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| ===Rituals=== | ===Rituals=== | ||
| * Rituals give weavers the ability to try more freeform magic to have greater or more long-lasting effects than normal spells. | * 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. | + | * The ritualist will specify an outcome they hope to attain by performing the ritual. |
| - | * A bead bag is used. By default, the bag contains two white and one black bead. | + | * A standard ritual takes 2 minutes to cast. The ritualist may, if they wish, choose instead to cast the ritual instantaneously. This is not without risk and carries a 50% chance of something going seriously wrong with the ritual. |
| - | * Then, the ritualist must draw beads from the bag until they draw a white or black bead. | + | * Ritual cast times are halved in a complimentary plane and doubled in an opposing plane. |
| - | * A white bead indicates success. | + | |
| - | * A black bead indicates failure. | + | |
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| - | ==Collaboration== | + | |
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| - | * 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. | + | |
| ====Spells==== | ====Spells==== | ||
| ===Level 1=== | ===Level 1=== | ||
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| - | ==Cast off Erosion's Shackles== | ||
| - | * Call MASS FIGHT ON! | ||
| ==Essential Nature== | ==Essential Nature== | ||
| - | * You may attempt to divine the essential nature of an object or natural thing. | + | * You may attempt to divine the essential nature of an object or living thing. |
| - | * This requires you to be touching the object but you may then ask the GM what single thing most defines it. | + | * This requires you to touch the object. |
| - | * You are then under the FEAR effect from the object for the rest of the encounter and can never unsee what you have seen. This effect can reoccur at player discretion. | + | * Speak to a GM. This will typically return a very broad general category or categories, e.g. "living", "nonliving", "human", "forest", "ichor", but may produce more information at GM discretion. |
| + | * Coming into this fundamental understanding is not without risk. An entity of power may use this opportunity to reach out to the Weaver, in turn. The abyss also stares back. | ||
| + | * At base, this experience is unsettling. You are under the ROLEPLAY:SHAKEN call for the rest of the encounter and can never unsee what you have seen. This effect can reoccur at player discretion. | ||
| ==Perfidious words== | ==Perfidious words== | ||
| * You summon a chorus from the plane of perfection talking of things just beyond comprehension. | * You summon a chorus from the plane of perfection talking of things just beyond comprehension. | ||
| * You may call STUN against a target as their minds are scoured, as if by cleansing light. | * You may call STUN against a target as their minds are scoured, as if by cleansing light. | ||
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| + | ==Moment's clarity== | ||
| + | * Up to four times per adventure you may call a TIME FREEZE. | ||
| + | * You and the rest of the party can then discuss your plans before timing back in in the same positions. | ||
| + | * There is no strict time limit on this ability, but GMs may impose one at their discretion to keep the adventure moving. | ||
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| ===Level 2=== | ===Level 2=== | ||
| + | ==Cast off Erosion's Shackles== | ||
| + | * For the next 10s you may call FIGHT ON! by melee blow. | ||
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| + | ==Flies in Amber== | ||
| + | * Call MASS [[:nonstandardcalls#stasis|STASIS]]. | ||
| - | ==Comprehension of Peril== | ||
| - | * Ten seconds into your death count you may call HEAL 5 on yourself. | ||
| - | * If you do so, you will forever more remember dying in this particular way with exquisite clarity. | ||
| - | * You may only do this once per encounter. | ||
| ==Glimpse of Perfection== | ==Glimpse of Perfection== | ||
| * You show others a glimpse of the true world beyond their comprehension. | * You show others a glimpse of the true world beyond their comprehension. | ||
| * You may call MASS FEAR. | * You may call MASS FEAR. | ||
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| - | ==Moment's clarity== | ||
| - | * Up to four times per adventure you may call a TIME FREEZE. | ||
| - | * You and the rest of the party can then discuss your plans before timing back in in the same positions. | ||
| - | * There is no strict time limit on this ability, but GMs may impose one at their discretion to keep the adventure moving. | ||
| ===Level 3=== | ===Level 3=== | ||
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| * This can instantly heal an affliction of strong potency or less. | * This can instantly heal an affliction of strong potency or less. | ||
| * The person will be left permanently changed in some minor way, however, as a small part of their humanity is also removed. | * The person will be left permanently changed in some minor way, however, as a small part of their humanity is also removed. | ||
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| ==Perfection of Action== | ==Perfection of Action== | ||
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| ===Level 4=== | ===Level 4=== | ||
| - | ==Flies in Amber== | + | |
| - | * Call MASS [[:nonstandardcalls#stasis|STASIS]]. | + | ==Comprehension of Peril== |
| + | * Ten seconds into your death count you may call HEAL 5 on yourself. | ||
| + | * If you do so, you will forever more remember dying in this particular way with exquisite clarity. | ||
| + | * You may only do this once per encounter. | ||
| ==Cast out of Time's Flow== | ==Cast out of Time's Flow== | ||
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| ==Seclusion== | ==Seclusion== | ||
| - | * Take a [[:nonstandardcalls#stasis|STASIS]] 15 as you transition into perfection; | + | * Take a [[:nonstandardcalls#stasis|STASIS]] as you transition into perfection; |
| * You may then call HEAL 6 on yourself. | * You may then call HEAL 6 on yourself. | ||
| * Upon your return the world and its inhabitants seem discordant and degraded. | * Upon your return the world and its inhabitants seem discordant and degraded. | ||
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| * The Weaver's vision is overlayed with the plane to which they are aligned. | * 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. | * 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 perfection affliction, its severity, and gain some insight into what it does. | ||
| + | * You can see and interact with familiars from your plane. | ||
| ===Familiar=== | ===Familiar=== | ||
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| ===Nascent Ritualist=== | ===Nascent Ritualist=== | ||
| - | * Once per adventure, you can attempt to perform rituals of minor power. | + | * You have become adept at using the powers of the planes for more freeform but minor utility effects. |
| + | * Three times per adventure you may cast rituals to achieve minor effects within the purview of your plane. | ||
| ====Lv 2==== | ====Lv 2==== | ||
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| //Pre-req: Nascent Ritualist// | //Pre-req: Nascent Ritualist// | ||
| * Once per adventure, you can attempt to perform rituals of moderate power. | * Once per adventure, you can attempt to perform rituals of moderate power. | ||
| - | ===Reckless Ritualist=== | ||
| - | //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. | ||
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| ====Lv4==== | ====Lv4==== | ||
| ===Duality of Mind=== | ===Duality of Mind=== | ||
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