Sorcery: Earth Spells IV

Sorcery: Earth Spells IV

Here are two earth spells from GURPS Magic - Death Spells and three earth spells from GURPS Underground Adventures. Break Rock is useful when dismantling rock buildings and digging tunnels. Dust to Dust is an instant death spell. Heart of Stone literally transforms the victim's heart into stone. Seek Landform is a more generalized version of Seek Pass. Trace Labyrinth is useful to not lose your bearings underground.

  

Break Rock

Keywords: None.

Full Cost: 11 points/level.

Casting Roll: IQ.

Range: Touch.

Duration: Instantaneous.

This spell allows you to reduce a volume of rock to smaller pieces. To break rock, you must touch it, take a Concentrate maneuver, and pay 1 FP. Then make an IQ roll. Success means the target is reduced to smaller boulders (averaging one cubic foot and 150 lbs.), rubble suitable for construction, or gravel; only gravel can be shoveled out. The mass of rock will collapse naturally after it breaks. This spell only affects inanimate objects.

The destroyed rock can weigh up to 10 x (level squared) lbs. – 10 lbs. at level 1, 40 lbs. at level 2, 90 lbs. at level 3, and so on.

Statistics: Create Rock (Destruction Only, Variant, +0%; Magical, -10%; Reduced Fatigue Cost 1, +20%) [11/level].

Dust to Dust

Keywords: Resisted (HT).

Full Cost: 70 points.

Casting Roll: Will.

Range: Unlimited.

Duration: Instantaneous.

Turns a living subject and all of that person’s gear into a fine dust that has no hope of reassembly into its old form.

Statistics: Affliction 1 (HT; Accessibility, Only on living creatures, -10%; Cosmic, Leaves no trace of the victim, +50%; Disadvantage, Fragile (Enhanced Unnatural), +100%; Heart Attack, +300%; Malediction 2, +150%; No Signature, +20%; Sorcery, ‑15%) [70].

Heart of Stone

Keywords: Resisted (HT).

Full Cost: 60 points.

Casting Roll: Will.

Range: Unlimited.

Duration: Instantaneous.

This spell turns the subject’s heart to a lump of rock in his chest. If the victim fails to resist, he suffers a heart attack as described on p. B429, except that resuscitation is impossible. Only a Stone to Flesh or Remove Curse spell cast within HT/3 minutes can negate this effect (and if so, the usual FP and HP losses for a heart attack remain).

This spell can affect only living beings who don’t have a variety of Injury Tolerance that includes No Blood or No Vitals.

Statistics: Affliction 1 (HT; Accessibility, Only on living creatures with a heart, -10%; Cosmic, Needs magical healing, +50%; Heart Attack, Variant, +300%; Malediction 2, +150%; No Signature, +20%; Sorcery, ‑15%) [60].

  

Seek Landform

Keywords: Information.

Full Cost: 26 points.

Casting Roll: Per. Use IQ for analysis.

Range: Unlimited.

Duration: Instantaneous.

After casting, the GM rolls against the sorcerer’s Per, with a penalty based on the distance to the nearest specified landform (mountain pass, mouths of a cave, and other terrain features). Use the long-distance modifiers. If successful, the caster knows the exact distance and direction to the landform, and may make a follow-up IQ roll (at no penalty) to learn basic details about it.

Any known landforms may be excluded if the caster mentions them before casting.

Statistics: Detect Landform (Long-Range 1, +50%; Precise, +100%; Selective Effect, +20%; Sorcery, -15%) [26].

  

Trace Labyrinth

Keywords: None.

Full Cost: 3 points.

Casting Roll: None.

Range: Self.

Duration: Indefinite.

As long as the spell is active, it will create a magical trace of the caster’s movement, which everyone can see as a faintly glowing line. After the spell lapses, the trace extends no further, but remains visible as long as the caster is underground, and vanishes immediately when he leaves.

Statistics: Absolute Direction (Accessibility, Only underground, -30%; Sorcery, -15%; Trace Stays, +15%; Visible, -10%) [3].