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Metronome

School: Enchantment

Tier: 5

Casting

Casting Time: 1 Standard Action

Range: Medium (100 ft. + 10 ft./CL)

Effect

Target: One creature

Duration: See text

Saving Throw: See text

Spell Resistance: Yes

Description

You hum a song, wag a finger, or otherwise perform a similarly innocent act, and afterwards generate a randomly determined magical effect. When you cast Metronome, roll a D100 and consult the following table to see what happens.

D% Wondrous Effect
01—05 Target affected by Slow for 10 rounds (Will negates)
06—10 Faerie Fire surrounds the target.
11—15 The caster's skin, equipment, and everything on them turns various shades of blue for 1d6 days (no save).
16—20 Gust of Wind, but at windstorm force (Fortitude negates).
21—25 Caster learns the target’s surface thoughts (as with Detect Thoughts) for 1d4 rounds (no save).
26—30 Stinking Cloud appears, centered at target creature's location (Fortitude negates).
31—33 Heavy rain falls for 1d6 rounds in 60-foot radius centered on the caster - the rain follows them.
34—36 Summons an animal — a rhino (01—25 on d%), elephant (26—50), or mouse (51—100). It does not obey the caster, and acts as GM decides.
37—46 Lightning Bolt, directed at the target creature (Reflex half).
47—49 A stream of 600 large butterflies pours forth and flutters around for 2 rounds, blinding everyone within 25 feet of the target creature (no save).
50—53 Target is affected by Enlarge Person (Fortitude negates).
54—58 Darkness in a 30-foot-diameter hemisphere, centered on the target creature.
59—62 Non-magical permanent grass grows in a 160-square-foot area around the caster, or grass existing there grows to 10 times its normal size.
63—65 Nearest nonliving object to the target creature of up to 1,000 pounds of mass and up to 30 cubic feet in size turns ethereal. The effect targets biggest applicable object available.
66—69 Reduces the caster by two size categories (no save) for 1 day.
70—79 Fireball at target (Reflex half).
80—84 Caster turns invisible, as Greater Invisibility.
85—87 The caster is instantaneously changed to the opposite sex.
88—90 The caster's money, up too 100 silver, flies from their pockets and pelts the target, dealing 1 bludgeoning damage each (Reflex half). The coins are taken by the fey as payment. If the caster has no money, a single coin is generated and used for this purpose; attempting to recover it is considered foolish.
91—95 Target is affected by Irresistible Dance.
96—99 Flesh to Stone (or Stone to Flesh if the target is stone already) (Fortitude negates).
100 Hyper Beam at target creature.

Traditionally, this spell is cast by fairies with a wag of their finger.