny MacBottle has a spirit bottle and hands it to his buddy, Billy Bigfist. Jonny also has a Spirit Recall.

In the middle of a horrible fight, Jonny goes down, and Billy makes a run for it, but gets cut off.

1) Since Billy is in possession of the bottle and is aware of the Recall, can he activate it like any other magic item that he'd be able to use that is attached to Jonny's Spirit?

2) If yes, does the bottle recall, Billy, or both?

 

[Alavatar]

The ritual caster must spend 10 minutes in the casting of this ritual. This ritual will last 5 days only unless extended. This is a General Aspect ritual and will always be the same as the aspect of the ritual caster. This Ritual may be extended. The base duration of this Ritual is 1 year.

This ritual creates a spirit bottle and stores a person's spirit in it. The spirit remains linked to the original body, able to control it and interact through it normally. When this ritual is cast, the target's number of remaining deaths will be set at 12 minus the number of resurrections already suffered. When the spirit regenerates it always does so at its bottle. When the spirit regenerates it may do so without the need to pull from Death's Bag. After the total deaths for the Controlled Spirit Store are taken the spirit is too weak to resurrect and dies permanently.

This ritual may not be transferred by any means and is unnaffected by the transfer enchantment ritual. Other rituals upon the possessor of this ritual may be transferred as normal, including any rituals that extend the duration of this ritual.

The spirit being stored and the spirit's body must be within the Circle of Power at the time of ritual casting. If either leaves the Circle of Power once the ritual casting has begun, a Backlash automatically occurs. At the end of the duration of the Controlled Spirit Store ritual or if a Destroy Magic of the appropriate aspect is cast upon the spirit bottle, the stored spirit will return to its original body without the occurrence of a death and the spirit bottle ceases to exist. If the original body has been destroyed, the spirit must proceed to an Earth Circle and attempt resurrection.

If the body that the spirit controls is killed or destroyed anytime before the duration of the Controlled Spirit Store has ended, the spirit must regenerate at the spirit bottle in direct physical contact with the bottle. The spirit will regenerate as the same race it was when the death was taken. The regeneration process occurs on a three count. Note that the spirit is still weakened by the death after the regeneration as if a resurrection took place. Unlike a resurrection though, the regeneration has no chance of failing unless the spirit is already weakened beyond the ability to resurrect. The spirit does not have the option to resurrect.

The spirit in the bottle may be used in a Spirit Store Ritual. The spirit will be able to control the recipient body according to the dictates of Spirit Store Ritual. The body being controlled by the spirit is immune to life and death effects (Life, Death, Death Poison, but NOT Killing Blows) and spirit rituals or effects unless the body is in contact with the bottle. The bottle may be the target of spirit rituals. Note that since the spirit of the person will now reside in a bottle any spirit linked items will be attached to the bottle. The recipient of this ritual may only utilize spirit linked items if the body is in contact with the bottle. If someone else is in possession of the bottle, they may utilize the item. The bottle formed by the ritual may be any item with minimum dimensions of 1" by 1" by 1" and maximum dimensions of 12" by 12" by 12" the object will have no other function.

When a character regenerates, a death is added to their character card just like resurrection, although the person does not need to pull from the bag to determine if they regenerate as it happens automatically. If this is the spirit's 12th death, they will not be able to resurrect or regenerate and will die their final death. A PC may never buy back any deaths taken while under the effects of a Controlled Spirit Store ritual.

The ritual marshal must approve the bottle phys rep to be supplied by the PC and give it a tag as well as the PC. The Controlled Spirit Store must be entered in the character database.

This sounds like it may need ARC clarification because the RAW don't directly answer the question.

On close inspection of the CSS scroll, it only talks about being able to utilize Spirit Linked items. The pertinent paragraph has been bolded in the quote above. Therefore, I believe the person holding the bottle may only use Spirit Linked items, but no other rituals on the Spirit. Example: Billy would not be able to make use of any Investitures that Jonny may have.

Seth
-SEA/ORE Marshal

 

[obcidian_bandit]

Your answer lies in the Spirit Recall text (bold mine):

The ritual caster must spend 5 minutes in the casting of this ritual. This Ritual will last one year or until used. This is an Earth Aspect ritual. The Circle of Power used for the casting of this ritual must be Permanent or Limited, not created through battle magic. This will allow one person, if that person has a spirit, to later travel from any place to the Circle of Power where the ritual was cast, in spirit form without suffering a death. The bearer of this ritual chooses when to activate it. No possessions may travel with the spirit except spirit linked or spirit locked items and basic clothing. To activate a Spirit Recall, the player recites, "I recall one. I recall two. I recall three." The player then leaves all possessions at the point they activated the ritual. The time required to travel is the same as it would take a spirit to walk the distance. The spirit is unable to observe or affect the world in any manner during travel, as if it were a spirit traveling for resurrection. When appearing in the Circle, the player recites, "I recall one. I recall two. I recall three." If the circle to which a Spirit has an active Recall to is destroyed or expires, the spirit is automatically aware of the loss of this ritual as it disappears upon the destruction or expiration of the circle.

And in this ARC clarification:

The spirit needs to be in a body to be affected, which would mean:
(...)
an "empty" body due to a CSS will not be a valid target, but the body with the bottle in contact would be

• Someone Else cannot use your Spirit Recall, it is on your Spirit, and that is the only thing that goes (plus 'spirit adjacent' items).
• You must be in contact with your Bottle to use your Spirit Recall

Matt
SEA/OR Marshal