These spells allow magic to flow from the hands of a spellcaster to the body of their target, mending damage or otherwise improving their health. Low Essence often makes healing more difficult, since magic and technology generally don't mix and the type of magic used to fix biological beings does little to metal, plastic, and electronics. The effects of Essence are generally noted in each spell description.
Touch: The target needs to be touched - succeed on an additional unarmed Close Combat attack that deals no damage prior to casting the spell or make contact with a willing target to heal them, award them a sense, or otherwise connect a magical effect to an individual. If the Close Combat test exceeds the target's Defense or meets it with a tie, the spell takes effect.
Line of Sight: The caster needs a physical line of sight to the target - optical lenses such as binoculars count as physical line of sight; magical effects and digitized images such as thermographic goggles do not.
Line of Sight (Area): This means the spell has a line-of-sight range and also has an area effect which starts at a 2 Meter radius sphere.
Special: The range is defined in the write-up for this specific spell.
Instantaneous: These spells take effect immediately, then dissipate.
Sustained: These spells last as long as the caster keeps it in operation. Dropping a sustained spell requires no use of an action; the magician simply stops holding it. Each Sustained spell incurs a -2 Dice Pool Modifier as long as it is Sustained.
Limited: These spells have set endpoints that they cannot be sustained beyond but can be dropped earlier than that if desired.
Permanent: These effects do not dissipate and stay in place without any effort or focus on the part of the caster. Permanent spells simply become a full part of the world.
Mana: Mana spells interact solely with the astral plane; they may affect living beings, as living beings have an astral component, but they have no effect on nonliving, non-astral entities such as drones, streetlights, or glass.
Physical: Physical spells only affect the physical realm, which means they cannot be used on the Astral, and do not affect anyone astrally projecting or spirits that have not manifested. They do, however, affect anything on the physical plane.
This is the base value that casters must resist to avoid experiencing Drain. It can be increased if casters use Amp Up or Increase Area to adjust their spells.
Range: Touch
Type: Mana
Duration: Instantaneous
Drain Value: 4
Effect: After casting, consult the Diagnose results table.
Results learned by the magician are inclusive, up to the hits cast by the spell.
Once the Diagnose spell is cast on an individual, they cannot have it cast on them again for 24 hours.
The use of Diagnose adds +1 Dice Reroll to the magician's Biotech skill when used on the subject within 24 hours. They may also choose to add 1 Wild Die to their Heal or Treat spell test when used on the subject within 24 hours of casting Diagnose on them.
Description: Street docs! Why deal with expensive technological equipment or wait for corporate labs to return results when Diagnose is here? Keep your business mobile and offer a plethora of services (blood work, x-rays, chakra status, aura diagnostics, etc.) with this spell at your twitchy fingertips.
Range: Touch
Type: Mana
Duration: Physical
Drain Value: 4
Effect: Treat removes or lessens damaging or debilitating status effects.
Reduce the Blinded, Burning, Corrosive, or Deafened status by one level per net hit, or simply remove the Chilled or Dazed status effect.
If there are multiple status effects, net hits can be split between them at a cost of +1 Drain for each additional status removed or reduced.
As there are many status effects, the GM has the final say if Treat can remove or remove a particular status: for example, Treat cannot help a subject Immobilized when they are tied down, but Immobilized gained from falling from a great height or poison may be treated.
Description: Have you been affected by blindness or deafness? Have you accidently fallen into some mysterious toxic goo and are now experiencing a burning, chilling, or dissolving sensation? Use Treat, then seek medical attention. While Heal can take care of wounds, it cannot always help with side effects. Also helps with dizziness, nausea, headaches, and fatigue. If there is a real emergency, please seek your nearest medical facility.
Range: Touch
Type: Mana
Duration: Permanent
Drain Value: 3
Effect: The magician rolls Sorcery + Magic with a threshold of the number of Overflow boxes of damage that the target has.
Meeting the threshold means the target is stabilized and all Overflow damage is removed.
The net hits can only affect Overflow damage and cannot heal regular damage.
Description: The spell which is widely known to be required when someone is on the floor and at the brink of death.
Range: Touch
Type: Physical
Duration: Permanent
Drain Value: 3
Effect: The magician rolls Sorcery + Magic with a threshold of (5 - Essence).
Heal 1 box of Stun, Physical, or Overflow damage per net hit.
Injuries can only be affected once by any healing spell, including Cleansing Heal, Cooling Heal, and Warming Heal.
