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 ====== Mage ======
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 ===== Class Feature - Spellcasting =====
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 Mages have the ability to cast spells. Using mana and various rites, they can tap into primal magical forces (the exact nature of which opinions differ upon). Before the Upheaval, use of magic was relatively rare, as mana crystals are hard to come by and valuable. Now, however, mages have gained the capacity to generate the mana required for spells from the rite in which they specialise simply through performing the rites that have always been part of them. Current scholarly theory holds that this wells up in the form of “proto” mana, instantly channeled into the spell being invoked. This process is not entirely stable, and controlling the upwelling of mana is a difficult and exhausting process, which can do significant harm to a mage if they overuse it.
-A mage can source the power for a spell in one of two ways: either use up a mana crystal, or generate proto-mana. Mages can possess spells from up to two of the rites - choosing one as their primary, and the other as their secondary. Initially, a mage can stand to generate enough proto-mana for TWO spells per encounter, increased by one for each rank of the proto-mana tolerance skill they possess. Proto-mana generated in this way can usually only be spent to power spells of the priest’s primary rite - in order to cast their secondary rite spells, they require mana crystals (the exception to this is that twice an adventure a mage may use a charge of protomana to cast a secondary rite). Later skills allow mages to cast additional proto-mana powered spells through a dedicated implement, including one from the secondary rite at higher levels.
+A mage can source the power for a spell in one of two ways: either use up a mana crystal, or generate proto-mana. Mages can possess spells from up to two of the rites - choosing one as their primary, and the other as their secondary. Initially, a mage can stand to generate enough proto-mana for TWO spells per encounter, increased by one for each rank of the proto-mana tolerance skill they possess. Proto-mana generated in this way can usually only be spent to power spells of the priest’s primary rite - in order to cast their secondary rite spells, they require mana crystals. Later skills allow mages to cast additional proto-mana powered spells through a dedicated implement, including one from their secondary rites.
 A mage can choose to overdo the generation of mana during an encounter, casting one additional spell, which takes effect as normal UNLESS it is a healing spell targeted at themselves. However, the excess mana scours the mage, and they IMMEDIATELY fall to 0 body hits and start their death count. You cannot do this more than once per encounter, even if healed up.
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 ==== Implement Skills ====
 === Use Implement ===
-You have one item you have dedicated as an arcane implement. If you possess a use weapon skill (including staff), you can dedicate this as your implement. Otherwise, you can use a weapon shorter than 36”, or any other small, portable object (such as a wand, a book, a coin etc.). You have ritually bound ths implement to yourself, and it is very hard for you to lose it. Unless someone knows what they have stolen, and are specifically keeping it away from you, you will always find your implement, good as new, within two encounters if it has been lost or shattered. In addition, you can store spell effects in your implement by performing the appropriate rite. The spell effect can then only be delivered by striking a target with the implement. Only one spell may be stored in an implement at any one time. This allows you to perform the rite ahead of time - for example, a sneaky Rite of Wounding mage could REND themselves to store “Share the Pain” in their dagger implement before meeting with an underworld contact, allowing them to REND a traitor without taking the effect themselves at that time.
+You have one item you have dedicated as an arcane implement. If you possess a use weapon skill (including staff), you can dedicate this as your implement. Otherwise, you can use a weapon shorter than 36” or any other small, portable object (such as a wand, a book, a coin etc.). You have ritually bound this implement to yourself, and it is very hard for you to lose it. Unless someone knows what they have stolen, and are specifically keeping it away from you, you will always find your implement, good as new, within two encounters if it has been lost or shattered. In addition, you can store spell effects in your implement by performing the appropriate rite. The spell effect can then be delivered at a later point, so long as you are in physical contact with your implement. Only one spell may be stored in an implement at any one time. This allows you to perform the rite ahead of time - for example, a sneaky Rite of Wounding mage could REND themselves to store “Share the Pain” in their implement before meeting with an underworld contact, allowing them to REND a traitor without taking the effect themselves at that time.
-Once you make the spell call, the spell is used up, even if the attack is DODGED.
+If you are storing a spell which requires you to directly interact with the target of the spell, you still need to do this. Discuss with the target how you will alert them that you have cast the spell, and what the effects will be once that happens.
+If a spell cast via an implement would normally persist for greater than the length of an encounter, it expires at the end of the encounter, as the magic cast through an implement is slightly more unstable.
+If you can only maintain a limited number of a spell at once (usually one) implement casting does not allow you to bypass this limit.
+=== Implement Experience ===
+You may infuse mana into your implement. Once there it cannot be extracted by any means other than by you using it (e.g., casting a spell, peforming a ritual, enchanting a weapon). You may store up to three mana in this way. Between adventures, so long as you are not using any other distillation skills, you may use your implement to distil up to three mana within it (essentially you may fill your implement's reservoir between adventures if you are not creating crystal mana). If a implement storing mana is ever shattered, the power is released in an explosion, dealing a BLAST DOUBLE for one mana, BLAST QUAD for two and BLAST QUINT for three to whoever is nearest it.
