Color Spray

All right, young stundent this spell is going to help you when trouble finds you. Trouble can mean getting caught, a parent walking in at the worst possible moment, a monster lunging from the dark, or a bandit deciding you look like easy prey. In all those situations, you’ll be learning how to use Color Spray.   Color Spray is a magical burst of shifting colors, released in a sudden fan of light meant to overwhelm the senses. It can blind and disorient targets for a few moments by flooding their vision with more color and brightness than their eyes can properly process. That brief window is often all you need to escape, reposition, or create an opening for something more decisive.   But listen carefully: if you use this on a guard or any authority figure, including me. You will quickly learn that temporary blindness is not a permanent solution to your problems. The spell ends. Consequences do not.   So use it wisely. Use it on appropriate targets. And do not make me add “Color Spray discipline” to the curriculum.

Effect

A vivid cone of clashing colors springs forth from your hand, causing creatures to become stunned, perhaps also blinded, and possibly knocking them unconscious. Each creature within the cone is affected according to its HD.   2 HD or less: The creature is unconscious, blinded, and stunned for 2d4 rounds, then blinded and stunned for 1d4 rounds, and then stunned for 1 round. (Only living creatures are knocked unconscious.)   3 or 4 HD: The creature is blinded and stunned for 1d4 rounds, then stunned for 1 round.   5 or more HD: The creature is stunned for 1 round.   Sightless creatures are not affected by color spray.
Components V, S, M (red, yellow, and blue powder or colored sand)
Gestures & Ritual
Gather your energy into one hand and let it circulate for a moment, as if forming a small, shimmering lens. As you speak the incantation, the gathered light shifts and refracts through your mana, building into a concentrated spectrum.   Then, with a sharp forward motion, release it in a bursting fan colors flaring outward in a dazzling spray meant to blind and confuse whoever is caught in its path.
Related School
Related Element
Light,
Effect Duration
instantaneous
Effect Casting Time
1 standard action
Range
15ft Cone shaped burst
Level
LV1
Saving Throw Will negates; Spell Resistance yes


Cover image: by Valcin (Marc Zipper)

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