Create Dark Cloud

Create Dark Cloud
Skill: apportation/air 14
Backlash: 14
Difficultly: 8
Effect Value: 0
Bonus Number to: duration
Range: 10 (100 meters)
Duration: 29 (one week)
Cast Time: 25 (one day)
Manipulation: control
Create dark cloud is a fairly simple spell often taught to mages who have reached the
journeyman level. Used with dark cloud familiar, it provides a vessel
for spell storing that is easy to create and control. To cast this spell, the
mage must build a small fire. Then, as it bums, he must carefully throw moist
leaves and other wet (but still flammable) objects on the fire. This causes a
black, sooty smoke to billow up. When it does, the caster uses her hands to
"shape" the smoke into a small cloud. The fire, the smoke, and the shaping
must continue throughout the spell's cast time. Often, a mage will have an
assistant on hand instructed to keep the fire burning and smoking. When the
spell is complete, the caster has a small (one meter radius) cloud of smoke
that she can control for the duration of the spell. She can move it around,
change its shape, and even dispel it if she pleases. The cloud may not move
farther away from the caster than the range allows, and will move with the
caster unless otherwise instructed.