-=== Channeled spell - Primary Rite ===
-Once per encounter, when storing a spell of your primary Rite in your implement, you may generate the mana required within the item rather than yourself, meaning that it does NOT count towards your normal limit.
-=== Store Mana ===
-The mage can infuse mana into their implement, storing up to three charges within it. This has the advantage of making their mana much harder to steal, as only they can re-extract the crystals or use the mana, and means they always have power to hand as long as they are holding their implement. If a implement storing mana is ever shattered, the power is released in an explosion, dealing a BLAST DOUBLE for one mana, BLAST QUAD for two and BLAST QUINT for three to whoever is nearest it.
 === Retrieve implement ===
 The mage can instantly retrieve or repair their implement with a thought. This may require a TIME FREEZE.
-=== Channeled spell - Secondary Rite ===
-Once per encounter, you may generate the mana for a spell of your secondary rite in your implement. This DOES allow you to cast a secondary rite spell without a mana crystal.
+The exception to this is if you have broken an implement as part of a spell, in which case you cannot reform it until the end of the encounter.
-=== Mana Generation ===
-Your implement generates one mana within itself between each adventures.
+=== Mana Simulation ===
+Once per an encounter you may channel protomana into your implement and hold it there for a brief moment, allowing you to cast a secondary rite into your implement without using a mana crystal. It is not possible to hold this mana long enough to use in a ritual.
+=== Rite Focussed Implement ===
+Your implement is particularly attuned to your Rite (either Primary or Secondary) and allows you to manipulate the spells of that rite to a greater degree when casting using your implement. To use this ability your implement must not be a weapon and must be closely related to your Rite; e.g. a piece of a larger item (fracturing), healing or torture equipment (wounding), cup or bowl (consumption), book or quill (scribing), rope or chain (binding). Casting in this manner takes 10 seconds as well as any further restrictions below.
+  * Consumption: You may prepare your reagents within your implement and feed them to another, applying the transformation to the drinker. The effect ends at the end of the encounter or when the effect would usually end, which ever is sooner.
+  * Scribing: By keeping a spell in your implement for 5 encounters without using it, the spell will become "fixed". This means the implement becomes available for storing spells again. The fixed spell does not fade, and can be cast at any time. You may only have one iteration of each spell you know stored in this fashion at once.
+  * Binding: You may pre-cast one of your spells on a target by carefully binding them in your implement, you may do this with either a present participant or victim, or with an appropriate personal item of theirs. The protomana is used at the time of casting, rather than the time of activation. The spell may be activated either by the target or the recipient, but this must be specified at the time of casting. You may never have more than one spell prepared against a specific target.
+  * Wounding: You gain some additional control over spells which require the wounding of another to cast, when you use your implement to create the wound, as described below.
+    * Scar of the Soul: Examination of the scar will give the examiner some insight into why the scar was given.
+    * Trace the flow of Life: Use of this spell only causes 2 points of damage for 4 points of healing.
+    * Scar of the Heart: The target must no longer be willing to die to protect the secret for this spell to succeed.
+    * Excise the Treacherous Heart: Optionally, the target will not remember the application of the spell.
+    * Scar the Unquiet Soul: The dead servant is additionally STRENGTHENED.
+    * Brand the Memory: You may make the target believe more complicated concepts. A set of no more than three inter-related facts.
+  * Fracturing: When scourging yourself, gain an additional spell cast at the same moment which ignores the usual physical item specific requirements (e.g. fresh eyes) to cast.
 === Dragonsoul Implement ===
 Your implement is a conduit to the primal forces of your rite, and will have exciting special effects. Discuss the sort of things you would like it to do with the GM team.
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 === Protomana Tolerance ===
 You can cast one additional spell per encounter using proto-mana before suffering a scouring.
+With all levels of Protomana Tolerance, you may also use this ability to **retire**, as you use your soul is consumed as a vessel to channel magic, granting you 15 additional spells at the cost of your life.
 === Arcane Learnings ===
 You understand the three rites you do not specialise in to the same level as you do your own through the "minor Ritualist" skill.
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 You are capable of fighting with a staff. (n.b. this skill counts as "Use Staff" for the purposes of buying higher level skills from backgrounds or other sources, but does not count as the same skill for the purposes of free picks at character generation).
 === Scholar ===
-You have a studentship at the college. This comes with room, board and an stipend of 15 Acra per adventure.
+You have a studentship at one of the colleges. Other members of the college will tend to react well to you. In addition, you gain ONE of the following benefits (decide when buying this skill) that represents your exact relationship with the college (choosen at purchase):
-=== College Contacts ===
-You have many contacts within the college, who you can call on for information about a variety of academic pursuits.
