[UA] Lavomancy

[Royal Minister of Stuff]

My wife is making up a UA character and so there's no
question I will have to allow the school of magic she
wishes to use into my game.  We're calling it
Lavomancy because I don't have a dictionary of
classical greek (but I still have all my old latin
books.)

The problem is, I'm having a hell of a time coming up
with formula spells and I could use some help.  Here's
the stats.  I welcome any ideas for spells and costs.

Also, I haven't thought up a clever nickname yet.

Lavomancy
(this one was probably already done way back in the
archive, right?)

Cleansing Magic

STATS
Generate a Minor Charge:
Clean something thoroughly.  Your fingernails would
count if you buffed and polished them to a high sheen
as well.  Lighting incense and sprinkling holy water
around a room would also count, because that
constitutes a kind of spiritual cleansing.  Just
washing your hands wouldn't work, but scrubbing up
like a doctor before surgery would certainly generate
a charge.

Generate a Significant Charge:
Take over an hour cleaning something really dirty. 
Scrub the men's bathroom at the Texaco until the
porcelain gleams.  Whitewash your fence and trim the
grass until your yard looks like a showroom.  Give
your old chevy pick-up that new car feel and smell
(repainting it if it has rust spots.)  Generally
retreive order from chaos in any given liberal arts
professor's office.

Generate a Major Charge
Ritual cleanse, spiritually and physically, an
important occult object or place that you have gained
access to by open and honest (i.e. cleanly) means. 
You don't have to own the object or place in question,
but the owners have to know you're there and what
you're doing with it.  Stealing such an object or
taking over such a place by force is out of the
question (unless a holy war is involved.)

Taboo:
Getting dirty, even in a spiritual sense.  If you
demean yourself, go against your beleifs or (shudder)
get possessed by a spirit, you've become spiritually
dirty.  If mud splashes on you, if you don't brush
your teeth twice a day, you lose your charges.  In
fact, most people get gradually dirtier over the
course of the day.  Unless you are constantly
grooming, you're going to loose charges (but constant
grooming does build minor charges, so stock up on your
dental floss.)

Random Magic:
This school is all about cleansing, much like
annilhomancy.  However, unlike the school of
destruction, this school attempts to put a new,
"safer" fascade over the top of the shriving.  It
scents and gilds, making things sharper but also
stiffer, more brittle.  You could sharpen someone's
memories (or your own) with this magic, but you
couldn't focus on the unpleasant ("dirty") stuff.  You
could put someone's life in order, but would have to
gloss over the "gritty" bits.

Blast:
Flush - Removes all natural secretions from the body. 
All sweat, all mucus, all feces, all tears, all hair,
all fingernails: poof, they're gone.  Of course, the
body will quickly generate some more, but the agony is
 unthinkable (imagine being so dry you can't swallow
and did you ever rip off one, just one, of your
fingernails by accident?  Ouch!)  The damage is
strictly superficial, but makes the victim very, very
tender.

The significant version of this blast removes the
outermost layer of skin as well (you know, the nasty
stuff that flakes off all the time?)  This leaves
every inch of flesh on the victim red and raw (not
bleeding, no exposed muscles -you have lots of layers
of skin.)  However, it takes about 2 weeks for new
skin to grow back (scar tissue might form faster.) 
The short is that every single nerve ending in your
skin is exposed and irritated at once.  This includes
ones on your tongue and lips and, um.... genitals.

Also, you'll be red and patchy for about two weeks.



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