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[[『GURPS Magic: Death Spells]]』

1. 死の魔法（death magic）
2. L-致死系呪文（death spell）　致死系呪文
3. L-死の呪い（Death Curses）　死の呪い
4. L-偏差マナ（Aspected Mana）　偏差マナ
   1. 「死」属性偏差マナ（Death-aspected mana）
   2. 「生命」属性偏差マナ（Life-aspected mana）
5. L-致死系呪文の分類
   1. L-致命状態型（Mortal Conditions）
   2. L-仮威力型（Aggravated Injury）
      1. L-仮威力（die of effect、dice of effect、effect roll、効果のサイコロ）　仮威力?
   3. L-生死択一型（Save or Die）
6. L-根本消費（Base Cost）　根本消費
   1. L-特別利点要素（Special Benefits）
   2. L-特別欠点要素（Special Drawbacks）
      1. L-不気味な超自然的欠点（Creepy Supernatural Drawbacks）
7. 「脆弱/自然には存在できない2L」

• 「MDS」： 『GURPS Magic: Death Spells』で追加された呪文。

「[[致死系呪文とは何か？>GURPS Magic: Death Spells#ID1]]」
[[第1章>GURPS Magic: Death Spells#ID1]]

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Before cracking the grim grimoire, it’s necessary to define “death spell.” The simplest description is that it’s magic that ―― with a single casting and as its primary goal ―― has an effect that leaves a living subject dying or fated to die in short order, if not outright dead, destroyed, or even unmade. It may inflict afflictions or wounds, too, but that’s incidental. This disqualifies several classes of potentially deadly spells:

Damaging spells. Spells which deal damage or direct injury ―― e.g., Dehydrate, Fireball, and Frostbite ―― can certainly kill with sufficiently large or numerous castings. A few even have colorful names that suggest as much: Burning Death, Deathtouch, Rotting Death, etc. Yet all inflict harm a few HP at a time. To cause death, they must reduce the victim to -HP by brute force, whereupon the subject has to fail a HT roll ―― not to resist magic, but to survive grievous wounds. Even if such spells work flawlessly, overcoming whatever defenses affect them (DR, Magic Resistance, and so on), they might fail to kill. Thus, they aren’t death spells.

Incapacitating spells that endure indefinitely but don’t kill. Other spells aim to “take out” the subject in a lasting way without wounding, but don’t cause death. Instead, they incapacitate the victim until a specific countermeasure ―― almost always far cheaper than the Resurrection spell! ―― reverses the effects. Examples include Entombment (which can undo itself), Flesh to Stone (reversed by Stone to Flesh), and Suspended Animation (terminated by Awaken). None of these are death spells, either.

Spells with potentially deadly consequences. Yet other spells are outright lethal under the right circumstances ―― or perhaps the wrong circumstances, if death is accidental ―― but don’t have “kills the target” as their first purpose. Charm is a great example: The caster could order the subject to commit suicide in a way that cannot fail, but that isn’t the sole use of Charm. If someone is using Walk on Water to traverse the mythic River of Death, then even Dispel Magic would be deadly if it dunked the traveler. Such magic never qualifies as a death spell.

So what does qualify?

「[[致死系呪文の分類>GURPS Magic: Death Spells#FACES_OF_DEATH]]」

原書名「FACES OF DEATH」は洋画の名前。

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FACES OF DEATH

Most genuine death spells fall into a few broad categories. The lethal possibilities offered below are meant as primary outcomes. Secondary or cosmetic effects unrelated to killing ought to be incidental, and not in themselves worth the effort of working such dreadful magic. Wizards should have reason to save death spells for subjects they want dead.

Magic is a game of exceptions, however. Some spells in Chapter 2 (like Resuscitate, p. 14) don’t fit neatly into this scheme. Variety is important, too!

「[[致命状態型>GURPS Magic: Death Spells#Mortal_Conditions]]」

同じ原書名に「死の危険がある効果」があるが、ここでは致死系呪文の分類名として意訳しています。

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Mortal Conditions

The most “logical” death spells smite subjects with Mortal Conditions (p. B429) or Mortal Wounds (p. B423). These examples cover a lot of ground:

● Heart attack is the usual suspect. This causes death after a short time window (HT/3 minutes) during which a medic might be able to save the victim. Below medical TL7, rescue is a lost cause without specialized Healing spells such as Resuscitate (p. 14). Even at high TLs or with magic, resuscitation requires someone with the proper resources to be close by.

● Mortal wounds without specific HP injury are almost as deadly. Magic that produces them immediately consigns the subject to making HT rolls every half hour to avoid death. The cure is either Stabilizing a Mortal Wound (p. B424) or a Stop Bleeding spell cast at 10 times usual energy cost. Otherwise, the victim dies of severe shock in hours.

● Coma is the least-deadly option. It offers a chance to awaken and avoid death; dying takes a day or more; and a cheap-and-easy Awaken spell can negate it. To increase its lethality for a death spell, remove the HT roll to awaken (keep the HT rolls to stave off death ―― many folkloric curses kill slowly!) and/or declare Awaken ineffective. In those cases, saving the victim should be as difficult as stabilizing a mortal wound, calling for surgery or a spell more potent than Awaken (e.g., Remove Curse).

Although countless other possibilities exist, most resemble one of the above options. They differ mostly in what technological or magical treatments can save the patient in the window between affliction and death.

For instance, cardiac arrest (heart attack) is fatal because the heart isn’t pumping blood to the brain. Other afflictions that kill in minutes because the brain is receiving no oxygen at all should use similar rules. For example, respiratory arrest, where the lungs fail, would use almost identical game mechanics in anything but a TL7+ medical drama. See also Suffocation (pp. B436-437).

Afflictions that involve internal bleeding will resemble mortal wounds. This is typical of forms of stroke that involve bleeding in the brain. It also fits death spells that cause internal injuries without visible trauma.

If the brain itself fails for some reason, the results will resemble coma. This can stem from other forms of stroke. Indeed, many medical conditions can underlie more than one of these options; e.g., something that blocks neural signals might stop the heart or lungs (heart attack) or cause gradual cerebral shutdown (coma), while nonspecific systemic shock could progress quickly (mortal wounds) or slowly (coma).

The salient feature in all cases is unconsciousness followed by death, unless a rescuer with suitable capabilities acts in a hurry. The latter point might seem to lump such magic in with spells that incapacitate indefinitely until countermeasures reverse them ―― like Entombment and Flesh to Stone ―― but there’s a critical difference: the countdown to inevitable death without specialized aid. That’s what makes these things death spells!

This kind of magic, like almost any magical affliction, is normally Resisted regardless of means of delivery (Melee, Regular, or even Missile). Subjects who are impervious to the medical problems inflicted ―― thanks to traits such as Doesn’t Breathe, Immunity, and Injury Tolerance ―― cannot be affected. The latter constraint makes such spells a balanced option in campaigns with lots of demons, robots, undead, and so on, as wizards can’t simply one-shot everything in their path.

「[[仮威力型>GURPS Magic: Death Spells#Aggravated_Injury]]」
[[仮威力>GURPS Magic: Death Spells#Aggravated_Injury]]

この-100cpの「脆弱」は本サイトでは不利な特徴「脆弱/自然には存在できない2L」として扱います。

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Aggravated Injury

Other death spells cause fatal supernatural trauma that defies rational understanding; perhaps the magic removes the will to live or “unmakes” the target. These inflict HP of injury ―― like a Deathtouch, Dehydrate, or Frostbite spell ―― and if this would be enough to kill on its own (2\HP in one shot, which would take the victim to -HP even if uninjured), the HT roll to survive at -HP is bypassed and the subject perishes. Such curses deliver potentially lethal wounds and momentarily afflict the Fragile (Unnatural) disadvantage (p. B137) to ensure death.

Nastier examples kill if they inflict injury equal to or greater than the subject’s full HP (enough to reduce the target to 0 HP even if uninjured). This works just like the previous case, except that the spell afflicts the victim with an “enhanced” form of Fragile approximately twice as severe as Unnatural. (When translating spells to advantage-based abilities, this disadvantage would be worth -100 points, like the most serious degree of Terminally Ill, in any campaign with physical danger.)

In either case, the spell might be all-or-nothing: Injury is rolled but not inflicted, and used strictly as a basis for comparison; if it wouldn’t reduce the subject to the threshold that triggers death, the victim escapes uninjured. Other magic causes harm that persists even if the target survives. This doesn’t make the latter kind of thing a mere combat spell that chips away at HP ―― wounding is an incidental effect achieved more cheaply via other spells.

Sometimes, comparison is to a score other than HP (e.g., IQ, HT, Will, or FP), or to double that number instead of to 2\HP. Death occurs if the roll of the dice equals or exceeds that target instead. If the spell also inflicts actual injury, however, that still depletes HP.

Most spells in this category are Regular and Resisted, like Body Control and Mind Control spells that inflict disadvantages. This is on top of the “protection” that high HP grant ―― even if the subject fails to resist, the spell might not roll high enough to kill him. If such a curse is a Melee spell, it’s unlikely to work if it requires the caster to roll to cast and then hit, the target to fail an active defense, the spell to overcome resistance, and the injury to exceed a threshold; therefore, it’s fairest if the spell isn’t Resisted but treated like Deathtouch, causing harm if it hits.

These sorts of death spells are balanced in campaigns where the “boss monsters” have many HP, like giants and dragons. Simply giving serious foes significantly more than 10 HP ensures that they won’t be slaughtered by magic calibrated to exterminate human-scale targets.

「[[生死択一型>GURPS Magic: Death Spells#Save_or_Die]]」

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Save or Die

Most powerful are Resisted spells where the wages of failed resistance are immediate, outright death ―― or worse! The best and perhaps only defense is high resistance. These spells are nearly always Regular, making great size a deterrent (a large Size Modifier can result in a prohibitive energy cost), but this alone won’t help against a wizard with lots of energy. Such spells almost inevitably have extraordinary explanations that defy rational medicine, meaning that physiological traits like having no heart or blood rarely matter; what’s important is excellent HT or Will (depending on whether the magic affects body or mind), and Magic Resistance.

Magic like this is hard to keep in check. The GM must think carefully before allowing it, as it will enable wizards to slaughter anyone who stands in their way. If nothing else, make sure that demigods and other essential figures in the campaign possess suitable defenses (see Stayin’ Alive, p. 6).

「[[自然死？>GURPS Magic: Death Spells#Natural_Causes]]」

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Natural Causes?

Death spells that cause mortal conditions will look like “natural causes” to a mundane medic, but the magic isn’t traceless. Someone who suspects sorcery can divine supernatural evidence via the usual means; e.g., Reconstruct Spell.

原書名「THERE ARE NO NICE COLLEGES」は直訳すると「いい呪文系統なんてない」の意。

「[[呪文系統との関り>GURPS Magic: Death Spells#THERE_ARE_NO_NICE_COLLEGES]]」

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THERE ARE NO NICE COLLEGES

Any college might offer death spells (as Chapter 2 illustrates). Specialists in “whiter” realms ―― e.g., Food, Healing, and Protection and Warning ―― are less likely to deal in the deadliest of deadly wizardry, but where there’s a homicidal will, there’s a lethal way. Beyond being a source of fitting prerequisites, college has two main influences on such magic.

「[[偏差マナ>GURPS Magic: Death Spells#Aspected_Mana]]」

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Aspected Mana
GURPS Fantasy introduces ―― and GURPS Thaumatology expands upon ―― the notion of “aspected mana” that raises skill and/or mana level when casting some kinds of spells while penalizing opposing magic. The affected categories of spells generally correspond to colleges; e.g., fire-aspected mana aids Fire spells while hindering Water spells.

Like all spells, death spells are affected by aspects that bias the local mana toward or away from their parent college. However, two special aspects bear note.

Death-aspected mana. Regions with this aspect benefit all death spells, regardless of college ―― even those in the Healing college.

Life-aspected mana. Zones with this aspect hinder all death spells ―― even those in the Healing college.

「[[特殊な効果>GURPS Magic: Death Spells#Special_Effects]]」

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Special Effects

The lethal aspects of death magic reuse a relatively small set of rules. Differentiating between curses and keeping the game interesting involves fine-tuning game-mechanical details, defining appropriate secondary outcomes, and using evocative imagery. For all of this, there’s no better inspiration than the spell’s college! Some ideas:

Air: Asphyxia; inflating someone until they explode; turning the victim to air and blowing them away.

Animal: Partial shapeshifting of an organ to a useless form; transforming the subject into small, mindless creatures that scatter.

Body Control: Any mortal condition, inflicted directly!

Communication and Empathy: Possession that fatally separates mind and body; telepathic attacks that destroy the brain.

Earth: Partial petrifaction of vital organs; total petrifaction followed by turning the stone to air, dust, or mud that blows or trickles away.

Enchantment: Malefices that kill the subject when destroyed.

Fire: Wholesale save-or-die incineration!

Food: Poison that’s fatal if not resisted; Prepare Game perversions that messily turn the victim inside-out.

Gate: Super-accelerated aging; transportation to a plane inimical to life.

Healing: Cures that are “better than the alternative” for the injured or sick, but potentially deadly for a well person (like many real-life medical treatments).

Illusion and Creation: Objects created inside vital organs; phantoms scary enough to cause heart attack.

Knowledge: Knowledge so terrifying it causes heart attack ―― or of a supernatural truth that kills!

Light and Darkness: Body of shadow snuffed out by a bright flash, or body of light doused in shadow.

Making and Breaking: Shatter, Explode, or Disintegrate variants that can destroy living matter.

Meta-Spells: Curses that cause immediately fatal coincidences; dispelling the cosmic magic of life itself.

Mind Control: Deprivation of the will to live; mindlessness too severe to support life; yet more heart attackinducing fear.

Movement: Crushing telekinetic forces; teleporting away vital parts.

Necromantic: Destroying souls, draining life force, ripping out organs . . . it all suits the college of death!

Plant: Deadly poisonous plants, pollen, or slime; vital organs turned to wood.

Protection and Warning: Force walls that form inside of or cut through people.