+  * Loaned up to 2 pieces of standard equipment per adventure
-=== College Requisitions ===
+  * College will investigate a question and provide an answer for you (assuming it is something they can reasonably answer and would trust you with)
+  * Provide you with a small wage (14 Riel per adventure)
+=== College Reputation ===
+You are a notable member of your college. Most members will react well to you, and very low ranking members may even take orders from you. In addition, you gain one of the benefits from Scholar. You can choose to take the same benefit you already have, and in which case you get either a second question, 24r per adventure, 4 standard items or 2 standard items and a superior item.
+=== College Backing===
 You can requisition items from the college to fund your adventuring habit. This allows you to obtain standard items, three potions of class D/C, or a single class C potion or mana crystal.
+You are very well known, trusted and respected in your college. Most members will know your name and respect you. Most members who are not reasonably senior in their own right will either take orders from you or at least respect and consider any opinions you may have. You may choose one of the following additional benefits relating to you relationship with the college (chosen at purchase):
+  * Once per an adventure you may use the power of your college to resolve an issue (that is appropriate to them). This may be making some legal problems go away, staging some sort of distraction, arranging a meeting with someone important, or anything else appropriate to your college.
+  * Loan of a Superior item or use of up to 18r worth of provisions (e.g., alchemy) which may be used in defence of your organisations interests but otherwise returned.
+  * 1 mana crystal per adventure
 === College Professor ===
-You are a professor of the college. You have considerable influence within it, and can also requisition class B potions or more esoteric items.
+You are a professor of the college. You have considerable influence within it, and can borrow as much superior equipment from them as you like, and receive 1 mana crystal per adventure.
 === Light Armour Swiftness ===
 Gain a dodge while wearing light armour.
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 === Mana Sense ===
 You can feel the presence of nearby caches of mana, and can track down hidden stocks of it (or focus for a few seconds and work out whether someone has some in their pockets.
-=== Mana Crafting ===
-You can temporarily craft items out of mana. You can spend one mana crystal to craft a superior item of any type you’ve seen (the magical power infused in it will iron out any kinks caused by inexpertise). However, this will crumble to dust at the end of the encounter.
 === Minor Ritual Caster ===
-With preparation time (at least five minutes), a mage can create minor effect within the purview of their primary rite, or their secondary rite is they use a mana crystal. These effects will not be directly combat effective, but can be used for things like transferring or gathering information, destroying or forging evidence, altering items slightly and other similar effects.
+With preparation time (at least five minutes), a mage can create minor effect within the purview of their primary  (or secondary) rite if they use a mana crystal. These effects will not be directly combat effective, but can be used for things like transferring or gathering information, destroying or forging evidence, altering items slightly and other similar effects.
 This also grants you the beginnings of scholarly insight into your two rites, and you will be able to understand basic arcane effects you encounter from them.
-=== Master Mana Crafting ===
-You can create Master Crafted items from mana. These are just as temporary as lower level ones.
 === Ritual Caster ===
 By spending quantities of time and mana, the caster can achieve effects within the purview of their rites of greater magnitudes than with normal spells. Discuss with a GM beforehand what you are intending to achieve first. At this level, up to three mana crystals can be infused into a single ritual. Multiple mages of different rites can work together to create effects that combine their purviews.
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 === Master Ritualist ===
 You can infuse up to five mana crystals into rituals. At this level, you can achieve world shaking effects.
-=== Arcane Armour ===
-You can infuse a mana crystal into a suit of armour, shielding it temporarily against magic. This takes ten seconds of appropriate roleplaying to set up, after which the wearer of the armour can RESIST the next spell targeted at them.
+You may use this ability to **retire**.  By pouring your very soul into the ritual you can increase the effect of the ritual immensely to the power of adding approximately 15 mana crystals to the ritual.  This effect can be made greater with multiple mages using this ability in tandem.
-=== Mana Absorption ===
-You can consume mana to temporarily heal yourself in a pinch. Devouring a mana crystal will restore four hit points. However, at the end of the encounter, this will burn away, and you take a THROUGH QUINT.
 === Tough ===
 You have +2 body hits.
+=== Enchant Weapon ===
+By spending 10 seconds taking the energy contained with a mana crystal and imbuing it into a weapon, unusual abilities can be bestowed upon the weapon. Mechanically the weapon gains 10 uses of ONE of the following calls (Rend/Strikedown/Wound10/Disarm/Entangle) or 3 uses of one of the following calls (Blind10/BlastSingle/Fear/Shatter). Which call is added to the weapon must be decided by the caster when enchanting the weapon, and a weapon cannot be under more than one enchantment at a time. The enchantment will last until all charges have been used up.
