Oil of Etherealness

Materials

The blood of a freshly-slain Phase Spider (makes enough for 64 Oils)

Guideline Purchasing Price: 1,000GP

(NB A version of the Recipe held by certain Spider Cults, notably the Liantelië of the Calaquendi, allows Phase Spiders to be bled for the Materials without killing them.  According to their Lore, this is a dispensation granted to them by ARACHNE interceding with GUSION.)

Spell

Elementalist Etherealness with a Throw giving a minimum of 34 (for 6 ft/sec)

Guideline Purchasing Price: 50GP+ 5GP per 1 ft/sec of Max. Speed achieved in excess of 6

Effect

  1. Oil of Etherealness is an Oil, and may therefore only be applied externally.  It is important that the whole body and all possessions carried are coated, though the Oil will flow to cover any patches missed.
  2. In the second after application, the taker and all possessions he is carrying that are coated are translated to the equivalent point on the Ethereal Plane to that on the Plane he was on when the Oil was applied.
  3. The taker may move in three dimensions on the Ethereal Plane at up to a Max. Speed of at least 6 ft/sec (dependent on T achieved on original Spell) by using light concentration. Weight carried in excess of Carrying Capacity reduces Max Speed in accordance with the Encumbrance system as it does speed of movement on the ground.
  4. Duration (non-Extendable) is 9 + d6 min (i.e. 10-15 min).  In the second after the last second of Duration the Spell translates the taker and all possessions he is carrying that are still coated are translated from his current point on the Ethereal Plane to the equivalent point on the Plane he was on when the Oil was applied.  The Duration may also be terminated in respect of the taker or any of his possessions by applying wine (which washes off the Oil).
  5. Physical obstacles do not block translation.  Translating to the same point as that occupied by another Being or a mobile object will normally displace that Being or object.  Translating into a solid immovable object (e.g. solid rock or a wall) can be fatal.  There are no natural physical obstacles on the Ethereal Plane.
  6. The Oil may be applied to someone who is already on the Ethereal Plane.  Multiple Etherealness effects are not cumulative, but the taker has the highest Max Speed of Ethereal movement and the longest Duration on the Ethereal of all Etherealness effects upon him.
  7. One Oil of Etherealness normally provides enough Oil to coat one Person of up to Sz 18 and his possessions (c150 Hit Loc points, with 1 fl. oz. of a 1 pint Oil covering c7.5 Hit Loc points).  The Oil may be applied to multiple Beings and/or objects, but applying it too sparingly gives a %age chance that it will have no effect (or a further 10% chance if it has no effect that only part of the taker will be translated onto the Ethereal).