Sensory Magic Initiation

[Berengar]

Unfortunately, the HP p.82 Assassin's Bell has its problems.

@"ArM5 p.113f [i

Magical Senses[/i] (underscores mine)"]Intellego spells can grant magical senses to a person. These spells allow the recipient to detect things that he could not normally sense, and they have different targets, corresponding to the kind of sense that the recipient gets. Each magical sense target grants the recipient information through one of his senses. This information is easily distinguished from mundane information coming through the same sense, but it is subject to the same limitations as the mundane sense.
Magical senses must penetrate the Magic Resistance of creatures sensed, as well as the Magic Resistance (if any) of the person granted the sense. Thus, the Penetration of a magical sense should be recorded for future reference. The mundane sense through which the magical sense grants information does not need to penetrate Magic Resistance.

The Assassin's Bell is clearly not a person and as a bell has no mundane senses, so it cannot be the recipient of an ArM5 p.113f Magical Senses effect. Still, HP p.82 Hearing the Tearing is such an effect. So you can either request errata from Atlas Games or ask your troupe for a resolution of this contradiction.

Making Hearing the Tearing an InVi 49 R: Touch, D: Sun, T: Room (Base 5, +1 Touch, +2 Sun, +2 Room, +3 detailed information, +4 constant effect) effect resolves this contradiction, but limits the use of the bell to within rooms. Yes, most of the time it would stand in the lab anyway - but during an expedition caused by a wizard's war it quickly becomes useless, unless your wizard applies a trick like this.

Cheers