4. Insect Plague    Yribt Cycle

4. Plague of Bats / Rats / Scarabs / Scorpions / Snakes / Spiders    Yribt Cycles of the Beastmasters

4. School of Piranhas    Piscine Cycle

4. Bird Attack    Avian Cycle

All of the above are Swarm Spells, which Summon a Swarm of a specified type of Animal.  The standard Druidic Spell Insect Plague Summons a Swarm of any species or family of Insects specified by the Caster (e.g. flies, maggots, mosquitoes, bees, wasps, scarabs, spiders, scorpions).  Various Beastmaster Cults have Swarm Spells unique to their totem animals.

BTS: n/a,, except a Plague of madenning Insects has BTS 72% (Wp) vs Madness

ULT: 50 hours

Materials: a symbol or depiction of the type of Animal to be summoned as a Swarm (a live or dead specimen, a depiction on a shield, a piece of jewellery or a hand gesture may suffice)

Actions: brandish or indicate Materials, whilst gesticulating manically

Effect of Throw:

1 to 13 No Effect

³ 14 Swarm Level ("SwL") = (T-11)/3 FRD

Duration: 36t sec - t(t-1)/2

Range: 30d ft -d(d-1)/2

Radius = SwL * 2 ft

Swarms move at the following max. speeds:

Flying Swarms: 20 ft/sec
Swimming Swarms: 12 ft/sec
Scuttling Swarms: 10 ft/sec
Slithering Swarms: 5 ft/sec

The Swarm has the following abilities by SwL:

Swarm Attack once per sec (no Initiative rolled) @ A = 25 + (5 * SwL) %

DAM:

Insect Plague = d4 + (SwL/2)
Plague of Bats / Rats / Snakes = d6 + (SwL/2)
Plague of Scarabs / School of Piranhas / Bird Attack = d4 + SwL

All Damage is done as General Damage.  Subtract the min ADS of Armour covering >= 50% of the Defender's HitLocs.

Insect Plague specifying any poisonous / stinging insects does SwL/3 FRU Poison Levels if DAM > 0 inflicted
Plague of Spiders (not Insect Plague specifying spiders) does SwL/2 FRU Poison Levels if DAM > 0 inflicted
Plague of Scorpions (not Insect Plague specifying scorpions) / Snakes does SwL Poison Levels if DAM > 0 inflicted

Plague of Bats / Rats / Insect Plague specifying any disease-carrying insects causes Disease of Disease Level = SwL/3 if DAM > 0 inflicted

Especially maddening Swarming creatures (e.g. midges or mosquitos) may Cause Madness -1 in the Domain of Despair (BTS as above).

D & RD= 25 + (2 * SwL) %

HP = 5 * SwL

Each 5 Damage taken by Swarm reduces SwL by 1.  When 100% Damage is taken, all Swarming creatures are killed.  Weapon attacks cannot do > 5 Damage per hit, excluding bonus General Damage effects (e.g. dice of Fire Damage).

Defensive ThL = SwL

Notes:

  1. The Swarm is immediately Summoned from the relevant Animal Kingdom.  If the Specified Species is native to the area where Summoned, it will disperse and remain in the area at the end of Duration.  If not, it will return to its Animal Kingdom at the end of Duration.  If Summoned into a hostile environment (e.g. Piranhas Summoned out of water or in salt water), the Swarm will die naturally irrespective of Duration.
  2. Caster has no control over the Swarm.
  3. Plague of Bats can DetH and Hear with M = (200 + 10*SwL) and are immune to Sg effects.
  4. Plague of Snakes can FarTaste and  DetH (Ts) with M= (100 +SwL).
  5. School of Piranhas can FarTaste blood (in water) at 100*SwL ft.