Imprisonment (Sorcerer/Wizard Spell)

Level: Sorcerer/Wizard 9

School: Abjuration

Casting

Casting Time: Standard Action, or the first attack of a Full Attack Action

Components: V, S, M (Two links of a heavy chain, worth 1 gp.)

Effect

Range: Touch

Target or Area: creature touched

Duration: Instantaneous

Saving Throw: Fortitude to partially resist, see below.
 Save DC: 10 + caster stat modifier + spell level

Spell Resistance: Yes

Description

When you cast Imprisonment, the rough, grinding phrases of this spell snarl from your throat, freighted with awful power. The magic of the spell imbues your hands with aching iron power, allowing you to make a melee touch attack. If you strike your target creature, the spell is discharged into their form. If you do not hit with a touch attack, the power remains until the end of the combat or until you successfully make a touch attack.

When you strike a creature, massive chains of some grey and terrible substance clap around it, inflicting Paralyzed as they immobilize every twitch and blink. Once the creature is firmly held, the true awful might of this spell is revealed as the chains grind and gnash horribly at their helpless victim. The chains inflict (Circle 8 damage): 1d6+3 points of damage per character level (max 21d6+63 at character level 21) of gnashing (physical, uncommon) damage, without benefit of save.

On the round after the creature was touched and paralyzed, the chains begin to fade from existence. If their victim was killed by the damage, their body fades from existence and is utterly gone, leaving only a small cache of treasure nearby. If the creature is still alive, they may make a Fortitude saving throw as the chains fade away. If they make the save, they are left unhampered in their space.

If the victim fails their saving throw, they instead fade from existence along with the chains. The creature is entombed in a state of suspended animation 'somewhere else', and the only evidence they ever existed is a small stone of the same material as the chains which is left somewhere nearby, along with a cache of treasure as above. The subject remains trapped there unless a Freedom (Sorcerer/Wizard Spell) is cast at the locale where the Imprisonment took place, or upon the small stone. The stone may not be destroyed by any known force as long as the prison persists. No form of conventional searching will locate the creatures prison, but certain Skill Rolls (determined by the GM) and possibly research in a Library may reveal how to locate the creature. Rumor holds that doing this research in another Plane may help....

A Wish (Sorcerer/Wizard Spell) or Miracle (Cleric Spell) will not free the recipient or locate the stone, but will reveal where it is entombed.

This spell lays an arcane charge on its target(s). If the targets are something other than you or another creature (such as an object or area), the spell lays an arcane charge on you, the caster. Targets which already have an arcane charge present must choose which to keep if the new spell has the same charge type. Only one arcane charge can ever be present on a target at a time.

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Mana Burn Circle Damage

Spell Circle	Burn Cost	Req'd Char Level	Base Dice	Max Dice
0	N/A	N/A	1d4 per 2 character levels	max of 4d4 at character level 8
1	N/A	1st	1d6 per character level	max of 4d6 at character level 4
2	+1	3rd	1d6 per character level	max of 6d6 at character level 6
3	+1	5th	1d6 per character level	max of 10d6 at character level 10
4	+1	7th	1d6+1 per character level	max of 12d6+12 at character level 12
5	+1	9th	1d6+1 per character level	max of 15d6+15 at character level 15
6	+1	11th	1d6+2 per character level	max of 16d6+32 at character level 16
7	+1	13th	1d6+2 per character level	max of 20d6+40 at character level 20
8	+1	15th	1d6+3 per character level	max of 21d6+63 at character level 21
9	+1	17th	1d6+3 per character level	max of 25d6+75 at character level 25
10	+1	19th	1d6+4 per character level	max of 25d6+100 at character level 25
11	+1	21st	1d6+5 per character level	max of 25d6+125 at character level 25
12	+1	23rd	1d6+6 per character level	max of 27d6+162 at character level 27
13	+1	25th	1d6+7 per character level	max of 27d6+189 at character level 27
14	+1	27th	1d6+8 per character level	max of 29d6+232 at character level 29
15	+1	29th	1d6+9 per character level	max of 29d6+261 at character level 29
16	+1	31st	1d6+10 per character level	max of 30d6+300 at character level 30
17	+1	33rd	1d6+11 per character level	max of 30d6+330 at character level 30
18	+1	35th	1d6+12 per character level	max of 30d6+360 at character level 30