Date:         Mon, 10 Jan 1994 18:49:10 GMT0BST
From: Warlock's Cave <94TEST00@leicester.ac.uk>
Subject:      ADND-L > Unique spellbooks found!

    "Greetings old friends and customers.  I hope that you have had an
enjoyable time during the recent festivities.  I however have
something of a problem and I would appreciate some help."
    The tired old man leans slowly back on the scaffolding supporting
the west wall of his inn and pulls from his tool belt a damaged
leather bound book.
    "After my little party here [strictly for those of us who are
rebuilding the tavern] Flame brought this over.  She said that she'd
found it in the woodpile.  Now as you can see this is a 12x9 inch tome
of around 100 pages with the elder rune braxus on it.  Since then
we've found a number of similar books.  I've had it looked at and it
appears to be a spellbook so I intend to start passing around
extracts of the book until it's owner shows up and explains what his
spellbooks are doing in my woodpile."

Veringens Curse [Summon Fang Warrior]
    Level   :   7
    Range   :   0
    Needs   :   VSM
    Duration:   1 day/level
    Save    :   N/A
    C. Time :   1 turn

    With the use of this spell a mage may summon from a currently
unknown location a number of servants.  This spell is rare due to the
material component required.  Each servant requires the prescence of
one tooth from an adult or older dragon. There is no limit to the
number of creatures that may be summonned with each casting.  It is
important to know the type of dragon that the tooth originated from
at the time of casting.
    Servants are:
            HD  :   5+3
            AC  :   Original dragon minus three
            #att:   2 claw/claw
            Dam :   1d6/1d6
            Spec:   Breath weapon
            Move:   12"/18"

            Servants are 6' humanoid dragon creatures with wings
permitting type C flight.  Colouration is as the original dragon
and breath weapon of appropriate type is 5d6 3/day.

    Servants is however a misleading title since only if the 'canine'
teeth of the dragon are used and correctly named will the summonned
beings serve the caster.  In all other cases the proceedure goes
array and the 'servants' are uncontrollable and smitten with the
unstoppable desire to slay the caster.  This is where Veringen met
his end when attempting to alter the spell to work on any tooth from
the dragon he cast a double handfull to the floor and was torn
assunder by his creations.  Servants speak the languages of the
caster plus the original dragon types.  Additionally opposing colour
types [chromatic vs metallic] will attack each other wildly on sight.

    This spell continues giving descriptions of the sort of missions
that will or won't be undertaken by the servant. A copy of this spell
will be made available to any one who can predict the exact
restrictions

Telurians Fire-bolt
        Level   :   4
        Duration:   Instant
        C.Time  :   1 round
        Needs   :   VSM
        Range   :   120' + 10'/lvl
        Save    :   1/2 damage

    This spell creates unsurprisingly a bolt of fire.  This may be a
single bolt from caster to one target or any number of independantly
targetted bolts up to 1/lvl.  If fired at one person damage is (1D6+1)
per level of the caster.  If fired at multiple targets the damage is
1D6 per bolt [more than one bolt can be fired simultaneously at a
target giving a xD6 bolt but only one save is made and the additional
damage only comes into play if the is but a single bolt.]
    This spells advantage over fireball is its ability to strike only
the desired targets during melee.  It's level is higher due to the
fact that 1000's of wizards have spent centuries refining fireball
and making it easier to cast where as this spell is considerred very
rare.
    Material components are as for fire ball whilst somnatic are both
hands crossed at the wrists in front of the body swept rapidly apart.
Intervening solid objects between caster and target will take damage
INSTEAD of target.

    These are just two examples of the spells found written in these
pages but the translation I recieved for them was necessarily inexact.
My magician friend is unable  to cast spells of this magnitude.  So
out of curiousity if anyone knows any more of the limits on these
spells please get in touch.

Thanx in advance

Warlock

The man with the cunning plan!
Prop. The One Eyed Unicorn