Time Passes> Haste [-1 Mana] Time Slows Down>Air ManipulationYou pour mana into the air itself, and immediately feel it stiffen into a solid object which you can freely shape. While less efficient than direct telekinesis this does increase your options and works fine on the couple of panicking birds you grabbed with it. Success! You believe
Air Manipulation can be further refined into other uses, one of which you have already conceived.
[Improved Mana Manipulation. Learned Air Manipulation. -1 Mana]
> Reverse Sense LinkIt requires extensive analysis of the Sense Link spell, but eventually you find the precise components to tweak and how to change them. Creating a false of a predator sends a rodent scurrying and quivering in fear. A bright flash of phantom light has a bird blinking its eyes and squawking in consternation at it's flight becomes unstable.
Sadly you run out of mana before you can try direct emotional manipulation, but you think it should be simple enough.
You also gain insight into why Sense Link doesn't cause animals to explode. It seems that forming mana into ordered patterns helps prevent excess mana being radiated out from it in a way that tends to cause explosions in animals. While simple in concept, this is an important building block in your understanding of mana.
[Refined Sense Link. Improved Mana Theory. Learned Rudimentary Mind Manipulation. -1 Mana]
[Gained understanding of spellcraft, the ordered patterning of mana, for more efficient mana usage and allowing more varied effects on animals as well as generally allowing you to achieve more complex effects than you can through raw mana manipulation. It trades in flexibility for this however.]
> Investigate Mana VortexYou just did not have enough prior knowledge of leylines, or use enough mana to quite work out what was going. All you know for sure is that the mana flowing out of the vortex is the not the same mana flowing into it, which somehow disappears instead.
[Improved Understanding of Leylines. -1 Mana]
EVENTThroughout the decade strange vines of purple colouration have started growing all over you. At first you didn't think much of it, until you noticed the vines slowly draining away part of your stored mana. While unable to damage your physical form at all, they are
stealing from your hard-earned stores. You bubble with stony rage as you consider how to deal with this punk.
What do you do over the next decade? (Pick Two)(Haste can be cast for an extra action, costing 1 mana)
> Experimenting (what? include mana used)
> Going upstream. If you spent mana to counteract the flow you might be able to travel up your leyline, possible even discovering its source! (specify how much mana to spend)
> You could try to explore down the leyline again, hopefully with better results this time. Perhaps you could spend some mana, both to shield you from the buffeting and mitigate the attenuation, so you have a better view of the world beyond the leyline as you travel along it? (If you spend mana, specify how much)
> Why have the leylines taken the particular fixed paths they have through the landscape? You cannot sense any underlying pattern or reason behind this. If you could understand this, it should be easier to prevent leylines from jumping back to the old groove once you move them. You believe you'd get some insight into this mystery if you infuse mana into the area around leyline, saturating it with raw power until the secret is revealed to you. (Specify amount of mana to spend)
> While the Mana Impeder and Mana Trap has improved your mana income, it is still ultimately passive absorption. If you could somehow "invert" the mana inside you for a lack of a better term, you might be able to form a sort of suction source, pulling in surrounding mana into your being. (Requires stored mana to invert)
> If it is possible for lightning to become mana, might the opposite perhaps be true? You would like to try forming mana into lightning. (Requires mana, specify how much)
> Rather than forming the substance itself, you would like to see what happens when mana mimics lightning's movements, striking a object with blinding speed. (Requires mana, specify how much)
> You believe you could possible further expand the mana trap, but it would be a tricky, time consuming process, with a large amount of mana needed. (Requires two actions, Needs an investiture of at least 4 mana)
> Something Else?
> Mind Manipulation, Emotion: You have gained the ability to induce false sensation, but how about false emotions? (Costs at least 2 Mana)
> Mana Vortex Redo: You could try investigating the Mana Vortex again, using more mana this time (2 Mana Minimum)
> Drain Life, Unstructured: Now that you can grab larger animals, you can try draining life from them again (Required at least 2 Mana)
> Drain Life, Structured: Using your new knowledge of spellcraft, perhaps you could try making a new life draining spell pattern instead of trying to gain a similar effect with unstructured magical manipulation? (Requires mana, specify how much)
> Vines, Explosion: It wants mana? You'll give it mana! Use explosion on the vine, even though you haven't actually ever tested that out on a plant, and it may end up just feeding the vines instead. (Requires mana)
> Vines, Denial: Rather than attacking the vines directly, you could deny them access to your mana stores through some sort of shielding effect. (Requires mana, likely to require maintenance to keep up)
> Vines, Wind Blade: You think you could form the air into a thin sharp blade, and then send that slicing through the vines. (At least 2 Mana)
> Vines, Life Drain: You had thoughts of trying something like this the last time you were covered with vines, so why not attempt to suck the life right out of them? (Requires mana)
> Vines, Study: Before anything else, it might be illuminating to work out just how exactly the vines are stealing your mana. Not only would this help you determine the best way to deal with them, it'll help you to do something similar sometime in the future if you desire.
Mana Pool: 10/?? Mana
Mana Income: (3(Base)+1(Mana Trap))*2(Mana Trap)-1(Vines)= 7 Mana/decade
Your weight: 10 metric tonnes
Sensory Range: 100 metres
Closest Non-"Owned" Leyline: 37 Metres
Rudimentary Leyline Manipulation : You can spend mana to interact with the leylines, twisting, pushing, pulling, stretching and holding them.
- Leyline Divination : You can send your awareness out along the leylines. You believe you can get better results if you commit mana to doing this.
Mana Trap : By twisting mana into a intricately curling and twisting tube, lined with globules on the outside, you can force a strong stream of mana through it, causing the mana to vibrate, with some of it scattering into the pipe, strengthening it and excess flowing into the globules. Cannot be used with an impeder.
Basic Telekinesis: The crude moving of objects through brute force
Explosion : By forcing an amount of raw unformed mana into an animal you can make it explode, apparently.
Air Manipulation : By infusing it with mana, you can force the air into solid objects under your control. Requires one more mana to gain the same effect as basic telekinesis
Rudimentary Mind Manipulation : Can spend mana to create false sensory input in a target.
- Sense Link : You connect your mind with that of a animal, sharing in the input from its senses. You believe spending more than the minimum of 1 mana would potentially give better results.
Mana Impeder : You solidify your mental will to hinder the flow of mana through a leyline.
Haste : Speeds up your personal timeframe. You feel it might be slightly risky to power this spell with more than 2 mana.
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