Sound: Concussive effects within the body; words no mortal was meant to hear.

Technological: Energy spells that affect the energy within the body; radiation spells that conjure death rays.

Water: Blood to acid; dehydrating someone and blowing away the dust; drowning; transforming the victim to water that trickles away.

Weather: Heart-attack inducing lightning jolt; turning someone to lightning and grounding them out.

The chosen demise can help determine how the spell kills (Faces of Death, pp. 4-5); inspire Creepy Supernatural Drawbacks (p. 8); imply other details that influence Energy Cost (pp. 7-8); and suggest side effects (on survivors or bystanders) and general color (notably, what state the victim ends up in: corpse, goo, dust, vanished . . .).

「[[生き延びるすべ>GURPS Magic: Death Spells#Stayin_Alive]]」

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Stayin’ Alive

GURPS Magic describes almost no death spells because they’re so difficult to balance. In a campaign that uses GURPS Magic: Death Spells, it’s wise to offer defenses.

「[[死の呪い>GURPS Magic: Death Spells#Resistant_to_Death_Curses]]」
「[[耐性/死の呪い>GURPS Magic: Death Spells#Resistant_to_Death_Curses]]」
「[[耐性]]/[[死の呪い>GURPS Magic: Death Spells#Resistant_to_Death_Curses]]」
「[[無効化]]/[[死の呪い>GURPS Magic: Death Spells#Resistant_to_Death_Curses]]」

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Resistant to Death Curses
For the purpose of Resistant (pp. B80-81), Death Curses is an “Occasional” category comprising all supernatural effects intended to cause death. This includes death spells, directdamage Necromantic magic (Burning Death, Rotting Death, etc.), and elixirs of Death (Magic, p. 215), plus nonmagical equivalents such as Afflictions enhanced with Coma or Heart Attack, when they’re chi, divine, psionic, or spirit abilities, or something similar. The resistance bonus adds to whatever roll the possessor must make ―― usually against HT or Will.
This trait represents a strong soul or a superhuman mastery of death, and doesn’t affect superscience death rays, ordinary disease or poison, or HT rolls to avoid death from HP loss.

The GM decides what levels to allow. Immunity to Death Curses [10] could be reserved for whatever categories of beings can buy Unkillable, but anyone might have Resistant to Death Curses (+3) [3] or Resistant to Death Curses (+8) [5]. Add Cosmic, +50% to resist the will of death gods.

「[[耐性/致死系呪文>GURPS Magic: Death Spells#Resistant_to_Death_Spells]]」
「[[耐性]]/[[致死系呪文]]」

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Resistant to Death Spells
Death Spells is a “Rare” subset of Death Curses, implying Resistant to Death Spells (+3) [1], Resistant to Death Spells (+8) [2], and Immunity to Death Spells [5]. Similar restrictions on purchase make sense.

「[[タイプ限定」付き「魔法の耐性」>GURPS Magic: Death Spells#Limited_Magic_Resistance]]」

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Limited Magic Resistance
“Limited, Only against death magic” is a -75% limitation on Magic Resistance (p. B67). This give a penalty to enemy spells as well as a bonus to resist. It and Resistant to Death Spells are roughly comparable for the points, but it makes the most sense for a campaign to use one or the other.

「[[死ににくい>GURPS Magic: Death Spells#Hard_to_Kill]]」

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Hard to Kill
Hard to Kill (pp. B58-59) doesn’t generally aid resistance rolls against death spells themselves ―― though if a death spell leaves the victim rolling against HT to avoid dying (as with mortal wounds or coma), it provides its usual bonus on those rolls. Exception: It does benefit resistance against spells that cause heart attack or equivalent effects (e.g., respiratory arrest) that offer no HT roll once they occur.

「[[重要なステータス>GURPS Magic: Death Spells#VITAL_STATISTICS]]」

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VITAL STATISTICS

The write-ups for death spells mostly obey a few basic principles. To see this advice in action, visit Chapter 2. Where those examples deviate from these recommendations, it’s to better fit with the rest of their college ―― an important goal to bear in mind!

Class: Most death spells are Regular spells. Melee and Missile spells can also be balanced, with the adjustments described in Energy Cost (below). Area spells, and Special ones subject to Long-Distance Modifiers (p. B241), aren’t recommended. Death spells should be Resisted, too ―― every living being will fight to stay alive! The resistance roll might involve IQ, HT, or Will, but removing it is inadvisable.

Difficulty: It’s customary for death spells to be “advanced” or “secret” magic, and therefore Very Hard. This isn’t essential, however. All else being equal, the greater difficulty amounts to -1 to skill ―― easily offset by a staff or a step, for a Regular spell.

Prerequisites: Like difficulty, these are arbitrary. That said, Magery 3 will reserve such power for the talented mages it suits best. A chain of at least half a dozen spells is reasonable, too. Before going overboard, consider that the lethal curse basic enough to tempt dabblers and apprentices (often to their lasting regret!) is a common fantasy trope, and that prerequisites impose only weak limits on wizards’ capabilities anyway.

The true controls on powerful spells are casting time and energy cost. Although these can vary widely ―― GURPS Magic ranges all over the map with these stats, for every kind of magic ―― some concrete guidelines are in order.

「[[致死系呪文系統は？>GURPS Magic: Death Spells#Death_College]]」

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Death College?
The sheer number of death spells ―― and the very existence of death-aspected mana (pp. 5-6) ―― might tempt the GM to create a separate Death college and declare that every death spell belongs to it. Before doing so, be aware that the resulting college won’t be self-contained unless its spells’ prerequisites are radically restructured; see GURPS Thaumatology and GURPS Thaumatology: Magical Styles for advice on accomplishing this. Magery (One College Only, Death), though allowed, won’t be a good investment ―― both because of the many out-of-college prerequisites and because few wizards need more than a handful of ways to kill. The main effect will be that “spells from N different colleges” prerequisites are somewhat easier to satisfy.

「[[準備時間>GURPS Magic: Death Spells#Time_to_Cast]]」

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Time to Cast
In combat, the action cost of a spell’s tactical effects might matter more than anything else ―― even energy cost. A death spell removes one foe from the fight in one casting, so it should be as fast as any other magic that produces that outcome. Compare Daze or Flesh to Stone at two seconds; Arboreal Immurement, Entombment, or Sleep at three; or Evisceration or Plane Shift Other at five. The temptation to lengthen casting time for potent spells is best avoided ―― nobody as smart as the typical wizard would cast a death spell that takes longer than casting Sleep, taking a Move to reach the victim, and using Attack to slit his throat. Death-dealing wizards should pay in the FP department, not with Concentrate maneuvers! A reasonable casting time is between two and five seconds, set by comparison to the college’s other spells; e.g., nasty Necromantic spells are slow and ritualistic, so five seconds (like Evisceration) fits, while Water magic is quick, so lethal workings might take no longer than the two seconds for Dehydrate. A few one-shot spells are fast. Consider Agonize and Total Paralysis, which remove a foe from the action in just one second. That’s fine, too, but it ought to raise energy cost a bit; see Special Benefits (p. 8). Conversely, the premise that death magic is intended for combat might not hold in all cases. A deadly version of Suspended Animation (30 seconds) or something akin to Steal Vitality (which kills in minutes, but only out of combat) is still a death spell. These slow rituals should cost less energy; see Special Drawbacks (p. 8).

「[[エネルギー消費>GURPS Magic: Death Spells#Energy_Cost]]」

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Energy Cost
Referring to Faces of Death (pp. 4-5), here are some recommendations.

「[[致命状態型>GURPS Magic: Death Spells#Mortal_Conditions2]]」

• 根本消費は、致命傷や昏睡など、数時間から数日で死亡する状態を想定しています。死亡が早まるとエネルギー消費が増加します：
  • 数分で死亡 （心臓発作など）： エネルギー消費+1。
  • 数秒で死亡（《内臓摘出》など）： エネルギー消費+2。
• 「根本消費」（Base Cost）は、適切な魔法または医療措置を呪文の「生存期間」内に実施することで対象を救えると想定しています。魔法的には、《瞬間接合》は《内臓摘出》を元に戻し、《止血》は致命傷を安定させ、《覚醒》は昏睡を治療します。医学的には、「致命傷の安定」は致命傷による死亡を防ぎ、「蘇生」は心臓発作阻止します。これが当てはまらない場合、エネルギー消費が増加します：
  • 「極端な対策が必要」（Extreme measures needed）： エネルギー消費+1。　例えば、《瞬間再生》 エネルギー消費80点、《瞬間接合》50点、《止血》10点、《呪い除去》20点、《覚醒》1点の何れかが対策になる場合。
  • 「救助が不可能」（No rescue possible）： エネルギー消費+2。
• 通常とは異なる対策はエネルギー消費に影響する可能性があります。
  • 知られていない、または明白でない対策 (例：《覚醒》でなく《閃光》でも、昏睡を解除しますが、ほとんどの医療従事者はこれに気付いていません、または治療には術者の「真名」が必要です) は「極端な対策」として扱います: エネルギー消費+1。
  • 奇妙だが明白な治療では、エネルギー消費は変更しません。
  • ごく簡単な治療は「特別欠点要素」(p.8)としてカウントされます 。

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Mortal Conditions
Base Cost: 11 energy
Base cost assumes a condition that kills in hours to days, like mortal wounds or coma. Faster death increases energy cost:

Kills in minutes (like heart attack): +1 energy. Kills in seconds (like the Evisceration spell): +2 energy.

Base cost assumes that appropriate magical or medical measures delivered within the spell’s “survival window” can save the subject. Magically, Instant Restoration reverses Evisceration (see Magic, p. 154), Stop Bleeding stabilizes mortal wounds, and Awaken treats coma. Medically, Stabilizing a Mortal Wound (p. B424) keeps mortal wounds from killing, while Resuscitation (p. B425) counteracts heart attack. Energy cost increases if this is untrue:

Extreme measures needed (e.g., Instant Regeneration at 80 energy, not Instant Restoration at 50; Instant Restoration for 50 energy, not Stop Bleeding for 10; or Remove Curse for 20 energy, not Awaken for 1): +1 energy.

No rescue possible: +2 energy.

Unusual countermeasures might affect cost. Treat those that aren’t known or obvious (e.g., Flash, not Awaken, lifts a coma, but most medics aren’t aware of this, or treatment requires the caster’s true name) as “extreme measures”: +1 energy. Strangebut- obvious treatments don’t change cost. Trivially easy cures count as special drawbacks (p. 8).

「[[仮威力>GURPS Magic: Death Spells#Aggravated_Injury2]]」

• 仮威力の算出値が 2×HP以上必要（健康な対象をHPの-1倍に減らすのに十分量必要）：エネルギー消費4点。
• 仮威力がHP以上必要（健康な対象を0HPに減らすのに十分）：エネルギー消費8点。

• 仮威力は実際に負傷を与える：「エネルギー消費+2/1d」。
• 仮威力はHPとの比較のみを目的として判定されるもの：「エネルギー消費+1/1d」。

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Aggravated Injury
Base Cost: Variable
The base cost for this kind of spell comes in two parts. First, there’s the energy cost to afflict the target with the momentary vulnerability that could kill without allowing a HT roll: Injury must equal or exceed 2×HP (enough to reduce a healthy subject to -HP): 4 energy.

Injury must equal or exceed HP (enough to reduce a healthy subject to 0 HP): 8 energy.

On top of this, there’s a per-die cost for the injury itself:

Real injury: +2 energy/die.
Injury rolled only for comparison to HP: +1 energy/die.

Whether the spell is Melee, Regular, or Missile, this is not damage that must defeat DR, but direct injury that ignores it. Minimum injury per casting is 1d. The maximum varies, but spells that compare injury to HP are best capped at 3d or 4d, while ones that must equal or exceed 2\HP might allow 6d to 8d.

Cost is unchanged for comparison to IQ, HT, Will, FP, or another score besides HP. Regardless of the basis of comparison, though, any actual injury is to HP.

「[[生死択一型>GURPS Magic: Death Spells#Save_or_Die2]]」

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Save or Die
Base Cost: 13 energy
These spells have a flat base cost, but special benefits and drawbacks often modify this.

「[[特別利点要素>GURPS Magic: Death Spells#Special_Benefits]]」

• 条件が適用されます（「魂を持つもの」（anything with a soul）、「水分を含むもの」（anything that contains water）など）： エネルギー消費+1。
• すべての存在（または「知力1以上のすべての存在」（every IQ 1+ being）など、ぼぼ全キャラクターを対象にするようなもの）：エネルギー消費+2。

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Special Benefits
All three spell types may have extra benefits that justify a higher energy cost. Added costs are cumulative. For aggravated injury, they’re per casting, not per die.

● Affects beings that aren’t truly alive. By definition, death spells slay the living. A few can harm other entities, however. Conditions apply (“anything with a soul,” “anything that contains water,” etc.): +1 energy. Every being (or close enough, like “every IQ 1+ being”): +2 energy.

● Missile spell, not Regular. A death spell that works from afar is extra-nasty. The skill used to shoot it could be any specialty of Innate Attack (p. B201). +2 energy.

● No resistance. A Melee or Missile spell that entitles the subject to an active defense may, if the GM wishes, allow no resistance roll ―― an extremely potent edge! +2 energy.

● One-second casting time. A curse that takes one turn to sling is difficult to interrupt and therefore extra-lethal. +1 energy.

Other benefits ―― like less-than-lethal side effects on bystanders, or lasting sickness for victims magically or medically saved from death ―― might add +1 or +2 energy.

「[[特別欠点要素>GURPS Magic: Death Spells#Special_Drawbacks]]」

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Special Drawbacks
Likewise, any death spell may have drawbacks that reduce cost. Here, too, costs are cumulative and per casting (where applicable).

● Casting time of 10+ seconds. Slow spells are hard to use in combat, where death spells are most welcome. -1 energy (the GM may give bigger discounts for minutes or hours).

● Creepy Supernatural Drawbacks (below). -1 energy/drawback.

● Easier resistance. The spell allows the subject to use the higher of two attributes to resist (e.g., better of HT or Will), inflicts aggravated injury that’s compared to the larger of two scores (e.g., greater of HT or HP), grants a bonus to resist, or anything similar. -1 energy.

