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<p>Created page with &quot;{{#pagetitle: Speed of Lightning}} Approval [https://www.standingtrials.com/viewtopic.php?f=364&amp;t=19359 here] Speed of Lightning - Under the influence of Praetorum&#039;s flow spa...&quot;</p> <p><b>New page</b></p><div>{{#pagetitle: Speed of Lightning}}<br /> Approval [https://www.standingtrials.com/viewtopic.php?f=364&amp;t=19359 here]<br /> <br /> Speed of Lightning - Under the influence of Praetorum&#039;s flow spark, his chosen refinement, lightning, has learned to Embrace him as the other core elements have. When shooting a bolt of lightning from his person, Praetorum is able to travel along that bolt, emerging anywhere along its path in a moment. This act has its own ether cost, equivalent to using Embrace on any other element along a comparable distance.<br /> <br /> Because he travels along the bolt immediately after its creation, his ability to dance it into an unnatural shape is even more limited than before, and the bolt is essentially limited to traveling in a straight line in the direction Praetorum pointed it.<br /> <br /> This means that he cannot cross barriers, even conductive ones, as the bolt will disperse upon striking it and deposit him right in front of it. It also means that if the bolt’s path can be altered, whether through electromagnetic interference, or the power of another defier, Praetorum will be forced to emerge somewhere other than where he had expected.<br /> <br /> This mutation electrifies Prae constantly to some small degree: magnets and compasses fail unpredictably around him, animals that rely on electromagnetic senses will avoid the area around him, and there is a slight static discharge whenever he brings two claws together.<br /> <br /> The final mark this mutation leaves on him is a small lichtenburg figure on the small of his back, still thick with static as if lightning is trying to crawl out of his hide. Each time he travels along a lightning bolt, it grows in size (relative to the distance Praetorum has travelled), branching out in a random direction. While on his back, this figure has no effect. But when the branches reach his limbs, the growing tide of electricity within him begins to take its toll on them. When they reach his shoulder or hips, the respective limb will grow numb and tingly, the effect increasing as the figure grows until it reaches the elbow or knee, whereupon that limb deadens. Anyone who touches that limb while it is deadened will receive a painful electric shock.<br /> <br /> This adds an element of risk when Praetorum overuses this ability: after making a very long jump, he might be lucky and find himself more or less in fighting form, with only a slight tingle in each limb, or he might land to find one arm completely useless.<br /> <br /> This is not a permanent effect, as the lichtenburg figure slowly shrinks over time, and function returns to his limbs as the branches retreat. But though the overall rate of shrinkage is constant over time, which parts shrink is also random.<br /> <br /> Overall, the rate of shrinkage would be three trials to remove all effect from one entire limb (fingertip to elbow, elbow to shoulder, shoulder to back each taking a trial each.)<br /> <br /> <br /> <br /> [[Category: Praetorum]]</div>

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