Occultism
Occultism was long considered a lost skill until it was rediscovered in the Modern Age by Shakti, Silverstorm, and Saruman, who were aided by the Goddess Eris in their completion of the Eschaton Experiment first attempted by Ezekial aeons earlier during the Burning Times. This skill is now available to those of the Occultist class.
Abilities in Occultism
| Ability | Description |
| Ague | A chill that enters from the aura to the body. |
You can afflict a person's aura with an ague. This will cause the unfortunate wretch to freeze in two or three stages. If the target has a caloric salve applied, this will nullify the caloric salve. If not, then it will set him or her shivering, which will regularly cause a loss of equilibrium. If you chill a shivering person, you will freeze him or her completely. | |
| Auraglance | Seek out another in your mind's eye. |
Using the power of your will, you can seek out the location of anyone's aura. | |
| Warp | Cause your enemy's body to warp beyond recognition. |
Your power to warp reality can be focused on a single individual, causing horrific mutations and cancerous growths that are ultimately quite lethal. | |
| Night | Create darkness in the room. |
Cast a shroud of darkness over a location. | |
| Shroud | Perform many actions in secret. |
This will draw a shroud of concealment over your actions. | |
| Bodywarp | Warping your own body is not for the faint of heart. |
You can warp your own form into an unspeakable image, causing a primal fear even in the most hardy. | |
| Eldrichmists | The Hymn to Glaaki will raise strange mists. |
By singing the Hymn to Glaaki, you may call up eldrich mists out of the ground itself, harming all adventurers present except yourself. | |
| Mask | Conceal the movement of your chaos entities. |
This ability will cause all the chaos entities in your entourage to become cloaked. While cloaked, their movement in and out of rooms will not be seen. To remove the cloak, use UNMASK. | |
| Attend | Force your students to pay attention. |
Using the power of your will, you can exert your aura and force your students to attend to their studies, curing them of deafness and blindness. | |
| Enervate | Suck the strength from your enemy's aura. |
Using the power of your aura, you can send forth a tendril and suck out the energy from the aura of another, thereby draining another's mental energy to add to your own. | |
| Encipher | Hide your writings from prying eyes. |
Secrecy is one of the hallmarks of Occultism. In order to guard your writings from the uninitiated, you can hide your writings in a cipher. TRANSLATE will decipher the text so anyone may read. | |
| Quicken | A small time warp around your enemy makes them hungry. |
Your power over reality and time is such that you can create a small warp in the time field around an individual, who will not notice any time pass, though his or her body will suddenly feel the effects. | |
| Astralvision | Your aura gives insights into that which is around. |
You are an Occultist, attuned to the aura of all living beings and able to seek out their lifeforce. With this power, you will gain both deathsight and lifevision. | |
| Shrivel | Cause your opponent's limbs to shrivel up. |
By grabbing onto the limb of an adventurer, you can destroy its marrow, rendering it useless. | |
| Readaura | Reading another's aura will reveal their secrets. |
Your knowledge of auras is such that you may read the auras of others, seeing any anomalies and enchantments attached to the auras, or sense any presence that protects or affects the aura. This ability requires equilibrium, but not balance. | |
| Karma | Sense how much karma you have accumulated. |
You may now utilize karma by probing the occult mysteries found in the Living Book of Eschaton. KARMA will tell you how high your karma level is. When you STUDY ESCHATON, your karma level will rise, though the Living Book of Eschaton will be slowly consumed by this thirst for knowledge. OPEN ESCHATON will tell you how many pages the Living Book of Eschaton is currently at. As the book dwindles in size, it is important to find items of karmic power and cause the Living Book to grow by PUT <item> on ESCHATON. | |
| Heartstone | Create a figurine of your heart to help give you mana. |
Using your karma, you can create a heartstone, which stores mana that will be drawn upon until the heartstone cracks. | |
| Simulacrum | Create a figurine of yourself that absorbs damage. |
Using your karma, you can create a simulacrum that stores health. Whenever you take damage, a portion of that damage will be absorbed by the simulacrum until it cracks. | |
| Entities | Sense the whereabouts of Chaos Entities in the land. |
The disruptions in reality caused by entities of Chaos are quite distinctive to one trained in the sublime arts of Occultism. By reaching out with your consciousness, you may find the locations of these disruptions throughout the Prime Material Plane. Unlike those of lesser, uninitiated minds, you are able to perform this feat from any plane, and even pinpoint those entities loyal specificially to you whether on the Prime Material Plane or otherwise. | |
| Timewarp | Warping time in a location will move vibes. |
You are a master of time itself and can warp the field of time in your location. If there are any vibes in your location, one will be randomly dislocated outside of time. | |
| Distortaura | Distorting your aura will protect you from physical harm. |
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| Pinchaura | Surgically alter your patient's aura. |
You have become exceptionally expert in the study of auras. Indeed, now you can surgically alter an individual's aura, removing one of the following defences: cloak, speed, caloric, frost, levitation, insomnia, kola. | |
| Impart | Impart your karmic knowledge to others with Occultism. |
This ability will allow you to transfer some of your own karma to another Occultist. It should be noted that this is not an even exchange - more karma is lost by you than is gained by the recipient of the transfer. | |
| Transcendence | Open a gateway to the Plane of Chaos. |
