Clerical Spell Specification

[16] Astral Spell

BTS: 45% (At)

ULT: 15 hours

Materials: a piece of string or cord

Actions: tie Materials to a Target Caster's body (e.g. around a finger), and all other Targets hold hands with him

Effect of Throw: Max Speed = 5 + (T/5) mph, FRD

Duration: 2t hrs    -5t(t-1)/2%

Number of Targets: p    -15(p-1)%

Notes:

  1. The Spell may be cast on multiple Targets, who must include at least one of the Casters.
  2. In the second after the last second of Casting a successful cast of the Spell projects Astral forms of the Targets and all possessions they are carrying as encumbrance to the equivalent point on the Astral Plane to that on the Plane they were on when the Spell was Cast.  Their bodies and actual possessions remain on the latter Plane.  An invisible Astral cord connects the Astral form of the Target Caster to whom the Materials were tied (see Actions above) to the bodies.  Astral cords are not easily found or cut.
  3. The Targets' consciousnesses are in their Astral forms.  Their bodies are unconscious.
  4. The Targets may move in three dimensions on the Astral Plane at up to Max Speed by using light concentration. The Astral forms of their possessions have no weight or encumbrance effects.
  5. Multiple Targets may continue to hold hands on the Astral Plane, in which case any one of them may move them all by light concentration (provided none of the others attempts to do so in a different vector).  If multiple Targets concentrate on moving in the same vector, they move at the fastest speed concentrated upon, subject to the Max Speed given by T.  They may also split into separate Astral parties, which move in the same way.
  6. In the second after the last second of Duration the Spell returns the Target Caster connected by the Astral cord and all other Targets then holding hands with him to their bodies, and their Astral forms disappear, provided the Astral cord still connects them.  The Target Caster connected by the Astral cord may terminate the Duration at any time by 1 sec's heavy concentration.  If the Astral cord no longer connects a Target (whether directly to him or indirectly by holding hands), he can only return to his body from its equivalent point on the Astral Plane, whether or not the Duration has expired.
  7. The Astral Spell may be Cast on a Target who is already on the Astral Plane.  Multiple Astral effects are not cumulative, but the Target has the highest Max Speed of Astral movement and the longest Duration on the Astral of all Astral effects upon him.  The Caster may terminate the Duration of multiple Astral Spells of which he was his own Target by 1 sec's heavy concentration only.  If the Target is in Astral form only when an Astral Spell is Cast upon him, his unconscious body remains on the Astral, and he gains a second conscious Astral form connected to it by an Astral cord.
  8. See the rules on the Astral Plane for more detail.