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ability, skill, and spell list must be individually restored,
but restorations are permanent. If weapon or combat
skills are restored, the entity may choose to use these
rather than the default OBs of the artificial body.
Life Essence Vessels
A Life Essence Vessel is a special container used by
alchemists to store and transport life essences. It normally
takes the form of a large transparent jar, urn or
vase, with a top lid to seal its contents. When not storing
a life essence, it contains only pure spring water. To store
a life essence in the Vessel, the caster must cast Transfer
Life Essence twice (first to weaken the bonds, then to
move the life essence) on the target. A miniature image
of the target will appear inside the Vessel if the spells are
successful.
A life essence may be trapped in a Vessel for ten
minutes per level of the caster. After this period, it will
dissipate normally. If the caster places a fragment of the
original body (e.g. a lock of hair, nail clippings, some
blood, a piece of flesh), then the duration is extended to
one hour per level of the caster. The Preserve Life Essence
spell can be used to increase this duration still further.
If a Life Essence Vessel containing a trapped life essence
is destroyed, the life essence dissipates at once.
The minimum cost for a Life Essence Vessel is 20 gold
pieces per level of being to be trapped within it, e.g. a Life
Essence Vessel capable of storing a life essence from a
5th-level creature costs at least 100 gold pieces. Alchemists
may choose to spend more to fashion sturdier
containers.
Advantages and Disadvantages
In terms of advantages, Life Empowerment
provides the alchemist with the
ability to use almost all living
creatures to animate his entities.
Any level of intelligence
can be obtained,
simply by acquiring
the right creature.
Moreover the
natural abilities
of the creature
or being can be
tapped, replacing
the need to
simulate such
talents with
spells and
avoiding the
resulting increase
in construction
level
from imbedding
magical
powers. Further,
the magician
is not limited
by his own
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capabilities in terms of skills, spells, and so on which can
be triggered (unlike the Sentience spell list).
The drawbacks are that Life Empowerment does not, in
itself, grant any control over animals, beasts or beings,
either in their natural form or when imbedded. Alchemists
must use other means to obtain their sources of life
essences, and must rely on Glyphs of Control if they desire
obedience from their empowered entities. The Sentience
spell list cannot be used in conjunction with Life Empowerment
– hence entities are limited in terms of intelligence
and skills to the innate and restored capabilities of
the life essence. Restoring all the abilities, skills, and so on
of a life essence requires significant power expenditure
and time. If the life essence is ever expelled from the
entity, all the manifested abilities are forfeited.
7.2.6 SPONTANEOUS
EMPOWERMENT
After creation, Golems and Constructs are empty
vessels animated solely by the magical energies harnessed
in their creation. They are magnets for every kind
of disembodied intelligence in the vicinity, and sooner or
later something will find the entity, enter its body, and
control it.
There are only two ways of forestalling unwanted
possession. The first is to place a Glyph of Control on the
entity – this will stop any attempts to enter the entity.
(The caster of the Glyph can bypass this defense to imbed
a spirit of his choice.) The second is to imbed a spirit
(Demon, Elemental, Spirit or Life Essence) of one’s
choosing first. Both Golems and Constructs can be animated
by one and only one spirit at any given time, so
preemptive imbedding prevents any interlopers
taking up residence.
The probability of a stray Spirit
or Undead locating and possessing
an uninhabited or
unGlyphed entity is 1%
per minute or 45% per
hour. (GMs should
roll either every
minute or every
hour at their discretion
according
to the current
pace of their
game.)
Roll d100 and
consult Tables
7.6 and 7.7 to determine
the type
and level of a
possessing spirit.