Temporal Stasis interpretation

[Dayton]

How do you guys interpret Temporal Stasis?

In my head it freezes the creature's temporal condition at that given time.
So as a sleeping creature will be permanently sleeping.
Considering the game's given Conditions, that would be a sickened creature will be permanently sickened, a paralyzed creature permanently paralyzed and so on.

What do you think?

[Bjørn Røyrvik]

Um, it's in the name, really.
Time stops for the target. They are frozen in an eternal instant and everything they were doing or under the effect of is in stasis with them. Once the target is out of stasis, all such effects resume their normal duration.

[Meirril]

Yep, a creature under the effect of Temporal Stasis isn't experiencing anything. The creature's condition would be Temporal Stasis. Once that condition is removed it would return to whatever condition it was in just before the Temporal Stasis was cast.

[blahpers]

All of this. From the perspective of the affected creature, it probably never happened--they move from one moment of awareness prior to stasis to the next after the stasis is removed, probably wondering where that pesky wizard in their face went and why the castle they were fighting in now appears to be a thousand-year-old ruin.

I'm intrigued by this part of the description:

Temporal Stasis wrote:

Its body functions virtually cease

Does this imply that some part of its body functions do not, in fact, cease?

[Yqatuba]

I think it's like when you hit pause on a video: the target is just frozen at that moment indefinitely until you "unfreeze" them. (I think temporal stasis can just be dispelled like most spells, is this true?)

[avr]

Blahpers, that reads to me like someone was using virtually for emphasis and didn't think about the meaning. Oh, you could read it as waking up to find yourself resting on a huge pile of hair and with overgrown nails, but I'd suggest not.

Yqatuba wrote:

I think temporal stasis can just be dispelled like most spells, is this true?

temporal stasis wrote:

This state persists until the magic is removed (such as by a successful dispel magic spell or a freedom spell).

[blahpers]

avr wrote:

Blahpers, that reads to me like someone was using virtually for emphasis and didn't think about the meaning. Oh, you could read it as waking up to find yourself resting on a huge pile of hair and with overgrown nails, but I'd suggest not.

Yeah, probably. Though that would certainly be funny.

[Dayton]

Thank you all guys!

Even though the spell doesn't function the way I thought, I got some ideas.

What about a town where everyone has a temporal/frozen action? From soldiers who've been patrolling the same spot for centuries, to a blacksmith who's been hammering the same blade over and over.
Behind that could be a fictional Wizard/Sorcerer character with this SU ability who has somehow a whole town repeatedly acting to his benefit.

[Meirril]

Dayton wrote:

Thank you all guys!

Even though the spell doesn't function the way I thought, I got some ideas.

What about a town where everyone has a temporal/frozen action? From soldiers who've been patrolling the same spot for centuries, to a blacksmith who's been hammering the same blade over and over.
Behind that could be a fictional Wizard/Sorcerer character with this SU ability who has somehow a whole town repeatedly acting to his benefit.

Sounds like a haunt.