Mirror Image
Mirror Image by the The Bennie Maupin Ensemble
The VaM-style spell today is Mirror Image - the title coming from this song by The Bennie Maupin Ensemble.
I absolutely love the album Penumbra it is full of great songs - and many would make great spells - example include Vapors, Penumbra, Level Three, Trope on a Rope, Tapping things, See the Positive, The 12th Day, Equal Justice, Blinkers - all great spell ideas and beautiful songs.
Here is some definitions of mirror and image!
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Mirror Image
Duration: Until attacked or not seen by someone.
Range: 0
Creates 1d4 images of the spellcaster that act completely insane and wild, running away from the caster and doing different things. Any attack on an image dispels it. If a 4 is rolled for the number of images, roll an additional 1d4, this continues till a 4 is not rolled. They are material, and can interact with the world.
What is the Image doing? Roll 1d20 for each image.
1: Run towards nearest non-caster person, attempt to attack them.
2: Run and hide.
3: Sing and weave drunkenly, stumbling and maybe even falling over.
4: Running a couple feet, then fall over as stiff as a board.
5: Act like they are casting a spell.
6: Attack the original caster or another image, 50% of either.
7: Run around in circles.
8: Attempt to steal something.
9: Begin screaming and trying to hide behind people.
10: Begin stripping nude and looking for water to swim in.
11: Grapple someone.
12: Shout commands to people.
13: Curl up in the fetal position.
14: Kneeling and praying.
15: Trying to marshal the group – trying to get party order and get somewhere.
16: Begins frantically doing something, like jostling a doorknob, pulling hair, hoisting rope...
17: Walk around calmly, talking aloud about what they see.
18: Go to a party member and try to valiantly defend or protect them at all times.
19: Add two more images, roll as normal.
20: Add two more images, roll as normal.
Miscast Table
1 – The caster loses 1 Hit Point for each image created – these can be re-absorbed by the caster touching the image.
2 – Each image gets two rolls on the What is the image doing? Table, and will attempt to do both at the same time- even if that is conflicting and insane.
3 – The images explode in a huge gout of blood when damaged, like they were a blood bubble – and anyone who bursts an image gets an additional action immediately.
4 – The spell is delayed, one image gets released from the caster at the start of each of their turns until the amount rolled is out.
5 – Roll once on the What is the image doing? Table, all the images are doing that.
6 – The images make an unnerving clicking popping sound, like cracked gum.
7 – The caster screams, and rips and tears – out of their corpse the images stride forth covered in their progenitors blood – they initially act as normally dictated by the spell – but they are clones – and will murderously seek to kill anyone that does not look like them.
8 – Instead of the images rolling on the What is the image doing? Table, roll on the Confusion table.
9 – The images are all different looking, none of them look like the original caster.
10 – The images will soon all hate the caster, and after two rounds of acting as normal – they will attempt to find and attack the caster.
11 – Each image gets 1d6 Hit points, and once these are expended they die – this is instead of being dispelled when attacked. Each time an image dies, the caster should roll a save vs magic – if they fail, they lose their next action, frozen in the mistaken belief that that was the real them that just died.
12 – In addition to the normal effect of the spell, Invisibility Improved is cast on the caster and all their images as if by a level 5 Magic-User.
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