+=== Mana Absorbtion ===
+By spending 10 seconds carefully absorbing the energies within a mana crystal, you may ease the ravages that casting using protomana have enacted on your body, allowing you to cast a further two times before scourging yourself (mechanically replaces two lost protomana). This is quite painful and you are mechanically under the effects of a REND while doing this.
+=== Enchant Armour ===
+By spending 10 seconds taking the energy contained with a mana crystal and imbuing it into some armour, unusual abilities may be bestowed upon the armour. The armour gains 3 special resists. These resists can be used to resist the full effect of **any** call (you will take neither the damage nor the effect component of a call that you choose to resist) and will remain immune to the effect part of that call for the rest of the encounter. A suit of armour can never be under the effect of more than 1 enchantment and the enchantment only ends when the last resist has been used.
 ===== Spells =====
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 Wrap a piece of ribbon around your mouth. As long as it remains, neither you nor a target of your choice can make any noise (even through other physical actions). The target can still use abilities that would normally require speaking (such as using priest miracles), but no one can hear the words coming from their mouths.
 == Bound in Service ==
-Rebind the grip or any appropriate wrapping on a weapon or item. That item is bound to your service, and cannot be taken from your possession without your consent (including by a DISARM, to which you may call IMMUNE).
+Rebind the grip or any appropriate wrapping on a weapon or item. That item is bound to your service, and cannot be taken from your possession without your consent (including by a DISARM, to which you may call IMMUNE). This lasts until you cast this spell on another item.
 == Bind Limb ==
-Wrap a short length of rope around one of your arms or legs. This bursts forth, wrapping around the arm and making it unusuable. The same happens to a single target in range. You may end the binding at any time, at which point it will also leave the target
+Wrap a short length of rope around one of your arms or legs. This bursts forth, wrapping around the arm and making it unusuable. The same happens to a single target in range. You may call WOUND 30 (limb), taking a wound 30 on the same limb).
 === Level 3 ===
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 === Level 4 ===
 == Master’s Punishment ==
-Caster selects a single target by carefully preparing a representation of them (10 seconds obvious preparation). Caster gains the ability to call ZERO REND against the target every 30 seconds for the rest of the encounter. You may only maintain one instance of this spell at once
+Caster selects a single target by carefully preparing a representation of them (10 seconds obvious preparation). Caster gains the ability to call ZERO REND against the target every 30 seconds for the rest of the encounter. You may only maintain one instance of this spell at once, and need to hold the voodoo doll in a hand to maintain it.
 == Hold back the Flow of Life ==
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 === Level 5 ===
 == Puppetteer ==
-Caster selects a single target by carefully preparing a representation of them (10 seconds obvious preparation). Target has to perform physical actions commanded by the caster (e.g., attack your comrades), the target is aware of the effect and is not compelled to keep quiet about the effect. Very strong monsters are instead WEAKENED for the duration of the effect, and are not affected by STRENGTHEN calls while it continues. You can only maintain one instance of this spell at once.
+Caster selects a single target by carefully preparing a representation of them (10 seconds obvious preparation). Target has to perform physical actions commanded by the caster (e.g., attack your comrades), the target is aware of the effect and is not compelled to keep quiet about the effect. Very strong monsters are instead WEAKENED for the duration of the effect, and are not affected by STRENGTHEN calls while it continues. Directing the target requires conscious effort, and thus you can only maintain one instance of this spell at once, and need to hold the voodoo doll in a hand to maintain it.
 == Bound to the Cause ==
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 == Scar of the Heart ==
-You must spend 30 seconds phys-repping the carving of a bloody pattern into the target’s chest. Upon completion the target is compelled to tell you ONE secret that the target would die to protect. If the target has no such secret, the carved pattern immediately heals. This rite can only be successfully performed upon an individual ONCE. The scars produced by successful application of the rite will interfere with any future casting by any mage.
+You must spend 30 seconds phys-repping the carving of a bloody pattern into the target’s chest. Upon completion the target is compelled to tell you ONE secret that the target would die to protect (you may specify what you want to know, but will only be successful if the target would die to protect the secret). If the target has no such secret, the carved pattern immediately heals. This rite can only be successfully performed upon an individual ONCE. The scars produced by successful application of the rite will interfere with any future casting by any mage.
 == Excise the Treacherous Heart ==
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 == Fault of Life ==
-The caster is aware of the weakest point of a person’s very life. Usually this is still too strong to fracture. But if the target is already on their death count, the caster may rend apart their mortal existence. With this spell, you can execute someone at sight range by appropriate roleplaying of hacking with a weapon at the air. To weaken another’s connection to their mortality, you must crack your own - the next time you go onto your death count this adventure, start it at +15 seconds.
+The caster is aware of the weakest point of a person’s very life. Usually this is still too strong to fracture. But if the target is already on their death count, the caster may rend apart their mortal existence. With this spell, you can execute someone at sight range by appropriate roleplaying of hacking with a weapon at the air (call <name> EXECUTE). To weaken another’s connection to their mortality, you must crack your own - the next time you go onto your death count this adventure, start it at +15 seconds.
