Chaos - Skill Lists - Shade

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Shade

(101)             psionic blast ^^
(110)             mind exposure ** (strips sanc & refuge)
(120)              static field *
(130)                      fade **
(140)              discorporate *
(150)                 mind numb *
(160)             mental shroud ** (camo for group)
(170)             darkness bolt ^^
(180)               heart boost *
(190)          field of shadows
(200)                     blink ** (auto-stun)
(210)           black gathering *
(220)            darkness blast ^^
(230)         blessing of night (+mana enchant on chaos weapon)
(240)          strength of mind *
(250)                  lethargy ** (-minors debuff, does not aggro)
(260)               darken mind (svs debuff)
(270)                     phase **
(280)            wrath of night ^^
(290)           shadow warriors *
(300)           dim enchantment (+hp enchant on light)
(310)                 inky veil *
(320)               shadow gate * (flee + stop fight)
(330)               shadowy web
(340)             midnight bolt ^^
(350)                blank mind
(360)       shadow manipulation * (heal tank)
(370)               hold shadow
(380)               shadow path
(390)          meld with shadow
(400)               moon shield
(410)              spatial rift **
(420)              energy drain ** (-minors debuff, does not aggro)
(430)           waves of hatred
(440)                  aversion
(450)                drain mind
(460)            midnight blast ^^
(470)            weave darkness
(480)        spatial distortion *
(490)         space time anchor
(500)                black hole ^

'PSIONIC BLAST'
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Syntax: cast 'psionic blast' <victim>
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  This Shade spell allows the caster to concentrate all of their
energy into a powerful mental attack that smashes their opponents
minds. Like all mental spells, there is no save against this spell.

        <Shade>                 101

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'MIND EXPOSURE'
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Syntax: cast 'mind exposure' <victim>
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  This powerful spell allows the Shade to open up the victim's mind
and strip them of their Sanctuary, which previously protected them
from harm.

        <Shade>                 110

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'STATIC FIELD'
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Syntax: cast 'static field'
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  Shades have found that if they create a field of static around their
entire group then they become harder to hit via blows from weapons as
well as from magic.

        <Shade>                 120

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'FADE'
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Syntax: cast fade
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  This spell allows the Shade to fade into the shadows, becoming quite
difficult to see. It remains in effect even during combat.

 To become visible again during the duration of the spell type 'vis'.

        <Shade>                 130

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'DISCORPORATE'
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Syntax: cast 'discorporate' <target>
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  This spell allows a Shade to nearly dematerialize an ally's body to
the point that they become a blur to their opponent's vision, allowing
them to better avoid a physical attack.

        <Shade>                 140

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'MIND NUMB'
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Syntax: cast 'mind numb' <target>
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  The mind numb spell allows the Shade to force their will upon an
opponent, causing their opponent's synapses to slow. The effect of
this spell is that it makes the opponent more susceptible to physical
and magical attacks.  

        <Shade>                 150

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'MENTAL SHROUD'
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Syntax: cast 'mental shroud'
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  This spell allows a Shade to create a mental shroud around all
members of their group, hiding them from all but the toughest
creatures. The shroud is limited, and moving cancels the weave of
magic that creates the potent shroud causing the one who moved to
become visible again.

        <Shade>                 160

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'DARKNESS BOLT'
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Syntax cast 'darkness bolt' <victim>
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   With intense mental focus, a Shade can manipulate the powers of 
darkness and create a powerful energy bolt which is thrown at their
enemies, causing damage. While fighting, the target is optional.

        <Shade>                 170

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'HEART BOOST'
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Syntax: cast 'heart boost'
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  This healing spell creates a surge in the caster's heart that
allows the different parts of the person's body to work quickly
and bind their wounds. While this may sound complex, the spell
works very quickly and is especially useful in battle.
        
        <Shade>                 180

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'FIELD OF SHADOWS'
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Syntax: cast 'field of shadows'
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  By drawing the essence of the Shadow Plane into our reality, a Shade
creates a zone of pure darkness in the immediate vicinity. This field 
of shadows is so alien to normal creatures that it inflicts damage
upon them should they come into contact with it. Naturally, the beings
thus harmed promptly retaliate by attacking the shade. While this
spell is in effect, the shade may not flee from combat.

  This spell is toggleable, by casting it a second time the field of
shadows dissipates.

        <Shade>                 190

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'BLINK'
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Syntax: AUTOMATIC
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  Blink is an amazing ability of Shades to often disappear from one
spot, then reappear in another, usually at a place where the enemy
isn't looking. This causes the enemy to be momentarily disoriented 
and possibly stunned.