Description: Shadowrunning comes with bumps, bruises, and bullet wounds, and magic is perhaps the quickest and most effective way to repair it.
Range: Touch
Type: Physical
Duration: Permanent
Drain Value: 5
Effect: Acts as a Heal spell and additionally eliminates the Burning status effect on a targeted individual.
Description: In addition to healing, this variant of the Heal spell adds a cooling element that eliminates the Burning status effect on the targeted individual.
Injuries can only be affected once by any healing spell.
Range: Touch
Type: Physical
Duration: Permanent
Drain Value: 5
Effect: Acts as a Heal spell and additionally eliminates the Chilled status effect on a targeted individual.
Description: In addition to healing, this variant of the Heal spell adds a warming element that eliminates the Chilled status effect on the targeted individual.
Injuries can only be affected once by any healing spell.
Range: Touch
Type: Physical
Duration: Permanent
Drain Value: 5
Effect: Acts as a Heal spell and additionally eliminates the Corrosive status effect on a targeted individual.
Description: In addition to healing, this variant of the Heal spell adds a cleansing element that eliminates the Corroded status effect on the targeted individual.
Injuries can only be affected once by any healing spell.
Range: Touch
Type: Physical
Duration: Permanent
Drain Value: 4
Effect: With a successful casting of the spell, the subject appears physically cleaner and healthier up to 1 hour per net hit, though exposure to harsh elements can reduce this.
Gain +1 Dice Reroll for social tests thanks to this appearance boost.
Additionally, a successful casting of the spell adds +1 Dice Reroll to any healing test performed on the character. This bonus lasts (Net Hits) in hours after casting.
This spell can only be used once every 24 hours on a particular character.
Description: Worried about getting to the office looking like what the cat threw up after a late rave at Dante’s? Trying to get that promotion at work, but your night job as a punching bag is holding you back? Those who burn the candle with a flamethrower, worry no more! Healthy Glow can relieve that stress, just like magic! Healthy Glow brightens the physical appearance of the subject (improves circulation, whitens teeth, reduces wrinkles, blemishes, split ends, bad breath) and improves general health (bruising fades, tan lines blend, and cuts/scars look more superficial).
Range: Touch
Type: Mana
Duration: Sustained
Drain Value: 3
Effect: The magician rolls Sorcery + Magic (5 - Essence); for each net hit, the target can reduce dice pool modifiers from wounds by 1.
Description: While not providing any actual healing, the magician can make it so the target is able to move forward as if they didn't have that pain to begin with.
Range: Touch
Type: Physical
Duration: Permanent
Drain Value: 5
Effect: Each hit on the spellcasting test reduces the toxin's power by one.
The magician may spend consecutive Major Actions to roll again without recasting the spell.
If the toxin's power reaches 0, any ongoing effects of the toxin are eliminated.
Description: This spell sends mana coursing through the body to find - and purge - any venomous toxins.
Range: Touch
Type: Mana
Duration: Permanent
Drain Value: 4
Effect: After this spell is cast on a subject they gain a number of additional dice equal to the spellcaster's net hits on their Disease Resistance test until the patient recovers.
Description: This spell is used at any point after infection to help a patient overcome illness.
Range: Touch
Type: Mana
Duration: Permanent
Drain Value: 4
Effect: The spellcaster grants the subject additional dice to their Radiation Resistance test equal to the spell's net hits.
Description: Developed early after the Awakening to help support nuclear power plant support staff, Decontamination reduces the effects of radiation poisoning.
Range: Touch
Type: Mana
Duration: Permanent
Drain Value: 3
Effect: A single hit on the spellcasting test is sufficient to eliminate all symptoms of a drug or poison such as dizziness, hallucinations, nausea, pain, and so forth.
Description: The hangover cure of choice amongst those who can afford it, especially the rich and powerful.
Range: Touch
Type: Mana
Duration: Sustained
Drain Value: 4
Effect: Temporarily alleviate the effect of addiction level by one.
This spell does not remove an addiction, it only alleviates the effects, and it can only address the effects of one addiction at a time.
Description: A spell of choice for many DocWagon personnel, Awakened police officers and wage mages dealing with SINless or other down-on-their-luck people who suffer from addiction. Also preferred among corporate executives who don't want to deal with the consequences of their actions.
Range: Touch
Type: Physical
Duration: Sustained
Drain Value: 4
Effect: Target gains the Chilled status effect.
Target can resist the Burning status in an amount equal to net hits on the Sorcery tests.
