7. Maze (J'Ungol Cycle) / Monkey Puzzle (Simian Cycle)

Spider Cultists / Monkey Cultists only

BTS: 37% (At)

ULT: 77 hours

Materials: at least two pieces of the environment to be mazed (a handful of dust will suffice)

Actions: mix up Materials in hands and drop them

Effect of Throw:

1 to 16 No Effect

³ 17    Radius =  10(T-16) ft

Range (to centre of Radius): 10d ft    -d(d-1)/2

No. of Mazewalkers: p    -N(p-1) (must include Caster and all must be in physical contact with Caster)

where N = 2 per Spider or Spider Cultist and 4 per other Being

% Chance of Randomisation:    (50 + (10C))%    -C(C-1)/2

Duration: t hrs    -t(t-1)/2

Notes:

  1. Works in Dungeon, urban and other maze-like or web-strewn environments.  Will work in forests where undergrowth and/or webs create a maze, but will not move trees.
  2. Causes walls, branches and webs to shift round randomly to create a maze-like effect.  For each feature within Radius (e.g. a wall, web, trap, junction, door or length of passage, if the DM rolls <= to % Chance of Randomisation on d100, it is randomised.  The DM then determines, as randomly as he sees fit, how it is randomised.  Multiple randomised features may swap.  Single randomised features may disappear or alter their character (e.g a door disappears or a passage turns and dead-ends).  Webs do not disappear, but may change orientation.
  3. Beings within Radius do not get sts (except against being Mazewalkers), but the Maze must be configured so that they still have the space in which they are standing / moving and are not trapped (unless they were already so, e.g. by webs).
  4. The Mazewalkers see the original configuration superimposed on the randomised configuration and are able to move, and target and Cast Spells, through either. Doors (whether in their original or randomised position) must still be opened normally, unless the option of an open way through is available in one of the configurations.
  5. The Mazewalkers must be Spiders or able to Webwalk to traverse webs, but if a web is not present in one of the original or randomised configurations, they may move through that configuration instead (if not otherwise blocked).
  6. Secret doors will be randomised like normal doors, but will only be seen by success at Locate Secret Doors or equivalent effects.  Mazewalkers may Locate them in their original or randomised positions (by sight and/or touch).
  7. If multiple Maze Effects affect the same location, the last to take effect has precedence for its Duration.  Mazewalk Effects allow Mazewalking within all Maze Effects, not just that from the same Maze Spell that gave the Mazewalk (but only so that the original configuration and the Maze having precedence can be traversed).
  8. The effect is Chaos-based, so actually happens for the Duration.  It is not an Illusion.  Truesight will enable the original configuration to be seen, but will not allow the Trueseer to Mazewalk.
  9. Dispel Chaos Spells and Effects will restore the original configuration, even if the Spell was Cast by a non-Chaotic Druid.  Likewise, Detect Chaos will enable its presence to be Detected.  Immunity to Chaos will enable one to see and move within the original configuration (note that this is not one of the normal powers of Paladins, though exceptionally Lawful Beings may have it).
  10. ChaosMasters may be able to Mazewalk by ChaosWalking.
  11. Chaos may sometimes produce Maze Effects, and this can occur naturally without any Spell being cast (though this is rare outside Chaos or areas where the Law / Chaos Balance is tipped towards Chaos).  Maze Effects from Chaos are semi-permanent (in that they have no fixed duration but Chaos can never be permanent).