IN: Sorcerous Ritual

[pyrephox]

Astral Walk (Animus Ambulato) (Focus/5)

This ritual allows the sorcerer to have an 'out of body experience'. In normal IN terms, this allows the sorcerer to take Celestial Form for a short amount of time. If successful, the sorcerer's spirit is seperated from his body, which remains inert and in a coma-like state while uninhabited, for minutes equal to the CD of a successful roll. At the end of that time, the sorcerer is automatically pulled back to his body, wherever he may be. He may return prematurely with a successful Will roll. The ritual will also end prematurely if someone attacks or disturbs his body.

Unlike when Celestials leave their vessels, this ritual does not cause Disturbance and the body remains in the same spot. While Celestial, the sorcerer may do anything normally associated with Celestial Form (including Celestial Combat), /except/ ascend to either Celestial plane on his own. As per the rules, however, the sorcerer may follow a demon who is descending to his Heart, or down a Tether to Hell.

While in Celestial Form, the sorcerer's spirit is connected to his body through a 'silver cord'. Anyone who makes the Perception roll to spot the spirit may make another at -2 to spot the cord. Once seen, the cord may be targetted with a called shot in celestial combat; it has Soul Hits equal to half the sorcerer's normal Soul Hits. If the cord is severed, the sorcerer's body goes into immediate cardiac arrest. If the Sorcerer is within eyesight of his body, he may re-enter it immediately with a Will check, otherwise, he must make a Perception roll to be able to find his body again, and then a Will roll to re-enter.

Note: Having a Celestial Connection gives a +3 to the TN of this ritual.

Comments

[solaas.livejournal.com]

Nice one! I like it a lot. I'd suggest that if an astral Sorcerer gets into one of the Celestial planes, he/she ought to make disturbance. The Sorcerer shouldn't _be_ there, after all. It's unnatural. :)

[pyrephox.livejournal.com]

Hmmmm. I'm not sure. The deck is already stacked against the sorcerer (as it should be), and human souls /do/ kinda belong on the Celestial planes. Maybe, instead of Disturbance, give anyone looking at the sorcerer on a celestial plane an automatic Perception roll to realize that this is a /living/ soul, and not a dead one?

[archangelbeth]

That is Most Excellently Cool.

(Nitpick: "celestial" is no more capitalized than "human"... O;> )

[pyrephox.livejournal.com]

*beams* Thankee! I just saw a book on 'how to have an out of body experience in sixty days' at the library, and thought that it was probably something that sorcerers would naturally be drawn to. Not to mention a way for demons to torment the poor fools. :P

*blush* Random capitalization syndrome. One of my worst, I must admit.