Triple Mask (Priest Spell)

This spell transports the caster's real body and gear to an extradimensional space and creates three identical, solid images of the caster on the spot where the caster stood. These solid illusions have no intellect and cannot wield or cast magic, but otherwise look and act just like the caster, who controls them all. The images can carry things, speak, and even launch (nonspell) attacks at the caster's normal THAC0, employing their nonmagical duplicates of whatever gear and weaponry the caster had on his or her person at the time the spell was cast. The images act independently and can travel any distance apart from each other without affecting the operation of the triple mask. This spell is often used by casters who want to be present at a dangerous meeting or journey but somehow remain safe.
The caster must be in contact with/linked to one of the images at the beginning of a round and stay "in" that image until the end of the round; in the meantime, the other two images carry out any instructions they were given at the end of the preceding round. When the round ends, the caster can instantly, silently, and untraceably switch to another image. At the same time, the caster can alter the orders for the other two images. No switch need be made if the caster does not desire to, and the caster can see and hear (but not smell, feel, or taste) through the eyes and ears of all three images at all times.
Images that are destroyed when the caster is not in them do the caster no harm. One image's destruction does not end the spell or visibly affect the other two images—but if the image the caster is linked to is destroyed, the spell ends, all three images vanish instantly, the caster appears in the location of the destroyed image, and the caster suffers 1 point of damage for each experience level she or he currently possesses.
When this spell is cast, the caster must make a system shock survival roll. If it fails, the caster falls unconscious but takes no other harm, and the spell is wasted without taking effect. When the spell ends normally, the caster returns to the last position of any of the remaining images when the spell expired.
The material components of this spell are three peas.
Notes: Granted by Leira, Lady of Mists, of the Forgotten Realms setting.
Category:Priest Spells
Category:Spells from Faiths & Avatars
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