Editing Genius The Transgression/Chapter Two: Character Creation (section)

===Step Eight: The First Wonders===
Sanjula can build wonders from Metaptropi (two dots) or Epikrato (one dot), and she can make up to five attempts.

First, Sanjula needs her illusion-making device: Size 2 (a statue of a woman, stuffed with circuitry). Range 10'. Roll Wits + Expression (6 dice). Costs 1 Mania per five Size points of the illusion.

Kirsten rolls Inspiration + Intelligence + Science +1 (Metaptropi is a favored Axiom) +2 (the group's laboratory has two dots in Equipment) -2 (the wonder's rank). Since Sanjula's Resources is not less than the wonder's rank, there is no additional penalty.

So, that's 1 (Inspiration) + 3 (Sanjula's Intelligence) + 2 (Sanjula's Science Skill) +1 (for Apokalypsi as a favored Axiom) +2 (Laboratory Equipment) -2 (the wonder's rank), for a total of 7 dice.

The first roll fails, but the second comes up as a success, so Sanjula has her illusion-maker after using two of her five rolls. The Storyteller determines a fault. Due to some bad code she borrowed from a shady online source, all the illusions she can create are shockingly ugly. Creating something pretty is beyond this wonder.

Sanjula also wants to build a mechanical controller with Epikrato, a simple wonder that can throw a switch or open or close a door, at range. Size 1. Range 20'. Roll Intelligence + Science -1 (4 dice). Cost 1 Mania to activate. Variables: Fragile, Increased Range (+10')

This calls for another check: 1 (Inspiration) +3 (Intelligence) +2 (Science) +1 (for Epikrato as a favored Axiom) +2 (Laboratory Equipment) -1 (for the wonder's rank). That's a total of 8 dice. This wonder succeeds on the first roll. But it picks up an annoying fault: it only works when plugged in. Kirsten doesn't want this fault, so she rolls again. The next roll also succeeds, and the Storyteller generates a new fault: anyone using the wonder suffers from Narcissism for the duration of the scene (anyone with Narcissism suffers from Megalomania). That works better: Kirsten has Sanjula scrap Switcher #1 so it won't bind up Mania. Switcher #2 she calls the Digital-Analog Reprogrammer. It's a narrow titanium wand covered in delicate "frozen mercury" circuitry; the femtometamorphic field it generates access a semi-Platonic reality of "activation" and causes only moderate brain damage.

Though Sanjula still has time and resources (Kirsten has one roll left), she decides not to build another wonder, since she expects to burn a lot of Mania avoiding injury and she doesn't want to bind too many into wonders until she increases her Inspiration. Sanjula has plans for a shapeshifter mask, a transmuting cauldron, and (when she studies Apokalypsi) a dimensional scanner, hanging in her corner of the laboratory, that will have to wait until later.

Since Sanjula has 10 Mania due to her Inspiration, a rank-1 wonder (the controller), a rank-2 wonder (the illusion machine), and a rank-2 orphan (the crossbow), and she belongs to a foundation (which binds one Mania), she begins the chronicle with four points of usable Mania.