Books - My Firste Demon-Summoning Booke!

A closed cheerful yellow book is on the floor.

This book is a cheerful yellow colour, decorated with the normal scenes of children’s books: puppies, bunnies, and boys and girls running and frolicking. However, they all have bat wings and horns. Except for the bunnies. The bunnies have tentacles.

Octarine light crackles intermittently down the spine.

Table of Contents
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2 - Doctor Kelleflump's Deadly Demon

3 - Professor Flambardie's Grim Amulet

4 - Kelleflump's Irritating Demon

5 - Skeetbraskin's Fuliginous Perdition

6 - Sageroff's Sentry Summoning

Cherry Blossoms in Bloom

What's it called? Cherry Blossoms in Bloom (in brief, CBB)

What does it do? 'Tis a funny toy spell. It activates your (or the targets) aura, making them bloom in flaming colour. The colour depends on the caster (that is, on which Order you belong to. Circles will have white auras, Last Order guys octarine auras, Seers green auras, and so on...).

Where is it? Friends of the light can catch it inside the Illusionary Arts volume, in the Bes Pelargic Wizard Guild.

What does it require? No components are required, but you do need the focus of an octogram.

What skills do I need? Air, Channeling, Convoking

Has it worked? A correct output should read something like this:

You prepare to cast Cherry Blossoms in Bloom on xxx (target).
Stepping into the centre of the octogram, you focus on the thaumic waves gathering around you.
You start to channel the thaums into your very soul.
You focus on the thaumic energy now stored within you and with one terrifying primal scream, enchant the energies beyond normal capacity!
A surge of satisfaction flows through you/xxx.
You (the target) feel a strange white (or red, blue, brown...) satisfaction envelop you completely!

Help Information:

Cherry Blossoms in Bloom - Causes the target to switch sides.

This is an aura spell which causes sortilege. Cherry Blossoms in Bloom will cause your target (or yourself) to bloom in flaming colour. The colour completely depends on who the caster is.

There and back again!

Okay... so Winswand's on the way back, after about 3 months or so (maybe a bit more...) away from the keyboards. Well, you know how addictive this game tends to become. I think it will do me good to try to keep a 'moderate' profile, playing no more than 2 days a week.

Got to re-remember so many things... first of all, recover the mushclient, and then go round re-questing, buying lives and trying some of the new spells that were implemented while I was away. They don't seem to be very tough, and I guess they shall appear here quite soon. They are: Professor Flambardie's Grim Amulet, Kelleflump's Irritating Demon, Skeetbraskin's Fuliginous Perdition and Turnwhistle's Effulgent Autiridescence. Happy that daemonologists have been supplied with some stuff... 3 new spells for them, one offensive. It was long overdue... We thank the Cres for it...

The last issue of the AM Daily also informs of some (not so) minor changes to classical spells. They are the following:

* Narquin's Mist of Doom has been changed so that the damage done while casting it (due to the slashing of wrists) is less likely to break the caster's concentration.
* Wungle's Great Sucking now uses ma.me.me.cursing instead of ma.me.sp.conjuring in its first stage.
* Myrandil's Vicious Seizure now uses ma.me.el.earth instead of ma.me.sp.abjuring in the second stage and the strength of the hands is determined by the caster's ma.sp.offensive bonus rather than abjuring.
* Thousand Dancing Celestial Fates now uses ma.me.ph.dancing instead of cr.points in its first stage.
* Crondor's Fabulous Detection uses a staff to cast and uses ma.it.he.staff to cast now instead of cr.points.

Got to try and test, then. I guess this means my WGS will have difficulties (I have a minimum cursing), otherwise I should be o.k. MVS seems to be made more useful (I am no PK, but as very few have abjuring as a primary, the shift will make it easier, maybe, to tie enemies down to place...).

Charming

Charming ys ufed to convince someone to do your bydding. Yt becomes more dyfficult to charm with yncreafed mental ability of the target, although choofing a target for whom the relevant action would be yn character or conform with the target's beliefs helps confiderably.

Books - Body Parts for the Advanced Student

A bone book is on the floor.

This book has a cover and bindings of beautifully worked bone, with intricate carvings of skulls and wings and other nifty things.

Octarine light crackles intermittently down the spine.

Table of Contents
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2 - Narquin’s Mist of Doom

3 - Myrandil's Vicious Seizure

4 - Wungle's Body Part Suggestion

5 - Grisald's Reanimated Guardian

6 - Wungle's Great Sucking

7 - Von Hasselhoff's Skin Condition

Calm Embrace of Illusionary Beauty

What's it called? Calm Embrace of Illusionary Beauty (in brief, CEIB)

What does it do? Funny, almost toy-like oriental spell, really. It shoots a firecracker against the target, which explodes into 'a thousand multicoloured butterflies', doing marginal damage and blinding the target for a spell. Might be useful for finishing creatures (specially trolls) nicely, for running away from tough watchmen/guards or (most probable) to avoid Agatean merchants running away in the middle of an offensive spell cast.

Where is it? Its abode is within the covers of the Illusionary Arts grimoire, in the Bes Pelargic Wizard's Guild.

What does it require? quite annoying for the components; otherwise, I might use it more. A firecracker (which is consumed) and a staff (which isn't).

What skills do I need? Conjuring, Charming, Staff, Air

Has it worked? A correct output should read something like this:

You prepare to cast Calm Embrace of Illusionary Beauty on xxx (target).
You hold out the firecracker and conjure the imp within.
Holding the fire cracker out, you ask it to hover in place, right in front of xxx.
You take your staff and hold it at its end and pull it back in a batting fashion.
You take a mighty swing at the fire cracker, and blasting it, cause it to explode into a thousand multicoloured butterflies.
The rainbow of butterflies head towards xxx.

Help Information:

Calm Embrace of Illusionary Beauty – Summon butterflies to beautify a situation.

This spell will summon a swarm of butterflies to attack your target and give them something else to think about. The target will be distracted long enough for a quick wizard to make a silent escape.

Channeling

Channeling ys the conveying of mental energy from one place to another, ufually between minds. The moft bafic form would be the tranfferral of power from one wyzard to another; the reverfe of thys, the sucking of energy from one mind by a wyzard ys evil and, moreover, dangerous, since yt attracts the attention of Thyngs.