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<blockquote data-quote="AuraSeer" data-source="post: 1082598" data-attributes="member: 1331">Sure thing.Say I've heard a rumor that a member of the mage's guild is planning to assassinate the king. I want to know whether this is true, and if so, who is guilty. I cast a contingency, set to &quot;cast faerie fire when my finger touches the written name of a mage who plots the death of King Bob.&quot; Then I just take a copy of the guild membership list, and run my finger down the lines. As soon as I get lit up, I know I have found a guilty party.Note that the spell must read minds to do this, and it is far more powerful than any other thought-reading effect. It works on an arbitrary number of targets-- the list may contain hundreds or thousands of names. It allows neither save nor SR, has no range limit, and is not blocked by a lead vault or even planar boundaries.Once I know that Evil Ike is the traitor, I need to know where he's hiding, so I can go interrogate him. I break out my atlas and cast another contingency, triggering faerie fire &quot;when I point at the map representation of Evil Ike's current location.&quot; This effect is even better than discern location (an 8th-level spell), because I do not need to have met the target or obtain his possession; in fact, with clever wording, I could find him even if I didn't have his name or any other clue at all.(The current incarnation of contingency would also be able to penetrate mind blank, making it the only spell in the books that can do so. However, this would go away if you moved it to the Divination school.)</blockquote>

[QUOTE="AuraSeer, post: 1082598, member: 1331"] Sure thing. Say I've heard a rumor that a member of the mage's guild is planning to assassinate the king. I want to know whether this is true, and if so, who is guilty. I cast a [i]contingency[/i], set to "cast [i]faerie fire[/i] when my finger touches the written name of a mage who plots the death of King Bob." Then I just take a copy of the guild membership list, and run my finger down the lines. As soon as I get lit up, I know I have found a guilty party. Note that the spell must read minds to do this, and it is far more powerful than any other thought-reading effect. It works on an arbitrary number of targets-- the list may contain hundreds or thousands of names. It allows neither save nor SR, has no range limit, and is not blocked by a lead vault or even planar boundaries. Once I know that Evil Ike is the traitor, I need to know where he's hiding, so I can go interrogate him. I break out my atlas and cast another [i]contingency[/i], triggering [i]faerie fire[/i] "when I point at the map representation of Evil Ike's current location." This effect is even better than [i]discern location[/i] (an 8th-level spell), because I do not need to have met the target or obtain his possession; in fact, with clever wording, I could find him even if I didn't have his name or any other clue at all. (The current incarnation of [i]contingency[/i] would also be able to penetrate [i]mind blank[/i], making it the only spell in the books that can do so. However, this would go away if you moved it to the Divination school.) [/QUOTE]

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