From:	dbuehrer@******.carl.org dbuehrer@******.carl.org
Subject:	Sustanined/Perminant
Date:	Wed, 28 Jun 2000 13:51:08 -0600

Phil Smith wrote:
>I have a little conundrum caused by the following spell:
>
>Tattoo
>Author: Aaron Wigley, 2 Sept 1993
>Type: Physical ·Transformation Manipulation
>Range: Touch
>Target: Body(R)
>Duration: Permenant(5)
>Drain: [(F/2)]M
>Causes a pattern of the mage's choice to appear on the area touched. The
>image is then subject to normal wear and tear. The colours will not fade
>over time, but can be abraided, or removed with cosmetic surgery, or
>paint. Only one success is required.
>
>I want to learn a version of this spell that will only last, say, a night
>and I can't find a way to do so. Allow me to explain; if I used the spell
>as is (perminant) I would have to live with it for life, if I made it
>sustained I would have to concentrate to keep it there, I want to do neither.
>
>Possible ways around this I have thought of is a modifier you can add to a
>perminant spell that makes it dispellable.

That's called a quickened spell. The above spell creates a permanent
*effect*, in that it creates ink in the target's skin.

Your character could rewrite the spell so that the tattoo isn't inked into
the skin with permanent ink, but instead is painted on the skin with
washable ink.


To Life,
-Graht
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