Chained Spells:
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Chain spells are an extremely powerful tool Mages have to create a series of effects one after another. They're fairly easy to create, but the trick is in caring for the pages. If the order changes at all, even temporarily, the chain will be broken. It's usually best to create seperate spellbooks for each chain spell.
Basically, all you do is put next.page before end.spell. It then chants the spell on the next page of your book whenever you chant the first spell. Affect spells don't chain well since a character can only have one spell of each colour on them at any time. However, damage type spells chain very well. The good side to chain spells, despite their fussiness about page order, is that they usually require less mana than single spells. You can also play with messages more, or possibly have a chain to web and blind someone before you blow them up. It's also much faster to
cast a chain spell than a single page spell five times.
Advanced chain toys include:
'parameter: ' - Casts the next spell in chain as per 'chant '
Classic is a damage/damage/damage/heal/heal
Sample chain damage:
Start.damage.spell
victim.target
min.damage: 500
max.damage: 1000
message.one: fireball
message.two: $N's flesh burns away.
message.three: $n waves $s hands and $N's flesh burns.
next.page <--The last spell won't have next.page in it.
end.spell
Colours:
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Every Mage studies one of the five colours. This comes into play with affect spells mostly, although it does have other effects. No creature can be affected by two spells of the same colour. So you can't cast your 'Raise hp/mana' spell 50 times on yourself. However, if you get a Mage of another colour to write the end.spell for you on another page, you can several effectively identical spells on someone. Very useful for training/blessing spells. If you try to chant a spell and you don't even get an error message, then it means you forgot to copy a rune of
mastery onto the page before you started.