Open a gateway to the Chaos Plane, allowing you to go there and bargain for the services of the Chaos Entities. Once the gate is opened, ENTER GATEWAY to enter the Chaos Plane. Once there, you can either wait the quarter part of an Achaean day (in which case you will be unceremoniously ejected), or you can seek the exit, which is hidden in the Whirlpool of Chaos. | |
| Unnamable | Hear what cannot be named, or see what cannot be imagined. |
From your studies of occult lore, you can use karma to actually speak the Unnamable's name or cause a vision of the Unnamable to appear to everyone in a location. For any who are not trained in occult studies, those hearing the name or seeing the vision will be afflicted with various insanities. The insanities bestowed by this will not duplicate with existing maladies upon the unfortunate witness or listener. | |
| Devolve | Devolving your enemy will make them unrecognizable. |
You have the power to terribly curse your opponent so that his or her appearance de-evolves into a primitive state, causing any allies to turn on him or her in disgust. | |
| Cleanseaura | Cleanse away those pesky animal spirits from an aura. |
This obscure occultic ability allows one to strip away the natural defences of a target's aura, exposing them to more invasive assaults. It requires that the target's mana be 40% or lower to be successful. | |
| Tentacles | Master your body and create tentacles of your own. |
You can warp your body so that it sprouts tentacles, which seek out your enemies of their own accord, holding them in your location. | |
| Chaosrays | Pure chaos will strike all in a location. |
Transmuting your karma into pure chaos, you can summon forth the Seven Rays to blast a location, hitting everyone in the room except yourself with random rays of chaos. | |
| Instill | Instill your victim's aura with diseases of the body. |
This ability will allow you to instill your victim's aura with various afflictions. You may select from: lethargy, clumsiness, haemophilia, healthleech, sensitivity, darkshade. | |
| Whisperingmadness | A curse of madness not soon forgotten. |
Having an insanity weakens the mind enough to afflict that person with the dreaded curse of whispering madness. Once afflicted, none of those insanities can be cured until whispering madness is cured first. Any one following insanities will work: dementia, stupidity, confusion, hypersomnia, paranoia, hallucinations, impatience, addiction, agoraphobia, lovers, loneliness, recklessness, and masochism. | |
| Devilmark | The Mark of the Devil grants great power. |
You can give yourself the mark of the devil. When flinging the tarot DEVIL card, the devil is bound to you by your will for a longer period of time up to a possible three services. The mark of the devil vanishes as soon as this term of service expires. You may also wipe the devilmark from your body to prematurely end the services of a devil. | |
| Truename | Find the truename of your enemy. |
Your occult knowledge has grown to such an extent that you can discern the truename of an individual, the name that vibrates to that person's soul, from his or her corpse. TRUENAMES will tell you whose truenames you have and how many times you may utter it. If the truename of a person is uttered in front of him or her, that person will be harmed in body and mind and be inflicted by the Aeon curse. Once uttered, that particular truename will be forgotten. Due to the mental strain of remembering an individual's truename, you are only able to remember up to three for each person, for a total of fifty people. | |
| Astralform | Turn yourself into a being of pure energy. |
Having mastered all facets of your aura, you can now become pure spirit, though you will moderately lose willpower as you strain to hold your nebulous form together. HUMAN is the command to return to your normal form. | |
| Enlighten | Reveal the truth to the uninitiated. |
Perhaps the cruelest curse imaginable, you can reveal the occult mysteries to a non-initiate as you have learned it. Their minds must be sufficiently open for the revelation to be received. In other words, the target must have whispering madness as well as three (or more) of the following insanities: dementia, stupidity, confusion, hypersomnia, paranoia, hallucinations, impatience, hypochondria, recklessness, masochism, agoraphobia, anorexia, loneliness, claustrophobia, lover's effect. If such is the case, you may give that target the revelation of what the nature of the universe is as you see it, which will unfortunately make their insanities permanent until death. | |
| Unravel | Destroy the psyche of the uninitiated. |
Once you've enlightened the mind of a non-initiate to the mysteries of the Occult, you may draw upon the latent energies of Entropy and Discord throughout Creation. Focusing these Chaotic ripples upon your target's already battered psyche, you may completely unravel his mind, slaying him instantly. Slaying an individual in this manner will release a potent karmic aura, buffering your own karma. | |
| Transmogrify | Reincarnate as a Chaos Lord. |
Congratulations! Your studies have now reached the plateau wherein your mastery of the occult is so great that you can now prepare your body and aura for true transformation. Instead of dying, you will transmogrify into a being of pure chaos--you will become a Chaos Lord. You will receive one change of the body, skin and a very odd miscellaneous change which correspond to the effects listed below. MUTATIONS will show you exactly what the functions of the mutations you have are. It will not show useless mutations (see below). By raising a barrier between yourself and the Chaos Lord's spirit, you may prevent your transformation from occuring upon death. This barrier can be lowered in the future at a much smaller cost. TRANSMOGRIFY STATUS will show the state of the Chaos Lord within your soul, if any. You may only use this ability once every 3-9 (random) Achaean days.
One Body Change
One Skin Change
One Misc. Change Description
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