● Excludes a large group of living subjects. A significant number of ordinary living beings are exempt. -1 energy (the GM may give bigger discounts for huge groups).

● Melee spell, not Regular. Regular spells that require contact also count. -2 energy.

● Reversible after the fact. Death spells are meant to be final (barring Resurrection). A spell that’s reversible for a limited time isn’t as powerful. Reversal usually requires a slow, potent spell like Remove Curse cast within minutes to an hour ―― or a cheaper spell cast immediately. -2 energy.

Other drawbacks ―― such as a particularly onerous ritual or an especially easy “escape clause” ―― are good for -1 energy apiece.

「[[不気味な超自然的欠点>GURPS Magic: Death Spells#Creepy_Supernatural_Drawbacks]]」

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Creepy Supernatural Drawbacks
Death spells venture into territory customarily claimed by undead, ancestral spirits, demons, and/or gods. In some universes, Death is a supernatural entity ―― one to whom even deities must answer! Then there are karma and impersonal laws of magic, either of which might ensure that black magicians ultimately reap what they sow. Wizards who work death magic tread on dangerous ground. In folklore and fairy tales, they almost inevitably meet a bad end.

This kind of thinking can provide a degree of balance in an RPG, too. The following classes of problems are fairest.

Failure or resistance poses a risk. If the death spell doesn’t work, or if it works but doesn’t kill its target, there’s a chance that the caster will suffer a temporary-but-unpleasant backlash. Examples: The spell is a contract with some power that expects to devour the target’s life force, and if the subject survives, the wizard must defeat that sinister being in a Quick Contest of Will ―― or resist the death spell! ―― or take injury equal to the would-be victim’s Will, HP, or HT. Or perhaps it unleashes noxious energies that, if they don’t kill, linger to inflict injury, a Curse spell, or some other inconvenience unless the caster also resists the spell.

Killing poses a risk. If the spell kills, the victim’s passing may trigger problems for the caster. Examples: Those killed can get vengeance from beyond the grave ―― most likely as undead ―― if they win a Quick Contest of Will against the wizard’s spell, Thaumatology skill, or Will. Or perhaps The Powers That Be disapprove of mortals tinkering with the skein of Fate, and the caster must resist one of the subject’s attributes, or the spell itself, or end up with a Curse.

Critical failure causes harm. If the spell critically fails, the outcome is worse than usual for the caster. This is rare enough to rate permanent consequences! Examples: The caster immediately and permanently loses a level of HT or Magery, or must resist the death spell or be killed by it.

Each such drawback reduces the spell’s energy cost by one. No death spell should have more than one or two of these. Ultimately, though, the only limit is the fiendishness of the GM’s imagination!

「[[グリム・グリモア>GURPS Magic: Death Spells#ID1]]」
[[第2章>GURPS Magic: Death Spells#ID1]]

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　Here are four dozen death spells, two for each of the 24 standard colleges of GURPS Magic. A few words on logic, design options, or dramatic feel preface each college’s entries, for the benefit of gamers inventing additional spells.
　The GM decides what’s available, to whom, and on what terms. Wizardly cabals may be reluctant to share such magic! If using GURPS Thaumatology: Magical Styles, death spells are most likely secret spells exclusive to particular styles.
　But enough talk . . . let’s cast a deadly spell!

[[L-風霊系呪文の致死系呪文>GURPS Magic: Death Spells#AIR_SPELLS]]

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　The Air college’s death spells most often resemble its standard spells with an implicit limitation removed: “cannot becast inside a living being.”

《[[塞栓症]]》
《[[塞栓症>GURPS Magic: Death Spells#Embolism]]》

• 呪文クラス：通常呪文、抵抗呪文＿生命力
• 呪文系統：　風霊系呪文
  • 呪文の小分類：致死系呪文
• 持続時間：呪文は一瞬続きますが、魔法や医療によって元に戻さない限り、効果は永続します。
• エネルギー消費：12。
• 準備時間：3秒
• 前提条件：「魔法の素質/3L」、《肉体気化》、《真なる空気》
• 前提条件数：10

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Embolism (VH)
Regular; Resisted by HT

Creates an improbably huge bubble of air within the subject’s circulatory system. If the target fails to resist, the result is stroke. Treat this as a mortal wound (p. B423): The victim immediately falls unconscious and must roll vs. HT every 30 minutes, with any failure meaning death. At TL6+, trauma maintenance can help.

Natural recovery occurs on a critical success on the HT roll. Otherwise, the only cure is TL6+ brain surgery or an Instant Restoration spell. A victim who recovers is at -HP or current HP, whichever is worse. Critical failure on the HT roll required after recovering from a mortal wound costs the subject a level of IQ as well as the usual level of HT.

Embolism can harm only living, breathing beings that have blood and brains. Doesn’t Breathe ―― or any form of Injury Tolerance that includes No Blood or No Brain ―― grants immunity. The GM may assess other effects on targets the spell can’t kill; e.g., it might act as Great Healing on an air elemental!

Duration: The spell lasts an instant, but the effects are permanent unless reversed via magic or medical care.
Cost: 12.
Time to cast: 3 seconds.
Prerequisites: Magery 3, Body of Air, and Essential Air.

《[[呼吸破綻]]》
《[[呼吸破綻>GURPS Magic: Death Spells#Steal_Breath]]》

• 呪文クラス：通常呪文、抵抗呪文_生命力
• 呪文系統：　風霊系呪文
  • 呪文の小分類：致死系呪文
• 持続時間：呪文は一瞬続きますが、魔法や医療によって元に戻さない限り、効果は永続します。
• エネルギー消費：13。
• 準備時間：3秒
• 前提条件：「魔法の素質/3L」および、風霊系呪文7種（《空気悪化》含む）。
• 前提条件数：10

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Steal Breath (VH)
Regular; Resisted by HT

Snatches away a living victim’s “vital essence” by removing the body’s ability to get oxygen to essential systems: collapsing lungs, deoxygenating blood, and so on. Treat as heart attack (p. B429) for most purposes: the subject drops to -FP, falls unconscious, and dies in HT/3 minutes unless resuscitated. However, the arrest is respiratory, not cardiac, which may affect treatment (GM’s option).

Resuscitated victims have the lower of their current HP or 0 HP. Those unconscious for more than two minutes must roll vs. HT to avoid a permanent -1 to IQ, as described for Suffocation (pp. B436-437).

This spell affects only breathing, oxygen-dependent life forms. Doesn’t Breathe ―― or any variety of Injury Tolerance that includes No Blood or No Vitals ―― gives immunity.
Exceptions: Machines that require oxygen must resist or shut down until restarted. Air elementals and subjects with the Body of Air meta-trait (p. B262) treat Steal Breath as “save or die”; failed resistance means they’re instantly destroyed.

Duration: The spell lasts an instant, but the effects are permanent unless reversed via magic or medical care.
Cost: 13.
Time to cast: 3 seconds.
Prerequisites: Magery 3 and any seven Air spells, including Devitalize Air.

[[L-動物系呪文の致死系呪文>GURPS Magic: Death Spells#ANIMAL_SPELLS]]

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ANIMAL SPELLS
　This college can command dangerous creatures, or grant the caster lethal claws or venom glands, but these tricks aren’t true death curses. Genuine animal-themed death spells focus on shapeshifting, transforming victims in ways they can’t survive. Such magic affects only living beings that could be construed to be “animals” (regardless of IQ ―― humans count!), not plant-based life, stitched-together golems, or inorganic monsters.

《[[死の部位変身]]》《[[死の部位変身]]/種別》
《[[死の部位変身>GURPS Magic: Death Spells#Abominable_Alteration]]》《[[死の部位変身>GURPS Magic: Death Spells#Abominable_Alteration]]/種別》

「Abominable Alteration」は「忌々しい変更」という意味。自滅させる構造の《部位変身》なので、今の形に意訳しています。また、前提条件を見るに、専門対象を設定する必要がありそうです。

• 呪文クラス：通常呪文、抵抗呪文＿生命力か意志力
• 呪文系統：　動物系呪文
  • 呪文の小分類：致死系呪文、特定変身系呪文
• 持続時間：一瞬。死とグロテスクな変化は永久的です。
• エネルギー消費：11
• 準備時間：10秒
• 前提条件：「魔法の素質/3L」、 《体変え》、該当する動物の《他者変身》
• 前提条件数：19

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Abominable Alteration (VH)
Regular; Resisted by HT or Will
　This is a whole class of Partial Shapeshifting variants that affect only one body part without preserving scale or function. The subject might be afflicted with a diminutive insect head with insufficient brainpower to sustain the body, or a massive elephant head that snaps the neck and collapses the spine ―― or perhaps a vole heart that ruptures under the strain. The cause of death might technically be a mortal condition, but this is save-or-die magic.

The subject may resist this spell with the higher of HT or Will. Failure means instant death. The corpse left behind is permanently transformed.

Duration: Instantaneous. Death and grotesque transformation are permanent.
Cost: 11.
Time to cast: 10 seconds.
Prerequisites: Magery 3, Alter Body, and Shapeshift Others for the appropriate animal.

《[[千脚の崩壊]]》
《[[千脚の崩壊]]>GURPS Magic: Death Spells#Thousand-Legged_Demise]]》

• 呪文クラス：通常呪文、抵抗呪文＿意志力
• 呪文系統：　動物系呪文
  • 呪文の小分類：致死系呪文、特定変身系呪文
• 持続時間：呪文は1秒間続きます。死は永久的です。
• エネルギー消費：11。対象の一部ではなく、全身に影響させる必要があります。
• 準備時間：5秒。
• 前提条件：「魔法の素質/3L」、《昆虫制御》、何かしらの《他者変身》1種。
• 前提条件数：10

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Thousand-Legged Demise (VH)
Regular; Resisted by Will

Briefly transforms the subject into a seething swarm of small, mindless creatures. The magic is highly unstable and doesn’t impart a group mind ―― rather than stay in a cohesive horde, the critters crawl, fly, or swim in all directions. The spell collapses a second later, leaving gobbets of the victim’s dead body scattered across a radius equal to his Move (or on interior walls, if contained), with a few surviving creepy-crawlers dining on the carrion.

There’s one possible way to save the victim: Someone who casts Vermin Control on the subject immediately (on his first turn after Thousand-Legged Demise is cast) may roll a Quick Contest against the effective skill level of this spell.
Victory keeps the swarm in one place, allowing the subject to reform unharmed.

Whatever happens, if transformation occurs, the subject’s possessions aren’t affected and end up on the ground.

Duration: The spell lasts one second. Death is permanent.
Cost: 11. Must affect the entire subject, not just part of it!
Time to cast: 5 seconds.
Prerequisites: Magery 3, Vermin Control, and any one Shapeshift Others spell.

[[L-肉体操作系呪文の致死系呪文>GURPS Magic: Death Spells#BODY_CONTROL_SPELLS]]

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BODY CONTROL SPELLS
　At the GM’s option, any death spell that directly afflicts a mortal condition might also count as a Body Control spell.Like most Body Control spells, such magic is nearly always limited to living beings.

《[[心臓停止]]》
《[[心臓停止>GURPS Magic: Death Spells#Death]]》

原書名「Death」を「死」と直訳するのは、呪文内容に比べて意味が広範すぎるので、今の形に意訳しています。

• 呪文クラス：　通常呪文、抵抗呪文＿生命力
• 呪文系統：　肉体操作系呪文
  • 呪文の小分類：致死系呪文
• 持続時間：呪文は一瞬続きますが、魔法または医療によって元に戻さない限り、効果は永続します。
• エネルギー消費：12。
• 準備時間：3秒
• 前提条件：「魔法の素質/3L」、《窒息化》、および《死の手》。
• 前提条件数：10

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Death (VH)
Regular; Resisted by HT

This spell (from GURPS Magical Styles: Dungeon Magic) is an attempt to kill the subject outright without the intermediary of disease or injury. If the victim fails to resist, he suffers a heart attack exactly as described on p. B429 . . . thus, he can be resuscitated if he gets suitable help in time.

This magic can affect only a living being who has both a heart and blood to pump! Targets with any variety of Injury Tolerance that includes No Blood or No Vitals are immune, as are those whose FP score is “N/A.”

Duration: The spell lasts an instant, but the effects are permanent unless reversed via magic or medical care.
Cost: 12.
Time to cast: 3 seconds.
Prerequisites: Magery 3, Choke, and Deathtouch.

《[[破滅の手]]》
《[[破滅の手>GURPS Magic: Death Spells#Doomtouch]]》

• 呪文クラス：　白兵呪文
• 呪文系統：　肉体操作系呪文
  • 呪文の小分類：致死系呪文
• エネルギー消費：5、仮威力1dにつき1点加算、最大8d。
• 準備時間：3秒
• 前提条件： 「魔法の素質/3L」、《死の手》、および《血液弱体化》。
• 前提条件数：16

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Doomtouch (VH)
Melee
　The caster must strike the subject to trigger this spell; hit location is unimportant. If the target fails to defend, roll the spell’s dice of effect (from 1d to 8d). Damage Resistance is irrelevant. If the total equals twice or more the victim’s HP, the subject dies immediately without any HT or resistance roll!
Any lesser result produces no effect at all.

　Unlike Deathtouch, this spell does not affect the undead ―― only beings that are truly alive.

Cost: 5, plus 1 per die of effect, to a maximum of eight dice.
Prerequisites: Magery 3, Deathtouch, and Weaken Blood.

「[[突然の死>GURPS Magic: Death Spells#Sudden_Death]]」

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Sudden Death

GURPS Magic: Death Spells doesn’t add much work at the beginning of a campaign. The GM already has to review 800+ spells from GURPS Magic (plus dozens more scattered across GURPS and Pyramid), decide what to permit, formulate some originals, consult GURPS Thaumatology to adjust prerequisites, and/or use GURPS Thaumatology: Magical Styles to divvy up wizardly knowledge. Another 48 spells changes little. The command decisions are deciding whether PCs can start with instant-death abilities, and reviewing such curses’ interactions with the traits of important bad guys. The only impact for most characters is that Stayin’ Alive (p. 6) becomes required reading.

