Erosion

• For every benefit brought by an Erosion spell, a cost must be paid.
• This is a cost in time, represented by needing to spend a certain number of seconds concentrating.
• This Concentration requirement is listed below each spell.
• With time, even the greatest of mountains may be eroded into dust.

• When travelling in Erosion, once per encounter, you may choose to activate this ability: Concentration costs for your spells are halved (rounded up). Notify a GM if you use this.
• When travelling in Perfection, Concentration costs for your spells are doubled.

• Rituals give weavers the ability to try more freeform magic to have greater or more long-lasting effects than normal spells.
• The ritualist will specify an outcome they hope to attain by peforming the ritual.
• A bead bag is used. By default, the bag contains two white and one black bead.
• Then, the ritualist must draw beads from the bag until they draw a white or black bead.
• A white bead indicates success.
• A black bead indicates failure.

• Weavers with the ritual skill can collaborate to bring about a more complex or powerful effect.
• Each weaver must be performing a ritual of the same level.
• Weavers of opposing planes (Conflict ↔ Connection; Erosion ↔ Perfection) may collaborate at an extra disadvantage of one black bead for each opposition.

20s

• This spell can be used in one of two ways:
• Take WOUND LEG to call WOUND LEG.
• Take WOUND ARM to call WOUND ARM.
• You must take the WOUND call for this spell to work.

10s

• Nominate a target. Stretch a hand towards them. This hand must be free.
• During your concentration, you should roleplay loudly describing how your target with wither with age.
• At the end of your Concentration:
• Call SINGLE.
• Alternatively, you may stretch two free hands towards them to call DOUBLE at the end of the Concentration.

10s

• You may ready a ward.
• The next time you are struck by a melee blow:
  • You must call FEAR against the target.
• You may only ready one of this kind of ward at a time.

5s

• Nominate an ally within sword reach who is bleeding out.
• At the end of your Concentration: call HEAL 1 on yourself.
• This Concentration is broken if you move out of sword reach of the target.

1s

• You may ready a death curse.
• When you are dropped to 0 hits you must call QUINT at the person who dropped you.
• You may only use this ability once per encounter.

varies

• You are able to erode inanimate objects, often corroding them beyond usefulness.
• The time this takes scales with the size of the object.
• You must be in physical contact with the item for the duration.
  • Something you can hold in your hand - 30s
  • Items up to the size of a person - 90s
  • Items up to the size of a room - 5 minutes
  • Items the size of a building - 1 hour
  • Larger structures - 1 day
• Items of particular potency such that those instilled with purpose or which have a long history can take longer (at GM discretion), and may trigger a psychic combat.

25s

• Call STUN.

60s

• You start to erode the memory of an unresistant individual obscuring all that happened since they last slept.
• The memory is not completely gone but everything since they last woke up is hazy.
• They can remember what they did but generally other people appear as grey shadows and they also cannot recall exact locations or details.

10s

• You may ready a ward.
• The next time you take an effect call with a duration:
  • You must reduce the duration of the call by 5s.
• You may only ready one of this kind of ward at a time.

30s

• You may ready a ward.
• The next time you are struck with a melee blow:
  • You must call STUN.
• You may only ready one of this kind of ward at a time.

30s

• You breathe out a necrosis which sweeps into your foes.
• Call ARC WOUND ARM or ARC WOUND LEG.

40s

• Nominate a target you can see.
• Stretch one hand toward them. This hand must be free.
• During your concentration, you should roleplay loudly narrating and announcing your target's imminent demise.
• At the end of the Concentration, call DEC.

• The Weaver's vision is overlayed with the plane to which they are aligned.
• This allows weavers of all types to sense the intrusion of any plane into the waking world.
• You can sense other Weavers and what alignment they are.
• You can sense if someone has a erosion affliction, its severity, and gain some insight into what it does.
• You can see and interact with familiars from your plane.

Req: Plane Sight

• You have formed a bond with a being native to your plane.
• Only you can see and hear your familiar.
• They are a sentient intelligent creatures who spend most of their time about their own business in the plane.
• They cannot normally interact with the material world but they can strengthen your spirit:
• +1 psyche.

• Once per adventure, you can attempt to perform rituals of minor power.

• Whenever you execute someone you may choose to have their body disintegrate along with their belongings.
• There is still a very faint residue left behind which the skilled or paranoid might be able to detect.

• You have experience and knowledge of the industry of death. You have learned the rites and preparations associated with the dead.
• As a Downtime action: you can organise the appropriate ceremonies and rites for the dead.
• This typically involves the body being left to decompose naturally according to the will of Erosion.
• In addition, you can perform an autopsy on a dead body to learn more information about it.
  • This is likely to establish the cause of death, even if this was through non-mundane means.

Pre-req: Familiar

• Once per adventure you may switch places with your familiar.
• You may do this even on your death count if you wish.
• Your spirit flung deep into the plane whilst theirs takes over your body.
• For the rest of the encounter you roleplay as your familiar. There personality is up to you to define but should in some way be shaped by their plane.
• They have the same stats as you, but you regain your hits, per-encounter abilities and resources as though this was the start of a new encounter.
• In addition, any spells which would cause you to “ready a ward” or “ready a curse” that you have purchased are automatically and instantly cast on you at this time (Vision of Ending, Death Curse, Speed the Sands of Time, Death's Shadow).
• At the end of the encounter, you switch places again.

• As a Downtime action: you can perform a ritual of a power level you have mastered.

• You understand the nature of your own plane well.
• If you ever find yourself there you gain all the benefits of the Survivalist skill.

• You familiar is able to give helpful knowledge on a topic upon which it has expertise.
• Pick two subjects which your familiar is an expert in.
• You count as having access to the Knowledge skill for that subject.

Pre-req: Nascent Ritualist

• Once per adventure, you can attempt to perform rituals of moderate power.

Pre-req: Nascent Ritualist

• After drawing a white bead during a ritual casting, you may elect to draw from the bead bag again.
• Doing so increases the power of the ritual by one rank (minor→moderate→major)
• Major rituals gain no benefit from this skill.

• You are never as close to the plane of Erosion as when you witness those closest to you are close to death.
• When you are within 5m of an ally who is bleeding out, on 0 hits, or dead, halve all Concentration requirements (rounding down) for Erosion spells.

Pre-req: Familiar

• Gain one RESIST per encounter.

• You understand the nature of all of the planes and their interaction with the mundane world.

Pre-req: Awakened Ritualist

• Once per adventure, you can attempt to perform rituals of major power.

Pre-req: Master Weaver & Master Ritualist

• Once per adventure, you may, with 5 minutes of concentration, find a point that lets you travel physically to your plane.
• You may, if you wish, take your party with you.
• Alternatively you may attempt to permanently merge the local region with your plane.