Target doesn’t show up on thermal sensors. This removes any attacker or defender environmental advantage over the subject if based on thermal vision.
Description: Are you really cool as a cucumber? Icy Veins puts you one level cooler than that!
Chill out knowing that you won't show up on thermals when the heat seekers arrive.
Range: Touch
Type: Physical
Duration: Sustained
Drain Value: 3
Effect: Temporarily increase one of the target's attributes to a maximum of +4.
The magician can select how many Net Hits they actually apply to the target at a rate of 1 point of increase per net hit.
For each net hit applied beyond the first, the Drain Value of the spell increases by 1.
The caster decides which attribute to target before casting the spell.
This spell cannot affect Edge, Essence, Magic, or Resonance.
Description: The touch of the magician strengthens, hastens, or enlightens the target, temporarily raising one of their attributes.
Range: Touch
Type: Physical
Duration: Sustained
Drain Value: 5
Effect: The caster rolls Sorcery + Magic (5 - Essence) when selecting a target.
They can select how many net hits they actually apply to the target to increase both their Reaction score and number of Initiative Dice at a rate of 1 point of increase and 1 Initiative Dice per net hit.
For each net hit applied beyond the first, the Drain Value of the spell increases by 1.
Description: The reaction time and speed of the target increase, making them better able to anticipate and respond to others.
Range: Touch
Type: Physical
Duration: Limited (minimum 2 Combat Rounds)
Drain Value: 4
Effect: Grans the Ambidexterity quality temporarily. Every hit scored by the caster increases the duration of this spell by 1 Combat Rounds for a minimum of 2 Combat Rounds.
Description: Ambidexterity is very much what it says on the formula: a spell which grants a subject completely functional ambidexterity.
Range: Touch
Type: Physical
Duration: Sustained
Drain Value: 3
Effect: Temporarily reduce one of the target's attributes to a minimum of one.
The caster rolls a Sorcery + Magic vs. Willpower + Attribute.
The magician can select how many Net Hits they actually apply to the target at a rate of 1 point of decrease per net hit.
For each net hit applied beyond the first, the Drain Value of the spell increases by 1.
The caster decides which attribute to target before casting the spell.
This spell cannot affect Edge, Essence, Magic, or Resonance.
Description: The magician's touch of magic temporarily weakens, slows, or stupefies the target.
Range: Touch
Type: Physical
Duration: Sustained
Drain Value: 5
Effect: The caster rolls Sorcery + Magic (5 - Essence) when selecting a target.
They can select how many net hits they actually apply to the target to increase both their Reaction score and number of Initiative Dice at a rate of 1 point of increase and 1 Initiative Dice per net hit.
For each net hit applied beyond the first, the Drain Value of the spell increases by 1.
Description: The reaction time and speed of the target increase, making them better able to anticipate and respond to others.
Range: Touch
Type: Mana
Duration: Instantaneous
Drain Value: 5
Effect: After the magician succeeds in their test (versus the target's Body + Willpower), the defender is forced to interrupt their current action to instead spend their Major Actions on a Full Defense.
The number of net hits scored by the caster determines the number of Combat Rounds that the target is forced to remain at Full Defense.
Description: A trained runner learns to control and master their survival instincts to take calculated risks. Forced Defense triggers these primal urges to survive at all costs, distracting the subject from attacking at the cost of offensively protecting themselves.
Range: Touch
Type: Physical
Duration: Sustained
Drain Value: 6
Effect: When casting, target a specific tire and make a Sorcery + Magic (3) test.
A successful test ruptures the tire; either the driver must pull over or drive on a ruined wheel, which reduces the Acceleration by 1, Speed Interval by 5, and Top Speed by 10.
Additionally, each net hit increases the Handling of the targeted vehicle by 1.
If the original Handling is doubled or more, the vehicle must immediately make a Handling test to avoid crashing.
Description: Want to slow down pursuers or cause chaos on the street? This spell specifically targets rubber, pulling apart tires and making cars more difficult to control.
Range: Touch
Type: Physical
Duration: Permanent
Drain Value: 5
Effect: The magician rolls Sorcery + Magic, with the threshold of the spell being either the Magic rating of a magically induced effect, the Power of a toxin-based effect, or the base damage rating of the weapon that inflicted the status effect.
For targets with the Immobilized or Hobbled status effect, the spellcaster awards a +1 dice pool modifier per net hit on tests to resist the status effect or ignore the pain that might impose the status.
Description: Slowed down by magic, a critter, or something else? Disentangle will boost your movement right back up to where it needs to be!