Introducing killer curses into an ongoing campaign is serious challenge. All of that planning still needs doing, but retroactively and without hard feelings. Here are a few pointers:

It’s only a “twist” the first time. The sudden appearance of death spells can be so cool, it’s chilling. After many sessions covering months or years of game time, the PCs might grow so powerful that they don’t fear Deathtouch or Fireball, and so celebrated that they are asked to hunt ―― or deemed worth hunting by! ―― hitherto secretive groups that wield death magic. The first encounter should be scary, and might even result in a dramatic death ―― although the GM may want to let the heroes avert this fate with character points (see GURPS Power-Ups 5: Impulse Buys) or undo it with Resurrection. After that, however, the players may have their characters turtle up or retire if they can’t mount a defense or hit back just as hard.

Forewarned is forearmed. If death magic exists, so should defenses against it. These needn’t appear simultaneously, but after the initial encounter, it’s fairest to let the players spend character points to equip the PCs with the advantages in Stayin’ Alive (p. 6) and/or to learn countermeasures such as the Resuscitate spell (p. 14). The justification might be purely meta-game (“Since I’m introducing death spells, you can buy defenses.”), but it’s more interesting to work within the story: perhaps exposure to death magic stirs latent defenses, and knowledge of its existence opens new avenues of magical research.

Fighting death with death. If death magic is outlawed, only outlaws will have death magic . . . and formerly good guys will turn outlaw if that’s what it takes to hit back. It’s less disruptive to empower the heroes to give as good as they get without turning heel. Again, while this can be a meta-game call, it’s more fun to work it into the plot.
Guildmasters, grand viziers, or patron deities ―― realizing that the PCs are polite society’s bulwark against evil ―― might fight fire with fire, letting mages and clerics in on the secret. Wizards may find that witnessing a bona fide death spell gives a big bonus to research it.

[[L-情報伝達系呪文の致死系呪文>GURPS Magic: Death Spells#COMMUNICATION_AND_EMPATHY_SPELLS]]

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COMMUNICATION AND EMPATHY SPELLS
　The best explanation for this college’s death spells is that they’re curses that destroy the mind. As they affect any sapient (IQ 6+) or even any sentient (IQ 1+) entity ―― living or not ―― energy cost is a point or two higher than for comparable spells that affect only the living.

《[[三角移魂殺]]》
《[[三角移魂殺>GURPS Magic: Death Spells#Accursed_Triangle]]》

この呪文の原書名「Accursed Triangle」は直訳すると「忌まわしい三角形」。憑依系呪文（または《魂の壺》）の殺人的応用ですが、《掌握除去》の対象にはなりません。

• 呪文クラス：通常呪文、抵抗判定＿意志力
• 呪文系統：　情報伝達系呪文
  • 呪文の小分類：致死系呪文
• 持続時間：呪文は一瞬続きますが、数秒以内に元に戻さない限り、効果は永続します。
• エネルギー消費：13。
• 準備時間：10秒
• 前提条件：「魔法の素質/3L」、《肉体交換》。
• 前提条件数：21

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Accursed Triangle (VH)
Regular; Resisted by Will

　This curse ―― which affects anything with a “soul” (GM’s decision) ―― causes the caster to swap bodies with the subject, then shifts the caster’s mind into a mindless vessel in the environment (stone, tree, or similar), and then swaps the caster’s consciousness back into his original body while moving the subject’s to the object. This is instantaneous. The wizard isn’t out of body for long enough to suffer ill effects from the round trip.

　The subject’s body will live indefinitely ―― as a mindless shell with IQ 0 ―― if cared for, but the mind dissipates after a mere Will/3 seconds, rounded down. While the mind survives, it can use psi abilities, spells it knows well enough to cast without ritual, and so on, although it can perceive nothing and can touch only whatever its vessel is touching. After that time, the victim’s consciousness is gone.

　In theory, magic capable of reuniting a mind and a body, or allowing a mind to enter another body, can save the subject if cast in those Will/3 seconds. However, Possession and Soul Jar take a minute, Permanent Possession requires five minutes, and Exchange Bodies needs an hour. In practice, only high-Will victims with extraordinary skill levels (for time reduction) have much hope. Dispel Possession won’t work, as the subject isn’t possessed!

　This spell has an unpleasant drawback: On a critical failure, the would-be subject may place the caster’s mind and his own in his choice of the caster’s body, his own body, and some random vessel. Most targets imprison their tormentor in an inanimate object, killing the wizard in Will/3 seconds. Some also hijack the caster’s body.

Duration: The spell lasts an instant, but the effects are permanent unless reversed in seconds.
Cost: 13.
Time to cast: 10 seconds.
Prerequisites: Magery 3 and Exchange Bodies.

《[[過負荷送念]]》
《[[過負荷送念>GURPS Magic: Death Spells#Telepathic_Overload]]》

• 呪文クラス：通常呪文、抵抗判定＿生命力または意志力
• 呪文系統：　情報伝達系呪文
  • 呪文の小分類：致死系呪文
• 持続時間：呪文は一瞬続きますが、魔法で戻さない限り、効果は永続します。
• エネルギー消費：7、仮威力1dつき+2点、最大4dまで。
• 準備時間：4秒。
• 前提条件：「魔法の素質/3L」、および《精神感応》を含む情報伝達系呪文10種。
• 前提条件数：13

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Telepathic Overload (VH)
Regular; Resisted by HT or Will

　Attempts to directly and fatally overload even the most rudimentary of brains. Thus, this spell is effective against any physical IQ 1+ entity! The subject may resist using the better of HT (brain) or Will (mind). If the caster wins, roll the spell’s dice of effect (from 1d to 4d). Damage Resistance doesn’t protect.

　If the total on the dice equals or exceeds the target’s Will, the brain is burned out, its functions suspended and memories deleted. The victim collapses immediately. The body lives on for HT/3 minutes, but the person is gone barring an Instant Restoration spell cast within that window of opportunity.

　Regardless of whether the spell kills outright, it inflicts the effect roll as HP of injury. This might still be lethal if it takes the subject to -HP or worse, but a roll lower than Will means the cause of death is ordinary trauma, not a scrambled brain.

Duration: The spell lasts an instant, but the effects are permanent unless reversed via magic.
Cost: 7, plus 2 per die of effect, to a maximum of four dice.
Time to cast: 4 seconds.
Prerequisites: Magery 3 and any 10 Communication and Empathy spells, including Telepathy.

[[L-地霊系呪文の致死系呪文>GURPS Magic: Death Spells#EARTH_SPELLS]]

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EARTH SPELLS
Most deadly Earth spells are variations on Flesh to Stone, and therefore affect only ordinary living beings.

《[[塵は塵に]]》
《[[塵は塵に>GURPS Magic: Death Spells#Dust_to_Dust]]》

• 呪文クラス：通常呪文、抵抗呪文_生命力
• 呪文系統：　地霊系呪文
  • 呪文の小分類：致死系呪文、変性系呪文
• 持続時間：一瞬（不可逆！）。
• エネルギー消費：13。対象の一部ではなく、全体に影響する必要があります。
• 準備時間：4秒。
• 前提条件：「魔法の素質/3L」、《土を空気》、《肉を石》。
• 前提条件数：10

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Dust to Dust (VH)
Regular; Resisted by HT

　Turns a living subject and all of that person’s gear into a fine dust that has no hope of reassembly into its old form. This is functionally equivalent to casting Flesh to Stone and Earth to Air back-to-back ―― though in one step, so that the victim’s allies cannot attempt Stone to Flesh in the interim. Casting time and energy cost reflect this.

Duration: Instantaneous (and irreversible!).
Cost: 13. Must affect the entire subject, not just part of it!
Time to cast: 4 seconds.
Prerequisites: Magery 3, Earth to Air, and Flesh to Stone.

《[[心臓石化]]》
《[[心臓石化>GURPS Magic: Death Spells#Heart_of_Stone]]》

• 呪文クラス：通常呪文、抵抗呪文_生命力
• 呪文系統：　地霊系呪文
  • 呪文の小分類：致死系呪文、特定呪詛系呪文
• 持続時間：呪文は一瞬続きますが、魔法で元に戻さない限り効果は永続します。
• エネルギー消費：13。
• 準備時間：3秒
• 前提条件：「魔法の素質/3L」および《部位石化》。
• 前提条件数：8

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Heart of Stone (VH)
Regular; Resisted by HT

　This horrid variant of Partial Petrifaction turns the subject’s heart to a lump of rock in his chest. If the victim fails to resist, he suffers a heart attack as described on p. B429 . . . except that resuscitation is impossible. Only a Stone to Flesh or Remove Curse spell cast within HT/3 minutes can negate this effect (and if so, the usual FP and HP losses for a heart attack remain).

　This spell can affect only living beings who don’t have a variety of Injury Tolerance that includes No Blood or No Vitals.

Duration: The spell lasts an instant, but the effects are permanent unless reversed via magic.
Cost: 13.
Time to cast: 3 seconds.
Prerequisites: Magery 3 and Partial Petrifaction.

「[[死装束>GURPS Magic: Death Spells#Burial_Dress]]」

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Burial Dress
　A common type of death spell is the “Body of” perversion that transforms the subject into something easily dissipated. Examples include Grave Grounding, Shadow-Slay, Snuff Life’s Flame, and Swamp Rot. Most such magic affects 6 lbs. of clothing, too. Only the innermost layer of DR 0 attire is altered, and if this weighs more than 6 lbs., the caster specifies what’s affected. Garments beyond this, and jewelry, armor, and other equipment, are unaffected. Exceptions are detailed in individual spell descriptions (e.g., Dissipate).

[[L-魔化系呪文の致死系呪文>GURPS Magic: Death Spells#ENCHANTMENT_SPELLS]]

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ENCHANTMENT SPELLS
Enchantments that kill defy much of the advice in Chapter 1. Existing Enchantment spells are a better model. One-shot deals should require around 260 energy, like a Spell Stone bearing a save-or-die spell.

《[[暗殺武器]]》
《[[暗殺武器>GURPS Magic: Death Spells#Assassins_Weapon]]》

• 呪文クラス：魔化呪文
• 呪文系統：　魔化系呪文（武器魔化系呪文）
  • 呪文の小分類：致死系呪文
• 持続時間：魔化
• エネルギー消費： 500。1回の使用で確実に破壊される弾薬 (弾丸など) のエネルギー消費は半分になります。エネルギー消費を削減するには、《対象設定》魔化がよく使用されます。
• 前提条件：「魔法の素質/3L」、《貫く刃》および《鋭さ》。
• 前提条件数：20

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Assassin’s Weapon (VH)
Enchantment

Turns a melee weapon or a round of ammunition (e.g., arrow or bullet) into a vehicle of death. Cannot be cast on a missile weapon such as a bow or a gun ―― only on its ammo.

Any living being hit by an Assassin’s Weapon must resist the item’s Power with HT. Failure means a fatal wound causing immediate death, however improbable; while the weapon blow is the apparent cause, forensic spells will reveal the full story. Successful resistance reduces Power by one but leaves the magic intact. The enchantment ends when it kills or reaches Power 0, whichever comes first.

Check for the weapon’s mundane effects (penetration, wounding, etc.) only after the resistance roll. An Assassin’s Weapon can weaken or exhaust itself against a target who would die of injuries anyway! This enchantment is customarily put on small, concealable weapons, not on those that are sure to kill.

Energy cost to create: 500. Halve cost for ammunition that’s certain to be destroyed in one use (e.g., a bullet). The Bane enchantment is often used to reduce energy cost.
Prerequisites: Magery 3, Penetrating Weapon, and Puissance.

《[[死の人形]]》
《[[死の人形>GURPS Magic: Death Spells#Mortal_Malefice]]》

• 呪文クラス：魔化呪文
• 呪文系統：　魔化系呪文（未分類魔化系呪文）
• エネルギー消費：275。特別な材料のコストは $550。
• 前提条件：「魔法の素質/3L」、《呪い人形》、および《魂の壺》。
• 前提条件数：23

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Mortal Malefice (VH)
Enchantment

　Works like the Malefice spell with one deadly exception: Destroying the doll doesn’t inflict Endurance/5 dice of Deathtouch, to a maximum of 3d. Instead, it delivers HP of injury equal to the remaining Endurance, and if this equals or exceeds the victim’s HP score, the subject dies immediately without any HT or resistance roll allowed!

Energy cost to create: 275. The special ingredients cost $550.
Prerequisites: Magery 3, Malefice, and Soul Jar.

[[L-火霊系呪文の致死系呪文>GURPS Magic: Death Spells#FIRE_SPELLS]]

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FIRE SPELLS
Death spells in the Fire college tend to affect any material subject ―― living or not ―― that can burn. This increases energy cost by a point. The GM decides what beings aren’t affected, most often creatures of water, earth, stone, or metal.

《[[火葬]]》
《[[火葬>GURPS Magic: Death Spells#Cremate]]》

• 呪文クラス：白兵呪文、抵抗呪文_生命力
• 呪文系統：　火霊系呪文
  • 呪文の小分類：致死系呪文
• 持続時間：1秒。
• エネルギー消費：3、仮威力1dにつき消費に2点加算、最大8個分まで。
• 準備時間：3秒。
• 前提条件：「魔法の素質/3L」、《炎の手》、《真なる火》、《速燃》。
• 前提条件数：11

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Cremate (VH)
Melee; Resisted by HT

Incinerates a victim from within, like a fast, one-shot version of Burning Death! The caster must strike the subject to trigger the spell; hit location is irrelevant. If the target fails to resist, roll the spell’s effect dice (from 1d to 8d).
A total equal to or greater than 2\HP turns the target into a pillar of flame, slaying him without a HT roll. Even if the spell doesn’t instantly kill, the subject sustains this much injury as if from burning damage.

Victims killed by this spell ―― whether by its instantdeath effect or total injury ―― leave behind flaming remains. Treat this as ordinary fire (p. B433) that blazes for one minute if not extinguished or fueled. Possessions are unaffected by the magic but likely to burn in the aftermath unless fished out quickly.