 == Fault of Footing ==
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 == Fault of Power ==
-The caster must break a component significant to a rite of magic or a particular deity. The caster may then resist the next three spells from that particular form of magic or worship.
+The caster must break a component significant to a rite of magic, a particular deity, or other power. The caster then gains three resists, which can be used against spells or effects from that particular form of power.
+It will cost 27 Riel to gain an artefact of sufficient power between adventures, and you may acquire a maximum of 2 between adventures in this way.  Please inform the GM of the total number of religious artefacts you have acquired this way at the beginning of each adventure.  This value should be used as a guide for GMs when determining if an artefact counts for the purposes of this spell.
 == Fault of Memory ==
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 == Fault of Temperance ==
-The caster must break a vow of temperance (regarding food) that they have adhered to for at least a week. Many casters choose alcohol or chocolate. An intelligent target is overwhelmed by feelings of their own weakness, and may not make calls and may only defend with one hand for one minute (as if they were under the effects of a REND for that duration).
+The caster must break a vow of temperance (regarding food) that they have adhered to for at least a week. Many casters choose alcohol or chocolate. An intelligent target is overwhelmed by feelings of their own weakness, and may not make calls and may only defend with one hand for one minute (call SIXTY SECOND REND).
 == Faultlines  ==
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 == Fault of Existence ==
-The caster can see all the points tying an individual to this world. By slowly ritually cutting apart an item significant to the target over sixty seconds while in sight of the them, the caster can remove the bonds linking the target to existence. The target then fractures into nothingness and is utterly destroyed (Cannot be resurrected by any means). While this ritual is taking place the target is aware of their very existence being scrutinised by the caster and will typically react in a violent manner. If the target escapes during the ritual then it cannot be completed.
+Every being which exists has connections which tie them to existence. Having reached the heights of Fracturing, you have an intuitive sense of these ties and how one would theoretically shatter them. Of course the threads that tie most creatures to reality are entirely too strong to shatter without severe repercussions (see retirement option), but it is still possible to strike them in such a way that it feels as if they are being severed. Equally, occasionally you might come across creatures who are genuinely so loosely tied to reality that you really can sever those connections with ease.
-This spell cannot be resisted.
+To cast this spell requires the shattering of the caster's own life force, with each casting of the spell reducing their death count by 20 seconds for the duration of the encounter in which they cast the spell, if the mage's death count has dropped to 0 they may still cast this spell one more time at the cost of taking a SLAY (but would be advised to use the retirement option instead). If the mage's life is protected by some sort of supernatural effect (for example, the Aura of the Splintered Man) then that protection is suspended for the rest of the encounter and the mage suffers the personal negative consequences of both effects (in the case of the Splintered Man, a single use of this spell would mean that if dropped to 0 hits they would bleed to death over the course of 40 seconds, but would still suffer the PARTY SINGLE and PARTY REND calls from other players bleeding to death or being executed).
-To perform this spell the caster requires an object significant to the target, and to fracture the bonds linking a creature’s very existence the caster must also fracture part of their own power, never again having the ability to cast their most powerful spells. (No more lv5 spells).
+Additionally, the mage may experience (at player discretion) one ofthe following roleplaying effects (based on the mage's secondary rite) after using the skill:
+  * The mage feels distant and spacey. As if they are a long way away from the events around them. (Consumption/Wounding)
+  * The mage has a sense of loss, and that someone is keeping something important from them. (Scribing/No Secondary)
+  * The mage has the certain understanding that others do not have the right to make decisions. (Binding/No Secondary)
+This spell has two modes of operation, depending on how strongly tied an individual is tied to the world. You can inherently tell the difference (ask the GMs which applies). It is very rare to find an entity which is weakly tied to the world.
+__Standard Use:__ Having cast this spell against a target, their own life will pulse and their connection to their body will briefly weaken. Call WOUND 10 ALL LIMBS.
+__Weakly Tied Use:__ Having cast this spell against a target, you may call direct damage at them until they stop moving (a QUAD every 5 seconds). Once they have stopped moving you may call EXECUTE, completely removing them from the world (cannot be resisted or prevented).
+Mages who understand the intricacies of this spell might get an unusual experience should they ever interact with a Dragon. If you have had this opportunity, please speak to the GMs about your experience.
+__This spell can also be used as a retirement option__
+The caster can see all the points tying an individual to this world. The caster simply reaches out and starts to sever each and every one in sequence. The target then fractures into nothingness and is utterly destroyed (Cannot be resurrected by any means). The process is not without its drawbacks, the act of shattering an entities links to the world requires you to shatter your own, a process which happens inside your mind, but none the less severs your own connections to the world. It takes a full 30 seconds to complete the severing, and while this ritual is taking place the target is aware of their very existence being scrutinised and destroyed by the caster and will typically react in a violent manner (please call a time freeze when you start so that a GM can brief the target appropriately). If the target escapes during the ritual then it cannot be completed. If successfully, then both the target and the caster will vanish from the world, the caster typically lasting long enough to say a few words to those left behind.
