Scorching (Pyrochemantics Ability)

== AB Scroll ==
PYROCHEMANTICS - SCORCHING
Syntax: PYROWORK SCORCHING SMOKE
Outlay: gold 10
::incendiary 100
You can release a cloud of smoke around you by mixing up a pyrochemantic
brew. The smoke has a 20% chance to knock those who attack you off
balance for 1.0 seconds. It will disperse after 50 months.
== Messages / Notes ==
Message (proc, victim sees):
:You cough and your lungs are scoured by the smoke the hangs about <pyro>, the chemicals in the fumes quickly seeping through your skin and catching aflame.
Message (1st person, cast):
:You pop the top of a fused flask of gold-flecked quartz, peering into it with one eye. Nodding, you hold the flask up to your lips and tilt your head back. Instinctively your mind begins to sort through the flask's contents, drawing out the incendiary reagent and pulling it down your throat. Rapidly, you consume scores of units of the half-gas, half-liquid reagent before capping the flask once more. The intoxicating rush hits you, fiery and alive and far too much for any one person to handle, even you. In a thunderous roar you produce the reagents, reacting in your airways and gut until it erupts as an angry, burnt orange flame, pouring from your mouth and curling around your face. Quickly breaking down a series of gold bars into a pile of glittering dust, you toss the precious filings into the thick, cloying smoke that remains in the wake of your initial reaction. Manipulating the gold and lingering pyro-elemental reagents in the air, you work them together into thick rings of scorching smoke, ones that will linger for quite a while.