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Evocation, Shifts, and Persistence

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Korwin:
Sponsored Magic can use Thaumaturgic Magic as Evocation or somesuch, not shure how that actually works.
But it sounds like offensive multiple round magic should be possible with that.

blackheart:
I apologise for any misunderstanding. For my first post I had a lovely example and huge text explaning my question... and then the internets ate it. (Grumble...)

After that I embraced brevity, so things didn't come through quite as clear as they should.

So my original idea was along these lines.

I was specifically thinking along the lines of a semi-continuous effect. The two best illistrations I can refference would be a flamethrower-like attack (hold down the trigger and hose away) or even better, the classic Sith Lord Force Lightning blast.

Example:

Miranda, Wizard of the White Council, is facing off against Nameless Bad #3.
Miri has Con:3 and Dis:4 with a copper rod focus (+1 offensive air power).
Nameless is tough but not very agile, so Miranda wants to get best bang for the buck on her spell.

She casts a Lightning Spell at Weapon 4. Let's assume she gets a +1 on the roll for 5 shifts and for 1 stress.
Nameless gets a net 0 on his defense roll.

Option 1a: Now at this point, let's say we're spending the extra shift for one exchange duration.
We could say that it is a persistent effect so Nameless takes a 4 stress damage effect this exchange and the next exchange.
However, should Miranda re-roll her Dis on the second exchange for keeping the spell "up"?

Or 2a: She would re-roll for both maintaining the spell and targeting? And if so, would Nameless get another defense roll to get out of the way of the attack?

And if 2a holds true, then what would be any difference between it and any other standard Evoc roll?
Or is this whole idea just a convoluted scheme to drive a hole bigger than the Holland Tunnel right through the spell rules?

thank-you for your time and attention.

Deadmanwalking:
Check out Orbius under the sample spells, that's really how you build this kind of thing.

KOFFEYKID:
I could see this working for lots of spells, say Im going to call down a thunderstorm, it'll take a while for it to disperse. Lets say Im going to make an earthquake type effect, that might take a few exchanges to die out.

Remember when Harry works that bit of Earth Magic in the caves in White Knight? (click to show/hide)The one that buys Harry and Ramirez time to regroup with half the white court trying to eat their faces.

Korwin:
Was'nt that an maneuver?

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