5th Level Mind Movement Blues

[kingtycoon]

My only 5th Level Spell is a pretty good one. It's not major creation, or Contact Outer Sphere - which are probably the coolest, but it's damned useful.

Telekinesis

Magic-User Level 5

Duration: 1 round/level

Range: 120’

By concentrating on
nothing else and taking

no other actions, the
caster can move objects or

creatures by concentrating
on them. A total of

20 pounds per caster level
may be moved 20’

per round. Living beings
may also be moved,

but they are allowed a
saving throw versus

magic.

And there it is - five pages about how to move some stuff around with your mind.  I like that the level dependent stuff here is kid of in my favor now - now that I'm 9th level you understand.  I get 90 minutes, a whole movie's worth of telekinesis and I can move around what 180 pounds of stuff - 180 pounds of rocks or swords or guys or furniture just by thinking about it.  Think about the brain, think about the brain.  You know I think...  I think I must have gotten bored.  What with my monster kingdom that I've got going on.



Or maybe, you know - maybe my monster friends are terrifying?  Maybe I'm more than half a prisoner?  Maybe I can only really get around to doing some surreptitious things around the Ogres and Trolls, I have to act in secret, I don't want them knowing, or suspecting!  Maybe they're really servile though, maybe I'm just growing lazy, what with their obedience?  Maybe I sit around thinking about having things come to my hand?  Maybe I just mind-shove people off of cliffs as part of our gang initiation?  Or as part of some kind of trial - like in that scene from Farewell to Arms?  I loved that scene - I guess?  Maybe monster-reprisals?  Maybe I stack weights on the enemies of monsterdom to test their mettle, their virtue?  Maybe I really am just bored.  I mean it was interesting adventuring, and monster overlord has been working out pretty well - but I just put one spell in the old book - so maybe I need something new to challenge me?



I'll knock all their huts down on top of their heads, provoke them into fighting each other, maybe I'll keep the best ones with me and then I'm going, gone - looking for the real stuff - the Big Magic.  True Power, you know?  It's the wizard's way.

Comments

[mordicai.livejournal.com]

I wonder if this would be so...brainy, if the name was something different than telekinesis.

[kingtycoon.livejournal.com]

No. Probably not. But it is so there.

[mordicai.livejournal.com]

No I just mean-- I wonder about psionics & psychics & magic & the interplay.

[kingtycoon.livejournal.com]

Hence Yoda. Mystical ancient gnome? Space wizard? I've concluded that he's a human man here - transformed by magic. And that he's been shaped by trepaning. Truth: my next character will absolutely do self-surgery for magic powers.

Meantime - yes telekinesis is a magic effect with all sorts of potential for clinical examination or study - so it can contain a germ of scientific possibility and ends up being a sci-go power instead of a fantasy power.

[mordicai.livejournal.com]

The magical power of "sociopathy"?

[kingtycoon.livejournal.com]

Mind expansion in 3D geometries isn't always pretty but you know the old saw - as above so below.