Spell-A-Day: Primordial Whispers & Visions

Primordial Whispers & Visions

Common Modifiers

• Limited Range (-1/4)
• Affects Desolidified Any form of Desolidification (+1/2)
• Spell (+0)
• Attack Versus Alternate Defense (Mental Defense; +0)
• Expanded Effect (x2 Characteristics or Powers simultaneously) (+1/2)
• Constant (+1/2)
• Extra Time (Half Phase, -1/4)

Description

The shaper opens a window beyond the void for the target to witness things it was not meant to know. As the target receives a glimpse of this unknowable horror, he is further blessed to hear the faintest of Qliphothic whispers. This experience shatters the target’s grasp of reality as his mind struggles to bring things back into order. Strong minded targets may suffer only fleeting confusion, while weak minded fools may find themselves struggling with even the simplest of activities for a significant period of time.

Targets reduced to INT 0 and PRE 0 will find themselves unable to take any action, and though they may wish to flee they are so feebleminded they do not have any sense of how to do so. Even after a target recovers from the effects of the spell she may be skittish or listless for some time to come.

As long as the shaper continues to spend a Half Phase Attack action and the necessary ESS to maintain the effect, the target will experience primoridal whispers and visions. Points “drained” beyond INT 0 or PRE 0 still need to be recovered before the characteristics increase from 0. For example, an INT 10 and PRE 10 target is drained for 15 points. The characteristics are not reduced below 0, but 5 points will need to be recovered before the target’s INT and PRE begin increasing from 0 and start recovering to their normal values. A shaper can incapacitate a target for a longer period of time in this way.