The Checkmate Scroll
Song of the ‘Jammer (Handout version)
Conjuration (Teleportation)
Effective Level:9th
Skill Checks: 9
*Knowledge (the planes) DC 26, 2 success;
*Spellcraft DC 26, 1 success;
*Psicraft DC 26, 1 success;
*Perform (sing) DC 26, 5 successes
-For this incantation the spellcraft and psicraft checks are made by the additional casters while the Knowledge: the planes and Perform checks are made by the primary caster.Failure:All casters take 2d6 hp of damage and are exhausted. Smalljammer along with crew and cargo is planeshifted to a random plane within the originating multiverse and unable to take its first action for 1d6 rounds while the smalljammer attunes to its new spacetime coordinates. (i.e. You fail to make the jump from Realmspace to Urban Arcana, the ship and contents are planeshifted to the plane of Shadow and unable to move for 4 rounds while the ship recovers from the jump.)
Components: V, S, M, F, XP
Casting Time:< 9 hours
Range:Touch
Target or Targets:1 Smalljammer Class Ship with crew and cargo. While the ship’s air envelope is affected as well, nothing more solid than a gas that is within the envelope but outside the Smalljammer’s hull is. (While it is speculated that the incantation will work with any living ship there are no known instances of it being done.) For the incantation to work the smalljammer must be outside the orbit of the outermost planet in the system by at least 5,000 miles.
Duration: Instantaneous
Saving Throw:Will negates (harmless) (DC 19 + caster’s Cha modifier)
Spell Resistance: Yes (harmless)
Casting: The actual song portion of the incantation takes five hours. During that time the singing alternates with chanted components performed by the additionalcasters and, if they are successful, the Smalljammer as well.
Material Component: 5,000 gp Worth of exotic materials. The exact materials vary depending on what multiverse you are in and which one you wish to go to.In all cases the materials must come from three different planes in the starting multiverse.
Focus: An Organic, Living Spelljamming Helm
Backlash Component: Crossdimensional feedback. (planeshifted, exhausted, 2d6 hp damage)
Extra Casters: 2 backup chanters, 1 with Psicraft and one with Spellcraft. In addition the Smalljammer acts as an additional caster for a grand total of 3.
XP Cost: 200 xp from Primary Caster and 75 xp each from the additional casters.
Since the barrier between the Myriad Realms (i.e. d20 Modern, DragonStar, Call of Cthulhu, etc.) is vibrational in nature it stands to reason that one of the few ways of breaching the barriers between dimensions would involve sound. In this case the sound of song.
This nine hour ritual creates a breach in the barriers between dimensions allowing one ship to pass through. The first four hours are used in ritual preparation, attuning the ship and crew with the balance of arcane, psionic, and divine energies of their starting plane.
Some say that it was during the first performance of this Incantation that the Far Realm was first discovered. If there is truth to the theory held amongst some sagesthat the Far Realm fills the area between dimensions much like the Phlogiston fills the area between Spheres then this story may well be true.
Warning: Krynnspace Quarantine
You’ve been warned basher! Following the event known on the prime world of Krynn as the Second Cataclysm, Krynn no longer exists entirely within the Multiversal Structure to which we are accustomed. It is currently in the process of oscillating between the Prime Material Plane and an as yet unidentified Someplace Else. Only a clueless berk would think of entering that sphere.
The INS Stormbreaker
In our last episode Our Heroes encountered a strange new type of elven ship, the INS Stormbreaker. This was their first view of it as it materialized just outside the trailing edge of the Tears of Selune in Realmspace. (All images (C) 2008 by Michael Billard, used with permission)
More views as seen when the Voidskimmer spiraled in for a landing after the cut.
DragonRock, Realmspace
Here is the finished rough map of Dragon Rock as mapped for the Planejammer Game. Enjoy!
The Swift Star (Sindiath Line Battle Dolphin)
Capt Amril Leafbower
First Mate Kaolpak the Hadozee
Quartermaster Sarin Illurindil
26 Flamerule Departure From Rock of Bral
Call 9 bells
Castoff 12 bells
Estimated six week journey to Toril, Realmspace
Pay: 300 gp each, 500 gp for Spellcasters
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