Astral Projection

Effect: Each target wears the gem and joins hands with you. You begin to chant, pulling each target's consciousness from its body and projecting it onto the Astral Plane. The target's body, left of the material plane, remains in a state of Suspended Animation.

The target's consciousness forms an Astral Body, which remains connected to its original body via a thin silver thread, known as an Astral Cord. From the Astral Plane, you and other targets can travel astrally to any other plane, forming a new projection (equivalent to a new physical body) on the new plane. The Astral Cord extends, invisibly, to this projection as well.

• Targets must remain with you at all times, or they become stranded where they were left. Additionally, if a target's Astral Cord is severed, the target dies.
• Alternatively, if a target's Astral Body or other projected form (i.e. body on another plane moved to via the Astral Body) is killed (while this ritual is still in effect), the effect ends for that target and they wake on the material plane in their original body.
• If the jacinth is removed from around the target's neck, it returns to its body.
• You and other targets may remain projected indefinitely. However, if a target's body is destroyed on the material plane, the target dies.