[UA] New school of magick (needs work)

[Eric Eves]

For a switch from the whole "sexist UA" debate, does
anyone want to help me polish a new magical school I
have been working on?  I almost made this into
Archetype: The Cripple, but then I noticed the great
paradox.

(name not yet figured out)

Magic based on disability, helplessness, and guilt. 
(how "laddish" is that?)  All practitioners must have
an obvious, major disability (total blindness, missing
limb, etc.)  This disability may be natural or
surgically created in order to use the school.

Parodox:  Through being helpless and dependant on
others, you gain power over them.

Taboo: (1) Do anything your disability would make
harder for yourself when there are others around who
could do it for you.  (2) Hide your disability from
anyone.

Charges:

Minor: get someone to help you in a minor way, like
holding open a door or reading a sign.

Significant: Put yourself in a situation where you
will be somewhat helpless if someone doesn't help you
at a noticable inconviniance to them.  (getting lost
while blind and asking people to lead you home is a
good one)

Major: Do something that will be lethal if someone
doesn't save you at some personal risk (walk into the
street during heavy traffic while blind, fall in the
water if crippled, or something like that)

Random magick: Guilt, involantary revulsion, and such.

Blast: The blast works something like the plutomantic
blast, but with two differences.  First, the person
doesn't attack themself, someone else attacks them. 
Second, it can only be used on people who just
attacked you while knowing you were disabled.  Also,
it gives no self check because the person believes
they were doing the right thing.


Formula spells:

Minor: 

1 minor
You wouldn't hit a guy with glasses on?
Forces anyone attacking you to make a rank 5 self
check to attack you if they can see your disability

1 minor
Right of way.
Any group of people in line for something or in a
similar situation will move aside to let you get by,
even if they are running out of a burning building or
another dangerous situation

2 minor
Cripple beater!
The minor blast.  Works like Mercenary will, except as
described above.

3 minor
Look at me!  I'm deformed!
You expose your disability to everyone around you. 
All who see it must make a rank 3 violence check or be
stunned for 3 rounds. (only works with visually
obvious conditions)

3 minor
Help me!
The target of the spell will assist the caster in a
single task which would be made more difficult by his
condition.  Will not work for charge gaining.

Significant:

1 sig
Someone else's problem
Functions like "just a harmless drunk".  People don't
like to see you, so they ignore you totally instead.

1 sig
Let me get that door for you.
Anyone with access to keys will let the caster into
any one location and will hold the door open for them.
 If the caster was not supposed to be there, the
person will not realize this unless someone asks him. 
Only the caster will be let inside.

2 sig
(significant blast.  Can someone help me with the
name?)
Works like the minor blast, but both does significant
damage and the person forced to attack will do so with
die flip-flopping, as if they were following their
noble stimulus.

3 sig
What it feels like to be me.
For the next day, gives the target the same disability
as the caster.  Helplessness checks will be in order,
depending on the disability.  A matched success will
make it last a week, and an OACOWA will make it
permanant.

3 sig
You poor man...
All people around the caster will aid him in any
manner that is within their capability for any one
task.

Major:
Turn someone into a comatose invalid.  Force someone
to become your assistant for life.

Are there any suggestions that will make this more
workable?  Paticularly I need names for the siggy
blast and the school as a whole, as well as some
assistance on the formula spells.  


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