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I'm running my PC's through the Serpents Skull AP and they encountered Jigeke the Exile in the Race to Ruin module. Anyway, one of them got zapped for (4) negative levels during the encounter from his Enervation spell.
My question is three fold, first, when a character is afflicted with negative levels, what do they actually feel or experience physically? How would you describe it to them what they're feeling from the effects of the spell, both as the spell is taking effect and how would they feel afterwards? Trying to assist my PC with role-playing his affliction.
Two, how does a healer using magic or mundane skills (healing skill) determine medically what has happened to them?
Three, is there a way magically to restore the negative levels? The spell says they wear off over time, but wondering if there is a way to "heal" or "cure" the affliction without having to wait it out?
Thanks much!
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1. They feel weaker, and life draining from them. All emotion starts to fade. They experience intense pain in the mind as well as the body, as they feel themself fade into shadow.
2. I guess they can just tell from the dark energies. There is positive and negative in magic, so negative levels would probably show as an extreme darkness.
3. Restoration spell or other variants of it.
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I've seen it roleplayed like a hangover. That or that sort of feeling you get after an operation where you went under, but there's definitely an emotional element however you'd like to play that out.
A heal check should tell you that it's some supernatural effect, ie: not a disease or poison and from there with a bit of background (Divine classes in particular should have familiarity with it) should be able to pin point what it is.
Negative levels are nasty man, most players run away from things that inflict negative levels because they just suck to be around. Nothing short of potent divine magic, or having weeks of downtime can help you.
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A cold hollow feeling, akin to a sense of loss.
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A general tiredness and listlessness. Colors seem muted, things that bring joy aren't as amusing, everyday tasks feel like they take more effort, etc.
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Take it from the Master:
(Frodo) felt a pain like a dart of poisoned ice pierce his left shoulder.
The recurrent themes are darkness, coldness, a "wrong" feeling, an affinity for the darkness and aversion to the light. It's more than the initial feeling of being wounded, it worms its way deeper and deeper into your soul.
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Thinks about what it affects. Your saves go down. So you feel your mental and physical ability to resist things eroding away. Your reaction time is slower, the way you fight is reduced, less sure in your movements.
In addition to the deep hollow darkness that clings to you, like a dip in a tar pit, except the vile muck clings to your soul rather than your body, but that feeling that you'll never be clean pervades.
You feel like less, less capable, less confident, less knowledgeable....less....you. Fragments of your being are being consumed, and a little piece of you....one that's becoming harder and harder to ignore.... fears that you may never get them back.
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This is great stuff. Thanks guys! This helps quite a bit. Much appreciated.
