Levitate

Basic Eldritch Spell [Magical, Perceptive]

Prerequisites: Eldritch Rank 4

Disciplines: Transmutation

Potency: [1d4 + Eldritch Rank]

Standard Action [CT 4, REC 2]

Components: V, S

Cost: 2 Resolve

Duration: 1 round or until dismissed, dispelled or disrupted.

Upkeep: Free action, spend 1 Resolve and increase the duration of this power by 1 round.

Range: 50 ft per Eldritch Rank

Target: One willing medium size or smaller creature or one unattended object up to 100 lbs per Eldritch Rank within range.

Effect: You change the target to be almost weightless, causing them to float. Upon the initial casting, and then as a Standard Action (Rec 3, the target must be within range), you can move the target up to 20ft up or down in the vertical plane at a time. While levitated, the target cannot fall, even if the ground drops away. You cannot move the target horizontally and the levitate imposes a spatial inertia that slows the targets horizontal movement. While levitating, the target has a Disadvantage to attack rolls due to a lack of stability (this also applies to any creature riding a levitating object). If the spell ends while the target is in the air, the target falls. There is no limit to the height (or depth) a creature can reach with this spell.

The target can use its environment to move itself horizontally or vertically up (but not down) at ½ skirmish speed, if it is close enough to objects that it could pull itself along. Alternatively, the target may push itself off of a surface to move horizontally by making a Standing Long Jump check. The result of the jump check determines the distance traveled before the levitate slows the creature to a stop. If the target has a Fly Speed (Hover)., it is Entangled for horizontal movement and cannot descend below its current height.

If the weight limit of the spell is exceeded (such as by picking up a heavy object, being pulled upon by a force, etc), the spell ends immediately.