        <Shade>                 200

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'BLACK GATHERING'
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Syntax: cast 'black gathering' <target>
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  When a Shade invokes the power of Black Gathering, a darkness
surrounds anyone that the spell is cast upon, covering them in a
blanket that is difficult to see through, thus making it difficult
for enemies to land a melee hit.

        <Shade>                 210

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'DARKNESS BLAST'
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Syntax: cast 'darkness blast' <target>
Syntax: cast 'darkness blast'
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  The powers of shadow dwellers include a bizarre ability to
manipulate the darkness itself. It is known that Shades have
learned to create pockets of darkness, so pure, that it saps
not only light but also all energy. By creating such a pocket
around an enemy, a shade may inflict considerable damage. The
spell's power is boosted if it is employed at night.

        <Shade>                 220

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'BLESSING OF NIGHT'
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Syntax: cast 'blessing of night' <weapon>
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  A Shade may infuse a weapon with the essence of Night itself. Such
enchantment is radically different from those performed by Mages; it
seems that the weapons treated by the shadow dwellers bestow an
improvement in magical powers to those who wield them. The dark
enchantment also renders the items with a permanent aura of night,
impervious to the locate object spell.

        <Shade>                 230

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'STRENGTH OF MIND'
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Syntax: cast 'strength of mind'
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  Shades haven't forgotten their training as a Psionist. By reaching
out and touching the minds of others, a shadow dweller may boost
their companions' mental strength and willpower, enabling them to
perform better in combat.

        <Shade>                 240

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'LETHARGY'
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Syntax: cast lethargy <target>
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  Using a trick of the mind, the Shade makes the victim feel extremely 
tired and drowsy, lethargic even, and thus unable to attack as often 
per round.

        <Shade>                 250

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'DARKEN MIND'
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Syntax: cast 'darken mind' <victim>
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  This spell clouds a victim's mind with darkness, lowering their
ability to defend against spells cast on them. 

        <Shade>                 260

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'PHASE'
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Syntax: cast 'phase' 
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   With his advanced learning in the powers of the mind a Shade can
help his group phase into the background. This will make the entire
group harder to hit.

        <Shade>                 270

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'WRATH OF NIGHT'
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Syntax: cast 'wrath of night' <target>
Syntax: cast 'wrath of night'
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  With rage comes power. This simple statement holds true with the
shadow dwellers. By fueling their psionic powers with anger, Shades
draw pure darkness and envelop their opponents within it, causing a
wealth of damage to the objects of their ire.

        <Shade>                 280

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'SHADOW WARRIORS'
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Syntax: cast 'shadow warriors'
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  Experienced Shades have spent so much time as a shadow dweller that
now they are able to reach out and draw their entire group into the
shadows as well. Being shadow warriors makes everyone harder to hit
while they find it easier to land blows in battle.

        <Shade>                 290

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'DIM ENCHANTMENT'
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Syntax: cast 'dim enchantment' <light>
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  Bright light is painful to the shadow dweller's eyes. With this
spell, a Shade draws upon dark magic and imbues a light with health,
ensuring them of extra protection when out and about in the world.
The light also becomes aligned with the caster.

        <Shade>                 300

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'INKY VEIL'
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Syntax: cast 'inky veil' 
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  A more powerful version of Black Gathering, this spell envelops
the Shade's entire group in darkness, effectively improving their
chances to avoid melee hits.

        <Shade>                 310

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'SHADOW GATE'
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Syntax: cast 'shadow gate' 
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  By using sheer willpower to tear apart the fabric of reality itself,
a Shade creates a one-way portal between his current location and his
hometown. This door may be used only by the shadow dweller to escape
from combat.

        <Shade>                 320

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'SHADOWY WEB'
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Syntax: web <direction> <target>
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  By drawing upon the essence of the Shadow Plane, an experienced
Shade may form a dark web which he launches at a nearby enemy. The
creature that becomes entangled in this Shadow Web suffers minor
concussive damage and is immediately drawn towards the shadow dweller.
It is also effectively stunned for a few moments while darkness binds
its limbs. 

        <Shade>                 330

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'MIDNIGHT BOLT'
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Syntax: cast 'midnight bolt' <target>
Syntax: cast 'midnight bolt'
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  This power is among the more advanced attack spells available to a
Shade. Like lesser Shadow Attacks, the bolt is a mass of the Shadow 
Plane's essence that is hurled at a single enemy. At midnight, as
its name suggests, the damage that the power delivers is doubled.

        <Shade>                 340

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'BLANK MIND'
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Syntax: cast 'blank mind' <victim>
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  Powerful Shades can use their powerful mental manipulation abilities
to erase memories from their enemies completely. This stops their
target from auto-attacking anyone who might have previously fled from
them.