Duration: 1 second.
Cost: 3, plus 2 per die of effect, to a maximum of eight dice.
Cannot be maintained.
Time to cast: 3 seconds.
Prerequisites: Magery 3, Burning Touch, Essential Flame, and Fast Fire.

《[[肉体焼失]]》
《[[肉体焼失>GURPS Magic: Death Spells#Snuff_Lifes_Flame]]》

この呪文の原書名「Snuff Life’s Flame」は「命の炎を消す」という意味だが、効果内容は《肉体炎化》の殺人的応用なので今の形に意訳しています。当サイトでは肉体変質系呪文として扱いますが、《呪文除去》の対象外のため特定呪詛系呪文ではありません。

• 呪文クラス：通常呪文、抵抗呪文_生命力
• 呪文系統：　火霊系呪文
  • 呪文の小分類：致死系呪文、肉体変質系呪文
• 持続時間：一瞬(そして不可逆!)。
• エネルギー消費：14。対象の一部ではなく、全体に影響する必要があります!
• 準備時間：5秒。
• 前提条件：「魔法の素質/3L」、《肉体炎化》。
• 前提条件数：12

原書表記

Snuff Life’s Flame (VH)
Regular; Resisted by HT

Turns the subject and up to 6 lbs. of clothing to fire ―― as per the Body of Flames spell ―― and then snuffs out the flames, destroying the victim. The only defense is to resist (or ward) the spell; the whole affair happens instantly, with an audible “FOOF!” sound, and admits no opportunity to intervene. All that’s left afterward are the subject’s remaining possessions and a scorched spot on the scenery.

Duration: Instantaneous (and irreversible!).
Cost: 14. Must affect the entire subject, not just part of it!
Time to cast: 5 seconds.
Prerequisites: Magery 3 and Body of Flames.

[[L-食料系呪文の致死系呪文>GURPS Magic: Death Spells#FOOD_SPELLS]]

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FOOD SPELLS
Lethal Food magic either creates deadly surprises for diners or is optimized for killing food animals. As neither is especially useful against battlefield opponents, the guidelines in Chapter 1 ―― especially those for energy cost ―― need creative interpretation.

《[[屠畜]]》
《[[屠畜>GURPS Magic: Death Spells#Butcher]]》

• 呪文クラス：通常呪文/抵抗呪文＿特殊
• 呪文系統：食料系呪文
  • 呪文の小分類：致死系呪文
• 持続時間：一瞬 (不可逆!)。
• エネルギー消費： 3または対象の種族平均知力のいずれか高い方。人間 (種族平均知力10) に影響を与えるにはエネルギー10点かかります。対象の一部だけでなく、全体に影響する必要があります。
• 準備時間： 10秒。
• 前提条件：「魔法の素質/3L」、《解体》
• 前提条件数：7

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Butcher (VH)
Regular; Special Resistance

This spell humanely slaughters an animal and then separates the carcass into handy packages (just like the Prepare Game spell). Like many kitchen tools, it’s dangerous if abused.

Subjects with IQ 5 or less resist with HT. Failure means they die painlessly. As the corpse collapses to the ground, it falls into neat piles of meat, hide, bones, guts, and so on.

Subjects with IQ 6+ add (IQ - 5) to their resistance roll: HT+1 at IQ 6, HT+2 at IQ 7, and so on. Average humans, with IQ 10, resist at HT+5 and are almost immune. Almost. Unfortunates who fail to resist are butchered like hogs and beyond Resurrection.

Dead bodies can’t resist. On them, this is just a costly Prepare Game variant. It’s still sometimes used when dressing out creatures so dangerous that nobody wants to take the risk that there’s a live one among the carcasses, or where religious law requires it.

This is an inefficient death spell. Cost and resistance rise with target IQ. Even against a low-IQ predator, it’s too slow to cast while evading teeth and claws. The death effects are more an interesting thaumatological curiosity than a goal pursued by serious combat wizards.

Duration: Instantaneous (and irreversible!).
Cost: 3 or subject’s racial average IQ, whichever is higher. Humans (racial average IQ 10) cost 10 energy to affect. Must affect the entire subject, not just part of it!
Time to cast: 10 seconds.
Prerequisites: Magery 3 and Prepare Game.

《[[死毒の宴]]》
《[[死毒の宴>GURPS Magic: Death Spells#Deaths_Banquet]]》

『Pyramid 4/1: Fantasy/Magic 1』の「毒系呪文」での追加解釈により、この呪文は毒系呪文の1種としても扱われます。

• 呪文クラス：通常呪文/抵抗呪文＿特殊
• 呪文系統：食料系呪文、毒系呪文
  • 呪文の小分類：致死系呪文
• 持続時間: 一瞬ですが、毒は消費されるまで無期限に持続します。
• エネルギー消費：3、仮威力1つにつき2点を加算し、最大 8dまで。コストは食事1回分につきです。
• 前提条件： 「魔法の素質/3L」、《真なる食物》、《毒化》。
• 前提条件数：13

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Death’s Banquet (VH)
Regular; Special Resistance

Introduces deadly poison into food. This is a physical toxin that remains indefinitely and can be detected like any poison. Record the caster’s effective skill level as a rating of the stuff’s lethality; anyone eating the poisoned food must resist that level with HT. This is a roll to resist poison, not magic – advantages that work against poison (e.g., Resistant to Poison) provide their usual benefits, but Magic Resistance does nothing!

Failure to resist means the subject suffers injury equal to the dice of effect (from 1d to 8d). If this is 2\HP or more, death occurs without a HT roll. A victim who’s poisoned but not killed suffers severe cramps, numbness, and weakness, giving -3 on all dice rolls until all lost HP are restored.

If the food is shared, the spell works normally on everyone who partakes but injury is divided by the number of portions; e.g., a meal split four ways does 1/4 injury.

Duration: Instantaneous, but the poison lasts indefinitely until consumed.
Cost: 3, plus 2 per die of effect, to a maximum of eight dice. Cost is per meal.
Prerequisites: Magery 3, Essential Food, and Poison Food.

[[L-転送系呪文の致死系呪文>GURPS Magic: Death Spells#GATE_SPELLS]]

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GATE SPELLS
At the GM’s option, a death spell of any college might also be a Gate spell if it can be explained in terms of opening a fissure to a dimension hostile to life, exposing the victim to something deadly ―― or if it involves demons, death gods, or the afterlife!

《[[えぐり飛ばし]]》
《[[えぐり飛ばし>GURPS Magic: Death Spells#Dimensional_Dissection]]》

この呪文の効果は、対象の肉体のランダムな一部をえぐり取るように転移させるもので、実質的に即死効果です。なので、犠牲者の身体構造次第では、「ランダムな箇所」というより、「生存に必要な重要部位」を本体から切り離すことになるでしょう。例えば、“ 核なしのスライム ” 相手なら、GM判断で、 再生が追い付かないよう、複数個所が異なる場所にえぐり飛ばされるかもしれません。犠牲者に死を与えることが重要で、過程はその辻褄合わせの演出という感じです。「コラム：復活について」を見る限り、《復活》に必要な十分な材料は残す必要はないので、とてつもない再生能力ゆえに死なない犠牲者なら、再生不能レベルで細切れにするのもありでしょう。

• 呪文クラス：通常呪文、抵抗呪文_生命力または意志力
• 呪文系統：　転送系呪文
  • 呪文の小分類：致死系呪文
• 持続時間： 一瞬 (不可逆!)。
• エネルギー消費： 13。
• 準備時間：5秒。
• 前提条件：「魔法の素質/3L」、および「《他者異次元移動》《他者瞬間移動》《他者時間移動》」のいずれか。
• 前提条件数：9

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Dimensional Dissection (VH)
Regular; Resisted by HT or Will

Attempts to send some of the subject to another place, time, or plane of existence. The target resists with the better of HT (representing structural integrity) or Will (as usual for teleportation- type curses). Failure means random chunks go elsewhere. This is instantly fatal!

This spell can affect anyone with a physical body. Subjects who have the Duplication advantage and an unused Dupe can sacrifice one copy to ensure the survival of the rest. This is instead of trying to resist. It costs a Dupe but guarantees survival.

If this spell critically fails, the caster becomes the point of arrival for a Dimensional Dissection spell cast elsewhere in creation.
A forceful jet of gore with roughly half the mass of his intended subject blasts him for dice of crushing damage equal to the would-be victim’s HP/2, rounded up. No active defense is possible.

Duration: Instantaneous (and irreversible!).
Cost: 13.
Time to cast: 5 seconds.
Prerequisites: Magery 3 and one of Plane Shift Other, Teleport Other, or Timeport Other.

《[[冥界送り]]》
《[[冥界送り>GURPS Magic: Death Spells#Underworld_Imprisonment]]》

原書名「Underworld Imprisonment」は「冥界の投獄」の意。内容的に転送系呪文のみではなく、死霊系呪文も含まれていると見なします。

• 呪文クラス：通常呪文、抵抗呪文_意志力
• 呪文系統：　死霊系呪文、転送系呪文
  • 呪文の小分類：致死系呪文
• 持続時間： 対象が何らかの方法で自由を交渉しない限り、永久。
• エネルギー消費： 14。
• 準備時間：3秒。
• 前提条件：「魔法の素質/3L」、および1種以上の《他者異次元移動》。
• 前提条件数：17

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Underworld Imprisonment (VH)
Regular; Resisted by Will

An interplanar crack opens beneath the subject ―― who must be atop a solid surface (ground, floor, or similar) ―― whereupon he must resist or be dragged physically into the Realm of the Dead, along with anything he’s carrying. This fissure exists for only an instant, as with the Entombment spell, but the victim isn’t interred in Suspended Animation ―― he’s considered dead by The Powers That Be, his life stricken from mortal rolls. Brute-force attempts to summon him back will conjure his corpse . . . or, on a critical failure, a hostile ghost or demon!

This spell resembles Rift to Hell (GURPS Thaumatology: Magical Styles, p. 36), but isn’t identical. Like that spell, it’s faster and cheaper than Plane Shift Other because it’s intended for combat ―― and because the subject must be on the ground, and there’s always a chance that a pious or crafty victim, or one with a Destiny, will negotiate escape with TPTB. It has no limits on who it can affect, but is unpredictable against foes who aren’t truly alive, especially those from other dimensions. The details of who can return, and how easily, are campaign-specific, but the possibility is definitely a creepy supernatural drawback (p. 8).

Duration: Permanent, barring the subject somehow negotiating freedom.
Cost: 14.
Time to cast: 3 seconds.
Prerequisites: Magery 3 and at least one Plane Shift Other spell.

[[L-治癒系呪文の致死系呪文>GURPS Magic: Death Spells#HEALING_SPELLS]]

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HEALING SPELLS
As every doctor knows, that which can heal can harm. This college does not include the “reversed” curatives seen in some fantasy worlds, though ―― that’s Body Control or Necromantic magic.

《[[安楽死]]》
《[[安楽死>GURPS Magic: Death Spells#Euthanize]]》

• 呪文クラス：特殊呪文
• 呪文系統：　治癒系呪文
  • 呪文の小分類：致死系呪文
• 持続時間：一瞬。対象は通常どおりに復活できます。
• エネルギー消費：8
• 準備時間：1分。
• 前提条件：「共感」、「魔法の素質/1L」、「精霊共感」、または「 “ 聖なる ” ステータス」、のいずれか。
• 前提条件数：1

原書表記

Euthanize
Special

Painlessly kills a living subject without any lingering mortal condition or discernible cause of death. The caster must touch the subject throughout the entire ritual. If the spell works, a recipient who wants to die does; otherwise, resistance is automatic.
The patient has to be willing in spirit, but there’s no requirement to communicate this wish . . . and Euthanize cannot distinguish honest desire from the machinations of mental control or lies.

Some thaumatologists claim that Euthanize enables the immortal soul to request entry into the afterlife. Whatever the truth, its inventors made it simple enough for anyone to learn; if wizards needed potent cures as prerequisites, they would just use those instead! While tiring to cast, this spell is preferable to the alternatives in worlds without painless medical options. Some religions might even decree that it’s the only acceptable option.

Duration: Instantaneous. Subject can be resurrected normally.
Cost: 8.
Time to cast: 1 minute.
Prerequisite: Any of Empathy, Magery 1, Spirit Empathy, or “holy” status.

《[[強引蘇生]]》
《[[強引蘇生>GURPS Magic: Death Spells#Resuscitate]]》

• 呪文クラス：白兵呪文
• 呪文系統：　治癒系呪文
  • 呪文の小分類：致死系呪文
• 持続時間：一瞬。
• エネルギー消費：12。瀕死の犠牲者1名につき1回試行（つまり、この呪文によって心臓発作を起こした者は繰り返し負傷することはできませんが、2回目の詠唱で救われる可能性があります）。
• 準備時間：1秒。
• 前提条件：「魔法の素質/2L」、《覚醒》、《発作止め》。
• 前提条件数：6

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Resuscitate (VH)
Melee

The caster must touch or strike the subject in the vitals (-3) to trigger this spell. On someone who’s dying from drowning, asphyxiation, or heart attack ―― whether the cause is mundane or magical ―― a successful hit instantly restarts the heart and lungs, reviving the patient and preventing death, but healing no FP or HP. The effects are identical to a successful attempt at Resuscitation (p. B425).

On a living person whose heart and lungs are functioning, this spell is dangerous! The magical jolt it delivers can damage vital organs and stop the heart. It inflicts 4d of generalized injury; DR has no effect. The victim must make a HT roll at -1 per full 2 HP lost. On a failure, the subject falls unconscious for (20 - HT) minutes, minimum one minute. Failure by 5 or more, or critical failure, results in a heart attack exactly as per p. B429.

Resuscitate is technically a cure for some death magic, and doesn’t obey most of the guidelines in Chapter 1. However, on a healthy recipient with less than HT 13, it’s likely to result in a mortal condition. Thus, it counts as a death spell for the purposes of Stayin’ Alive (p. 6) and Aspected Mana (pp. 5-6).

