Shadow Walk (Alchemist Extract)

Level: Alchemist 6

School: Illusion

Casting

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

Components: V, S

Effect

Range: Touch

Target or Area: one target creature, plus one per 10 character levels (drop fractions; max 4 at level 30)

Duration: Until the end of your next full night's rest

Saving Throw: Harmless (Will negates)
 Save DC: 10 + caster stat modifier + spell level

Spell Resistance: Yes

Description

This extract floods the imbiber with such a gigantic overdose of Shadow Essence they literally fall out of reality into the Shadow Plane. The excess is so huge the imbiber can touch other creatures nearby and flood their forms as well, the shadow-infused humors being imparted by touch. To use the Shadow Walk extract, you must be in an area of dim light. You and any creature you touch are then blasted by a tidal wave of shadowstuff to the edge of the Material Plane where it borders the Plane of Shadow. The effect is largely illusory, but the path is quasi-real. You can take more than one creature along with you (subject to the limits above), but all must be touching each other.

In the region of shadow, you move at a rate of 50 miles per hour as related to your origin Material Plane, the shadowy world around you seeming to skip and dash with your every step. Thus, you can use this extract to travel rapidly by stepping onto the Plane of Shadow, moving the desired distance, and then stepping back onto the Material Plane.

Because of the blurring of reality between the Plane of Shadow and the Material Plane, you can't make out details of the terrain or areas you pass over during transit, nor can you predict perfectly where your travel will end. It's impossible to judge distances accurately, making the extract virtually useless for scouting or spying. Furthermore, when the extract's effect ends, you are shunted 1d10 x 100 feet in a random horizontal direction from your desired endpoint. If this would place you within a solid object, you are shunted 1d10 x 1,000 feet in the same direction. If this would still place you within a solid object, you (and any creatures with you) are shunted to the nearest empty space available, but the strain of this activity renders each creature fatigued (no save).

Shadow Walk can also be used to travel to other planes that border on the Plane of Shadow, but this usage requires the transit of the Plane of Shadow to arrive at a border with another plane of reality. The transit of the Plane of Shadow requires 1d4 hours.

Any creatures touched by you when Shadow Walk is imbibed also make the transition to the borders of the Plane of Shadow.

They may opt to follow you, wander off through the plane, or step back into the Material Plane. Creatures unwilling to accompany you into the Plane of Shadow receive a WILL saving throw, negating the effect if successful.

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