Range: Touch
Type: Physical
Duration: Sustained
Drain Value: 4
Effect: Requires a willing subject.
Oxygenate provides 1 Dice Reroll on swimming or diving tests.
Each net hit provides additional die on tests to resist damage from suffocation, strangulation, or other forms of oxygenation deprivation.
Each hit reduces the Fatigued or Dazed status if the status is based on oxygen deprivation.
While sustained, the subject is immune to inhalation vector attacks and drowning - as long as they remember to hold their breath.
Overuse of Oxygenate can cause lungs to atrophy. If the spell is used every day for a week or more, the subject gains the Fatigued I status effect until they go without the spell for an equal number of days.
Description: Imagine being able to dive and stay underwater for more than a few minutes and not having to worry about the bends when you come back up. With Oxygenate, “swimming with the fishes” becomes a survivable scenario (Digital Grimoire doesn’t suggest testing this scenario). Oxygenate infuses the body directly with lifesaving, pure oxygen. No processing of earth’s dirty air needed.
Range: Touch
Type: Physical
Duration: Sustained
Drain Value: 4
Effect: Every two hits on the Sorcery test decrease the severity of the allergic reaction by 1 level.
Once the spell is no longer sustained, the allergic reaction returns to normal levels.
If, for example, the subject is deathly allergic to seafood and had eaten that food, Ephedrine must be sustained until the worst of the reaction has passed (8 hours) or until mundane medicine is applied.
Otherwise, the allergy returns. Ephedrine can be used against any allergy.
Description: The world is loaded with things that don't react well to the body: pollution, pollen, bullets, and so on. For the first two, at least, there are solutions to ease the suffering.
Ephedrine does not cause drowsiness - by all means, allow the subject to use heavy machinery because as long as this spell is sustained any allergic reaction is reduced - or even nonexistent!
Range: Touch
Type: Mana
Duration: Sustained
Drain Value: 4
Effect: This spell provides an extra die per hit for a subject to resist infection, drugs, or toxins.
The spell does not discriminate between harmful and beneficial drugs, so the subject also resists medicines and other helpful drugs while under the effects.
Reduce the bonuses of a beneficial drug by 1 for every hit rolled in the casting. Three or more hits block effects that do not have a bonus or penalty associated with them (such as healing items).
Description: This spell was designed to be a bulwark against negative side-effects of drugs and as an anti-toxin measure, but it has since been outpaced by other spell formula. Despite that, some street docs swear by it and it has also been used on others to prevent healing or the benefits of combat drugs on an opponent.
Range: Touch
Type: Mana
Duration: Sustained
Drain Value: 3
Effect: The spellcaster must achieve hits equal to a threshold equal to Stun modifiers the subject currently experiences.
A sleeping target requires only 1 hit.
The subject remains conscious as long as the spell is sustained. At the end of the period, the character relapses into unconsciousness.
Afterwards, the subject must endure all the Stun damage at twice the amount and heals from that Stun damage at an increased rate, requiring 4 hours per natural healing test.
Description: Awaken allows the spellcaster to immediately wake an unconscious target and instantly bring them to full alertness, temporarily alleviating pain they may be feeling from fatigue or another external cause such as injury, medication, or chemicals.
Range: Touch
Type: Physical
Duration: Sustained
Drain Value: 3
Effect: Every hit scored approximates one hour of sleep for the purposes of resisting fatigue.
Description: Popular among student magicians, Crank alleviates an individual's physical need for sleep.
Warning: Users who abuse Crank may find themselves magically addicted to spells such as Crank and other magical anti-sleep aids.
Range: Touch
Type: Mana
Duration: Sustained
Drain Value: 3
Effect: After a successful spellcasting test, the subject resists with Body + Willpower.
Each net hit scored reduces the target's dice pool on a Toxin Resistance Test by 1.
Enabler must be sustained until the toxin effect kicks in, otherwise it does not assist the subject.
Description: Enabler is the functional opposite of the Antidote spell by increasing a person's susceptibility to drugs and toxins. Naturally, Enabler is popular with Wiz-Gangers to help themselves and other druggies get an enhanced and long-lasting high.
Range: Touch
Type: Physical
Duration: Special
Drain Value: 4
Effect: Successful casting removes the feeling of hunger and thirst for 24 hours.
Each additional hit reduces the Fatigued status caused by starvation and thirst by 1 level.
Fast does not alleviate the need for food and water, and the use of Fast can result in death from starvation or dehydration if abused.
