Episode 54

We're in the Imperial library

built out of whitestone stronger than a bunker
stained glass windows
librarian takes us to the section on artillery spells

pre req: explosive fireball, explosive lightning or any other explosive spell

5 mages minimum
10 minutes to cast each spell
10 seconds to unleash (once cast can be held indefinitely)
- Spell stays where it is until unleashed
- If you leave it disintegrates
- You can have as many as you want in the chamber, cast for hours, then yeet
Spells deal 6d damage over a 5 yard diameter impact zone
One spell for each element: water fire earth air
- fire: leaves the area burning
- air: all knockback (12d impact)
- water: half knockback and half damage
- earth: leaves stone
5 energy per spell (divided among the group)
Range: every 200 yards is -1 (they do lob)

Lack of convenient litch killing spells except a small section on necromancy that says it's illegal and you couldn't have it here in the raven empire.

We get food and bubble tea delivered to the library

Bubble tea is probably from Wokaido

Super illegal necromancy spell

Thousand leg demise
- breifly transforms the subject into a swarm of tiny creatures. highly unstable, does not impart group mind, creatures scatter probably, spell ends one second later
- A death spell
- Just the description of it. can't learn it here.

Frost Spell

Area Shield

There's books on fighting litches and stuff. They all seem to mention powers of the light, clerics, those who have been blessed by the light. All have mentions of how necromantic spells are effective on necromantic effects, but it would be illegal to cast them.

There's a couple theory books discussing sacred spells. Some believe they're not real, something the temple of the light has made up as a form of fame and validation. Marked with a golden sigil of the temple of the light as non canon.

Blizzard Sphere

Resurrection

https://gurps4th.vercel.app/magic-and-abilities/spells/healing-spells/healing-spells/
They have a whole wing of the imperial library sponsored and run by the temple of the light.
They let me in
I memorize (not learn) the healing college
I MAKE FRIENDS with those priests and priestesses (I rolled success by 10 to make friends with them and it woooorks)

Princess Aravae - Empress shows up with her guards in the library after it closes

She offers to walk in the gardens
I roll sussies and she seems legit
She found evidence that we did time travel
Asks what we know about Havlock
- He warned her about something in the future. they made a plan about it.
- Hacklock is out among the planes
Ollie tries to pursuade her to tell us about the contingency
- A portal to the far realm would be a cataclysm. if something came through that would be a nightmare. what I am dealing with would be the destruction of the raven empire, arcrylia, and possibly the entire crystal sphere and all the planes within it.
- "The crystal sphere is a theoretical thing that holds multiple planes. They're nearly indistructible, literal crystals. between crystal spheres is phlogiston"

Weaken Will - mind control spell missing from the website. temporarily weakens the targets will.