Sorcery: Body Control Spells II

Sorcery: Body Control Spells II

More Body Control spells, some of which are quite unusual. Fumble is a spell that can almost guarantee a failed Dodge or an attack. Hair Growth is both a useful debuff and a helpful spell for balding people. Sensitize makes the subject vulnerable to pain, and Resist Pain makes him immune to pain. Decapitation makes the head of the subject harmlessly come off!

  

Decapitation

Keywords: Buff.

Full Cost: 82 points.

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

Range: 100 yards.

Duration: Permanent until reattached.

The subject’s head comes off! When this spell is cast, the subject’s head (or one of them, if the subject has several) comes free of its body, but continues to live on its own. The subject is not harmed, but the head takes falling damage if it is not carefully removed or caught! The head can talk, see, and control the actions of its body normally. If the head is somehow blinded (put in a bag, for instance), then it will have trouble telling its body where to walk.

The head has your DX and HT, HP/2, and Move and Dodge 0. It can bite at full ST in close combat. If the head is the subject’s seat of consciousness, his body fights as its ally. If it isn’t (for instance, if the subject has No Brain), it fights as an ally of his body.

The head may be reattached to the body by holding them in place for a second. Reattaching the head ends the spell.

Should the body die, the head lives on!

Statistics: Affliction 1 (HT; Advantage, Decapitation, +550%; Extended Duration, Permanent, Until reattached, +150%; Fixed Duration, +0%; Increased 1/2D, 10x, +15%; No Signature, +20%; Sorcery, -15%) [82]. Note: “Decapitation” is Injury Tolerance (Independent Body Parts; Cosmic, Voluntary, +50%; Detachable Head, +15%; Instant Reattachment, +50%; Magical, -10%; Partial, Head Only, -50%) [55].

Fumble

Keywords: Resisted (DX).

Full Cost: 38 points.

Casting Roll: Will.

Range: Unlimited.

Duration: 1 second.

If the subject fails to resist, he takes a -10 penalty to DX for the next DX-based roll he’s going to make during the next second. This spell may be used instantly in response to at attack; in this case the DX penalty applies to the attack roll.

Statistics: Affliction 1 (DX; Attribute Penalty, DX-10, +100%; Based on DX, +20%; Fixed Duration, +0%; Malediction 2, +150%; No Signature, +20%; Reduced Duration, 1/180, -40%; Reflexive, +40%; Sorcery, -15%) [38].

Hair Growth

Keywords: Resisted (HT).

Full Cost: 51 points.

Casting Roll: Will.

Range: Unlimited.

Duration: Permanent until cut or until falls out naturally.

Causes the subject’s hair and nails to grow at a faster rate. If left unchecked, such growth interferes with vision (as hair falls in the eyes; penalty up to -4 to Vision), movement (as the subject trips on his beard; slows Move to x0.6) and handling ability (as nails get in the way; penalty up to -4 to DX). Some bald people appreciate this spell, while it lasts (baldness returns within about a month as the hair falls out naturally). The caster may cause the spell to affect only a particular body part, and may choose the desired length of hair and nails, determining the penalties, if any. Should the hair be cut, it vanishes, so this spell is not very useful when shearing sheep.

Statistics: Affliction 1 (HT; Attribute Penalty, DX-4, +40%; Attribute Penalty, Per-4, +20%; Extended Duration, Permanent, +150%; Fixed Duration, +0%; Malediction 2, +150%; No Signature, +20%; Selective Effect, +20%; Slower Move, x0.6, +20%; Sorcery, ‑15%; Variable, +5%) [51].

Resist Pain

Keywords: Buff.

Full Cost: 39 points.

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

Range: 100 yards.

Duration: 3 minutes.

The subject ignores shock, knockdown, physical stun, physical torture, and painful or stunning afflictions.

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

  

Sensitize

Keywords: Resisted (HT).

Full Cost: 27 points.

Casting Roll: Will.

Range: Unlimited.

Duration: 3 minutes.

The subject temporarily gains the Low Pain Threshold (p. B142) disadvantage.

Statistics: Affliction 1 (HT; Disadvantage, Low Pain Threshold, +10%; Fixed Duration, +0%; Malediction 2, +150%; No Signature, +20%; Sorcery, ‑15%) [27].