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[mmmkay]

I generated some questions after reading the current mystic adept related thread and didn't want to derail their topic.

Is it possible for heightened concentration to sustain more than one spell?

The "boilerplate" mystic adept: Get Heightened Concentration (Digital Grimoire). Use it mostly to ignore the Sustaining penalty (obviously, you can find other uses for it too); with magic 6, that's 3 spells. Increase Reflexes, Increase Agility, and Increase Reaction are my recommendations. You can also take Psyche and then sustain 6 spells with no penalty, although your GM will probably want you to start making addiction checks if you do this every run.

"The adept is capable of tuning out a single distraction to her
task at hand. When using this power, the adept can ignore a single
situational negative dice pool modifier of a value up to her Magic
attribute." (digital grimoire)

I think multiple spells are more than a single distraction and 3 or 6 situational negative dicepool modifiers don't get lumped into one modifier associated with sustaining spells.

My next question came up because I was confused about the exact way that Ways reduce the pp required for adept powers.

I'm just not completely sure what "Characters with this Quality may purchase the following powers at a 25 percent discount (rounding as normal), selecting one power for every two Magic points" (Way of the Adept) means.

Does it mean that any of the following powers get a 25% discount, but that you can only select one of those powers every 2 magic points spent and you have to spend your magic points on other powers that are not in "the following powers"? Or does it mean that you have to select at least one power from the list of "following powers" every 2 magic points and for each power in the list of "following powers" you get a discount? Or does it mean that every 2 magic points your powers that are "following powers" get a discount?

I'm just not certain what that last clause means and I searched but it seems no one else was confused by the wording.

Thanks.