Sorcery: Communication and Empathy Spells III

Sorcery: Communication and Empathy Spells III

More Communication and Empathy spells! Borrow Language lets the caster borrow a language from a subject's mind. Gift of Letters lets the caster temporarily solve literacy problems. Hide Thoughts makes the subject immune to mind reading and mind control. Lend Language makes the subject able to speak a language the caster knows. Truthsayer detects lies.

Borrow Language

Keywords: None.

Full Cost: 13 points.

Casting Roll: None.

Range: 1 mile.

Duration: Indefinite.

You can “tap into” the mind of a sapient subject you can see or hear, and borrow their language.  You gain a language at the subject’s comprehension level or Accented – whichever is less. The subject must know the language in question. If the distance between you and the subject becomes more than a mile, you lose the language!

Statistics: Telepathic Learning 4 (Limited, One Language, -50%; Reduced Time 2, +40%; Sorcery, -15%; Vision- or Hearing-Based, -15%) [13].

    

Gift of Letters

Keywords: Buff.

Full Cost: 28 points.

Casting Roll: None. Use Innate Attack (Gaze) to aim.

Range: 100 yards.

Duration: 30 minutes.

For the duration, the subject is literate in one written language, chosen when you cast the spell. You do not have to be literate in the language – in fact, this is an excellent way to get around that problem! However, the GM is within rights to declare certain languages “secret” or “lost” and thus unavailable unless you first learn the language (to at least Broken) legitimately.

Statistics: Affliction 1 (HT; Advantage, Gift of Letters, +120%; Extended Duration, 10x, +40%; Fixed Duration, +0%; Increased 1/2D, 10x, +15%; No Signature, +20%; Sorcery, -15%) [28]. Note: “Gift of Letters” is Cosmic Power 3 (Limited, One Written Language, -50%; Magical, -10%) [12].

Hide Thoughts

Keywords: Buff.

Full Cost: 39 points.

Casting Roll: None. Use Innate Attack (Gaze) to aim.

Range: 100 yards.

Duration: 3 minutes.

The subject’s mind becomes impossible to read and control.

Statistics: Affliction 1 (HT; Advantage, Hide Thoughts, +270%; Fixed Duration, +0%; Increased 1/2D, 10x, +15%; No Signature, +20%; Sorcery, -15%) [39]. Note: “Hide Thoughts” is Immunity to Mind Control (Magical, -10%) [27].

  

Lend Language

Keywords: Buff.

Full Cost: 31 points.

Casting Roll: None. Use Innate Attack (Gaze) to aim.

Range: 100 yards.

Duration: 30 minutes.

Subject gains a language (sapient creatures only) at the caster’s comprehension level or Accented – whichever is less. The caster must know the language in question.

Statistics: Affliction 1 (HT; Accessibility, Sapient Creatures Only, -10%; Advantage, Lend Language, +160%; Extended Duration, 10x, +40%; Fixed Duration, +0%; Increased 1/2D, 10x, +15%; No Signature, +20%; Sorcery, -15%) [31]. Note: “Lend Language” is Cosmic Power 4 (Limited, One Known Language, -50%; Magical, -10%) [16].

Truthsayer

Keywords: Resisted (IQ).

Full Cost: 8 points.

Casting Roll: Will.

Range: Unlimited.

Duration: Instantaneous.

Perform a Quick Contest of caster's Will versus the subject’s IQ (or Fast-Talk or Acting skill, if appropriate). Success lets the caster pinpoint if a phrase spoken in the last five minutes by the subject was a lie, or if the last statement uttered by the subject was a lie, caster's choice. The caster can voluntarily penalize his casting roll; for each -1 penalty to the roll, he can reach an additional 5 minutes into the past.

Statistics: Unusual Training (Detect Lies) + Detect Lies (H) Per (Based on Will, +20%; No Signature, +20%; Sorcery, -15%; Time Spanning, Past, (Reduced Range, 1/200, 5 minute intervals instead of 24 hour intervals, -70% Short-Range 2, -1 penalty for every 5 minutes back, -20%), +10%) [7].