Hypnomancy

Sleep.  We spend a third of our lives unconscious, unaware of the changes being worked on us by our own minds and bodies.  If we go without it, we are driven insane.  Hypnomancers draw on the power that sleep holds over humans, manipulating it to work their magic.  They can affect the path someone's mind or body takes while asleep, but only by distorting their own sleep patterns and spending time studying the sleep and dreams of others.

Hypnomancers (also called Sandmen or Night Owls) often find themselves drawn into the school from personal experience with sleep.  Psychologists, dream interpreters, and insomniacs are all predisposed to the study of Hypnomancy.  They often find themselves with lots of time on their hands as they avoid the pull of sleep, so they tend to be isolated and studious, although many spenmd the night hours exploring their city or countryside.  Many set up shop as therapists or late-night coffeehouse regulars, ready to listen to people's dreams.

Hypnomancy Blast Style: Only affects sleeping targets.  Hypnomancy's blast takes effect as a nightmare where the target is hurt or killed, and those effects manifest on his waking body as well.

Stats:

Generate a Significant Charge: Sleep in a famous spot: the Lincoln bedroom, Stonehenge, a bed once slept in by Shakespeare.  It must be a small space.  When the adept wakes up, she will have all minor charges wiped out, but she will have one significant charge.  Subsequent nights spent sleeping in a famous spot will still wipe out minor charges, but significant charges will remain.  In an effect similar to Cliomancy, only one hypnomancer can use a given spot on a given day or night.

Generate a Major Charge: Sleep for a year, uninterrupted, in a famous spot.  This usually requires some kind of life-support system or magic to sustain, and an induced coma.

Taboo: A Hypnomancer loses all of her charges when she sleeps.  Sandmen will stay awake for more than a week at a time, lending them a dishevelled appearance and often leading to drug habits as amphetamines are used to keep the adept awake.

Random Magick Domain: Anything that deals with sleep or, to a lesser extent, with dreams, can be manipulated by a hypnomancer.  It specifically deals with what happens to our bodies and minds as we sleep, not with some "dream-land" or the reality of the images we see in our dreams.

Starting charges: Starting Hypnomancers have three minor charges... and a -20% sleep deprivation penalty.

Hypnomancy Minor Formula Spells

Rest and Recuperation

Cost: 1 minor charge

Effect: Heals the target of wound points equal to the sum of two dice next time he sleeps.  This is in place of the normal two wound points per day healed.

Soothe the Mind

Cost: 1 minor charge

Effect: Cast within five hours of a failed stress check, this spell allows the target to sleep and erase the failed notch.  The event will be remembered as slightly dreamlike, but real.

Minor Blast: Nightmare

Cost: 1 minor charge

Effect: Often cast at a distance, this can also be used on a sleeping target in the adept's line of sight.  The damage often manifests on the target's body as struggle with a nearby object while sleeping or other "coincidental" effects, but it can also result from asphyxiation while asleep or a minor heart tremor.

Dreamscape

Cost: 2 minor charges

Effect: The caster can see the dream content of one person he knows while that person is sleeping.  It lasts as long as the sleeper continues to dream uninterrupted.

Lullabye

Cost: 3 minor charges

Effect: The adept can put one person in his presence to sleep.  The target can be awoken as easily as normal, so this often doesn't work in the middle of combat (the target simply wakes up immediately, losing only one action).  If the target wasn't actually sleepy to begin with, he will probably wake up in about 5 minutes.
 

Sleep on it

Cost: 2 minor charges

Effect: The next time the adept sleeps, he will wake up with an insight into some problem.  He can use his Hypnomancy skill in place of any Mind-based skill for one roll.

 

Hypnomancy Significant Formula Spells

Insomnia

Cost: 4 significant charges

Effect: The target of this spell loses the ability to sleep.  Each day after the third, the target has to make a  level 2 stress check against Isolation.  The effect lasts a month, but the target can use tranquilizers after the third night to induce sleep.  Unfortunately, even then the sleep is plagued by nightmares and is very spotty: the sleep penalty is put on hold at -30%, but not erased. The target must continue to make stress checks.

Significant Blast: Sleep of Death

Cost: 1 significant charge

Effect: Often cast at a distance for an additional significant charge, it can also affect a sleeping target in the adept's line of sight.  The target often dies from a  heart attack in his sleep, or something happens to his surroundings while sleeping.
 

Sleepwalker

Cost: 3 significant charges

Effect: Allows the adept to control the body of a sleeping target.  The hypnomancer can see and hear through the target's senses and control the body's movements, although Speed is reduced to half of normal (affecting Speed-based skills accordingly).  The target will not wake up until the spell wears off, which happens one hour later.
 

Find the Sleeper

Cost: 1 significant charge

Effect:The adept can pinpoint the location and see the surroundings of any one person he knows, as long as that person is asleep.
 

No More Yeilding But A Dream

Cost: 2 significant charges

Effect: as Cliomancy's "Forget It", but it only takes effect the next time the target sleeps.  The memory remains behind only as a hazy recollection from a dream, and will be disregarded unless the target is convinced it was real.  However, it can affect several continuous "scenes".
 

Astral Walk

Cost: 3 significant charges

Effect: see Dipsomancy.  This counts as sleeping (i.e., minor charges are lost afterwards) unless the adept uses some kind of hallucinogen to induce his trance.
 

Lights Out

Cost: 2 significant charges

Effect: Similar to Lullabye, but this affects quite a few people.  It can be used to put to sleep all the inhabitants of a small building or eveyone in an auditorium with the caster.  In combat, it can be quite effective.  The catch is that the caster has to target a broad area, so his allies will probably be caught in the spell as well.

 

Hypnomancy Major Effects