Growstaf Ritual

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The Ritual requires one full Action Tum to complete. Thereafter. whenever the practitioner thrusts a staff into the ground and utters a command word, this dweomer has the Effect of causing it to grow into a huge tree in a singleCT of time. This enchanted tree will be 10-feet tall for each one foot of height of the staff, subject to a limitation of the caster's STEEP in feet height Thus. for example, a practitioner with a staff seven-feet long but with but 21 STEEP gets only a 21-foot tall tree, while a caster of 71 STEEP using the same staff would engender a tree 70-feet tall. The tree will be one which otherwise grows in the region, such as a palm in the desert, a Cyprus in a swamp, etc. Regardless of its sort. the caster and those she or he wishes to allow to do so may clamber up its height as easily. they would climb a ladders rungs. Others, however will find it particularly hard to getup, with a penalty of +1 per steep point of the caster to their normal ability at climbing. (High steep makes it likely a leopard or even a squirrel can negotiate the bole of such a tree)The growth persists until the ecclesiastic negates the Effect of its Time duration expires. Note that once cast and then negated, the Effect cannot be engendered again without the casing of another Ritual.