Crondor's Marvellous Sequestration

What's it called? Crondor's Marvellous Sequestration (in short, CMS2).

What does it do? This spell will allow you to store a staff in a parallel set of non-euclidian dimensions, while still being easily retrievable from there through the mediation of a star sapphire ring, created by the same spell.
As may be evident, it proves quite useful, specially for those of us who don't employ staves as a weapon but need to go back to them from time to time for some spell castings and octogravings. Being as they usually are quite heavy stuff, it is very convenient to have them hidden nearby without burdening you and always accesible.
As to setbacks of the spell, the main one would be that you have to cast it yourself and it only works on the staff it was cast on. The ring skill requirements (over 280 bonuses) are quite demanding too, and the guild points spent per cast (350), staggering.

Where is it? It is one of the new (in fact, the last recorded here) Sto Lat artificer spells, and lies inside the fabled Thee Secrets of Artifyce and Crafte grimoire.

What does it require? The focus of an octogram and a staff (on which you cast the spell). Then, a sapphire ring (blue crystal rings count too, but check before that it has run out of charges) and a handful of purple powder, both of which are consumed in the process (if succesful, the ring will be 'transformed' into a star sapphire one).

What skills do I need? Staff, Ring, Convoking, Enchanting, Binding

Has it worked? A succesful output reads something like this:

You prepare to cast Crondor's Marvellous Sequestration on the xxx (staff).
You gesture with the staff, tracing out the flaws in the world around you where a little pressure might let something slip through to another plane.
You wrap your mind around the sapphire ring, reshaping it into an idealised form and tracing strange fantastical constellations of stars on its surface.
You bring the staff and the ring together, letting the band slip down the shaft and wrap snugly around it.
You sprinkle the purple mineral powder over your staff and sublimate it with a flicker of magic, spinning it out into octarine threads.
You wrap the threads of enchantment around the staff and ring, binding them indissolubly to one another.
The ring, transmuted into a gleaming star sapphire set in an engraved silver band, slides easily off the staff.

Help Information:

Crondor's Marvellous Sequestration - Places a wizard's staff between here and there.

Crondor's Marvellous Sequestration is a zeroth order miscellaneous spell which turns a sapphire ring into a mystical star sapphire with an arcane connection to the caster's staff, allowing him to slip it into a pocket of some other reality for awhile and retrieve it later.

Be aware that there are some hazards associated with this spell.

Notes:

After a positive cast, a new magic item is created: a star sapphire ring. It looks like this:

This immense faceted sapphire sits clasped firmly in the setting of a broad silver band. A star formed from silver light seems to hover just beneath the surface of the gemstone, shifting this way and that as it tilts, and the band has been engraved with constellations of thickly clustered stars.
The star sapphire is empty, ready for a staff to be stored there. / Within the star sapphire, you can see a xxx (staff), ready to be retrieved.
It has the hazy octarine sparkle of a magical talisman.
It is in excellent condition.

Once made, you can 'store' your staff inside it, or 'retrieve' it after you've sent it there. Both actions are skill-checked, and aside from failures, you can even end up with the staff coming out and hitting you. The normal failure/success messages are:

>store staff between here and there (you have to be holding it):

You prod vaguely at the air with the xxx (staff), but don't manage to shift it out of this plane. / You lift your xxx (staff) and twist it slightly to align it with the currents of elsewhere. You twist an arcane thread around it, attaching the other end to your star sapphire ring as its anchor to this plane, and release it to drift between here and there.

>retrieve staff from elsewhere:

You tug on the arcane thread attached to your staff, but it refuses to return to this world. / A xxx (staff) hurtles towards you from a great distance, tumbling end over end. You try to catch it, but you mistime your grab and it smacks you across the head. / A xxx (staff) sails through a hole in the fabric of space and time and lands neatly in your inventory.

Ellamandyr's Hyaline Amulet

What's it called? Ellamandyr's Hyaline Amulet (in short, EHA2)

What does it do? Well, it supposedly creates a 'protective' amulet. Nobody seems to know much about its uses, aside from the fact that it looks superb. Apparently, it shields you from rain (but certainly not from sweat). Any other protective or 'healing' qualities (as implied perhaps in its name?) are yet to be researched.

Where is it? Search for it and start crafting at the Sto Lat library, inside the fabled Thee Secrets of Artifyce and Crafte grimoire.

