Borrowed Skills

Spell Borrowing · Skill Transfer

The tattoo-based system for temporarily borrowing spells and skills, now extended to dead crawlers.

Story so far

Edgar lays out the rules as they stood: the ink Carl had, made with Toraline, allowed one to borrow spells and skills temporarily from willing subjects, and to take them permanently from unwilling subjects.

With Milk's help, Edgar has extended the system. His new Essence Ink captures the essence of a fallen crawler and allows the bearer to learn one of that crawler's spells or skills — temporarily, as far as he knows, with no time to experiment toward permanence. Rosetta suspects the Dungeon Anarchist's Cookbook book of Voodoo Donut carries could share skills and spells the same way with the same ink.

Role

The mechanic that puts a dead cleric's spell into Donut's arsenal in time for the assault.

Relationships

Essence Ink — The new medium enabling it from the dead.

Toraline — The older ingredient enabling it from the living.

Edgar — Its practitioner and innovator.

Donut — Its current beneficiary.

Sources — 2 recorded facts, by chapter

Chapter 67

Mechanic of using another's skill or spell in battle, which the system is now openly urging Carl to develop.

Chapter 86

The tattoo-based system for temporarily borrowing spells and skills, now extended to dead crawlers.