Custom Blood Magic: Ritual

By combining the mystical ability of quartz to hold information and the power of their blood, this ritual allows the thaumaturge to exactly copy all data in a storage device.  The ritual is performed over a quartz crystal, which must be small enough to fit in the practitioner's hand, yet big enough to scribe symbols on (approximately the size of the thaumaturge’s fist).  Once the ritual has been performed, any kindred may activate the crystal by being close enough to see the target device and spending a trait of blood.  Once activated, all data inside the target device is copied exactly into the crystal.

To complete the ritual, a similar device that is capable of reading the data stored must be touched at the same time as the crystal. This must be done by the thaumaturge who cast the ritual. Thus, information on a computer’s hard drive can only be transferred to a computer, cell phone information requires a cell phone, a book requires a blank journal.  Once this occurs, an exact copy of the original target device is loaded into the new device, assuming at least the same amount of space is present. If the device is a cell phone, then the new cell phone will be wiped of any original data to make room for the mystical data. The recipient hard drive will be wiped as well, though if multiple HD are present, the thaumaturge can select which one.  Because an exact clone of the device is made, anything that required a password on the original device still requires a password on the new device, and any viruses are also transferred to the new device.  Once the data transfer is complete, the crystal crumbles to dust. The crystal also crumbles if the target device cannot hold the data. Magical texts, formula, rituals, etc. will be copied, but rendered unusable magically. What remains will be accurate enough so that what the magical text would have done can be understood, but not precise enough for the effect to occur or to be recast without sufficient research.