User blog comment:NyricTheDeceiver/The Last Hunt/@comment-26322734-20160228000129/@comment-26322734-20160228185512

Oswald clenched his fist. Hunters...servants of the Exarchs, as far as he's concerned. Sleepers' stupidity never ceases to amaze them. And the Free Council wants to learn from the unenlightened. Please. He stayed back for a bit, trying to assess the situation. He couldn't just let the fellow mage die. But they'd be taking a huge risk if they just jumped in.

...Which is why he took a step to mitigate the risk.

He cast two spells: one rote and one improvised.

He cast Fortune's Protection (Gnoisis 6 + Fate 2 = 7 chance of success. -2 mana.) to create shielding around the mage victim, creating a probabilistic shield around him causing the bullets to miss by a higher chance.

The second was on the Hunters' guns. There were three of them, so he cast a Fate spell to make their guns fail and, possibly, explode in their hands. (Gnoisis 6 + Fate 2 - 1 for improvised = 6 chance of success. 2 x 3 = - 6 mana).