Contact
Send and receive information across distances. Talk to strange beings. Talk to regular beings.
Telepathy
- Speed: Action.
- Range: 30 m.
- Target: Creature.
- Cost: 2.
- Concentration.
You send a telepathic message to the target. The target may then immediately send a similar message back to you. The target can recognise you as the message's sender. You can communicate words only, up to a short phrase.
Sending
Prerequisite: Depths 4
When you cast Telepathy and target a single creature that you have met before, it has Range: Unlimited. You do not need to know the creature's location.
Pictography
Prerequisite: Empathy 4
When a Contact spell you cast allows you or another creature to send a message, they may communicate simple images such as diagrams and rough images of things they have seen recently.
Dictography
Prerequisite: Empathy 4, Composure 4
When a Contact spell you cast allows you or another creature to send a message, they may communicate any length of text.
Interpreter
Prerequisite: Empathy 4, Composure 4, Encyclopaedia 6
Creatures communicating through your Contact spells understand one another regardless of language.
Metempathy
Prerequisite: Empathy 6
When a Contact spell you cast allows you or another creature to send a message they may communicate information from any of their senses (e.g. sight, taste, proprioception).
Testimony
Prerequisite: Empathy 8
When a Contact spell you cast allows you or another creature to send a message, they may accurately communicate any memory they can recall (in the same detail that they recall it). While the spell introduces no errors, there is no guarantee that the memory itself is accurate.
Mindlink
Prerequisite: Presence 4
When you cast Telepathy, you may choose for it to require concentration, affecting all targets and you. Affected creatures may send messages to one another at will until the spell ends. Once the spell is cast, affected creatures remain linked regardless of their range from one another.
Neural Expansion
Prerequisite: Presence 4, Composure 4
When you cast Telepathy, it has a target of Creatures (Presence).
Address
Prerequisite: Presence 6, Composure 4
- Speed: Action.
- Range: Unlimited.
- Target: Creatures (Any).
- Cost: 3.
You send a telepathic message to all affected creatures. They all recognise you as the sender, and know your location. You can communicate words only, up to a short phrase.
Telepathic Bond
Prerequisite: Presence 4, Arcane 4
While concentrating on Telepathy, you may set up a temporary trace as an action. All affected creatures must be willing. The spell becomes traced on all affected creatures, without rendering them helpless. When traced in this manner, its cost is zero. Any affected creature may dismiss the trace at any time, dismissing it on all affected creatures.
Arcane Tunnelling
Prerequisite: Presence 4, Arcane 6
When you cast a spell that targets creatures, you may target creatures linked to you with Telepathy regardless of the spell's range.
Commune
Prerequisite: Spirituality 2
- Speed: Action.
- Range: Unlimited.
- Target: Unknown.
- Cost: 2.
You send a telepathic message to a supernatural entity for guidance. The entity may immediately send a message back in reply. It attempts to answer questions posed of it accurately, and has no ulterior motives, limited only by its knowledge and ability to communicate. The entity is intelligent and may make reasonable speculations based on any information it has. The being has knowledge of:
- Visible objects and creatures within 20 m of you.
- Well-known locations within 1 km of you (e.g. shops, houses of important people).
- Geography within 10 km of you.
Keeper of Names
Prerequisite: Spirituality 6
When you cast Commune, the entity you contact has knowledge of:
- Basic information about any creature you can name, including their abilities and location.
Unwinder of Threads
Prerequisite: World 6
When you cast Commune, the entity you contact has knowledge of:
- The past actions of any creatures you have met.
Curator of Wisdom
Prerequisite: Encyclopaedia 6
When you cast Commune, the entity you contact has knowledge of:
- All commonly available information (e.g. information in public libraries).
- Any nearby locations where more specialist information might be found.
Contact Outsider
Prerequisite: Depths 4
- Speed: Action.
- Range: Unlimited.
- Target: Creature.
- Cost: 3.
- Concentration.
This spell puts you in contact with an Outsider. You must provide either the name of a specific Outsider to contact, or an Outsider nature, in which case this spell contacts a random creature of that nature. You and the target have a telepathic link while the spell lasts, allowing you to communicate at will. You and the target may communicate words only, up to a short phrase per turn.