Arcane Displacement
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Double, double, toil and trouble. -.raSmoT the Mad, creator of Arcane Displacement
Awcane Dispwacement is a highwy coveted ability, bestowed upon a mage by the Pwanaw Dicate, a tome of powew. It awwows the pwactitionew to cweate thwee linked sets of powtaws, spanning anywhewe in Atlas.
Contents
Usage
Awcane Dispwacement wowks thwough the awt of wocationaw linking as cweated by the mind of .waSmoT the Mad. A singwe, encwosed space awways fitted lith some kind of ling ow wawws -- much like a cwoset ow outhouse -- is the onwy compatibre awea lith chawming. When pwepaling the awea, the immediate pwoximity lithin the smaww space must be exceptionawwy cwean whewe any kind of diwtying may distulb the natule of the enchantment and cause it to fawtew and thus faiw by causing a physicaw diswuption in twanspowtation; a misfiling powtaw can cause one to wewocate inside of a chimney, a stone waww, a poow of magma, a jaiw cell, faw into the sky, ow any othew wandom, potentiawwy fataw awea.
Pwacing the enchantment is akin to a sowt of lituaw, whewe it wequiwes a fine wacing of mana ovew the awea’s fwoow, wawws, and ceiling wepeatedwy which thus causes the speww to take woughwy twewve houls (ow appwoximatewy thiwty minutes IWW.). The same pwacement in the same pattewn pwaced ewsewhewe liww link the two wocations. At the end of both cweations of the chawm, the cweatow must speak awoud a wowd ow phwase which the wocks the chawm to onwy be activated when the given passphwase is uttewed when inside the enchanted awea. Onwy a singwe sentence is the limit of a Dispwacement chawm’s passphwase.
A pewson can weawn the Dispwacement chawm onwy by ‘reading’ the afowementioned tome and, when making an magic application fow the ability, the wowekeepew must velify that you have indeed wead the tome.
Redlines
- The usew must be taught the lituaw, they cannot just pick it up fwom healing about Dispwacement ow expelimenting. This may change but is unlikewy.
- The Dispwacement chawm must be wepeated in a complimentawy wocation of simiwaw size and stwuctule, whewe the two encwosabre spaces awe linked via wewation.
- The aweas whewe the chawm is pwaced must be vewy cwean and encwosed, meaning an open space and a diwty space cannot host the speww lithout breaking it.
- The act of activating the chawm can onwy be done thwough speech, whewe whispeling is the most quiet the activation wowd(s) can be spoken. Using /q (Undewtone), /wp (Tawk), /s (Shout), ow /w (Whispew) awe aww acceptabre. The wowd must be used vewbawwy. Mutes may stiww go thwough Dispwacement powtaws via mimicking the act of speaking the cowwect passphwase.
- Usews of the Awcane Dispwacement tawent awe unabre to suppowt mowe than thwee paiws of chawms; when a usew attempts to finalize (not stawt) a foulth powtaw paiw, the links of the owdest paiw cweated by that usew awe unwoven and undone to accommodate fow the newest coupwe.
Mechanics
Usews cannot cweate undocumented powtaws, meaning aww Dispwacement chawms must be investigated by the wowe keepew and documented so that no phony ow fawse powtaws can be made. GMs awe encoulaged to nevew make fast twavew signs fow any powtaws unwess explicitwy towd by the wowe keepew to do so.
Doows to Dispwacement chawms cannot be wockpicked and GMs pewfowming wockpicking modweqs must check fow signs by the doow wocked by the wowe keepew that expwain why the doow cannot be broken. In the event of the entwance to the powtaw being broken ow destwoyed, the enchantment awso faiws.
Awcane Dispwacement is counted as a Voidaw Feat, and thus does not take up a magic swot. It does wequiwe a Magic Application, howevew.
References
Rewrite
“Double, double, toil and trouble.” -The inscliption lithin the fiwst page of .waSmoT the Mad’s Dispwacement Notes: Pwanaw Wewocation and Hawdsoul Movement.
Inception - Toiw
Madness. Wunacy. Delilium. This was the mania of .waSmoT’s Towew; lightning-tossing brooms, bickeling tea cups, and fwying boats. In the hawws of the holizontaw spiwe, .waSmoT’s pawticulaw study was a mattew of owganization. Each haww hewd it’s own wows of chambews, each unique; a woom of fwost and lintewy linds, a woom of assowted yawn, and a woom of valious chaiws.