Duration: Instantaneous.
Cost: 12. One try per dying victim (meaning that someone given a heart attack by this spell can’t be injured repeatedly, but can be saved by a second casting).
Prerequisites: Magery 2, Awaken, and Stop Spasm.

[[L-幻覚・作成系呪文の致死系呪文>GURPS Magic: Death Spells#ILLUSION_AND_CREATION_SPELLS]]

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ILLUSION AND CREATION SPELLS
　Death spells in this college fall into two distinct categories: deadly illusions resisted by the mind (IQ, Will, or Per) and lethal creations resisted by the body (HT). Exceptions that cross these lines are extremely unlikely.

《[[異物作成]]》
《[[異物作成>GURPS Magic: Death Spells#Create_Foreign_Body]]》

• 呪文クラス：通常呪文、抵抗呪文_生命力
• 呪文系統：　幻覚・作成系呪文
  • 呪文の小分類：致死系呪文、特定作成系呪文
• 持続時間：作成されたオブジェクトは、生きている思考する存在に触れている間は無期限に持続します。したがって、対象が死亡するか、外科手術で除去されて脇に置かれると、オブジェクトは消滅します。
• エネルギー消費：11。
• 準備時間：2秒。
• 前提条件：「魔法の素質/3L」、《身体検査》、《物体作成》。
• 前提条件数：16

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Create Foreign Body (VH)
Regular; Resisted by HT

Materializes matter in the manner of Create Object . . . but inside the subject’s body! As with that spell, the creation requires contact with a living, thinking being. Targets that don’t fit this description are immune.

Casters spending this much energy usually opt to obstruct the subject’s circulation. If the victim fails to resist with HT, the result is identical to a mortal wound (p. B423): The target instantly falls unconscious and must roll vs. HT every 30 minutes, with any failure meaning death. At TL6+, trauma maintenance can help.

Natural recovery occurs only if one of those HT rolls critically succeeds. Otherwise, surgery (roll as if the subject were at -HP), Dispel Creation (at -5 without a way to see the obstruction), or Remove Curse is needed. Neither Counterspell nor Dispel Magic is effective. A victim who recovers is at the lower of -HP or current HP.

The above is the fastest this spell can kill. Slower options (like coma) are possible, as are nonlethal ones (e.g., crippled body parts); effects vary, but the cure is identical. The condition ―― mortal or not ―― must be one that a penny-sized foreign body could cause. The GM should forbid anything that targets organs the subject lacks: mortal wounds require a heart and blood; coma, a brain; and so on.

Duration: The created object lasts indefinitely while touching a living, thinking being. Thus, it vanishes upon the subject’s death, or if surgically removed and set aside.
Cost: 11.
Time to cast: 2 seconds.
Prerequisites: Magery 3, Body-Reading, and Create Object.

《[[死の幻像]]》
《[[死の幻像>GURPS Magic: Death Spells#Phantom_Killer]]》

• 呪文クラス：通常呪文、抵抗呪文_知力または知覚力
• 呪文系統：　幻覚・作成系呪文
  • 呪文の小分類：致死系呪文
• 持続時間：1分。
• エネルギー消費：25。維持できません。
• 準備時間：1秒。
• 前提条件：「魔法の素質/3L」および《幻像》。
• 前提条件数：11

原書表記

Phantom Killer (VH)
Regular; Resisted by IQ or Per

This Phantom variant can slay anything with a mind (IQ 1+). It creates a specter that’s visible to everyone but tangible to the subject alone. The victim may choose to resist by trying to rationalize away the illusion (IQ) or see through it (Per).

Successful resistance causes the image to melt away harmlessly. A subject who fails to resist is instantly engulfed in a monstrous shadow, conscious but incapacitated. Over the next minute, he can do nothing but resist again each second. Victory here doesn’t end the curse but merely staves off harm; each loss drains 1 HP. If total injury from this spell (maximum 60 points) ever reaches his full HP score, he’s slain. The cause of death could be anything: a man might die of profound shock, a robot may shake itself apart, a spirit could actually be consumed by an apparition of pure mana.

Others may attempt to dispel the phantasm using Dispel Illusion (or in theory Remove Curse, though in practice that’s too slow). General countermagic ―― such as Counterspell or Dispel Magic ―― is ineffective. So are attacks on the Phantom Killer or its creator!

This spell is extremely costly because it can incapacitate, injure, and probably kill any foe whose allies can’t cast Dispel Illusion ―― including one that lacks a physical body, like a ghost or an invading telepathic mind.

Duration: 1 minute.
Cost: 25. Cannot be maintained.
Prerequisites: Magery 3 and Phantom.

[[L-知識系呪文の致死系呪文>GURPS Magic: Death Spells#KNOWLEDGE_SPELLS]]

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KNOWLEDGE SPELLS
“Knowledge that kills” is whimsical, and best-suited to campaigns that focus on story, have a mythic setting, or otherwise privilege thoughtful drama. Most such magic affects only living, sapient (IQ 6+) beings, who must resist using wits (IQ), not resolve (Will).

《[[禁断の知恵]]》
《[[禁断の知恵>GURPS Magic: Death Spells#Forbidden_Wisdom]]》

• 呪文クラス：通常呪文、抵抗呪文_知力
• 呪文系統：　知識系呪文
  • 呪文の小分類：致死系呪文
• 持続時間：一瞬 (そして不可逆!)。
• エネルギー消費： 11。
• 準備時間：5秒。
• 前提条件：「魔法の素質/3L」、《回想》、《隠匿看破》
• 前提条件数：17

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Forbidden Wisdom (VH)
Regular; Resisted by IQ

Reveals a truth that’s forbidden to living, mortal beings by Fate, the gods, or Things Man Was Not Meant To Know. Subjects with IQ 0-5 are immune. An IQ 6+ target must resist with IQ.

Failure to resist means the subject is unmade, along with anything carried. This isn’t mere death or even disintegration; it’s erasure from existence by the entities who forbade the knowledge. The only way to restore the victim is to approach and petition those beings.

Successful resistance means the subject is fine and the caster glimpses the proscribed wisdom. A wizard is usually smart enough to prepare for this risk, getting an uncontested IQ roll to avoid any ill effects. Any result but critical failure results in no harm; critical failure means he’s unmade!

Duration: Instantaneous (and irreversible!).
Cost: 11.
Time to cast: 5 seconds.
Prerequisites: Magery 3, Recall, and See Secrets.

《[[絶望視]]》
《[[絶望視>GURPS Magic: Death Spells#Vision_of_Doom]]》

• 呪文クラス：通常呪文、抵抗呪文_知力
• 呪文系統：　知識系呪文
  • 呪文の小分類：致死系呪文、特定視覚系呪文
• 持続時間：対象が死ぬか、自殺に失敗して抵抗するか、《呪い除去》 によって救われるまで持続します。
• エネルギー消費：10。
• 準備時間：3秒
• 前提条件：「魔法の素質/3L」および《時影召喚》。
• 前提条件数：6

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Vision of Doom (VH)
Regular; Resisted by IQ

Shows the subject (who must be living, mortal, and sapient) the worst possible fate he might face. This is far more intense than Death Vision! A malicious, ghastly shade of himself ―― which knows exactly how to “get inside his head” (bypassing Fearlessness, Mind Shield, Unfazeable, etc.) ―― reveals truths calculated to crack his sanity.

A failed resistance roll leads to panic similar to a roll of 33 on the Fright Check Table (pp. B360-361): The victim goes mad and immediately tries to kill himself to avoid the revealed fate, in the most expedient way his environment and resources allow. A knight battling a monster might bare his throat and invite Instant Death (p. B423), a gunslinger may “eat a bullet,” and so on. Each failed suicide allows a new resistance roll to break the curse; otherwise, the only way to lift it is to die or receive a Remove Curse spell, though the victim can be knocked out, restrained, or granted a temporary reprieve by Relieve Madness.

Duration: Lasting, until the subject dies, fails at suicide and resists, or is saved by Remove Curse.
Cost: 10.
Time to cast: 3 seconds.
Prerequisites: Magery 3 and Summon Shade.

「[[復活について>GURPS Magic: Death Spells#Resurrection]]」

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Resurrection

The magical cure for death is a Resurrection spell or elixir. Either requires a corpse that isn’t missing important pieces (e.g., the brain) or injured to -10\HP. Only some death spells are this respectful:

Leaves corpse that responds to Resurrection: Assassin’s Weapon, Coma, Create Foreign Body, Death, Death’s Banquet, Dispel Spark, Doomtouch, Dread Curse, Drown, Embolism, Euthanize, Lethal Lightning, Mind- Killer, Mortal Malefice, Murder Blossom, Phantom Killer, Resuscitate, Steal Breath, Stop Impulse, Vision of Doom, and Wail of the Banshee. Exception: Resurrection becomes impossible if the subject hits -10\HP for any reason; e.g., terrible accident caused by Dread Curse, excessive injury from Lethal Lightning, or messy suicide triggered by Vision of Doom.

Leaves corpse suitable for Resurrection after minor procedure: Abominable Alteration and Heart of Stone require a Remove Curse spell; Force Guillotine and Quarter call for a Surgery roll; Reckless Reconstitution needs a Cleansing spell; and Zombify necessitates killing the zombie without reducing it to -10\HP.

Leaves corpse suitable for Resurrection after major procedure: Disruption (liquefies vitals/brain) and Telepathic Overload (curdles brain) leave a cadaver that’s beyond spells or surgery, but superscience might be able to replace vital parts. Otherwise, treat as “leaves insufficient material to resurrect.”

Leaves goo that can be restored with Remove Curse, but not Resurrection: Dissipate and Swamp Rot. If the goo isn’t collected within one minute, treat as “leaves insufficient material to resurrect.”

Leaves insufficient material to resurrect: Annihilation (dust), Black Sphere (nothing), Butcher* (meat), Cleansing Light (nothing), Cremate* (barbecue), Destabilization* (chunks), Dimensional Dissection* (fewer chunks), Dust to Dust (dust), Fatal Frequency* (goo), Grave Grounding (nothing), Shadow-Slay (nothing), Snuff Life’s Flame (soot), and Thousand-Legged Demise* (gobs). The immortal soul survives, so the victim may be able to return as a ghost. Spells marked * leave enough organic matter to clone.

Transports victim to afterlife in body and soul, preventing Resurrection: Underworld Imprisonment. To get the subject back ―― intact or as a ghost ―― talk to the gods.

Leaves intact corpse but destroys soul, preventing Resurrection: Accursed Triangle (unless reversed in Will/3 seconds) and Soul Prison. These spells are permanent without the intervention of a primordial creator. Both leave a body suitable as an organ donor or a zombie.

Unmake victim’s body and soul, preventing Resurrection: Forbidden Wisdom. As the previous category, but doesn’t even leave a body!

These details don’t make death spells harder to learn or more costly to cast (though those that affect the soul have creepy supernatural drawbacks!). Spells that can be reversed by a mere Remove Curse are easier to cast, however; see Energy Cost (pp. 7-8).

[[L-光・闇系呪文の致死系呪文>GURPS Magic: Death Spells#LIGHT_AND_DARKNESS_SPELLS]]

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LIGHT AND DARKNESS SPELLS
This college’s death spells affect any subject made of matter or energy ―― living or not ―― which amounts to “almost anything,” increasing energy cost by two points.

《[[死光噴射]]》
《[[死光噴射>GURPS Magic: Death Spells#Cleansing_Light]]》

• 呪文クラス：通常呪文
• 呪文系統：　光・闇系呪文
  • 呪文の小分類：致死系呪文、噴射系呪文
• 持続時間：1分または目標に当たるまで、どちらか早い方。
• エネルギー消費： 12、仮威力1dにつき 1点加算、最大4個のダイス。維持できません。
• 準備時間：3秒。
• 前提条件：「魔法の素質/3L」 および《閃光》、《光噴射》、《陽光撃》を含む光・闇系呪文10種。
• 前提条件数：13

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Cleansing Light (VH)
Regular

Emit a beam of devastating energy from one hand. Treat this as a melee weapon with a 10-yard reach, not as a ranged attack; use Innate Attack (Beam) to hit. The ray lasts for a minute or until it strikes something, whichever comes first.
The target may dodge, but block and parry are ineffective; the effects propagate through shields and weapons!

On a hit, DR is likewise ineffective ―― just roll the spell’s effect dice (from 1d to 4d). A result equal to or greater than target HP causes the person or object to flare up in a brief blaze of light and then vanish forever. The victim’s possessions are affected with him. Lesser rolls produce no injury.

Everyone who sees a target hit by Cleansing Light is affected by a Flash spell. This includes a victim who survives such an attack, whose HT roll against the flash is at -1 per 2 full points rolled on the effect dice.

This spell is costly, but a canny wizard can cast it before hostilities open and start battle with a death ray that lasts until he hits someone. A powerful wizard could have two, one lancing from each hand!

Duration: 1 minute or until a target is hit, whichever comes first.
Cost: 12, plus 1 per die of effect, to a maximum of four dice. Cannot be maintained.
Time to cast: 3 seconds.
Prerequisites:Magery 3 and 10 Light and Darkness spells, including Flash, Light Jet, and Sunbolt.

《[[肉体影失]]》
《[[肉体影失>GURPS Magic: Death Spells#Shadow-Slay]]》

• 呪文クラス：通常呪文、抵抗呪文_生命力または意志力
• 呪文系統：　光・闇系呪文、肉体変質系呪文
  • 呪文の小分類：致死系呪文
• 持続時間：一瞬(不可逆!)。
• エネルギー消費：14。対象の一部ではなく、全体に影響する必要があります。
• 準備時間：5秒。
• 前提条件：「魔法の素質/3L」、《肉体影化》、《影消し》。
• 前提条件数：9

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Shadow-Slay (VH)
Regular; Resisted by HT or Will

Turns the subject and up to 6 lbs. of clothing into a twodimensional shadow ―― much like the Body of Shadow spell ―― for long enough to erase with magic similar to Remove Shadow. The only defense is to resist, although the victim may do so with the higher of HT or Will. Everything is over in an instant; if the subject is fails to resist, he’s gone for good, leaving behind his remaining possessions but no body to resurrect.

