5. Transport via [Specified Plant] (see Note 6.)

6. Transport via Plants

Ranian Cycle

BTS: 25/30% (Sz)

ULT: 68/75 hours

Materials: a plant (the "Entry Plant") of the same species or genus (see Note 5.) as target plant (the "Exit Plant"), and at least as high as the Caster, Passengers and possessions (though not necessarily as wide)

Actions: Passengers hold hands with Caster / each other, and Caster steps into Entry Plant in final second of Spell Casting, followed by Passengers.  They may bend down or crawl to comply with height restriction on Materials.

Effect of Throw:

1 to 15 / 1 to 16 No Effect

³ 16 / ³ 17 %age Chance of Success = 5(T-7)%

Passengers: N living passengers -2N (in addition to Caster - must hold hands)

Weight: 600w weight points -w(w-1)/2 (excluding body weight of Caster and Passengers)

Notes:

  1. Allows the Caster and Passengers to step into the Entry Plant and out of the Exit Plant, irrespective of distance or Forest.
  2. The Caster must have previously have instressed at least 10IP from the Exit Plant.  If less than 10IP have been instressed, ratio %age Chance of Success by (IP instressed)/10.  If the Exit Plant was last instressed before the Caster bound (finished learning) Transport via Plants, he takes -10 (-1 per 1/10 LT outstanding). There is also a penalty of -1 per year since Exit Plant was last instressed from.  There is no limit to the number of potential Exit Plants which can be remembered in this way.
  3. Entry and Exit Plants on different Planes count as different destinations.  Normal penalties apply (see "Casting Spells between the Planes" in the General Magic-Using System) for Transporting via Plants to another Plane.
  4. The Caster must always Transport himself.  If he saves, the Transport fails for all Passengers.
  5. The Entry and Exit Plants must both be of the same species or genus (not family) of plants.  For example, the Spell allows transport between all Oaks of the genus Quercus of the Beech family Fagaceae, including the sessile oak (Quercus petraea), the pendunculate or English oak (Quercus robur), the holm oak (Quercus ilex), the kermes oak (Quercus coccifera), the cork oak (Quercus suber), the scarlet oak (Quercus coccinea) and the pin oak (Quercus palustris), but not from any of these to the tan oak, which is classified in the genus Lithocarpus, or to any other members of the Beech family Fagaceae.
  6. The Spell may be learnt at L5 as Transport via [Specified Plant], specifying a particular genus of plants, in which case the Entry and Exit Plants can only be of that genus.  For example, Transport via Oak Trees allows transport only between all Oaks of the genus Quercus,  and Transport via Olive Trees (popular amongst FIDAR-worshipping Druids) allows transport only between all Olives of the genus Olea of the Olive family Oleaceae, and not to or from Ash trees of the genus Fraxinus of the Olive family Oleaceae.

See also the FAQ for Planist Spells