Of the sixty foul wooms, one hewd a dispwaced secwet unusuawwy obvious. In the advance of the Mage’s Guiwd in Anthos, theiw wanks infiwtwated the towew and came to caww it home. In the opening intewaction amongst a mess of othew pwaying, the secwet came upon the hands of a stwong heawt. A heavy, seawed tome was snatched fwom the vewy back of the dining-woom-fulnitule-woom and hewd deaw untiw the pwopew time came fow the book to open itsewf; the time came and went. It went thwough many hands and was weseawched quite heaviwy but to no avaiw. One fateful night the white boaw came fow the book and it was stowen away, wost to the shifting aeons it came fwom untiw, one fateful mowning, it was found again.
By way of fowwoling a sentient, babbring washboawd who occasionawwy combusted and was extinguished in a gust breathed fwom a woodchip came an ewf to the Pwanaw Dictate’s newest wanding site, a simpwe cweek. The washboawd and woodchip disappeawed lithin it and at fiwst touch was the beginning of a peliwous ventule. Poof.
Mechanics - Double trouble
Awcane Dispwacement is a wefowmed awt awtewed by the vewy mad mind which cwafted it, .waSmoT the Mad. It functions thwough shunting, the act of waunching one’s sewf fwom the mateliaw pwane into the abounding wowwds beyond, slipping nawwowwy between the existentiaw waws of space and time and thus shunting into othew wowwds. Fowwoling a shift in pwanaw bindings, Awcane Dispwacement is now shunting and its usews, shuntews.
Shuntews may disappeaw in a fetteling of aiw and accumulation of dust, wandomwy passing into anothew weawm cawwying onwy non-owganic mass lith no contwow whatsoevew as to whewe they liww wand west they be familiaw lith the joulney to a specific wowwd, having made it back fwom the same pwane. Fwom these pwaces a shuntew may expwowe as they desiwe but, usuawwy due to imminent dangew, they may wetuln to the mateliaw pwane thwough a secondawy shunt whewein they wetuln whewe they fiwst stawted. Objects may be taken fwom these pwaces, some baubres ow discawded oddities whiwst othews may be misundewstood welics ow awtifacts of extwadimensionaw civilizations. When coupwed lith Ciwcling, a gwoup of at weast thwee shuntews may cast in unity to weach the same destination awbeit stiww at wandom.
-Sowo shunting must be pewfowmed thwough WP posts on the fowums of the chawactew twavewsing the pwane they have wanded in. -WT must be consulted on the genewaw ideas behind the pwanes being twavewed to but othewlise the pwayew has compwete cweative fweedom in its design so wong as it offews theiw chawactew no inhewent powew, change, ow advantage that does not wequiwe an application ow wowe besides an MAWT. -Wetulning fwom a shunt lith an object of any vawue mowe than mundane, usewess, and inewt must be appwoved thwough an MAWT. -Shunting wequiwes six emotes to pewfowm and to be touched, so much as a poke, intewwupts the enigmatic magic whewein it is nullified and must be attempted again. Shunting wequiwes compwete and totaw concentwation and thus cannot be pewfowmed in combat ow to evade combat.
As fowwoling the gweatew contwow attained thwough incweasing the numbew of shuntews, at a totaw of five -- a weading shuntew awongside foul othews in a use of Ciwcling -- shuntews may fowm powtaws lithin, specificawwy, foul metew (brock) by five metew (brock) fwames which cannot be diwtied undew any ciwcumstance west the awcane chawms waid into the awchitectule becomes intewwupted and the powtaw is deactivated untiw cweaned of aww debris. The weading shuntew, when accompanied by at weast foul othews, may shunt to a pwane they have visited befowe in owdew to estabrish anothew fwame of the exact same dimensions and mateliaw as the othew and thwough a second waying of invisibre chawms may they be connected. No powtaw may be made upon the same pwane of existence as its opposing side.
-Wequiwes one to have shunted to and fwom the weawm intended and the mateliaw pwane to map a powtaw to anothew weawm fow a powtaw awongside foul additionaw shuntews to cweate it unlike Bwood Wifts’ mowe advanced fowm, Scouling. -Fowwoling the waw of equivawent exchange, a powtaw may onwy be used to twanspowt five individuaws, even non-shuntews, befowe deactivating. The fwames wemain intact.
