Sorcery: Personal Communication & Empathy Spells

Sorcery: Personal Communication & Empathy Spells

The college of Communication and Empathy doesn't have that many buffs, so there's going to be few personal spells.

 
Personal Emotive Block
Keywords: None.
Full Cost: 27 points.
Casting Roll: None.
Range: Self.
Duration: Indefinite.
 
You have Indomitable (p. B60) and Unfazeable (p. 95) while this spell is active.
Statistics: Indomitable (Sorcery, -15%) [13] + Unfazeable (Magical, -10%) [14].
 
Personal Gift of Letters
Keywords: None.
Full Cost: 11 points.
Casting Roll: None.
Range: Self.
Duration: Indefinite.
 
You become literate in one written language, chosen when you cast the spell. 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: Cosmic Power 3 (Limited, One Written Language, -50%; Sorcery, -15%) [11].
 
Personal Gift of Tongues
Keywords: None.
Full Cost: 11 points.
Casting Roll: None.
Range: Self.
Duration: Indefinite.
 
You become able to speak and understand one spoken language, chosen when you cast the spell. 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: Cosmic Power 3 (Limited, One Spoken Language, -50%; Sorcery, -15%) [11].
 
Personal Hide Emotion
Keywords: None.
Full Cost: 27 points.
Casting Roll: None.
Range: Self.
Duration: Indefinite.
 
Your current emotional state becomes impossible to discern. This always includes the following: Body Language, Detect Lies, Criminology, Interrogation, and Psychology on you, as well as some Influence skills when the GM thinks understanding the subject’s emotional state would be important. It also includes uses of Empathy or Sensitive and similar traits.
Statistics: Obscure 10 (Emotions; Defensive, +50%; No Area of Effect, -50%; Sorcery, -15%; Stealthy, +100%) [37].
 
Personal Hide Thoughts
Keywords: None.
Full Cost: 26 points.
Casting Roll: None.
Range: Self.
Duration: Indefinite.
 
Your mind becomes impossible to read and control.
Statistics: Immunity to Mind Control (Sorcery, -15%) [26].
 
Personal Insignificance
Keywords: None.
Full Cost: 18.5 points/level.
Casting Roll: None.
Range: Self.
Duration: Indefinite.
 
It becomes easy for you to blend in. Your face is hard to pick out or remember. You get +5 per level of the spell to Shadowing in crowds, while others have -5 per level of the spell to rolls made to recognize you from a lineup or mug shots – or even to recall meeting you!
Statistics: Obscure 5 (Memory; Defensive, +50%; No Area of Effect, -50%; Sorcery, -15%; Stealthy, +100%) [18.5/level].
 
Personal Presence
Keywords: None.
Full Cost: 18.5 points/level.
Casting Roll: None.
Range: Self.
Duration: Indefinite.
 
It becomes hard for you to blend in. Your face is easy to pick out or remember. You get -5 per level of the spell to Shadowing in crowds, while others have +5 per level of the spell to rolls made to recognize you from a lineup or mug shots – or even to recall meeting you!
Statistics: Obscure 5 (Memory; Defensive, +50%; No Area of Effect, -50%; Reversed, -0%; Sorcery, -15%; Stealthy, +100%) [18.5/level].
 
Personal Tongues
Keywords: None.
Full Cost: 54 or 108 points.
Casting Roll: None.
Range: Self.
Duration: Indefinite.
 
The basic (54-point) version of this spell grants you the ability to speak every language at Accented (or Native, if you have Language Talent), excluding alien languages. The improved (108-point) version of this spell includes alien languages, though you may need special technology (or the Mimicry advantage) to produce the correct sounds.
Statistics: Omnilingual (Cosmic, Universal Translator, +50%; Sorcery, -15%) [54]. The improved version improves Omnilingual to Xeno-Omnilingual [+54]. The advantages may be found in Pyramid #3-54, page 29.