Sorcery: Necromantic Spells VII

Sorcery: Necromantic Spells VII

There are some necromantic spells scattered outside of GURPS Magic. Soul Prison rips out the victim's soul. Suicide kills the caster instantly. Zombie Vehicle brings a disabled vehicle to unlife. Zombify infects the victim with a disease that turns him into a ravenous zombie.

  

Soul Prison

Keywords: Resisted (Will).

Full Cost: 52 points.

Casting Roll: Will.

Range: Unlimited.

Duration: Instantaneous.

This spell rips out the subject’s soul. It can only affect a target who has both a physical body and a genuine soul to separate from it. A subject who fails to resist collapses in a coma. This works much as described on p. B429, but the victim gets no HT roll to awaken and cannot be roused with the Awaken spell or similar measures – he’s soulless, not asleep. He must roll vs. HT every 12 hours until he finally fails and dies. This spell may be reversed by Remove Curse before the subject dies.

Statistics: Affliction 1 (Will; Accessibility, Only on beings with souls, -5%; Based on Will, +20%; Coma, Variant, +250%; Malediction 2, +150%; No Signature, +20%; Sorcery, ‑15%) [52].

   

Suicide

Keywords: None.

Full Cost: 2 points.

Casting Roll: None.

Range: Self.

Duration: Instantaneous.

The caster instantly kills the caster.

Statistics: Affliction 1 (HT; Accessibility, Self Only, -50%; Backlash, Disadvantage, Fragile (Enhanced Unnatural) and Heart Attack, -400%; Sorcery, ‑15%) [2]. Notes: Fragile (Enhanced Unnatural) means the subject dies if reduced to 0 HP; therefore, since Heart Attack reduces the target’s HP to 0, the target dies.

Zombie Vehicle

Keywords: Buff.

Full Cost: 227 points.

Casting Roll: None. Use DX or unarmed combat skill to hit.

Range: Touch.

Duration: 1 minute.

You can create a zombie vehicle (see GURPS Spaceships 7, p. 24), if it is disabled (0 HP or less), but not completely destroyed (-5xHP or worse). You must touch the wrecked vehicle to affect it. This vehicle recovers 60 HP in 1 minute – if this brings it back above -HP before the duration ends, it becomes a zombie vehicle! But if it’s not enough, or if the initial HT roll fails, it cannot be brought to unlife.

Statistics: Affliction 1 (HT; Accessibility, Only on vehicles, -40%; Advantage, Zombie Vehicle, +2,250%; Fixed Duration, +0%; Melee Attack, Reach C, Cannot Parry, -35%; No Signature, +20%; Nuisance Effect, Brings the vehicle to unlife, -20%; Reduced Duration, 1/3, -10%; Sorcery, -15%) [227]. Notes: “Zombie Vehicle” is Regeneration (Very Fast; Cosmic, Works on disabled vehicles, +50%) [150] + Unkillable 1 (Cosmic, disabled vehicles, +50%) [75]. This version of Cosmic means it only works on disabled vehicles – not damaged functioning vehicles – and gives one try, ever.

Zombify

Keywords: Resisted (HT).

Full Cost: 15 points.

Casting Roll: Will. Use DX or unarmed combat skills to hit.

Range: Touch.

Duration: 10 minutes.

The caster must touch the subject to cast this spell. The subject begins to rot from within, taking 1d-1 toxic damage each minute for 10 minutes. Armor does not protect, but natural DR does. Each second the subject may resist the damage by making a successful HT roll. If the roll is a critical success, then the spell stops. A Cure Disease spell can dispel the spell.

If the subject loses ½ of his HP or more to this spell, he begins experiencing terrible pain (B428) until he is healed above this threshold. Once the subject dies from this spell, he rises as a zombie. The zombie is not subservient to the caster, but can be purchased as an Ally.

Statistics: Toxic Attack 1d-1 (Based on HT, +20%; Cyclic, 1 minute interval, 10 minutes, +200%; Melee Attack, Reach C, Cannot Parry, -35%; Malediction 1, +100%; Nuisance Effect, Rises as a zombie, -10%; Sorcery, ‑15%; Symptoms, ½ HP, Terrible Pain, +120%) [15].