Hi,
We had an interesting discussion after our last session. The magi want to provide the covenant with several enchantments -- keeping the place warm and dry, having an intruder alarm, and that sort of thing. We do not have access to Hermetic Architecture.
The enchantment rules state that, for a compound object, you can either prepare the sum of all the components, or the single largest component. Given that the covenant is a collection of rooms made of wood or stone, and assuming that the single most costly component is a huge object of soft stone (that is, a room), then it has a cost of 15 pawns. This can be prepared for enchantment by one of our PCs, who has a Magic Theory of 8.
This would prepare the whole covenant for enchantment, allowing R: Personal, T: Structure effects to affect the whole covenant (e.g. warm to the touch), and intruder alarms at R: Touch, T: Individual (e.g. anyone touching the covenant's threshold is interrogated by an InCo spell). It would also include Shape & Material bonuses for halls, doors, floors, rooms, dead wood, etc.
Can anyone see anything wrong with this according to the rules? I only want opinions on the enchantment - I'd rather that consequences resulting from this sort of enchantment are not discussed (some of my players read this list, and I already have some schemes and plots which result from this. I don't want my players being prompted into safeguarding against these before I employ them!). I just want to know whether it is correct, since it seems like I'm missing something (although I'm more than willing to allow it, legal or not).
Thanks for any input,
Mark