        <Shade>                 350

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'SHADOW MANIPULATION'
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Syntax: cast 'shadow manipulation' <target>
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  This bizarre power allows a Shade to steal all shadows and darkness
that surround his opponent and adds them to the person are fighting
most closely. As a result, the affected creature loses it's life
force, which goes to the one fighting it. During combat the target is
optional.

        <Shade>                 360

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'HOLD SHADOW'
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Syntax: cast 'hold shadow' <target>
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  Many do not realize how great the power of darkness is. Those so
unwise find it quite shocking when a Shade who employs this curious
spell pins one's shadow to the ground, effectively rendering the
creature thus affected unable to flee.

        <Shade>                 370

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'SHADOW PATH'
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Syntax: cast 'shadow path' <target>
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  By retreating onto the Shadow Plane, a Shade may instantly traverse
great distances through its surreal, warped space. He returns into our
reality by stepping from the shadow of a chosen creature. Obviously,
there has to be light in order for the shadow to exist; this forces
the Shades to operate in daytime, which they detest.

        <Shade>                 380

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'MELD WITH SHADOW'
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Syntax: cast 'meld with shadow'
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  Instead of hiding within the shadows to avoid painful light, Shades 
simply draws all shadows toward themselves, leaving them hidden even 
throughout a fight. It is cumulative with Fade.

        <Shade>                 390

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'MOON SHIELD'
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Syntax: cast 'moon shield'
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  At night, the Shade calls down the pale moonlight to form a
defensive barrier around his body. This barrier is strongest if
the power is invoked at midnight; if cast at noon, the protection
it provides is laughable.

        <Shade>                 400

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'SPATIAL RIFT'
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Syntax: cast 'spatial rift' <mobile/player>
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  Shades tear through the fabric of space and time opening a gigantic
rift to any peaceful target, much like a energy vortex. Because of the
rift's peculiar appearance, only the Shade which opened it dares to 
enter.

        <Shade>                 410

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'ENERGY DRAIN'
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Syntax: cast 'energy drain' <target>
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  With the help of this vicious power, a Shade saps the strength and
energy of his victim, causing the victim to be able to attack less
times per round.

        <Shade>                 420

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'WAVES OF HATRED'
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Syntax: AUTOMATIC
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  Shades can sense the waves of hatred that the mind of an aggressive
mob emits. When Shades scan, they will be able to determine if the
mob is agressive or not.

        <Shade>                 430

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'AVERSION'
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Syntax: cast 'aversion'
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  A Shade charges up and explodes with such forceful unexplicable
aversion that all but the most powerful of mobs flee to an adjacent
room.

        <Shade>                 440

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'DRAIN MIND'
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Syntax: cast 'drain mind' <victim>
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  Shades can use their abilities to harvest the magical essence of
their enemies, draining their minds of all thoughts and magical
energies. This is often a painful process, and can cause the victim
to turn upon the Shade in a fit of rage.

        <Shade>                 450

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'MIDNIGHT BLAST'
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Syntax: cast 'midnight blast' <target>
Syntax: cast 'midnight blast' 
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  The ultimate Shadow Attack, Midnight Blast unleashes pure darkness
upon the Shade's foes. The spell is quite powerful in daylight, but 
gets more potent as night wears on. If invoked at midnight, the damage 
it inflicts can be staggering.

        <Shade>                 460

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'WEAVE DARKNESS'
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Syntax: cast 'weave darkness'
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  Only some of the most powerful Shades learn this ability to warp 
together darkness itself and wear it about themselves like a cloak. 
This cloak grants the user with a bonus to Blink.

        <Shade>                 470

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'SPATIAL DISTORTION'
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Syntax: cast 'spatial distortion'
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  Often referred to as The Blur, this power warps and displaces the
images of the Shade's entire group. Besides causing constant eyestrain
to the onlookers, it also makes the creatures thus affected much more
difficult to be hit by melee attacks.

        <Shade>                 480

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'SPACE TIME ANCHOR'
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Syntax: AUTOMATIC
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  Shades can sense their positions relative to the ethereal planes
of Chaos. This allows them to anchor themselves to that position,
preventing mobs from teleporting them.

        <Shade>                 490

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'BLACK HOLE'
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Syntax: cast 'black hole'
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  This rather dangerous power, as its name suggests, creates a small
singularity in the immediate vicinity of the Shade. The effect of it
on the neighboring creatures is quite harmful; some of them are
instantly absorbed into the black hole, never to be seen again. Given
the brutality with which Black Hole rips apart the fabric of reality,
this spell will eventually destroy the world... ah well. This spell
is an area affect spell.

        <Shade>                 500

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