Duration: Instantaneous (and irreversible!).
Cost: 14. Must affect the entire subject, not just part of it!
Time to cast: 5 seconds.
Prerequisites: Magery 3, Body of Shadow, and Remove Shadow.

[[L-物体操作系呪文の致死系呪文>GURPS Magic: Death Spells#MAKING_AND_BREAKING]]

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MAKING AND
BREAKING SPELLS
Standard Making and Breaking magic cannot affect the living ―― it’s limited to objects. To finesse this, wizards must borrow tricks from other colleges, most often Body Control or Necromantic. Thus, this college’s death spells often have external prerequisites.

《[[生体崩壊]]》
《[[生体崩壊>GURPS Magic: Death Spells#Annihilation]]》

• 呪文クラス：通常呪文、抵抗呪文_生命力
• 呪文系統：　物体操作系呪文
  • 呪文の小分類：致死系呪文
• 持続時間：一瞬（不可逆！）。
• エネルギー消費： 6、仮威力1dにつき2点を加算、最大仮威力は4d。
• 準備時間： 3秒。
• 前提条件：「魔法の素質/3L」、《分解》、および「《死の手》か《生気奪取》のいずれか」。
• 前提条件数：25

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Annihilation (VH)
Regular; Resisted by HT

This spell ―― first described in GURPS Thaumatology: Magical Styles ―― instantly and irrevocably disintegrates a living being. If the subject fails to resist, roll the dice of effect (from 1d to 4d) and compare the total to the larger of the victim’s HT or HP.

If the roll equals or exceeds the target score, the subject is turned to dust. Anything he’s carrying falls to the ground. Otherwise, the victim suffers injury equal to the roll of the dice, exactly as if he had been hit with a Deathtouch spell.

Critical failure with this spell costs the caster 1 HT permanently!

Duration: Instantaneous (and irreversible!).
Cost: 6, plus 2 per die of effect, to a maximum of four dice.
Time to cast: 3 seconds.
Prerequisites:Magery 3, Disintegrate, and either Deathtouch or Steal Vitality.

《[[生体爆散]]》
《[[生体爆散>GURPS Magic: Death Spells#Destabilization]]》

• 呪文クラス：通常呪文、抵抗呪文_生命力
• 呪文系統：　物体操作系呪文
  • 呪文の小分類：致死系呪文
• 持続時間：一瞬（不可逆！）。
• エネルギー消費： 8、仮威力1dにつき2点を加算、最大仮威力は4d。
• 準備時間：3秒
• 前提条件： 「魔法の素質/3L」、《生体崩壊》、《爆砕》。
• 前提条件数：28

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Destabilization (VH)
Regular; Resisted by HT

As Annihilation ―― including critical failure effects ―― with one change: If the effect roll exceeds the subject’s HT or HP, he doesn’t turn to dust but instead flies apart. Everyone within five yards risks being hit by bones, teeth, shards of exoskeleton, or whatever for 1d cutting damage; see Fragmentation Damage (pp. B414-415). The GM may make this damage crushing for soft creatures, corrosion for acid slimes, and so on.

Possessions fall to the ground, but roll 1d for clothing or armor. A result greater than the item’s DR means it’s shredded (destroyed).

Duration: Instantaneous (and irreversible!).
Cost: 8, plus 2 per die of effect, to a maximum of four dice.
Time to cast: 3 seconds.
Prerequisites: Magery 3, Annihilation, and Explode.

[[L-呪文操作系呪文の致死系呪文>GURPS Magic: Death Spells#META-SPELLS]]

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META-SPELLS
Meta-Spells manipulate magic itself, so deadly ones make the most sense in settings where life is magical enough for antimagic to affect it. However, this is also the college of two powerful fate-changers ―― Bless and Curse ―― and Fate and Death are often linked.

《[[魔命除去]]》
《[[魔命除去>GURPS Magic: Death Spells#Dispel_Spark]]》

• 呪文クラス：通常呪文、抵抗呪文_生命力または意志力
• 呪文系統：　呪文操作系呪文
  • 呪文の小分類：致死系呪文、浄化・破壊系呪文
• 持続時間：一瞬、対象は通常通り復活できます。
• エネルギー消費：12。
• 準備時間：5秒。
• 前提条件：「魔法の素質/3L」、《マナ枯渇》、《霊気除去》。
• 前提条件数：20

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Dispel Spark (VH)
Regular; Resisted by HT or Will

Snuffs the magical spark of life. The subject resists using “will to live,” represented by the better of HT or Will. Failure means the victim dies on the spot, leaving whatever remains a natural death would leave.

This spell can also slay beings (re-)animated by magic. This includes but isn’t limited to constructs and undead produced by the Doppelgänger, Golem, Homunculus, Lich, Simulacrum, Wraith, and Zombie spells. Nonmagically animated entities (e.g., robots) are unaffected.

In most settings, Dispel Spark treads on ground claimed by Higher Powers. Subjects with Power Investiture may add this to their resistance roll (as well as Magic Resistance, if they have it).
Critical failure with this spell attracts divine justice: The caster must resist his own, unmodified spell level or be the one slain!

Duration: Instantaneous. Subject can be resurrected normally.
Cost: 12.
Time to cast: 5 seconds.
Prerequisites: Magery 3, Drain Mana, and Remove Aura.

《[[破滅の呪い]]》
《[[破滅の呪い>GURPS Magic: Death Spells#Dread_Curse]]》

• 呪文クラス：通常呪文、抵抗呪文_意志力
• 呪文系統：　呪文操作系呪文
  • 呪文の小分類：致死系呪文、特定呪詛系呪文
• 持続時間：対象が仮威力を振って失敗するか 《呪い除去》によって救われるまで持続します。
• エネルギー消費：10。
• 準備時間：4秒。
• 前提条件：「魔法の素質/3L」 と《呪い》。
• 前提条件数：24

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Dread Curse (VH)
Regular; Resisted by Will

Curses the subject ―― who needn’t be alive, only animate ―― to certain doom. The next success roll the victim fails for anything brings deadly disaster! The fatal chain of events doesn’t have to be probable, plausible, or especially sensible. The only limit is the GM’s imagination, though this should be colored by the failure.

The most common cause of death is a freak accident or a lucky enemy hit that results in mortal wound status or reaching -5\HP against all odds and regardless of protection. There’s a world of possibilities: decapitating oneself with a Fast-Draw failure (or even a Survival failure when opening tinned rations), deadly surprise attacks triggered by blown social rolls, spontaneous combustion . . . If the subject is doing nothing that could lead to such an outcome, the culprit may be a mortal condition stemming from an undiagnosed flaw. Failure during physical activity might indicate a heart attack, while a failed mental task could mean stroke inflicting coma or a mortal wound.
Remove Curse can lift this spell, but there’s a risk: The wizard casting it gets one try only. Any failure counts as failure by the subject, producing a lethal backfire. The effects could resemble any of the other death spell in this collection!

This spell is cheap to cast because death isn’t immediate or predictable, and can be staved off by doing nothing until someone renders aid with Remove Curse.

Duration: Lasting, until the subject fails a dice roll or is saved by Remove Curse.
Cost: 10.
Time to cast: 4 seconds.
Prerequisites: Magery 3 and Curse.

[[L-精神操作系呪文の致死系呪文>GURPS Magic: Death Spells#MIND_CONTROL_SPELLS]]

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MIND CONTROL SPELLS
The customary way to kill with mental influence is to command someone to do the deed, but it’s possible to cut out the middleman. The limits of Mind Control still apply, meaning that its death spells affect only beings with racial IQ 6+ and free will, a group equivalent in size to “living beings” for the purpose of judging energy cost.

《[[昏睡化]]》
《[[昏睡化>GURPS Magic: Death Spells#Coma]]》

意訳強め。原書名「Coma」を直訳し「昏睡」にすると名称重複系呪文になってしまうので、少し変えている。

• 呪文クラス：通常呪文、抵抗呪文_生命力
• 呪文系統：　精神操作系呪文
  • 呪文の小分類：致死系呪文
• 持続時間： 呪文は一瞬続きますが、魔法または医療によって元に戻さない限り、効果は永続します。
• エネルギー消費： 11。
• 準備時間：3秒。
• 前提条件：「魔法の素質/3L」、《命令》、《誘眠》。
• 前提条件数：15

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Coma (VH)
Regular; Resisted by HT
A lethal escalation of the Sleep spell! Instead of sending the subject to sleep for eight hours, it induces a coma of indefinite length. This works much as described on p. B429, except that the victim receives no HT roll to awaken spontaneously. An Awaken spell or equivalent TL6+ medicine does allow a HT roll, but at a basic -6 (exactly as if drugged). Without such intervention, the victim must roll vs. HT every 12 hours until he eventually fails and dies.

Duration: The spell lasts an instant, but the effects are permanent unless reversed via magic or medical care.
Cost: 11.
Time to cast: 3 seconds.
Prerequisites: Magery 3, Lesser Geas, and Sleep.

《[[自滅意志]]》
《[[自滅意志>GURPS Magic: Death Spells#Mind-Killer]]》

• 呪文クラス：通常呪文、抵抗呪文_意志力
• 呪文系統：　精神操作系呪文
  • 呪文の小分類：致死系呪文、特定呪詛系呪文
• 持続時間：1分。
• エネルギー消費：13。維持できません。
• 準備時間：4秒。
• 前提条件：「魔法の素質/3L」、《嘔吐感》、《意志強化》。
• 前提条件数：16

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Mind-Killer (VH)
Regular; Resisted by Will

Coerces the subject to will his own death. Failure to resist means he suffers the effects of a Sickness spell and must roll a Quick Contest of his Will vs. his HT every second (60 times in all). Ties or wins for HT have no special effect, but each victory for Will lowers HT by 1, which favors Will in the next Contest. If HT ever reaches 0, the victim gives up and dies on the spot.

Someone who recognizes this spell ―― which might call for a Thaumatology roll, at the GM’s option ―― can treat the subject by reinforcing HT with Vigor and/or lowering Will with Weaken Will (though the latter is ill-advised around a hostile Mind Control mage!). Once Mind-Killer takes hold, however, neither Counterspell nor Dispel Magic can nullify it. Remove Curse is effective, if someone can cast it in time.

If the spell ends without killing its victim ―― whether due to luck or magical aid ―― the subject returns to full HT and suffers no lasting ill effects.

Duration: 1 minute.
Cost: 13. Cannot be maintained.
Time to cast: 4 seconds.
Prerequisites: Magery 3, Sickness, and Strengthen Will.

[[L-移動系呪文の致死系呪文>GURPS Magic: Death Spells#MOVEMENT_SPELLS]]

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MOVEMENT SPELLS
　Death spells in the Movement college traditionally rely on major force of some kind, and thus affect any material target, living or not. Such utility adds two points to energy cost.

《[[内部攪拌]]》
《[[内部攪拌>GURPS Magic: Death Spells#Disruption]]》

• 呪文クラス：通常呪文、抵抗呪文_生命力
• 呪文系統：　移動系呪文
  • 呪文の小分類：致死系呪文
• 持続時間：一瞬 （そして不可逆！）。
• エネルギー消費： 10、仮威力1dにつき+2点加算、最大仮威力4d。
• 準備時間：3秒。
• 前提条件： 「魔法の素質/3L」 および、《見えない手》と 《縄ほどき》を含む10個の移動系呪文。
• 前提条件数：13

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Disruption (VH)
Regular; Resisted by HT

Induces intense, chaotic forces within the target. If the subject fails to resist, roll the spell’s dice of effect (from 1d to 4d) and assess that many HP of injury. Should this harm equal or exceed the victim’s HP score, it’s immediately fatal regardless of HT or advantages.

Someone slain by Disruption is mangled as if by an internal explosion. Victims who had a brain or vitals can be resurrected only by methods that don’t require these things to be intact ―― but even those without such organs are susceptible to this spell, which works on any material target that isn’t Diffuse.
Carried items are unaffected, although oozing bodily fluids may ruin some gear.

Duration: Instantaneous (and irreversible!).
Cost: 10, plus 2 per die of effect, to a maximum of four dice.
Time to cast: 3 seconds.
Prerequisites: Magery 3 and any 10 Movement spells, including Manipulate and Undo.

《[[四つ裂き]]》
《[[四つ裂き>GURPS Magic: Death Spells#Quarter]]》

• 呪文クラス：通常呪文、抵抗呪文_生命力
• 呪文系統：　移動系呪文
  • 呪文の小分類：致死系呪文
• 持続時間：一瞬 （そして不可逆！）。
• エネルギー消費： 15。
• 準備時間：5秒。
• 前提条件：「魔法の素質/3L」 および移動系呪文10種（《引力》および《斥力》を含む）。
• 前提条件数：13

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Quarter (VH)
Regular; Resisted by HT

Exposes the subject to intense magical forces from without. This is an all-or-nothing attempt to pull someone or something apart: Resistance means the target’s structural integrity beats the magic, with no lasting ill effects . . . otherwise, the victim ends up in four chunks of roughly equal size.

Most material targets, even Diffuse ones, are instantly killed or wrecked by quartering ―― though for beings specifically able to survive in fragments, it’s no less survivable than any other dissection. Resurrection of a formerly living subject requires someone to stitch together the parts first (a Surgery roll). Machines need Rebuild, not merely Repair, if any part goes missing.

The victim’s equipment is mostly left intact, but torso armor, full-body suits, or anything else worn over half or more of the body is doomed. The GM has the final say.

Duration: Instantaneous (and irreversible!).
Cost: 15.
Time to cast: 5 seconds.
Prerequisites: Magery 3 and any 10 Movement spells, including
Pull and Repel.

[[L-死霊系呪文の致死系呪文>GURPS Magic: Death Spells#NECROMANTIC_SPELLS]]

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NECROMANTIC SPELLS
GURPS Magic offers one true death spell for this college (Evisceration), plus several that might kill (for instance, Pestilence inflicting terminal disease, Soul Jar followed by destroying the “jar,” and extended use of Steal Vitality). Here are two more. The GM may rule that any fitting death spell from another college also counts as Necromantic.

