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If a character is knowledgeable enough, she may be able to tap into a caern's power and use it herself. This is commonly called 'opening' a caern. Caerns do not easily give up their energies, and failure to harness such power properly can result in serious damage to the Garou.
System
To open a caern, a character engages in a resisted, extended success test of Wits+Rituals (diff 7). The number of successes needed equals the caern's level. The character is opposed by the caern spirit. The caern spirit uses it's level as a Dice Pool. Its difficulty equals the character's Gnosis, while the number of successes needed equals the Character's Willpower. The first one to garner the necessary number of successes wins. If the character wins she can add the caern's rating to her Dice Pool when performing actions appropriate to that caern's focus. If the character loses, she takes wounds equal to the number of successes by which the caern beat her.
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