Double-Life

The player may decide to play a doubler, a magic user. The player must decide what is their second-life ability (fireball, butterfly invocation, stag metamorphosis, …). Then trough their life their second-life with evolve to better match the needs of the character. The player gain xp points which are used which unlock up to 10 ranks of double-life mastery.

The doubler summons its second-life or takes control of it (if they are a revealed doubler). They can then control their second-life inside their control reach but must maintain focus (periodic Focus test).

The second-life tries to fulfill its commands and disappear after success or after it has depleted its energy reserve. It can go farther than the controllable reach, but then the doubler can get the control back or change its commands.

Their second-life can allow the doubler to permanently alter the world. They can either create or remove matter or energy or transform something into something else.

• to alter things but without adding effects requiring energy, in this case it is the simple result of you second-life. Example: healing, transformation, …
• to create natural things which does not consume energy, you just need extra energy. Example: permanent invocation, creating matter, …
• to create permanent unnatural matter or effects which consume energy, you need a way to furnish this energy to the second-life either from you or the environment if you do not want it to end. Example: permanent magical invocation, enchantment, …

To use their second-life the player must follow the following steps:

1. Throw the casting cost (in Energy), the player must pay the cost, if energy is not sufficient the player will start consuming their Health.
2. Test their Focus
3. Given the test result, the player can choose to pay additional energy to add effects (autonomy, power, reach, …)
4. The character must keep focusing while the ability is channeled in control mode. In autonomous mode, focus is needed to change the commands.

• Total Failure: you lose control of the effects (against your interest)
• Bad: you lose control of the effects (randomly)
• Blah: you cannot stop the casting + the second-life does mostly what you want
• Not bad: you can stop the casting when you reach 1 energy + the second-life does most of what you want
• Good: you can stop the casting at half the cost + the second-life does what you want
• Excellent: you can stop the casting at any time + the second-life does perfectly what you want

• The Sun in the palm of my hand. Fire → Control of an orb of fire
• Burp! Digestion → spit acids and build minerals-organic structures (bones)
• If you need a hand… Division → can create autonomous bits of their body sustained by the main body
• Careful! It's slippery… Texture → can change the texture and color of surfaces (chameleon invisibility, walking on any surface, slide on any surface, …)
• Whatever I say. Suggestion → Oral Control
• And round, and round, and round! Water → Water Swirl Snake
• Kaboom! Explosion → Explosive arrows, deafening arrows, smoke arrows, …
• Hope is all you need. Hope → Combat Booster
• You just need to find the good rhythm. Vibration → earthquake, echolocation, deafening cry, heating metal
• You! And You! Attraction → Attract two things toward one another (partial telekinesis, moving like spider-man, communication, trap, …)