>>Is it possible we could get a little more information on this spell?

Mirror Wraith is a form of astral projection. Your psyche is seperated from the meat and gets to go zooming off on its own for a little bit.

-Armifer
"We live on a placid island of ignorance in the midst of black seas of infinity, and it was not meant that we should voyage far." H.P. Lovecraft

really wish the gm's would give more detail on the spell

how the heck does it work? do you just walk around looking like a wraith or what

As far as this spell goes, the only real benefit I see is travel through shadewatch mirror... would be like super shift with teleport. I mean, I can run around in RF with area effects being the only thing capable of hurting me. That and the concept is pretty dang sweet.

Assuming you can move around, wouldn't it be useful to go from room to room without being hurt by people? Spying? Or maybe you will be invisible or can be invisible and you can go places without others seeing you... like shadewatch mirror but unbreakable? I dunno, sounds like a nice spell, though.

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Of TF,
Lord Bard Tantric
Psychic Ralph

That could be a bit abused:
Possess a warklin and walk into the crossing, then release your possession.

(Hey thats not a bad idea...)

Of course i'd just get a kick out of posessing a goblin, then make it go try to join a guild.


--Player of Malveras & Mozu

Go over and possess a rabid horde of pale grey death squirrels and wreak havoc on Crossing!


-- Toldorf
>choose remote shadow bunny spell
"I know of no such magic, at least not upon this path," says Lomtaun.

After reading all the MW talk, I still don't see what the big deal is or why someone would want the spell. What am I missing?

-Nitish

Maybe if we all speculate enough we'll get rewarded with some more info...

from what i can figure THE SPELL IS LITTLE MORE THEN A CANTRIP

just what exactly is it about the spell that justifys a slot?

wot does it do GM's?

Would be nice if somehow it could be cast after-death ... to leave your body and go search for help for it. Maybe you cast while alive and then it takes effect post-mortom?

Maybe it could be cast when the body is otherwise trapped, and as a wraith you can attempt to guard the physical body. Webbed, unconcious (sp?), paralyzed, stoned ... all come to mind.

Just thinking of something interesting for it.

~Pacnytu

<<Uh huh.>>

Hmm .. such a cryptic response. Is not a wraith undead?

Another thought would be a wraith as an out-of-body Ways walker. As a wraith someone could "wander" the ways, and if they wandered too much, rather than risk the ultimate frog-in-a-blender death, they would simply be lauched back to their physical body with a lengthy stun.

~Pacnytu

>I hope there isn't any visible form of the wraith in the room.

I agree, not automatically anyway, but it would be awesome if there were a bunch of verbs that functioned differently while in wraith form that could let you make your presence known, similar to how some verbs work if you're hiding or invisible. Have creepy and macabre effects, like blowing a chill breath on the back of someone's neck, or giving them a feeling of being watched by something not of this world. Whisper would be a good one to modify as well, assuming communication is possible, maybe wraiths couldn't talk out loud, but could whisper to people.

'eat', of course, would let you consume someone's soul, adding their skill ranks to yours, and killing them instantly.

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Perhaps some sort of skimming/travelling (MOVE [TARGET CHARACTER]) plus the ability to set a moonbeam while in wraith form might be of use.

Player of too many... I don't know who I am today!

<<Might be able to cast some spells while in the form. Since casting is mental. This might use up concentration and reduce your time in form.>>

We talked about Seer Sense from afar at the meeting. Your suggestion certainly reminded me of the brief discussion. That ability would make Mirror Wraith a lot more desirable to me, and at the same time I really don't need another spell on the wish list!

Malzard

If Armifer or Tribanin could tell us what the spell requirements if any are for Mirror Wraith? You mentioned Shadewatch Mirror with the spell at the guild meeting. Is that a req?

My two spell slots are getting VERY antsy!

-Ghodbane

>Are there any clear details on what this spell will actually do? Only application I know was to deliver the prophecy and those results can be achieved with thoughtcast and shadewatch, not quite as dramatically though.

Get this...

-looks around-

...No one knows! Isn't it great?!!?!


-Nitish

"You cut my foot off!"

"I apologize; I meant to cut off your head."

>I'm hoping it involves something similar to a familiar that we can cast spells through and instantly travel to locates. Who knows though, it'll be interesting to see what this turns out to be because it definetly has a lot of potential.

I seriously doubt that Mirror Wraith will accomplish any of that.

-Nitish

"You cut my foot off!"

"I apologize; I meant to cut off your head."

Only thing I can give you about Mirror Wraith is this, don't care what it does I just want to be able to do this.

Rigby raises his arms skyward, chanting!

Rigby gestures. He collapses in a heap as a wave of light and shadow melts around him.

A dark shadow rises above Rigby, blanketing him completely in its embrace. From this ebony form, a raspy cry calls out, and then darkness slowly coalsces into the shape of a shuddering Mirror Wraith.

Rigby's unconscious form withers somewhat.

A shuddering Mirror Wraith raspily says, "Boo."

A shuddering Mirror Wraith grasps your face with an outstretched claw and pauses.

Rigby's unconscious form withers somewhat.

A shuddering Mirror Wraith drifts southeast like smoke in a breeze.


The shadows on the wall indeed ran long across the room during the late hours of the afternoon.

Going from the bits of information that we have so far, I'de say that Mirror Wraith is a projection travel spell. Tezirah used the spell to communicate with people on this plane while she was trapped on the Plane of Probability. GM-Talian once mentioned that the old Mirror Wraith oncept was planned around the Ways. I'de say Mirror Wraith will allow for exploration of the Ways without direct risk to the caster. It will allow for projection travel through the Ways to areas around the world. This wraith projection will be unable to physically interact with the environment, but it will also be anonymous. Using it outside of the Ways would allow for you to attend meetings and such anonymously, and it will act like a Shadewatch Mirror that one can use indoors.
A role-play centered spell.
Speculation of course.

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Talian slashes the really ugly pathian statue to dust.

>Tribanin says, "Mirror Wraith - while not exactly new, as we discovered, is very near completion thanks to Rigby's hard work back when he had control of the guild. Nothing much has changed except that we're considering adding a few features or fleshing out existing one's such as ability to travel long distances using the Shadewatch Mirror spell as well as the Ways. As it stands now we're playing with it in Dev to see exactly what needs to be finished, but I'm hoping this one won't take more than a month or two to reach completion."

So you can travel to your Shadewatch Mirror via Mirror Wraith.

Few things to consider:

1. You'll probably still be in wraith form. If you're not limited to travel distance via Mirror Wraith to Mirror then it's likely that you will still be in Wraith form because it would be unbalancing otherwise.

2. If you can Mirror someone, Wraith to them and then Riftal Summons your body to you then hop back into yourself and be whole again (effectively traveling both physically and wraithly to the mirror location) who's going to use The Ways, Moongate, or Teleport anymore? I don't see something like that happening.

3. If we can cast spells while in Wraith form I seriously doubt they will be offensive spells or spells that could possibly do damage or be harmful to anyone. I could also see casting spells while in wraith form extremely difficult as there would probably be other burdens on your mind having to do with being a wraith.

Mirror Wraith sounds cool and it will probably look cool, but due to game balance I seriously doubt that it will be as useful as anyone thinks it will be. Unless your goal is to be sneaky and listen to things.

Hopefully I'm wrong because so many Moon Mages have been waiting years for the spell.

-Nitish

"You cut my foot off!"

"I apologize; I meant to cut off your head."