Transfer Consciousness Ritual

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This Ritual or 2 ATs performance time allows the mystic to possess a willing subject's body in a manner somewhat similar to the Conjuration Casting Possession (q.v.), but without hostile or harmful intent or ability. Note that an animal bonded to the practitioner (such as through Animal Friend-ship). the only sort which is 'wiling, Casters can remain only so long as a subject is a willing host. and if such individuals decide to eject a mystic, they can do so by successfully rolling against their Spiritual Metaphysical CATEGORY at a DR of -Easy.' An animal host will remain willing for the Time duration Indicated. While We practitioner and the host are together in the same body, they share knowledge and act nearly as coal The possession of any physical body, including that of an animal requires the expenditure of heka equal to We subject's Physical TRAIT by the mystic. After completion of the Ritual. practitioners can hold the Effect for as many BTs time as they have tens of STEEP, but this held time counts against the dweomers Time duration overall. Controlling an unintelligent, animal subject is a simple matter. and need not be dealt with in detail. When possessing an intelligent subject. the mystic effectively replaces the Mental and Spiritual facilities of the target, but. subject knows what is go trig on and can "talk- to the practitioner, share knowledge, give the persona ideas, etc Two humans (or a human and near-human) under the Effect this Ritual. not add STEEP. but control can be shared so that K/S Area abilities might be Increased. However, there is a lag of 1 BT as one psyche leaves off control and another assumes command of the shared body. The individual who has been possessed will have full memory of what went on during the time of Effect Note that this dweomer does not and need not forge a Link to be effective. Furthermore, once in possession of a subject, the mystic cannot influence or affect the subject's psyche by any means, heka-engendered or otherwise. Mental and Spiritual combat between the possessor and the possessed is not possible. Casters are not capable of harming, let atone destroying, the body of a subject while they are in control. Note that the abandon. Physical body of the mystic becomes a defense-less shell which can be destroyed (or even possessed by another) unless properly protected. The body of We absent possessing spirit is possessed, in turn. automatically while the mystic is out of it doing likewise. If this happens, when such mystics eventually leave the possessed body, they become disembodied spirits, unable to do anything but wander the Material Plane in search of another body! For this reason, many practitioners em p by Pentacles and other dweomers for safeguarding their Physical form.