The Nimbus Ring is a simple gold ring adorned with a half orb of gold in place of the normal gemstone. Once a thread is attached to the ring, flashes of lightning constantly play across the surface of the orb.
Max Threads: 3
Spell Defense: 14
Rank One:
Key Knowledge: The wearer must know the ring is Named the Nimbus Ring.
Cost: 150 LP
Effect: The ring now always glows with faint electrical energy. The wearer can change the intensity of the Nimbus Ring's light to as bright as torchlight or as dim as a faint glow. The ring also gives off a slight smell of ozone and crackling sound, the intensity of which increases with the intensity of light.
Rank Two:
Key Knowledge: None
Cost: 750 LP
Effect: The wearer may add three steps to initiative if using unarmed combat or a melee weapon in the ring hand. This attack is accompanied by a flash of light.
Rank Three:
Key Knowledge: The wearer of the Nimbus Ring must know the Names of the weaponsmith and elementalist that worked on creating the ring.
Cost: 1175 LP
Effect: For 1 strain, the hand or a metal weapon touching the Nimbus Ring is covered with a nimbus of lightning. When used, if the normal attack beats the spell defense and physical defenseof the target, the target takes step 5 mystic damage. this is in addition to any physical damage caused by the attack.
Rank Four:
Key Knowledge: The wearer of the Nimbus Ring must know the Name of the spirit tasked to the ring.
Cost: 1800 LP
Effect: For two strain, a sheet of lightning appears in a 90 degree arc in front of the ring for 25 yards. An effect of step 18 is rolled: any pattern that has a spell defense less than the value glows brightly for four rounds. Patterns solely in astral space will be detected.
Last edited by Nyriv, 3/29/98 12:16:19 AM