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200 effect, is considered normal in all ways, and may be cured by either magical or mundane means. Material Component: A phial of sewage. Scry Beacon Transmutation Level: Sor/Wiz 3 Components: V, S, M Casting Time: 1 standard action Range: Touch Target: Creature or object touched Duration: Permanent Saving Throw: Will negates Spell Resistance: Yes When a spellcaster places a scry beacon on a creature or object, he makes it easier to locate through scrying. There is no visible manifestation of the beacon, but it remains with the creature or object until it is magically removed with a remove curse spell. A creature marked with a scry beacon suffers a penalty of – 10 to any Will saving throws to prevent the spellcaster who created the beacon from scrying on him. An item marked by scry beacon confers that penalty onto anyone who is carrying it. Only the spellcaster who placed scry beacon on the creature or object benefits from the spell, the beacon is invisible to all other casters. Material Component: A small magnifying glass. Set Form Transmutation Level: Sor/Wiz 8, Trickery 8 Components: V, S, M/DF Casting Time: 10 minutes Range: Touch Target: One polymorphed creature Duration: Instantaneous Saving Throw: Fortitude negates Spell Resistance: Yes This spell is only applicable to a creature that has already been polymorphed by a polymorph any object spell, and only then when the nature of the change makes the polymorph permanent. By casting a set form spell on the polymorphed target creature, the spellcaster makes the polymorph truly permanent, making the new form of the polymorphed creature its natural form, as much as if the creature had been born in the body it now inhabits. Set form effectively ends the polymorph spell, leaving the target creature forever imprisoned in its new form. It is impossible to tell a creature that has been the subject of set form from any normal creature of the target’s new species. Even a true seeing spell will not show that the subject ever inhabited a different body. Only a wish, miracle or actual divine intervention is capable of returning the subject of a set form spell to his original form. Set form has no effect on the 4 th level polymorph spell or on the 9 th level shapechange spell. Material Component: A chrysalis inhabited by a living butterfly. Symbol of Hate Enchantment (Compulsion) (Mind-Affecting) Level: Clr 8, Sor/Wiz 8 Components: V, S, M Casting Time: 10 minutes Range: 0 ft., see text Effect: One symbol Duration: See text Saving Throw: Will negates Spell Resistance: Yes This spell functions like symbol of death, save that all creatures who come within 60 feet of the activated symbol of hate instead become overwhelmed with hate, turning on the closest creature (friend or foe) and attacking ferociously with intent to kill for a number of rounds equal to the caster level of the symbol. Unlike the symbol of death spell, there is no hit point limit; once triggered, a symbol of hate simply remains active for 10 minutes per level of the caster. Note: Magic traps such as a symbol of hate are hard to detect and disable. A rogue, and only a rogue, can use the Search skill to find a symbol of hate and can use Disable Device to thwart it. The DC in each case is 25 + spell level, or 33 for symbol of hate. Material Components: Mercury and phosphorous, plus powdered garnet and ruby worth at least 2,000 gp. Symbol of Lust Enchantment (Compulsion) (Mind-Affecting) Level: Clr 6, Sor/Wiz 6 Components: V, S, M
Casting Time: 10 minutes Range: 0 ft., see text Effect: One symbol Duration: See text Saving Throw: Will negates Spell Resistance: Yes This spell functions like symbol of death, save that all creatures who come within 60 feet of the activated symbol of lust instead become overwhelmed with lust, consumed with carnal urges and an undeniable need to act upon them. Individuals affected by the symbol of lust can still defend themselves if directly attacked, but suffer a –4 penalty to all attack rolls, damage rolls, ability checks, skill checks and saving throws, as they are far too distracted to fight effectively. Individuals affected by the symbol who are not directly attacked must make a Will saving throw (at the same DC as the symbol) to engage in combat. Otherwise, they will seek to fulfil the urges the symbol has given them. Unlike the symbol of death spell, there is no hit point limit; once triggered, a symbol of lust simply remains active for 10 minutes per level of the caster. The clergy of Belishtim the Dark Seducer use these symbols as part of their rituals. Note: Magic traps such as a symbol of lust are hard to detect and disable. A rogue, and only a rogue, can use the Search skill to find a symbol of lust and can use Disable Device to thwart it. The DC in each case is 25 + spell level, or 31 for symbol of lust. Material Components: Mercury and phosphorous, plus powdered diamond and sapphire worth at least 2,500 gp. Thousand Feet Illusion Level: Clr 3, Sor/Wiz 3 Components: V, S Casting Time: 1 standard action Range: Personal Effect: 20 ft. radius spread Duration: 5 rounds/level Saving Throw: Will disbelief Spell Resistance: No Thousand feet is all but useless to a spellcaster of the surface world, but in the Underdeep it can mean the difference between life and death. When cast, thousand feet creates a drumming impact on the ground in a 20foot radius around the caster. This has no effect on most people, who will only hear what sounds like dozens of running and jumping footsteps. To a creature that navigates and hunts by tremorsense, however, it renders the caster effectively invisible, as the creature cannot distinguish between the caster’s footsteps and those created by the spell. The caster and anyone else within the area of effect for thousand feet are treated as having total concealment from any creature that relies on tremorsense. Vile Infestation (Greater) Conjuration (Summoning) Level: Clr 9 Components: V, S, DF Casting Time: 1 standard action Range: Close (25 ft. + 5 ft./2 levels) Target: One corporeal creature Duration: 10 rounds (see text) Saving Throw: Fortitude partial (see text) Spell Resistance: Yes Greater vile infestation infects the subject with a swarm of tiny vermin (in the case of priestesses of the Dark Mother, the infestation is of spiders, other deities of the drow have different vermin). The vermin manifest inside the target’s body and immediately begin eating. The pain of this ordeal is so intense the subject of the spell is effectively paralysed and helpless for its duration. At the end of the spell, the vermin have eaten their fill, essentially hollowing the victim out from the inside and leaving him a dead and empty husk. Each round this spell is in effect, the victim loses 10 percent of his total hit points to the feeding creatures. Applying magical healing to the target during this time will prolong the length of time it takes for the vermin to eat him from the inside out but is unlikely to save him from eventual death, as the vermin keep eating until there is nothing left. The only way to save a victim of greater vile infestation is by means of a limited wish, wish or miracle. Damage reduction is ineffective against the vermin created by greater vile infestation, although they can be driven away by a repel vermin spell. A successful saving throw against greater vile infestation expels the vermin from the target’s body after one round of feeding, costing him 10 percent of his current hit points. 201
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