What does it require? A wand and a container with water. Not too small, this container (a tumbler won't do. A teapot is perfect. And it has to be clear, plain water, like the one you get in fountains, not in the Ankh...). Also, a silver necklace, which isn't exactly *consumed*, but rather *transformed* into a hyaline amulet.

What skills do I need? Wand, Water, Binding, Silver

Has it worked? A succesful output reads something like this:

You prepare to cast Ellamandyr's Hyaline Amulet on the xxx (water recipient).
You stir the water carefully with your wand, meditating on the nature of wetness.
You concentrate on the nature of vines, forcing the water to rise and twine along the length of your wand.
You shape the image of a pendant in your mind, and bind the twining strands of water into a solid form around it.
With a flicker of magic, you reshape the silver necklace into a glittering white ribbon and fasten on the newly created pendant.
The delicate hyaline amulet settles in your hands softly, like the first snowfall of winter.

Help Information:

Ellamandyr's Hyaline Amulet - Turns a bowl of water into a piece of protective jewellery.

Ellamandyr's Hyaline Amulet is a zeroth order miscellaneous spell of Artifice which creates a protective amulet

Notes:

The amulet looks like this:

Tiny and delicate, this pendant has been made from uncountable threads of clouded crystal, cold to the touch. They weave around each other in a complex pattern, reminiscent one moment of brambles or ivy and the next of falling snow or the surface of a mountain stream. It hangs from a smooth ribbon, with a silver-white sheen like ice, which wraps closely around the wearer's neck.

After a year has passed (discworld year, which should make it about 4 months of playing time), the amulet will melt away with the following message:

Your delicate hyaline amulet softly and silently melts away with the turn of the year, leaving only a lingering touch like a snowflake.

Rubayak's Power Dispenser

What's it called? Rubayak's Power Dispenser (in short, RPD)

What does it do? In brief, it is three words: refuel the monkey. More verbously, this is the spell that comes into play once your wooden monkey light-source (the result of Doctor Worblehat's Flaming Primate Premonition) has run out of steam, and its red crystal no longer illuminates you and your surroundings. It will basically rekindle the item.
Its use is quite limited unless you've decided to regularly use the wooden monkey as your lamp. The fact that it requires some troublesome to get components isn't helpful either, even if the red crystals take some time to fade off.

Where is it? It is one of the new Sto Lat Artificer spells, and therefore kept in Thee Secrets of Artifyce and Crafte grimoire, at the Sto Lat Library.

What does it require? A wooden monkey to start with. Then, a red crystal and a banana, both of which are consumed in the casting process.

What skills do I need? Enchanting, Channeling, Binding

Has it worked? A succesful output reads something like this:

You prepare to cast Rubayak's Power Dispenser on the wooden monkey.
You feed the banana to the wooden monkey who, amazingly enough, is hungry.
Holding the red crystal in your hand firmly, you feed all your artificing energies into it.
You show the glowing red crystal to the wooden monkey and slowly begin feeding its energy into the existing, glimmering crystal within.
A wooden monkey smiles knowingly.
The drained red crystal crumbles to dust.

Help Information:

Rubayak's Power Dispenser - the profitable disposition of bananas.

The great Rubayak developed this spell as an adjunct to Doctor Worblehat's Flaming Primate Premonition.

Doctor Worblehat's Flaming Primate Premonition

What's it called? Doctor Worblehat's Flaming Primate Premonition (in short, DWFPP)

What does it do? This is one member of the 'create light' spell family, which keeps growing day by day. In this case, the spell will allow you to give birth to an artifact in the shape of a wooden monkey; the monkey functions (as long as the crystal source of its energy keeps going) as a light source, like yellow rings or the converted items produced by the spell Turnwhistle's Effulgent Autiridescence. The improvement is that it doesn't consume gps while working, but it has to be rekindled from time to time (with the need of some components and the spell Rubayak's Power Dispenser) and it can't be worn (it isn't very heavy, though).
Overall, I'd consider it quite an unnecessary trinklet, as we already have two light spells and TEA, besides yellow rings, torches and (the most practical) permalights. Nevertheless, it is quite a funny addition (it would be even better if it was spammy and asked you for bananas).

Where is it? Like the one we mentioned some days ago, this is one of the new spells that can be found inside Thee Secrets of Artifyce and Crafte grimoire, at the Sto Lat Library.

What does it require? The focus of an octogram and a knife to start carving. Also a gold ring, a rowan orb and a red crystal, all of which are consumed (or rather, 'transformed') in the process.

