RUNE OF SINGULAR HATE
Cost: 10m
Target: Person
This curse is the blackest, foulest one that an Exalt can utter. It sears and twists the soul of the target and of the sorcerer who pronounces it. The Rune of Singular Hate is but a single word, a word so sharp-edged and hateful that a tongue can give it voice but once in a lifetime—a spell that a sorcerer may cast only once. As a result, the casting time is near-instantaneous. This spell has special timing rules. The character can cast it as three reflexive Shape Solar Circle Sorcery actions that take 0 ticks. (Meaning it doesn't even technically have to be prepared... it can be cast reflexively)
To cast the rune, the character must be able to speak. The target need not hear the word, and magical silence is no protection—the target hears the curse in his heart. The Rune of Singular Hate can target only a single individual, but if that individual is less than a Yozi, a Neverborn or an Incarna, the rune sears him. The player of the spell’s target rolls the value of each of his character’s Attributes and Abilities—including Essence and Willpower—in which he possesses a score, one at a time. For every success the player rolls testing a trait, his character retains one dot of that trait. Dice on which the player does not roll a success represent a dot that is lost, immediately and forever, from that Attribute, Virtue or Ability.
Characters with Intelligence or Wits scores of 0 are reduced to mindless vegetables. Characters with no dots of Perception are deprived of all senses and cut off from the outside world. Characters reduced to Stamina or Essence 0 have their lives snuffed out. Characters without any Willpower become will-less automatons.
I am aware that Edmund has no "scores" in anything stated here, but surely he has his wits, some intelligence, stamina, and a willpower of his own. I am not expecting you to roll dice OR put him at zero for anything, as that'd be just as bullshitty as "LOLBYENUKEROFLMAO", but there is no way he won't be CRIPPLED in one way or another.
What's worse... if Ysolda dies from le nuke... she will be reborn later on if I decide to go through that one thread... and I can use this spell again, as she technically is living a new life! Fucking WIN!
To make it WORSE... I cite the following.
"The character
can cast it as three reflexive Shape Solar Circle Sorcery actions that take 0 ticks"
This doesn't mean I MUST cast it with no prep. I've so far had two posts where Ysolda used the "shape solar circle sorcery' action. Granted, she was focused on Total Annihilation, but this spell has the same contributing factor... hate/rage... so using those preparatory actions toward this instead is not a far stretch by any means whatsoever, and will simply go toward empowering the curse rather than Total Annihilation.
GG.
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