Astral Seed

**Discipline:** Metacreativity; **Level:** Shaper 8

**Display:** Material; see text

**Manifesting Time:** 10 minutes

**Range:** 0 ft.

**Effect:** One storage crystal

**Duration:** Instantaneous

**Saving Throw:** None; **Power Resistance:** No

**Power Points:** 15

This power weaves strands of astral ectoplasm into a
crystal containing the seed of your living mind (hardness
1 and 1 hit point). You can have only one *astral seed* in
existence at any one time. Until such time as you perish, the
*astral seed* (also called the storage crystal) is utterly inert. If
you are slain at some later date, your soul transfers into the
storage crystal, which begins to dimly glow.

Upon transference, your physical remains (should they
still exist) become inert matter and cannot thereafter be
restored to life. The transfer from the slain body to the *astral*
*seed* works over any distance, physical or extradimensional.

Once your body’s physical demise activates the storage
crystal, you have the abilities of a psicrystal of the
appropriate level, full hit points, plus all the powers you
knew, the maximum power points you possessed when
*astral seed* was manifested, and the current number of
power points you had prior to the transfer into the crystal.
Should this be higher than the maximum power points
when the power was manifested, you have the lower of the
two amounts. You also have a negative level that cannot
be healed and that does not convert to real level loss in
your current crystalline form. You have all the abilities you
had in your original form, including the ability to manifest
powers, so long as your storage crystal form has the physical
ability to perform those actions. For example, you could not
manifest *Karak’s bite of the wolf* because your new form
does not have a mouth. Nor could you wield a weapon, as
your storage crystal does not have the arms to wield one.

You have thirty days to grow an organic body, after which
time your sentience fades and your soul passes on if it hasn’t
entered a new body.

To grow a body, you (in the storage crystal) must spend
ten days in uninterrupted solitude. The body’s constituent
parts are pulled as ectoplasm from the Astral Plane, then
slowly molded and transformed into a living, breathing
body that is an exact duplicate of your body at the time you
manifested *astral seed* (the crystal itself breaks down and
becomes a part of the new organic body). When the tenth
day ends, you completely and totally inhabit the new body.
You possess all the abilities you possessed when *astral seed*
was manifested, but you have none of your equipment.
You still suffer a negative level that does not fade unless
removed by means such as *restoration*.

If the body is struck for any amount of damage during the
ten-day period when it is growing, it is destroyed and your
soul passes on.

Conceivably, you could manifest *true mind switch* to utilize
a temporary body, but only an evil creature would smash
his own temporarily empty storage crystal to permanently
usurp a subject’s organic body (unless the subject is itself
irredeemably evil).

## Astral Seed (Mythic)

The amount of time to reform your body is reduced to one day and do not suffer a negative level when you reform in your new body.

**Augmented:** If you expend one use of mythic power, you reform with all the abilities you possessed when killed, rather than when mythic astral seed was manifested.

**Augmented (3rd):** If you expend one use of mythic power, an ectoplasmic cocoon forms around your body as it is creating, protecting it from potential harm. Once the body is ready for you to inhabit, the cocoon dissipates.