 == Crack the Fabric ==
 The caster raises their implement or their arms above their head, and sends a colossal flare of power into the sky. Faint cracks become visible fleetingly, and //something// will come through. Exactly what is rumoured to vary each time, with stories of gods brought to heel and the Dragons themselves consenting to give audience through the use of this power. Different quantities of mana/protomana can be used with this spell, and will summon something of commensurate power. Whether or not its on your side is another matter entirely. Casting this spell requires tremendous strength of will on the part of the mage, and can only be used once per adventure.
 ==== Rite of Consumption ====
 Transformation, Purification, Healing. Consumption Rites involve consuming reagents.
+As the rite of Consumption deals principally with transformation, it is often observed that the process of utilising the rite brings about dramatic changes to the personality of one who uses it. Some of this stems from the addictive nature of the reagents, some from the startlingly different ways of seeing and thinking available in some forms, and some simply from the profoundly transformation nature of the magic. The extend of this influence is of course moderated by the initial nature of the user, but some changes are always observed.
+Mechanically, several spells have role-play guidelines for overuse of a spell, in this case overuse is more than once or twice per adventure, although initially the effects are likely to be very slight, growing with each adventure of overuse. The extent you wish to follow these guidelines is left to the player's discretion, but even the strongest of minds is likely to partially succumb to a spell's effects given enough usage.
 === Level 1 ===
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 == Purification of the Self  ==
 The caster drinks a sip of distilled water. This cleanses them of moderate strength poisons and most diseases. It also removes WEAKEN from the user.
+You may also reflexively call RESIST if you are hit with a POISON, so long as you then cast this spell immediately after. This will protect you from any immediate effects of the poison from this strike. It will usually protect you from any long term effects of the poison from this and future strikes, although you should check with the GM to be certain. To protect yourself from immediate effects (call RESIST) of any future strikes you would need to cast the spell for each occasion you were struck.
 == Efficient Consumption ==
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 == Dissolution of the Form ==
-After consuming this reagent the caster’s body becomes somewhat gelatinous, allowing the caster to force their way through gaps only inches wide. The form lasts for 5 minutes. In this form the caster cannot wear armour, cannot wield a weapon, takes all damage against them as a DOUBLE, and cannot bleed to death. In this form they are immune to non-magical healing. If they are dropped to 0HP in this form, then when they return to normal they will be on 1HP. The form is relaxing to be in, and consumption of this reagent a second time within 24hrs will result in an addiction forming.
+After consuming this reagent the caster’s body becomes somewhat gelatinous, allowing the caster to force their way through gaps only inches wide. The form lasts for 5 minutes. In this form the caster cannot wear armour, cannot wield a weapon, takes all damage against them as a DOUBLE, and cannot bleed to death. In this form they are immune to non-magical healing. If they are dropped to 0HP in this form, then when they return to normal they will be on 1HP.
+**Roleplay Effects:** The form is relaxing to be in as everyday aches and pains simply vanish. Overuse of this spell is likely to result in the caster preferring this form over their own body, as they become steadily more aware of slight aches and twinges in joints and muscles which they simply hadn't noticed before. This can become some extreme that some mages have sought ways to permanently take on this form.
 == Acidic Transformation==
-The caster drinks a vial of mild acid. This deals them a point of damage for each time they’ve already used it this adventure. For the rest of the encounter, you may call a SINGLE against anyone who deals you flesh damage.
+The caster drinks a vial of mild acid. This is extremely painful and you should take 3 seconds of the rend effect. For the rest of the encounter, you may call a SINGLE against anyone who deals you flesh damage via melee blow.
+**Roleplay Effects:** Overuse of this spell can result in serious and long term gastric issues, with many practitioners being unable to digest food more rich than bread and cheese while others report extreme allergies to common foodstuffs.
 == Taste of Knowledge ==
 The caster consumes a fragment of pretty much anything. They gain knowledge about that thing at GM discretion.
+**Roleplay Effects:** It is rare to witness mages who have had the opportunity to overuse this spell. However, when overused casters report a strange effect: that written symbols seem to develop flavour. In extreme cases, mages have been found happily devouring their own books while researching, often reporting they had not even realised what they were doing.
 === Level 3 ===
 == Dragon’s Fire ==
-After consuming a particularly volatile reagent the caster may call MASS ZERO REND once, as they release a stream of flame from their mouth like the dragons of legend. This reagent will leave the caster feeling mildly ill, and if consumed a second time within 24 hours will leave the caster Weakened. Consumption of the reagent a third time within 24 hours will result in a coma at the end of the encounter.
