[Michael Thayne]

The last lightning spell. The end of an era.

Wall of Lightning
Keywords: Area (Special).
Full Cost: 25 points for level 1 + 4.5 points/additional level*.
Casting Roll: None. Use Innate Attack (Gaze) to aim.
Range: 100 yards.
Duration: 30 seconds

Creates a ring-shaped wall of lighting 12' high. The caster can give the ring any radius up to the maximum indicated for an Area (Leveled) spell of the spell's level.

Anyone touching the wall takes 1d burning surge damage per second. Metallic armor counts as DR 1 against this attack, but nonmetallic armor protects normally. Targets stuck by this attack must make an HT roll, at -1 per 2 points of penetrating damage, or be physically stunned. Furthermore, all rolls to see or hear across the wall are at -1.

This is also a Weather spell.

Statistics: Burning Attack 1d (Area Effect, 2 yards, +50%; Extended Duration, 3×, +20%; Link, +10%; No Signature, +20%; Persistent, +40%; Selective Area, Only to limit effect to edge of area, +10%; Sorcery, -15%; Surge, Arcing, +100%; Variable Area, +5%) [16] + Obscure 1 (Hearing; Extended Duration, 3×, +20%; Link, +10%; Ranged, +50%; Selective Area, Only to limit effect to edge of area, +10%; Sorcery, -15%; Variable Area, +5%) [4] + Obscure 1 (Vision; Extended Duration, 3×, +20%; Link, +10%; Ranged, +50%; Selective Area, Only to limit effect to edge of area, +10%; Sorcery, -15%; Variable Area, +5%) [4]. Further levels add Area Effect (+50%) to Burning Attack [+2.5], Obscure (Hearing) [+1], and Obscure (Vision) [+1].

* Calculate the total cost and then round down (because the Burning Attack costs just 16.5 points before rounding).