Power Words
Power words are a concept I've been toying with for some time. Instead of the normal magical effects, these spells are specifically tuned to the user's innate health and magical ability. They cause damage or effect based on the amount of PPE in the person's body. But; in use drain directly from either PE or ME. One point is temporarily lost for each usage of a Power Word.
Also, Power words can ONLY effect people who can physically hear them - they cannot be transmitted over any sort of radio link, nor can they effect someone who was born and is naturally deaf. Artificial deafness, such as an accident after birth, or being too close to a glitterboy when it's boom gun fires wil NOT afford protection.
Some power words I've thought of:
- Freeze
Generates a cone of cold based on PPE length by 1/3 PPE width. Within that cone, the temperature drops by PPE degrees cencius.
- Hail
Causes a spherical effect of PPE Radius to fill with PPE hailstones, each one doing PPE/100 MDC damage.
- Fire
Causes a cone of fire, PPE long by 1/3 PPE wide, with the temperature going up by PPE degrees celcius.
- Stop
Causes the target's muscles to lock for PPE seconds. Can be negated by a successful save vs magic roll.
- Silence
Causes a cone of silence PPE long by 1/3 PPE wide. Within that cone, all sound is reduced by 1/2 PPE decibels.
If you have any other suggestions, please feel free to email me and I'll add them to the list.
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