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Message: <blockquote data-quote="ebaatezu" data-source="post: 1197401" data-attributes="member: 14803">had all these people look at it and no replies yet...oh well i guess here is another oneThanatos's Power ritualNecromancy [Evil]Level: Necromancer 9Components:V,M,SCast time:1 hourRange: TouchTarget: Creature TouchedDuration: Instant/specialSaving Throw: Fortitude/specialSpell Resistance:Yes/specialWith this spell the necromancer can literally strip the power of life from a being to use to power his spells.In order to be bale to cast this spell the caster must perform an hour long ritual consisting of shackling the victim to a specially built alchemical device consisting of many tubes to transfer the vital fluids and wires to transfer the energy of the beings soul.the device is 10 ft long,6 ft. wide and is 4 ft. off the floor and it costs 100,000 g.p. to build.this ritual can only be cast once a month on the night of the new moon.after securing the victim to the alchemical device the caster then needs to connect himself to the device as well (is why the alchemical device is so wide)after doing so the caster lies down next to the shackled victim and recites the last word of the spell.immediately upon utterence of the spell the victim makes a fortitude save(cannot choose to fail it) if successful they die and are released to their plane they go to after death and the caster must immediately make a fortitude save as well(applies as well to undead casters as if affecting an object) otherwise they are killed as well(or destroyed if undead) if they make the save then they only suffer 1d6 damage per level of the victim(which might kill them anyways),if the victim has S.R. and they make their save then the same thing happens as if they had made their fortitude save.if the spell is interrupted it has the same effect as if the victim had made his saving throw. if they fail their saving throw though there body over the next round is drained of all its fluids and purified through the alchemical device and their soul is drained from their body and the caster gains a measure of their power to use for themselves.the vicitms body becomes a dessicated husk which crumbles to dust, the only way to raise the being from the dead is through epic spells or through the intervention of a deity.the caster gains a one of the following benefits from the victims soul.they can either choose to gain a number of ability score points equal to the amount of hit dice/levels the victim had in life,or they could choose to gain a number of caster levels equal to the hit dice/levels the being possessed or they could gain bonus to saves equal to the victims hit dice/level or they can gain a number of bonus spell slots per day equal to the victims hit dice/level. can only pick one of these benefits and the benefits only last until the next new moon.you can only have the benefits from one of these spells at any one time active on you.now time for the examplesif the caster chooses ability points and the victim had 10 hit dice/levels then the caster would gain 10 ability score points to use as he saw fit,so he could put 4 on strength 3 on intelligence and 3 on wisdom if he wanted to.if they choose caster levels then all of their spells and spell like abilities are cast as if they were ten levels higher for caster level only.if they choose bonuses to saves then they could put 3 on fortitude,3 on reflex,and the remaining 4 on willif they choose spell slots they gain a number of spell slots so they could use these for metamagicked spells or they could cast a level 4 spell and a level 6 spell or whatever other combination they wanted to.once chosen the benefits cannot be changed to another type of benefit and the numbers cannot be changed either(other then for spell slots)ie if they chose to give strength a bonus today they could not change it to a dexterity bonus tomorrow.please tell me what you think okay,i know it is very powerful but it also runs a lot of risk for the caster as well.</blockquote>

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