Elementalist Spell Specification

Class: Illusionist (Hr)

3. Speak in Tongues

BTS: 30% (Hr)

ULT: 90 hours

Materials: a tongue (one's own, someone else's, or a severed one)

Actions: touch fingertip to Materials

Effect of Throw:

-1 to 8 Insanity

9 to 11 Target can speak only nonsense for Duration (including for Spell Casts with a spoken component)

12 to 15 No Effect

16 to 20 ((10(T-15)) - LP)% fluency

>= 21 ((5(T-10)) - LP)% fluency

(see Note 7 below), where LP is the total Language Points required for Know and Fluency in each new Language spoken (less the LPs the Target has already learnt in that Language)

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

Duration: t hrs -t(t-1)/2%, or upon T reaching 0, due to the above -LP Effect on Throw

Notes:

  1. Speak in Tongues allows the Target to speak the Languages of any Beings.
  2. The Target is not able to communicate any more fluently than another Being of the same type could by sounds only (not by scent, wagging tails, etc.).  Animals in particular have limited verbal communication.
  3. The Spell may be cast on one Target only.
  4. A Target who is dumb or deaf does not overcome such limitations by use of this Spell.
  5. The Target becomes instantaneously able to speak and understand being spoken (subject to the Effect of Throw) up to n Languages for the Duration, upon hearing just one word in each.  He may choose to speak a Language heard to achieve the effect (and may ignore words spoken in other Languages).
  6. The Spell Effect is limited to oral communication.  The Target does not gain the ability to read or write the Languages.
  7. The %age fluency from the Effect of Throw effectively gives that %age of the total Language Points required for Know and Fluency in the Language. See the Languages system for the resulting level of oral translation.
  8. Being able to speak Old Speech as an effect of this Spell does not give any bonuses to Magic Using.
  9. There is no Range or Radius, other than normal limitations on communication.