+After consuming a particularly volatile reagent the caster may call ZERO REND at a target within 5 meters, as they release a stream of flame from their mouth like the dragons of legend.
+**Roleplay Effects:** This reagent will leave the caster feeling mildly ill, an effect which tends to get progressively worse each time the reagent is consumed. Regular usage will tend to result in shallow breathing and increased body temperature, leading to the impression they have a constant fever.
 == Arthroid Form ==
-This reagent is made from the larva of particular breed of Wasp, and is highly palatable. Upon consumption the caster loses 2HP but gains 6 points of armour as chitinous plates form from their skin. The armour is Natural and if used in conjunction with Acid Transformation the armour points count as body points for the purposes of establishing whether your opponent is dealt acid damage. The armour is lost after standard armour but before HP. The armour benefits from magical effects that would repair armour as well as magical effects that would heal HP, but is unaffected by mundane armour repair, medicine, or alchemy. At the end of the encounter the armour is lost as the plates drop off. Over use of this reagent can cause thickening of the skin.
+This reagent is made from the larva of particular breed of Wasp, and is highly palatable. Upon consumption the caster loses 2HP but gains 6 points of armour as chitinous plates form from their skin. The armour is Natural and if used in conjunction with Acid Transformation the armour points count as body points for the purposes of establishing whether your opponent is dealt acid damage. The armour is lost after standard armour but before HP. The armour benefits from magical effects that would repair armour as well as magical effects that would heal HP, but is unaffected by mundane armour repair, medicine, or alchemy. At the end of the encounter the armour is lost as the plates drop off.
+**Roleplay Effects:** Over use of this reagent can cause irritation of the skin, eventually leading to serious patches of dermatitis. Another side effect is loss of sensation on parts of the body (usually the hands), which can lead to the caster accidentally injuring themselves as they pick up scalding pots or similar without noticing.
 == Fortified Consumption ==
-Having performed this rite, the caster becomes capable of superhuman feats of consumption. It takes approximately 30 seconds for your internal digestion and jaw to re-align itself. For the next 20 minutes biting through a wall and drinking lava is within their capability. The caster is immune to all but the most powerful effects of what they consume within the next 20 minutes. Most poisons become harmless and diseased food is perfectly nutritional. The negative effects of reagents can be assumed to not apply when drinking them under the effects of Fortified Consumption, unless explicitly stated that they do. The consumer should still expect severe indigestion. Over indulgence in this reagent can result in long term confusion as to what is safe (or even desirable) to eat.
+Having performed this rite, the caster becomes capable of superhuman feats of consumption. It takes approximately 30 seconds for your internal digestion and jaw to re-align itself. For the next 20 minutes biting through a wall and drinking lava is within their capability. The caster is immune to all but the most powerful effects of what they consume within the next 20 minutes. Most poisons become harmless and diseased food is perfectly nutritional. The negative effects of reagents can be assumed to not apply when drinking them under the effects of Fortified Consumption, unless explicitly stated that they do.
+**Roleplay Effects:** This spell is responsible for one of the enduring perceptions of what it is to be a consumption mage. Long term use of this spell tends to effect the mage's perception of what is desirable to eat, with most mages picking up at least one or two weird eating habits (human hair, live mice, and candle wax being some of the more pleasant examples). In the most extreme cases the mages starts to desire things which are actively harmful to them, usually passing away shortly after.
 === Level 4 ===
 == Infusion ==
-The caster consumes an alchemical paste or a poison. Seconds later, they start exuding it from their skin, and it covers any weaponry they use. Every ten seconds for the rest of the encounter they may add the appropriate call for that paste on a weapon attack. They can only be under the effect of this spell for one paste at once. Yes you can use it with the grenade one, no it’s not a good idea.
+The caster consumes an alchemical potion that provides a standard call effect, or a poison. Seconds later, they start exuding it from their skin and it covers any weaponry they use. You may gain the effects of the potion three times, on your next three blows.
+Effects not covered by a standard call may also be applied, but require 10 seconds roleplaying physical contact with an unresisting character, during which time you may explain what effects you have applied)
+**Roleplay Effects:** Use of this spell tends to result in emotional changes in the caster. The exact changes seem to be specific to the combination of caster and potion (i.e., a mage will have a different emotional reaction to a restoration of the flesh potion and a steel rot potion , and two different mages will have different reactions to a restoration of the flesh potion). Usually it is only a matter of time before a mage hits upon a potion which causes some sort of pleasant side-effect, often getting hooked. Equally, sheer utility might force a mage to regularly use this ability with a potion which causes an unpleasant emotional reaction, such as irritability or intense sadness.
