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| Skill Tree: | Roleplaying Skills |
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| Prerequisite(s): | Game Master Approval, Medium Four |
| Skill Point Cost: | 4 |
| Brief Description: | Can speak with dead characters and force them to answer truthfully. |
Medium Level Five
A rank five medium learns the unique speak with the dead ability. This can be done twice per game day.
Speak with dead is a touch range spell which is cast only on characters who are dead but not permanently dead. The spell requires an incant but costs no power points to cast with a ten minute duration. Because this is a spell, anything that would stop a spell will stop this ability (such as anti-magic shield on the body of the person you cast this on).
Once successfully cast speak with dead allows the medium to communicate with the dead character, forces them to respond and allows them only to speak truthful answers to the medium's questions.
Detailed Interactions
Medium Five's Speak With Dead and Aegis Spells
The spells anti-magic shield, anti-magic aura, and aura of reflection (and the alchemy compound ethereal sealant) all prevent spells from affecting you. Because the medium five ability "speak with dead" is treated as a spell that is cast on a dead character's body, each of these effects will prevent the speak with dead spell, preventing one casting of it. A "No Effect" call must be made whenever an attack successfully hits you but does not inflict damage (or does not take effect in the case of spells) so that the attacker knows-that-you-know the attack successfully hit and so that they know they may need to attack with something different.
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