Description: Atkins, Dukan, Keto, Immortal Agrarian, Metagenic Slimworm, even the Paleo diet pale in comparison to the magic of the Fast spell.
With this spell there are no cravings, no bloating, no growling stomach, no thirst - just a sense of fullness even though one hasn't eaten!
Range: Touch
Type: Physical
Duration: Permanent
Drain Value: 4
Effect: Nutrition provides the target with nourishment at a cellular level, allowing them to live off pure mana.
Each hit prevents starvation and dehydration for 12 hours, to a maximum of 3 days but does not remove the feelings of hunger or thirst.
For an existing starving subject, each hit reduces the level of fatigue by 1 caused by starvation before applying hits to provide nourishment.
Use of Nutrition beyond 2 weeks can lead to Fae Food Syndrome and the inability to take in solid food and drinks without serious digestive problems. Fae Food Syndrome must be treated by a medical professional and last two weeks.
Description: Hungry? Well, you too can eat like the great martial arts masters! Try Nutrition and feast off the energies of the universe. GMO, gluten, and fat free! Mystically organic! Free of any kind of physical form of unwanted anything except a pleasant aftertaste to assuage the psychological cravings for hunger, too!
Range: Touch
Type: Physical
Duration: Permanent
Drain Value: 3
Effect: Rehydrate the subject, reducing the fatigue effects from dehydration. It also can counter the effect of the Dehydrate spell.
The spell can also be used with other objects to gently insert moisture into them, such as dried sponges or freeze-dried meats.
Description: This spell has fallen out of favor as the formula for Nutrition has become far more common. Not without its niche, its typically used to rehydrate objects rather than people.
Range: Line of Sight
Type: Mana
Duration: Sustained
Drain Value: 4
Effect: The number of metahumans covered by this warmth is equal to the number of net hits achieved by the spellcasting test.
The recipients must be in the caster's line of sight for the spell to affect them when it is cast, but they do not need to remain there while the spell is sustained.
Description: Personal Warmth maintains the body temperature of one or more metahumans at healthy levels, even during frigid or wet conditions.
Range: Touch
Type: Mana
Duration: Sustained
Drain Value: 4
Effect: If this spell gains even one net hit then the subject is cured of the Nausea status effect.
Description: This spell formula exists purely - and solely - to cure the symptoms of nausea.
Range: Touch
Type: Physical
Duration: Permanent
Drain Value: 6
Effect: For each hit on the spellcasting test, whatever food is touched by the caster is multiplied by 10. One soyburger becomes 10, 2 loaves of bread become 20, and so on.
Food that has been duplicated in this manner cannot be duplicated again.
Description: Multiply Food allows the spellcaster to effectively make copies of any food that they are touching. This food is not created from mana but rather the space around the food is altered to magically speed up and duplicate the natural processes which produced it.
Range: Touch
Type: Physical
Duration: Instantaneous
Drain Value: 5
Effect: Successful casting of the spell prevents organic material from natural mold and decay.
Each hit puts the material into a state of suspended entropy for 6 hours after casting, keeping the temperature, humidity, and so forth exactly as they were when the spell is cast.
The spell can affect 1 cubic meter of material. The Increase Area effect can increase the volume by half a cubic meter up to the caster's Magic rating in cubic meters.
For cadavers, add half the Body attribute of the corpse to the Drain of the spell instead of calculating volume.
Each hit also counts as protective rating against Chilled, Burning, or Corroded status effects as well as a threshold to the Rot spell.
Any physical damage, disruption, or dispersal of the material breaks the spell.
Description: Worried that those smuggled apples will perish before getting to Mr. Johnson or that the milk acquired in your run will sour with all that heat? Well, fret no more!
With Preserve, that doggy bag of posh goodies will stay as good as the first bite you had. Preserve prevents decay, mold, staleness, melting, and freezer burn.
Ice cream will stay frozen, pizza will stay warm, material links will stay viable, and cadavers will remain as they were found, confounding time-of-death estimates.
Range: Line of Sight (Area)
Type: Physical
Duration: Permanent
Drain Value: 4
Effect: Casting of this spell renders all organic material unfit for use as a material link within the area of the spell.
If a Heal spell is cast within 2 hours within an area effected by a Sterilize spell, the caster gains +1 Dice Reroll for use on the casting.
Description: Kills one hundred percent of bacteria, viruses, parasites, and other pathogens in the targeted area. Sterilize is what you need to thoroughly clean a room, useful for the hypochondriac and Hippocratic alike.
