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Puppet

Your hands. Your knife. Not your idea.

Available Levels
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Puppet takes a creature's body and leaves its mind alone. The victim sees, thinks, and remembers, but no longer owns their hands.

The spell tests Fortitude, not Will (see 12). Unlike Dominate, it does not persuade or command. It moves the body, even into danger.

Driving the Body

The Psychic spends their own ticks to move the victim: one tick, one action by the puppet. Crossing a room, drawing a knife, and striking takes the Psychic a full round.

The victim cannot cast while the Psychic controls their voice and hands. A Psychic victim still can, since blue conversion needs neither (see 12).

Progression

Each level includes the ones before it.

Level What the level adds
3 One creature. Crude control: walk, drop, carry, hand over, open. The victim can speak and makes a new Fortitude Save each tick.
5 Fine control. The body fights with the victim's own attacks, weapons, and feats. It makes a new Save each round.
7 The victim cannot speak. A standing order—keep walking north, keep attacking that man—costs one tick per round.
9 One creature per point of Intelligence. Each makes its own Save and requires its own ticks.

The victim remembers everything. Their hands held the knife, and everyone saw them use it.

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