 == Flame of Dissolution ==
-The reason most Consumption Ritualists know when they can and cannot consume lava, either lava or an artificial simulation of lava must be used. This reagent should not sensibly be consumed unless under the effects of fortified consumption. If attempted you will be able to make your call, then immediately drop to 0HP. You may call MASS QUAD STRIKEDOWN once. Prepared simulated lava gradually transmutes into the real thing in the gullet of the mage, and takes thirty seconds after drinking before they can make the call (after which they can make it at any time, but can only have one batch "brewing" inside them at once).
+The Flame of Dissolution is the reason most Consumption mages know when they can and cannot consume lava. In order to cast it, either lava or an artificial simulation of lava must be used. This reagent should not sensibly be consumed unless under the effects of fortified consumption. If attempted you will be able to make your call, then immediately drop to 0HP. You may call MASS QUAD STRIKEDOWN once. Prepared simulated lava gradually transmutes into the real thing in the gullet of the mage, and takes thirty seconds after drinking before they can make the call (after which they can make it at any time, but can only have one batch "brewing" inside them at once).
+**Roleplay Effects:** Use of this spell tends to leave the caster feeling incredibly powerful, with most feeling a wave of exhilaration for an hour or two after each casting. Overuse of this spell can result in the mage have severe depression between uses of the spell, with their post-casting highs becoming ever more intense.
 === Level 5 ===
 == Swarm of Consumption ==
-The caster consumes a live swarm-forming insect. They then transform into a furious, terrifying swarm of magical insects. This form has a number of advantages - as a dissolute swarm, you are not affected by calls STRIKEDOWN, REND, DISARM and SHATTER. You also take only a single from all non-mass damage calls. Any armour you have becomes part of you, and you gain two additional armour hits. Finally, you can skeletonise a corpse (or dying individual) in five seconds, healing yourself for 2 when you do. While in this form, you should fight with a single weapon up to 36” or a pair of short weapons. You can still use other spells while in this form assuming you can get to the reagent to consume it.
+The caster consumes a live swarm-forming insect. They then transform into a furious, terrifying swarm of magical insects. This form has a number of advantages - as a dissolute swarm, you are not affected by calls STRIKEDOWN, REND, DISARM and SHATTER. You also take only a single from all non-mass damage calls. Any armour you have becomes part of you, and you gain two additional armour hits. Finally, you can skeletonise a corpse (or dying individual) in five seconds, healing yourself for 2 when you do. While in this form, you may only call single, should fight with a single weapon up to 36” or a pair of short weapons, and will not have access to any weapons calls that you would usually have. You can still use other spells while in this form.
-The drawback of this form is that dissolving your mind into a swarm is very disorientating, and hampers your ability to focus your mind. For the rest of the adventure, you may cast one less spell per encounter.
+**Roleplay Effects:** Dissolving your mind into a swarm is very disorientating, and hampers your ability to focus your mind. Immediately after reforming the caster is usually quite confused, suffering from lapses of concentration and memory. Overuse of this spell can cause long-term loss of faculties.
 == Consume and Assume ==
 The caster consumes a sample of an inorganic material, and transforms, their flesh becoming a fluid, living construct of it. This will have effects at GM discretion.
+**Roleplay Effects:** Related to your transformation and at GM discretion.
 ==== Rite of Scribing ====
 Learning, Creation, Meteoromancy. Scribing Rites involve the drawing of arcane symbols.
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 == Mind’s Eye  ==
-The caster scribes the relevant symbol upon an item. The caster is then aware of the location of the item, so long as it remains within connected parts of the consensus. Experimentation with what happens when such a scroll enters the Flux has been unfortunate. This is usually used to keep track of valuable items.
+The caster scribes the relevant symbol upon an item. The caster is then aware of the location of the item. Early experimentation with what happened when such a scroll entered the Flux was unfortunate, but eventually it was discovered that so long as you cast the spell to provide only a rough idea of the items location (no more specific than a quarter mile) it is possible to use the spell with no adverse effects.
 == Symbol of Creating ==
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 == Symbol of Warding  ==
-The Caster inscribed this symbol on a feature of the landscape. Once scribed, for the next twelve hours those within 10 feet of it find themselves warmed and sheltered from the elements as if they were inside a building.
+The caster draws a line no longer than 30meters in length, and draws a symbol at one end. The caster can then specify a category of being (usually humans not present at the time of casting). If an entity of the type specified crosses the line, the caster will know.
 == Symbol of Skybreak ==
-The caster inscribed this on the ground. Over the next five minutes, dark clouds gather overhead, before a massive rainstorm blows around the area for the next 6 hours. Often combined with symbol of Warding for a *really* secure campsite.
+The caster scribes one of a few symbols on the ground. Over the next five minutes the weather begins to change (the caster can specify the type of weather). This weather will then remain for 6 hours, before nature takes over. This can be used to bring rain to a desert or stop the wind atop a tall mountaintop, but cannot be used for devastating or offensive weather.
 == Symbol of Storms ==

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