2. Speak with Vegetables

Sered Cycle

BTS: 30% (Hr)    for Target Speaker

ULT: 18 hours

Materials: a particular species of vegetable (the Target Species) must be sensed by Caster or some part of that species must be used as Materials

Actions: touch tongue (with Materials if used) and point to vegetable of Target Species (if sensed)

Effect of Throw:

1 to 11    No Effect

³ 12        10(T-11)% comprehensibility

Range (to Target Speaker):    3d ft    -4+d(d+1)/2    If cast on self, there is no Range minus. If cast on another, Range is at least 0 ft, so there will be a Range minus of at least -4%.

Duration:    t hrs    -t(t-1)/2

Notes:

  1. Allows a single Target Speaker to converse with all living vegetables of Target Species.  If Cast on multiple Target Speakers, they will all be able to join in the conversation.
  2. Vegetables do not have speech, but the Spell allows the Target Speaker to talk with them as if they do.
  3. The Target Species’ conversation will be limited by their perceptions and concerns.  They may not necessarily be disposed to be co-operative, depending on its nature and the approach taken by the Target Speaker.
  4. Vegetables have an awareness of their surroundings, though their understanding of it is limited.  Higher vegetables, such as trees, have a greater understanding than lower vegetables, such as grass.  They also have a dimmer awareness of other vegetables in their clump or Forest, though this does not extend to specifics.
  5. There is no Radius within which communication is effective, other than normal limitations on speech by Target Speaker.
  6. The conversation will appear to observers as if the Target Speaker is talking to himself in his own native language.  They will not be able to perceive the Target Species' responses.