Gain Sense

Gain Sense
Skill: alteration/living forces 18
Backlash: 18
Difficulty: 14
Effect Value: 18
Bonus Number to: duration
Range: touch
Duration: 18 (one hour)
Cast Time: 12 (four minutes)
Manipulation: cast time
This is a focused spell. A useful and versatile spell
for the magician who desires the vision of a hawk or the smell of a hound. The
spell requires that some part of the creature whose sense is to be gained must
be dried and ground into a fine powder during the casting of the spell. The
caster (and the target cannot perform any other actions during the casting of
the spell and she must concentrate on assuming the sense desired. After the
spell has been cast, the mage may use the effect value as a bonus number to any
Perception roll that the target makes which directly uses this sense as
a mechanism.
Example: A mage with the bonus sense of smell (from a
hound) can use the effect value as a bonus number for a find or tracking
skill roll. The nose of a hound would obviously not help her Perception based
skill of language, however.