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[espritdecalmar]

Oh, interesting. I honestly had no idea. I was just a little tipsy and thinking about how cool crabs are....

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Wait, what anime? Based on Menace's response this is apparently accidentally a reference to something?...

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Crab-Brain (Life •••• + Mind ••••)

Practice: Patterning
Primary Spell Factor: Duration
Withstand: Resolve
Cost: None or One Mana
Suggested Rote Skills: Animal Ken, Crafts, Empathy

I don't really know why you'd cast this spell, but here we are. The mage who decides to do this sort of thing transforms one of the subject's thought-patterns into a living organism. This can turn a Mental Condition into an animal; the subject no longer suffers from the Condition's effects. This can also transform a memory, dream, or passing thought. To affect a Persistent...

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11) The Golden Thread

The alliance between the Seers of the Throne and a cluster of Azlu might be a strange one, but it is also scarily effective at furthering the goals of the Ruin. The cult uses lesser spiderlings as shock troops and servitors, while their more sapient kin hold actual positions of authority, and are granted a mystical modification to the powers of their Gauntlet Webs, allowing them to weave new fates and sympathies around the unfortunate, ensnaring mortals in paths that inevitably lead to their undoing.

At first glance, it may appear that the Golden...

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Gauru form heals all bashing and lethal damage, but not aggravated. So that's one opening. Werewolves also have little recourse to Tilts; bind one up right and they'll just thrash about impotently, in general. Beyond that, sometimes the damage a prey does isn't to the werewolf but to the surrounding community. Beyond beyond that, these things can get pretty frightening, and it's not beyond the game's reach to have antagonists who are capable of delivering one-hit kills, if you're really into that.

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Ghostly phenomena is often attached to that which carries strong emotional resonance, but in the affected area, everything destroyed produces an ethereal echo. The plate of spaghetti marinara you eat for dinner manifests immediately a ghost of the dish in Twilight, the simple fright elicited from a horror movie gives rise to a Doppelganger, etc. This is great for the dead in need of fresh Essence, but the Barghests of all those fruit flies are starting to become a nuisance. . . .

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I could see that. My reasoning was that an Adept already has broader options available with spells such as Strings of Fate and Chaos Mastery, but you might be right.

Anyway, here's a strange little spell I thought of this morning:

Exit Stage Left (Death •• + Fate ••)
Practice: Ruling
Primary Spell Factor: Potency
Withstand: Resolve
Suggested Rote Skills: Expression, Intimidation, Politics

The Awakened know that endings are rarely the end. Through acts of magic, plot twists, or blind luck, anything can happen: The dead might return...