Unintended spell consequences

[JohnPaulB]

Originally Posted by Drakenbow

Quote: Memory loss as exampled above. Does boosting the IQ help retrieve lost memories etc?
IMO it depends how the memories were lost. Perhaps fragments of some memories as content to a future game? But like a dream, the memory would fade in details when the IQ boast wears off. Something as a memory like where did I put my car keys would be a roll for remembering. The game master has a lot of potential options here.

My thought is that the raising of the IQ by an Aid Spell would give insight or recall in a 5 to 10 second blip. The target would need to roll adjIQ to see if he recalls it, then a short bit of memory of that thing is fairly well recalled. It might be a short phrase that someone said or a feeling or sound or a super-compressed plot to a story. All this would have to be something that the target actually experienced.

I'm thinking that after the 10 seconds or so of recall of that past memory, it is still remembered by the target for about a minute, though not remembered exactly. After that, it will fade quickly. If the target could work with the memory right after that 10 second blip, it might become a permanent present memory if target spends a 5 minute rest thinking about it and makes his regular IQ roll.

This would not be a revival of lost talents (that would need permanently raised IQ), but it could be an insight the target had of how to appropriately use the talent and the target could make suggestions of how to do it or why do it.

One could consecutively have the Aid Spell cast upon the target and they might have more time to remember that thing.