Its area effect gets to all the hard-to-reach places to make sure that mold isn’t coming back! One hundred percent safe for anything living - except microorganisms.
To prevent this spell from becoming harmful to complex life forms, it is designed not to work on anything but surfaces - thus it cannot cleanse infected lungs, pathogens in sealed bottles, or other such things.
Range: Touch
Type: Physical
Duration: Sustained
Drain Value: 4
Effect: After a successful Close Combat test, the spellcaster inflicts the Nausea and Confusion status effects.
Description: A theoretically non-lethal spell, Dehydrate was originally made for the purposes of smoking and preserving meat. Now utilized by the UCAS Army's magically assisted infantry to great effect against the Sioux Nation, it has become a popular - and not yet illegal - form of non-combat combat spell.
Range: Touch
Type: Mana
Duration: Instantaneous
Drain Value: 2
Effect: If the target fails to resist this spell, they take no damage but are afflicted with a heavy nausea, with possible side-effects being dizziness and vomiting.
Description: An insidious spell, often used at wage mage schools on other children once one manages to pick the formula up from a Matrix spellbook site.
Range: Touch
Type: Physical
Duration: Sustained
Drain Value: 5
Effect: Every 2 hits on the Sorcery test increase Anaphylaxis' allergic reaction severity by 1.
If there are no pre-existing allergic reactions, the first two hits create a mild allergic reaction to a substance of the caster's choice as long as the spell is sustained.
Once the spell is no longer sustained, the allergic reaction returns to normal levels or disappears.
Description: Anaphylaxis is a Class 4 spell due to the possibility of associated death and as such is widely illegal due to its efficacy not unlike that of many Combat spells.
Touching the subject causes an immediate allergic reaction, regardless if the subject has a known allergy or not.
Range: Touch
Type: Physical
Duration: Instantaneous
Drain Value: 3
Effect: After a successful spellcasting test the subject takes (Magic) Physical damage on the first Combat Round.
They continue to take it each subsequent Combat Round, with the damage value reduced by 1 with each subsequent round until it reaches 0.
Each time the damage is inflicted, the subject resists with a Body + Willpower test.
The damage occurs immediately before the subject's first action each Combat Round.
Description: This spell converts the target's blood to an inorganic liquid, which immediately damages the organs that the blood flows into.
Range: Touch
Type: Mana
Duration: Permanent
Drain Value: 3
Effect: After the spell defense test, the subject must make a Disease Resistance (Body + Willpower + Protective gear) test. If the resistance test does not reduce the disease's Power to 0, the subject starts showing symptoms the following Combat Round.
Disease Resistance tests happen every turn until the Power is reduced to 0.
This spell cannot inflict a disease that is magically based, such as HMHVV.
Net hits do not affect the Power of the disease.
Example Diseases:
Botulism: Power 4. Causes Nausea, Immobilized
Influenza: Power 2. Causes Stun Damage (net hits), Fatigue I, Confused.
HSV-5: Power 5, Stun Damage (net hits), -4 Dice Pool Modifier
VITAS-3: Power 8. Stun Damage (net hits), causes Nausea, -2 Dice Pool Modifier.
Description: One of many reasons why the majority of the world treated Awakened individuals with fear were spells like Inflict Disease, which could spread something as deadly as VITAS or something more personal, socially ostracizing ones.
Range: Touch
Type: Physical
Duration: Permanent
Drain Value: 5
Effect: Rot breaks down organic material (plant, animal, bacteria, etc.), living or otherwise, into gooey material best suited for fertilizer.
Hard organic material such as bones crumbles to bone meal - also good for fertilizer.
Used offensively, Rot can cripple a subject. Every 2 net hits (defended against by Willpower + Intuition) can be used to inflict 1 level of the Disabled status or Fatigued status as flesh and bone cease to connect or even exist.
Damage from Rot cannot be cured by Heal spells.
When not used offensively the spell can affect half a cubic meter of material. The Increase Area effect can be applied to Rot to increase the volume by half a cubic meter up to the half the caster's Magic rating, rounded up, in cubic meters.
For bodies, increase the drain by 1/2 the Body of the target rather than calculating cubic meters of material.
Description: Stop worrying about how the various bits you leave behind could be used against you as material links; the basic use of this spell destroys any biological material you don’t want to carry with you. Rot is also good for composting, breaking down any organic material into simpler components.
Warning: Rot is does not discriminate between living and non-living organic material and is considered a class 4M spell formula, meaning it requires the same permits as a combat spell.
