Ranulf from MoH now 150 years post apprentice!!!!

[Erik_Tyrrell]

Lunar Watching Ward
ReVi Gen
Range: Touch, Duration: Moon, Target: Individual

This spell functions as watching ward (p 162) with the exceptions that it can hold a spell equal to the level of the watching ward +5, it is not a ritual spell, and the watching ward is dispelled when boththe full and new moon have crossed the sky whether or not the ward's spell(s) has been triggered . Ranulf employs this spell to store a well cast Skin of Wax with Artisano or on a tiny wand that Artisano can hold. He then sets the triggering action to be a specific set of words and gestures that Artisano can perform that specify the target of the spell. Artisano is quite quick (finesse 7 quickness 5) and it isn't unlikely that he could get his spell cast before Ranulf in any given combat.
(Base general, +1 touch, +3 moon)

He'll want this one. With a similar spell bonus from Patient Spell his lab total is 68 he'll take a nocturnal lab schedule for a season to get his lab total to 70 and learn it at level 35
If patient spell doesn't apply, then his Rego Vim total is 64 so he can get a level 32 spell in a season. He'd take diurnal watching ward from earlier in the thread at level 30 so he can still load up level 40 spells in it (and take an extra four days for R&R because he can use the lower lab total).

I'm thinking that this is the same effect at a different duration but there is a triggering aspect to Watching Ward that Patient spell doesn't have. Is this enough of a change to make the effect closely related rather than the same?

While I think that this spell follows the guidelines as intended, if it were my game I might invoke the central rule and make it a bit more difficult to pull off. It seems too easy to collect a few hundred trapped spells to go all off at a specified moment for me to be comfortable with the balance of it.