What skills do I need? Turning, Gold, Enchanting, Binding

Has it worked? A succesful output reads something like this:

You prepare to cast Doctor Worblehat's Flaming Primate Premonition.
Covering your mouth with one hand, you step into the middle of the octogram and ask the rowan orb to sit in mid air while you work it with your knife.
You put the knife down and place the gold ring inside the developing statue.
Placing your hands over your ears, you focus on the ring within and cause it to melt enough to mold it into a tiny dais.
You lift the crystal and place it on the newly crafted dais, then putting your hands over your eyes, you concentrate all your energy into the red crystal and make it glow brilliantly.
Finally, using all your senses, you bind all the magical properies together into one grand artifact.

Help Information:

Doctor Worblehat's Flaming Primate Premonition - Creates a flaming monkey.

Doctor Worblehat's had a dream one night about some strange future event. The dream encouraged him to create this spell. Unfortunately, the wizard in the premonition was him and he was never able to tell anyone the secret of the flaming primate.

Notes

The item created is, as has been mentioned, a wooden monkey. A look at it will yield the following description:

This is a small wooden monkey with an even smaller cage where the belly should be. Within the cage is a tiny red crystal sitting on a golden dais. On the golden dais is a miniscule plaque with minute runes which might mean "Light Me".
The wooden monkey is not lit, and the tiny crystal glimmers from within. / The crystal inside the wooden monkey's belly hovers slightly over the golden dais and glows a warm, rose colour.
A shimmer of octarine plays across the monkey subtly.
It appears to have something written on it.

>Read monkey
You read the wooden monkey:
Crafted by Winswand.

Fiddelmaker's Auriferous Embrace

What's it called? Fiddelmaker's Auriferous Embrace (in short, FAE)

What does it do? This is one of the new 'artificer' spells that have appeared in the newly refurbished Sto Lat Library and Wizard's Guild. As to its purpose, it pours a small amount of molten gold over someone, causing them some damage and pain, with much screaming.
As for the use of the spell, I'd rate it fairly low. The amount of damage done isn't much (there's even a rumour, which I'll have to check, that casting it on trolls actually *heals* them instead of damaging them; it does look logical, but very unpractical...), and the spent gold component would probably be better employed for other purposes. Besides, if you're wearing a gold ring it won't let you cast the spell, and there's always the danger of a misplaced and valuable blorple suddenly turned into cinders... Still, I always appreciate the introduction of new spells, even if I don't count on using them at all...

Where is it? As already stated, it is one of the 5 new spells that can be found inside Thee Secrets of Artifyce and Crafte grimoire, at the Sto Lat Library.

What does it require? A wand (any wand; haven't tried with pickling sticks, though) and a gold ring, which is consumed (ouch!) in the process.

What skills do I need? Wand, Gold, Animating

Has it worked? A succesful output reads something like this:

You prepare to cast Fiddelmaker's Auriferous Embrace on the xxx (target).
You slip a gold ring over the end of your wand.
Calling up a flicker of magical flame, you melt the ring into a sphere of liquid gold.
You level your wand at the xxx and speak a Word of Power, instilling the sphere of molten gold with anger and life.
A ray of hot golden light leaps towards a xxx.
The ray of molten gold slams into the xxx's chest with a thud and a smell of burnt flesh.

Help Information:

Fiddelmaker's Auriferous Embrace - Introduces an opponent to the hazards of molten gold.

Fiddelmaker's Auriferous Embrace is a first order offensive spell designed to impress some of the hazards of an Artificer's work on an enemy.

Books - Thee Secrets of Artifyce and Crafte

So... I've been away for about a month or so (maybe a bit more) and I find there's been a remodelation of wizardry in Sto Lat, with a new and better guild, centered on crafting magic, and with a new volume and 5 spells in the library. I've still been exploring and moving around it (many things to see), but I have to include this new grimoire the series first of all!

A closed imposing bronze book is sitting on the dusty antique reading desk.

The covers are made from solid bronze, three-quarter-bound in red gold. Intricate stylised flowers and vines have been engraved on the metal, and the staff-and-crossed-hammers symbol of the Academy of Artificers takes pride of place on the front cover.

Octarine flowers bloom and fade amidst the engravings.

Table of Contents
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2 ... Doctor Worblehat's Flaming Primate Premonition
3 ... Crondor's Marvellous Sequestration
4 ... Fiddelmaker's Auriferous Embrace
5 ... Rubayak's Power Dispenser
6 ... Ellamandyr's Hyaline Amulet