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Waves of Weariness
(Enchantment/Charm)
Level: 3
Range: 40 yards
Components: V,S,M
Duration: 1 round
Casting Time: 3
Area of Effect: One creature
Saving Throw: Special
Upon casting this spell on a creature, that creature
is suddenly overcome with dizziness and exhaustion.
A successful saving throw vs. spell negates this
effect. Creatures of less than 12 Intelligence and
Wisdom that fail this saving throw immediately co1lapse
for that round. They can get up again next
round with no further ill effects.
Creatures of 12 or greater Intelligence or Wisdom
that fail the saving throw vs. spell are delayed in
their actions. They automatically attack last the
next round they have an action or attack.
This spell has no effect against creatures that do
not sleep, such as undead and elementals. The material
component is a small book of poetry, which is
read aloud (a personal favorite is Translations from
Kara-Turan Haiku by Lhaeo, late of Shadowdale).
Web of Shadows
(Conjuration/Summoning)
Level: 9
Range: 40 yards
Components: V,S,M
Duration: 1 hour/level
Casting Time: 1 round
Area of Effect: 40 sq. ft./level
Saving Throw: Special
This spell fills an area with shadowy, gray strands of
force, resembling a giant spider web. The strands are
not solid, and need not be anchored to anything.
Once created, they are stationary, and can be destroyed
or moved only by spells; gusts of wind (even
magical ones) and physical attacks do not affect them.
Creatures in the area in which a web of shadows is
forming are allowed a saving throw to get out. If it
succeeds, they take only 1d4 points of cold damage,
and are deemed to have left the web. If it fails (or they
elect to stay in the area), they suffer the full effects.
Contact with a web of shadows causes all beings
(except the caster, who ignores all effects of his own
web) to be slowed while within, and for the rest of
any round in which they leave it.
In each round in which contact with the web occurs,
a being is chilled, losing 2d4+1 hit points and 1
Strength point (lost Strength points return 2d4
rounds after leaving the web). Creatures who have
their Strength reduced to zero collapse helplessly,
losing consciousness; if this occurs before they reach
zero hit points, the web stops draining them at that
point.
If a spark, fire spell, or open flame of any sort
comes into contact with a web of shadows, it does not
harm the web, but does race all over it: the entire
web blazes for 1d4 rounds before the fire vanishes.
During this time, all creatures in contact with the
web take 2d4 points of fire damage (ld4 if a save vs.
breath weapon is successful), per round. This damage
is in addition to the web’s usual chilling damage,
which is not impaired.
A web of shadows vanishes at the death, unconsciousness,
or will of the caster (who need not concentrate,
remain present, or refrain from spellcasting
to maintain it). Its material component is a piece of
spider web, collected in shadow or darkness.
Xult’s Magical Doom
(Alteration)
Level: 5
Range: Touch
Components: V,S,M
Duration: Special
Casting Time: 5
Area of Effect: 10-foot radius
Saving Throw: Neg.
By means of a caterpillar cocoon, a pinch of dust,
and the tracing of runes during the casting, a wizard
seals an object with Xult’s magical doom. The runes
are traced with one fingertip over, for example, the
pages of a book or a map. They are visible only to a
detect magic, and can be harmlessly removed by dispel
magic. They prevent unauthorized perusal of the
guarded object. Only the caster or someone who is
(by chance or deliberately) named in or on the material
viewed, or who utters the secret word of deactivation
that the caster established during casting,
can safely examine the object without suffering the
doom.
The doom affects all creatures within a 10-foot radius
when it is activated (the activator saves vs. spell