Sorcery: Time Spells VI

Sorcery: Time Spells VI

And now it's time for the last time spells. Time Snare causes the victim to repeat his last action indefinitely. Time Walk is something between Backtrack and Flash Forward. Timeheal is a very expensive spell that negates the last received wound.

Time Snare

Keywords: Resisted (Will).

Full Cost: 33 points.

Casting Roll: IQ.

Range: Unlimited.

Duration: 10 seconds.

This spell creates a time loop in a sapient subject’s mind that causes it to repeat this turn’s action indefinitely. If the subject attacked, it attacks the same person in the same exact way, if possible. If it drank a potion, it drinks from the same bottle again (if the bottle is empty, it tries to drink another instance of this potion). Even if something happens to prevent this attempt (the opponent is dead, or someone takes the bottle away), the subject still strives to repeat its last action. You do not have to maintain concentration to control the subject. The victim gets a IQ roll to resist the effect every second. A successful save means that the effect is broken.

You can only affect a subject you can see or touch. To cast this spell, concentrate for one second and then roll a Quick Contest: your IQ vs. your subject’s Will, applying the range penalties to the subject (p. B550). If you lose, you cannot attempt to control that subject again for 24 hours, and he feels a sense of mental coercion emanating from you.

Statistics: Mind Control (Accessibility, Only on sapient beings, -10%; Accessibility, Only to repeat actions, -30%; Fixed Duration, +0%; Independent, +70%; Reduced Duration, 1/10, -20%; Resistible, -30%; Sorcery, -15%) [33].

Time Walk

Keywords: None.

Full Cost: 29 points.

Casting Roll: None.

Range: Self.

Duration: Instantaneous.

While this spell is active, the caster can rewind time for just a moment to try to defend against an attack one more time and take a Move maneuver. Usually this is done to move away from the attacker.

Once per hour of play (or once per day of game time, if you prefer to use game time), the caster may reroll a single active defense die roll twice and take the best of the three rolls, then perform a single Move maneuver! He must declare that he is using this spell immediately after he rolls the dice. Once he or anyone else has made another die roll, it is too late to use Time Walk. If the caster already has used Time Walk in the last hour of play (or day of game time, if you prefer to use game time) or other forms of the Luck advantage, he cannot use it again, until enough time passes, even if he switches to a different spell.

Statistics: Luck (Defensive, Only active defenses, -40%; Link, +10%; Magical, -10%) [9] + Altered Time Rate 1 (Accessibility, Only to perform a Move maneuver, -40%; Link, +10%; Maximum Duration, 1 second, -75%; Reflexive, +40%; Sorcery, -15%) [20].

Timeheal

Keywords: None.

Full Cost: 189 points.

Casting Roll: IQ.

Range: Touch.

Duration: Instantaneous.

This spell pushes the subject’s body back in time, when it was in a better physical state. This heals back damage and all other additional effects of the last wound the subject has received, if the wounding happened within 2 seconds. For example, if the subject took a poisoned arrow two seconds ago, and did not receive any additional wounds afterwards, then this spell will heal all damage dealt by the arrow and negate poisoning. This spell does not work if the last attack dealt more than 20 points of damage.

You may heal any animate subjects, including undead and constructs.

Your casting roll is at -2 if the subject is unconscious. In addition, if used more than once per day on a given subject, you are at a cumulative -3 per successful healing. Failure costs you 1d FP instead of the usual 1 FP!

Statistics: Healing (Accessibility, Only a single wound dealt within last 2 seconds, -55%; Affects Self, +50%; All-or-Nothing, -10%; Capped, 10 FP, -5%; Cosmic, Negated all additional effects, +300%; Injuries Only, -20%; Magical, -10%; Reduced Fatigue Cost 9, +180%; Xenohealing, Anything Animate, +100%) [189].