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Michael Thayne · 07-07-2021, 10:56 PM

Today we begin spells from the Animal college! Today's entry is a death spell, very similar to the death spells from the Air college.

Abominable Alteration
Keywords: Resisted (Special).
Full Cost: 105 points.
Casting Roll: Will.
Range: Unlimited
Duration: Instantaneous. Death and grotesque transformation are permanent.

This is a whole class of Partial Shapeshifting variants that affect only one body part without preserving scale or function. The subject might be afflicted with a diminutive insect head with insufficient brainpower to sustain the body, or a massive elephant head that snaps the neck and collapses the spine – or perhaps a vole heart that ruptures under the strain. The cause of death might technically be a mortal condition, but this is save-or-die magic. The subject may resist this spell with the higher of HT or Will. Failure means instant death. The corpse left behind is permanently transformed.

Statistics: Affliction 1 (HT or other; Cosmic, Reduced Time can turn Heart Attack into instant destruction, +300%; Heart Attack, +300%; Malediction 2, +150%; No Signature, +20%; Nuisance Effect, Multiple ways to resist, -10%; Reduced Time 10 on Heart Attack, +200%; Sorcery, -15%) [105]. Notes: This use of Cosmic is very potent and always requires GM approval. This spell originally appeared in GURPS Magic: Death Spells, pp. 9-10.

07-07-2021, 10:56 PM	#73
Michael Thayne Join Date: May 2010	Re: [Sorcery] Michael's daily sorcerous spells thread Today we begin spells from the Animal college! Today's entry is a death spell, very similar to the death spells from the Air college. Abominable Alteration Keywords: Resisted (Special). Full Cost: 105 points. Casting Roll: Will. Range: Unlimited Duration: Instantaneous. Death and grotesque transformation are permanent. This is a whole class of Partial Shapeshifting variants that affect only one body part without preserving scale or function. The subject might be afflicted with a diminutive insect head with insufficient brainpower to sustain the body, or a massive elephant head that snaps the neck and collapses the spine – or perhaps a vole heart that ruptures under the strain. The cause of death might technically be a mortal condition, but this is save-or-die magic. The subject may resist this spell with the higher of HT or Will. Failure means instant death. The corpse left behind is permanently transformed. Statistics: Affliction 1 (HT or other; Cosmic, Reduced Time can turn Heart Attack into instant destruction, +300%; Heart Attack, +300%; Malediction 2, +150%; No Signature, +20%; Nuisance Effect, Multiple ways to resist, -10%; Reduced Time 10 on Heart Attack, +200%; Sorcery, -15%) [105]. Notes: This use of Cosmic is very potent and always requires GM approval. This spell originally appeared in *GURPS Magic: Death Spells*, pp. 9-10.