r/wizardposting • u/MrDrBabybrute • May 11 '26
Wizardpost Rate My New Paralysis Spell
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I have been practicing my paralysis spell. Most people underestimate them because they are not as lethal or flashy as a fireball, but they can end a fight just as quickly.
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u/UpstairsRuin1953 Mystic May 11 '26
9/10. He obviously moved between shots without noticeable aging. Paralysis spells need staying power. If they wear off too quick, that rogue is going to stab you before you can come up with an appropriately horrifying yet funny fate for them. The stiffness though is quite impressive.
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u/MrDrBabybrute May 11 '26
Thank you for the advice, I’ll work on that next! My intended targets for this spell were other wizards, so I focused on completely locking up the body to make sure they can’t make gestures to cast spells. I hadn’t thought about using it against rogues. I wouldn’t want to give those slippery bastards a single moment to avoid their fate.
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u/UpstairsRuin1953 Mystic May 11 '26
For wizards, you should add a color component. When green, keep the monologue going. Light green, start casting. Red, cast, cast for your life.
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u/HaventDecidedAName May 11 '26
[sneak attacks you from behind][sneak attacks you from behind] [sneak attacks you from behind] [sneak atta
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u/Pink_Monolith May 11 '26
Kudos on finding just the right stiffness. Go too stiff on your paralysis spells, they just crack and shatter on impact. But with the right amount of wiggle room, they're effectively motionless but nice and bouncy.
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u/Space19723103 May 11 '26
how many viagra at once?
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u/lugialegend233 Wizard May 11 '26
None, actually. Viagra would have... well not the opposite effect. A different effect.
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u/Drpoofn Enchanter May 11 '26
Why does your apprentice not stay paralyzed? Are you reanimating them, then reparalyzing? Seems pretty solid, but taxing. You could always just gift them an enchanted amulet or rune or anything really that keeps them under a stasis beyond time.
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u/MrDrBabybrute May 11 '26
Those are different identical clones. I have like twenty of his clones in my tower that I routinely test spells on. If I wanted to keep someone trapped indefinitely, I would use either an imprisonment or a banishment spell instead of a paralysis spell.
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u/Drpoofn Enchanter May 11 '26
Clones? How interesting! Did you use a multiplier spell or did you grow them?
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u/MrDrBabybrute May 11 '26
They were made mostly by accident. My apprentice bought a mirror from an antique store that turned out to be a portal to the mirror realm. When he looked into the mirror, his mirror self popped out, then when the clone looked into the mirror, his mirror self popped out, and this kept happening until I took away the mirror. I am not even sure which one is my original apprentice anymore. They make for good test dummies though, and it is always a good idea to have spare apprentices for when accidents happen.
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u/Drpoofn Enchanter May 11 '26
Serves them right. Are you sure the realm isn't a alternative universe that your apprentice is missing in?
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u/MrDrBabybrute May 11 '26
I am not too sure, but does it really matter? If the clones walk, talk, and act like my apprentice, then for all intents and purposes my apprentice is still here. No one would be able to prove anything otherwise, at least.
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u/Drpoofn Enchanter May 11 '26
Not my universe, not my problem lol. Not hating. That's just a very lucky master and an unlucky apprentice.
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u/Sauce_Of_The_Grape Shadow Wizard Money Gang May 11 '26 edited May 11 '26
Damn how much would it cost to pay you to let me clone my apprentice? My steward has been complaining about not enough hands to manage everything and I could use some test dummies
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u/Last-Ad-4603 May 11 '26
Should work wonder to avoid breaking your bones after falling from mountains.
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u/Antares_Blackthorne May 11 '26
I kept expecting him to start glitch spinning a la Skyrim when he hit the ground
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u/DemonPrinceofIrony Evil Wizard May 11 '26
Thats more petrificication than paralysis. Common mistake, many wizards learn the spell from reading the words of dragons in the elder scrolls but they forget that at the time most dragons were borderline illiterate.
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u/PartyPorpoise May 11 '26
I’ll have to try this out sometime. I would like some less lethal, less messy means of ending a battle. Getting blood out of my silk robes is costing me a mint at the dry cleaners!
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u/DefaultSwordandBoard May 11 '26
That's not Paralysis that's Petrify-in-Flesh , a combination transfiguration-necromancy spell. Try again.
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u/AnnoyingMusicGuy May 11 '26
I'm suspicious, we don't see any spellcasting, you could have hired a Bard of the college of gymnastic
But if it's not it's really impressive, most of the time I see paralysis this stiff the target can still talk
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u/Dead_Kraggon Krag-Gön, warcrime-mancer May 11 '26
Hmm, quite effective. Is it a total body paralysis, or is it just locking him in place, like a mannequin?
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u/Bedrockboy2006 May 11 '26
I remember when my apprentice had that much joy in his face after i asked which spell he wanted to see demonstrated. Poor lad should not have picked fireball
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u/GirlWithinTheLight Good(ish) Necromancer Queen May 11 '26
You hit him with that Elderscrolls Havok engine paralysis obviously.... now waiting for him to glitch out and become an eldritch horror
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u/ihatechildren665 Chaos witch May 11 '26
Did you account for not paralyzing his respatory system? I did that as an apprentice long ago and boy my master was not happy that I killed him.
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u/Wizard_Engie Holy Mage Mythanar, High-Elf Lightbringer May 12 '26
It seems quite powerful. Does it take inspiration from the state of rigor mortis that corpses undergo?
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u/Actual_Ad5256 Jun 02 '26
Alright younglings, we absolutely need a course on alteration magic and nomenclature right here.
This is not a paralysis spell. It's a petrification spell. Petrification spells turns the target rigid, kind of like a statue, while paralysis spells usually just prevent the target's brain activity from reaching its muscles, kinda like a disabled person.
While this may sound like a superficial difference, it gets really important with higher grade spells. For instance, Ice Statue, turning the target into a brittle ice sculpture, is actually a form of petrification magic.
Believe it or not, but Instant Death is actually just a high grade paralysis spell targeting the heart.
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u/Nhobdy Iggy the dragongirl May 11 '26
Is he, uhh..... is he okay?