Dark Bargains 

Darker Magic

• For Roleplay events only

• To preserve your power, and avoid Spell failure, you can always turn to darker sources.

• If a failure stone is ever drawn, you may add a Warpstone (green), Dark Magic/Dhaur stone (red) or Chaos stone (pink) to your pouch instead of losing a success stone. These “special” stones remain in the pouch and count as success stones for further casting until dawn…Each dawn, you need to take a dark bargain test for each such stone in your pouch. You can acquire these special stones in various ways.

 

Warpstone 

Any Archetype other than a Cleric may seek out and acquire warpstone.  Warpstone is a greenish stone with a faint glow and is highly dangerous to mortals.  It should always be handled with care and special equipment to avoid its mutaing effects.

For each warpstone in your pouch at dawn, conduct one Corruption Test. After the test, discard that warpstone stone.

 

Dhar 

Dhar stones are freely available to any dark wizard, witch or necromancer, though possession of dark magic stones is usually of great interest to witch hunters….  Dark Magic represents the brutally forcing together of all available different winds of magic together to power Spells or draw on the power of death. As such there is always the risk of catastrophic backlash.  

For each dark magic stone in your pouch at dawn, conduct 2 Corruption Tests. After the 2 tests, remove the dark magic stone from your pouch.

 

Chaos

Only the most depraved of Wizards attempt to commune with the Dark Gods themselves to power their magic. This is downright insane...Chaos magic stones are freely available to these individuals.

For each Chaos stone in your pouch at dawn, conduct 1 Corruption Test. After the test, retain the Chaos stone in your pouch forever (it counts as a white stone for casting but triggers its own Corruption test each day - so the more you draw on Chaos, the greater your future risk of Corruption.

 

Corruption Tests

To conduct a Corruption Test, you must seek out a Tarot of Fate deck (During events often found at Death or another NPC guild) and draw one card following the instructions for the card until midnight

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