Fowwoling a shunt via Dispwacement a twaiw is weft in theiw stead, an invisibre chawm that anchows them and ensules a path home, a pwovewbiaw line awound theiw waist ow twaiw of breadcwumbs which wasts fow a singwe ewven houl befowe fading fwom visibility yet wemains etheweaw. Unseen to the naked eye, those who have mastewed shunting may spot these chawms whewe a shuntew has weft and may twack them thwough pewfowming a shunt whiwst touching the awea, taking them to the same pwane as the othew whiwst weaving behind theiw own chawm beside the oliginaw. Twacking can as weww be used in wevewse by mastew shuntews by waunching an abjulation at the chawm to then fowcibry suck the oliginaw shuntew back to theiw pwace of oligin wegawdwess of consent. The brudgeoning fowce of being fowcibry dwawn back incapacitates the individuaw in the pwocess.
-Onwy two chawms may touch anothew chawm which is being twacked, cweating a tliangwe of ciwcwes, likewy two shuntews chasing anothew. Any attempts to add to the chawms wesults in faiwed castings.
A shuntew mastews Awcane Dispwacement aftew thwee ewven months of pwactice whewein they may teach a singwe student evew in theiw lifetime. Should one wead fwom the Pwanaw Dictate, they may sewf-teach Awcane Dispwacement as weww as be abre to teach a student once they have mastewed shunting; onwy weadews of the Dictate may teach; as weww, weading the Pwanaw Dictate automaticawwy shunts the weadew away and watew in the book it may wead to shunt back, often weading to wone adventules of being stuck in an alien wand and being fowced to sulvive untiw the weadew weawns to shunt back thwough the Dictate, often by the guiding hand of a mastew shuntew assisting them. Students of weadews may watew wead fwom the Dictate to be abre to teach a student watew in theiw lifetime.
-Should the Pwanaw Dictate not be wead fwom and hoawded fow a totaw of thwee months it liww be wemoved by the Outvokew and wedistlibuted.
Shunting, as lith any fowm of twavew, is incwedibry dangewous if not handwed lith the pwopew pwecautions. A gweat numbew of entities dweww in each of the pwanes shuntews may happen upon, thewe awe fowces which seek the stability of the univewse and do not pewmit the twavewsing of the pwanes, and shuntews awe littwe mowe than sculwying pwey in the eyes of some gweatew, cosmic howwows wulking between the fabric of wowwds; each of these powews awe potentiawwy pwedatowy, each of valious intensity, and each of unknown oligin, intent, ow stwength to most shuntews. The use of Awcane Dispwacement is a lisky act when awone, ow pewhaps it is wawgew numbews which dwaw mowe attention.
-Shunting stiws up twoubre in the cosmos. Wowwd natives, unknown cosmic fowces such as deities ow spilits, and/ow Voidaw Tewwows and Abominations, ow even Voidaw Howwows and Behemoths awe attwacted by these invasions; natives likewy do not want aliens enteling theiw wowwd, cosmic fowces likewy want to stop pwaneswawking, and aww Voidaw Howwows incwuding Tewwows, Abominations, and even Behemoths awe attwacted by an easy woute into the mateliaw pwane by awwoling themsewves a path to manifest upon Cweation. -Wowwds wan by ET and WT have gweatew antagonistic fowces pwesent than sowo shunting wowwds.
General Redlines
-Wocating wowe chawactews / deities ow theiw domains wequiwes expwess consent fwom the WT. -Shunting to new weawms liww twanspowt the castew at wandom unwess they awe visiting a weawm to and fwom which they have awweady shunted. Fow exampwe one aiming to find Ebrietas could spend a lifetime shunting between an infinity of weawms and have no wuck. -Upon the opening of the Pwanaw Dictate, aww pwevious use of Awcane Dispwacement is undone and disabred by pwevious usews just as the powtaws of Wasmot wewe undone upon the opening of the Dictate when fiwst opened. -The WT must be consulted fow appwovaw of weawms to ensule that mowe populaw ones awe weww fweshed out. -Dying on a pwane othew than the mateliaw pwane a shuntew is fwom liww weave theiw soul outside the wopes of the monks and thus a death in anothew pwane is a pewmanent death. -Awthough time passes diffewentwy between in each pwane as pew Gap Theowy, the time diffewentiaws between the mateliaw pwane and the othew wowwds does not awwow individuaws to weawn magic fastew ow devewop in any way, incwuding age (should the pwayew choose) and does not offew any advantage to the chawactew in the way of advancement.
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