《[[魂剥がし]]》
《[[魂剥がし>GURPS Magic: Death Spells#Soul_Prison]]》

意訳かなり強め。原書名の「Soul Prison」は「魂の投獄」という意味ですが、内容と合ってない印象があるので、今の形に意訳しています。この呪文で死んだ者の魂は、解説にある「不気味な超自然的欠点」の即決勝負で犠牲者が勝てなければ、然るべき死者の場所に去ることでしょう。

• 呪文クラス：通常呪文、抵抗呪文_意志力
• 呪文系統：　死霊系呪文
  • 呪文の小分類：致死系呪文、霊・星幽系呪文
• 持続時間：対象が死ぬ前に《呪い除去》によって解除されない限り、永久。
• エネルギー消費：12。
• 準備時間： 3秒。
• 前提条件：「魔法の素質/3L」、《退散》、および《魂の壺》。
• 前提条件数：22

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Soul Prison (VH)
Regular; Resisted by Will

This spell (first seen in GURPS Magical Styles: Dungeon Magic) attempts to rip out the subject’s soul, leaving his body to perish. It can only affect a target who has both a physical body and a genuine soul to separate from it. Spirit entities are immune, as are summoned and created ones; when in doubt, the GM decides. Holy folk aren’t immune, but may add Power Investiture to their resistance roll.

A subject who fails to resist collapses in a coma. This works much as described on p. B429, but the victim gets no HT roll to awaken and cannot be roused with the Awaken spell or similar measures ―― he’s soulless, not asleep. He must roll vs. HT every 12 hours until he finally fails and dies.

Soul Prison has one creepy drawback: Victims killed by it get to roll a Quick Contest of Will with the caster at the moment of death. Slain wizards add Magery to Will, while holy folk add Power Investiture. Victory lets them return to haunt their killer as whatever kind of ghostly undead suits their personality (GM’s preference).

Duration: Permanent, unless reversed by Remove Curse before the subject dies.
Cost: 12.
Time to cast: 3 seconds.
Prerequisites: Magery 3, Banish, and Soul Jar.

《[[死人化病]]》

• 呪文クラス：特殊呪文
• 呪文系統：　死霊系呪文
  • 呪文の小分類：致死系呪文、特定呪詛系呪文
• 持続時間：対象の（生命力-10）分。その後、効果は永久になります。
• エネルギー消費：10。維持できません。
• 準備時間：1分。
• 前提条件：「魔法の素質/3L」、《疫病》、《死人使い》。
• 前提条件数：14

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Zombify (VH)
Special

Infects a living person with a magical disease that kills in minutes and reanimates his corpse as a mindless zombie. The subject must be willing (unlikely!) or totally helpless (e.g., bound or unconscious). The caster has to maintain physical contact throughout the entire ritual. As with Pestilence, Steal Vitality, and Soul Jar, the victim’s defense is “not being subdued by a necromancer” ―― there’s no resistance roll, though Magic Resistance penalizes the success roll.

Once the spell is cast, the subject will become a zombie slave ―― per the Zombie spell ―― in (HT - 10) minutes, minimum one minute. Resistant to Disease adds to HT, slowing the process, but even Immunity to Disease can’t stop it; that advantage merely gives +15 to HT, delaying the inevitable. Throughout the entire transformation, the victim suffers as if stricken by an Agonize spell; if unconscious, this awakens him.

The spell counts as “on” for the caster while the disease runs its course, giving -1 to cast other spells. He can end it (Canceling Spells, p. B237) at any time before the victim becomes a zombie, making it a useful form of torture; agony, impending death, and the threat of becoming a zombie give +6 to rolls made for coercion, including Interrogation. Terminating the spell an instant before zombification results in simple death.

Zombify can be halted by Cure Disease or Remove Curse before the subject dies. In practice, only casters with exceptional skill levels (for time reduction) rushing to save victims with high effective HT are likely to succeed. Zombify resists Cure Disease just as it would Remove Curse.

In some game worlds, this spell creates infectious zombies, and anyone they kill will rise as undead. Such zombies (even “patient zero”) are not under the caster’s control! In other settings, that version coexists with the standard one. For an indepth exploration of different kinds of zombies and spells for creating them, see GURPS Zombies.

Duration: Subject’s (HT - 10) minutes, after which the effects become permanent.
Cost: 10. Cannot be maintained.
Time to cast: 1 minute.
Prerequisites: Magery 3, Pestilence, and Zombie.

[[L-植物系呪文の致死系呪文>GURPS Magic: Death Spells#PLANT_SPELLS]]

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PLANT SPELLS
The Plant college already offers a spell that can slay sentient, animate beings: Wither Plant. This is a death spell ―― ask a walking tree! Below are spells for slaughtering non-vegetable foes.

《[[殺人花]]》
《[[殺人花>GURPS Magic: Death Spells#Murder_Blossom]]》

意訳強め。一応、《解毒》呪文の対象となるので、毒系呪文と扱います（ただし、アレルギー反応……免疫機能の暴走による殺害なので、「耐性/毒」では防げません）。また手元の殺人花粉で攻撃する際〈特殊攻撃/ビーム〉を用いる仕様を見るに、射程4mで発射点〜先端が共に幅1mの円錐状（というか直径1mの円柱状、太さ1ヘクスの極太ビーム状）攻撃と解釈できます。花粉発射時に術者が花の向きを制御できていない場合、花粉の範囲は術者のいる1ヘクスのみと解釈して良いでしょう。

• 呪文クラス：通常呪文
• 呪文系統：　植物系呪文
  • 呪文の小分類：致死系呪文、毒系呪文
• 持続時間：1秒。
• エネルギー消費：7、仮威力1dにつき1、最大仮威力4d。維持できません。
• 準備時間：3秒。
• 前提条件：「魔法の素質/3L」、《植物作成》、《花粉の雲》。
• 前提条件数：10

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Murder Blossom (VH)
Regular

Conjures a beautiful flower to hand that belches forth a jet of deadly pollen a second later. There’s no way to delay this. To exploit it, the caster’s maneuver on the turn after casting the spell must be Attack, All-Out Attack, or Move and Attack. Any other choice dissipates the pollen harmlessly, wasting the spell.

The caster may direct the blast at a one-yard wide circle ―― one hex, on a combat map ―― within four yards. Treat this as Attacking an Area (p. B414).
Roll against Innate Attack (Beam)+4 to hit, checking for scatter on a miss. (Exception:Hitting the wizard’s own hex requires no roll, and happens automatically if the caster is stunned, unconscious, or otherwise incapacitated when the blossom erupts.) The only defense allowed is diving for cover (p. B377), and shield DB provides no benefit.

Anyone who fails to escape the area is affected ―― this is a rare death spell that can kill multiple people. Roll the spell’s effect dice (from 1d to 4d) once per victim. Any result equal to or greater than that person’s HT indicates a fatal allergic reaction.
Treat this as a mortal wound (p. B423): The target instantly falls unconscious and must roll vs. HT every 30 minutes, with any failure meaning death.
At TL6+, trauma maintenance can help.

Natural recovery occurs on a critical success on the HT roll. Otherwise, the only cure is suitable TL6+ medication or a Neutralize Poison spell, at -5 unless Identify Plant is cast first to determine what pollen caused the reaction. Victims who recover are at -2 to DX for 3d seconds afterward, thanks to itching, but suffer no lasting harm.

The deadly pollen is a contact agent that affects any living being without the Sealed advantage (natural or from equipment) and/or Immunity to Metabolic Hazards. Magic Resistance provides no benefit ―― no magic is cast on the victim.

Duration: 1 second.
Cost: 7, plus 1 per die of effect, to a maximum of four dice.
Cannot be maintained.
Time to cast: 3 seconds.
Prerequisites: Magery 3, Create Plant, and Pollen Cloud.

《[[肉体腐失]]》
《[[肉体腐失>GURPS Magic: Death Spells#Swamp_Rot]]》

• 呪文クラス：通常呪文、抵抗呪文_生命力
• 呪文系統：　植物系呪文
  • 呪文の小分類：致死系呪文、特定呪詛系呪文、肉体変質系呪文
• 持続時間：この呪文は一瞬続きますが、《呪い除去》で逆転させない限り、効果は永久します。
• エネルギー消費：11。対象の一部だけではなく、全体に効果を与える必要があります。
• 準備時間：5秒。
• 前提条件：「魔法の素質/3L」 および〈肉体藻化〉。
• 前提条件数：15

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Swamp Rot (VH)
Regular; Resisted by HT
Transforms any living subject and up to 6 lbs. of clothing to organic gunk ―― similar to the Body of Slime spell, but without stabilizing the results. The only defense is to resist (or ward) the spell. The subject’s remaining possessions are left floating in a puddle of scum, which may ruin some gear.

This usually means the victim dies messily. However, if all the goo can be collected within a minute (doubtful if the subject was standing on anything but hard, dry ground like stone or finished wood), Remove Curse can reverse the effects. This must be cast before the stuff dies, which won’t take long in any environment that isn’t rich in rotting organic matter. The GM may require daily Biology or Naturalist rolls from the slime’s caretaker.

Duration: The spell lasts an instant, but the effects are permanent unless reversed via Remove Curse.
Cost: 11. Must affect the entire subject, not just part of it!
Time to cast: 5 seconds.
Prerequisites: Magery 3 and Body of Slime.

「[[私はすでに死んでいる！>GURPS Magic: Death Spells#You_Can_t]]」

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“You Can’t Kill Me; I’m Already Dead!”

Barring accidents and creepy supernatural drawbacks (p. 8), the subject of a death spell is normally someone besides the caster. Still, a wizard who wants to commit suicide can target himself, waiving any resistance roll. A fanatic might do this if losing a battle or facing capture ―― and if the spell involved is something like Black Sphere (p. 20), it can prevent powerful artifacts from being captured. Such twists are delightfully creepy, especially when they involve magic-workers who are likely to return as undead, a destiny all too common among masters of death magic!

Mind Control magic (e.g., Charm) can coerce an enemy magicuser to commit suicide this way, though that’s inefficient. If you control your opponent’s mind, why not compel him to cast death spells on your other adversaries? Death magic is also fussy compared to ordering someone to drink poison, fall on a sword, or similar. Still, it has a certain poetry to it and is hardly the worst abuse of mental control, so there’s no reason to forbid it.

In some settings, there may be a simple spell specially for committing suicide ―― the magical equivalent of a cyanide capsule. This is technically a death spell, though it can kill only the caster, and normally part of the Necromantic college. Here’s one possible example.

《[[自殺]》
《[[自殺>GURPS Magic: Death Spells#Suicide]》

この呪文は通常呪文ではなく、ダメージや効果による死というより、エネルギー消費による自滅という処理っぽいので、準備時間を一瞬として使用することができるかもしれません。

• 呪文クラス：特殊呪文
• 呪文系統：　（暫定的に）死霊系呪文
  • 呪文の小分類：致死系呪文
• 持続時間：一瞬。対象は「-10×HP」以内の場合にのみ復活できます。
• エネルギー消費：無制限ですが、通常は確実に死に至るには十分です。
• 準備時間：1秒
• 前提条件：「魔法の素質/1L」。
• 前提条件数：1

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Suicide
Special

Instantly kills the caster. The wizard declares an expenditure of as many FP and HP as desired ―― usually enough to reach -5\HP, at least. Success means these losses occur instantly and death follows without a HT or resistance roll, as long as the caster is at -HP or worse; reaching -10\HP prevents Resurrection. Failure costs the standard 1 FP (1 HP, if spending only HP) but allows repeated attempts. This spell isn’t subject to the penalties in Burning HP (p. B237) and Shock (p. B419), making it a reliable way for even a sorely wounded magic-user to check out.

The theological ramifications of this spell depend on the setting. It might be considered sinful black magic; neither better nor worse than mundane suicide; or, when granted to a cleric, a very pure death.

Duration: Instantaneous. Subject can be resurrected only if above -10\HP.
Cost: Unlimited, but usually enough to ensure death.
Prerequisite: Magery 1.

[[L-防御・警戒系呪文の致死系呪文>GURPS Magic: Death Spells#PROTECTION_AND_WARNING_SPELLS]]

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PROTECTION AND
WARNING SPELLS
Like Food and Healing spells, Protection and Warning magic require almost perverse creativity to turn lethal. The resulting death spells share two potent traits with the rest of the college: they affect any subject (not just the living) and they’re fast to cast. This leads to high energy costs.

《[[黒球圏]]》
《[[黒球圏>GURPS Magic: Death Spells#Black_Sphere]]》

• 呪文クラス：通常呪文、抵抗呪文_特殊
• 呪文系統：　防御・警戒系呪文、壁・天蓋系呪文
  • 呪文の小分類：致死系呪文
• 持続時間：一瞬 (そして不可逆！)。
• エネルギー消費：15。
• 準備時間：1秒
• 前提条件：「魔法の素質/3L」および《完全障壁》。
• 前提条件数：17

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Black Sphere (VH)
Regular; Special Resistance

Conjures a spherical Utter Dome around any physical subject (the target needn’t be alive) . . . and then collapses this inward, crushing the victim to a point and sucking him out of material existence!

Most targets resist by moving fast enough to get out ―― use the higher of DX or twice Basic Speed. Someone capable of an active defense involving teleportation (such as the Blink spell, or the Warp advantage at -10) or insubstantiality (e.g., the Phase spell) may choose to rely on that instead; this is a resistance roll using the controlling score, not an active defense roll. Magic Resistance always subtracts from the caster’s skill, but it adds only to the subject’s DX- or Speedbased resistance.

Failure to resist is instantly lethal for all subjects. No corpse is left to resurrect, and gear is likewise gone for good. This destruction is purely physical; there’s no effect on the immortal soul.

Duration: Instantaneous (and irreversible!).
Cost: 15.
Prerequisites: Magery 3 and Utter Dome.

《[[力場ギロチン]]》
《[[力場ギロチン>GURPS Magic: Death Spells#Force_Guillotine]]》

• 呪文クラス：通常呪文、抵抗呪文_生命力
• 呪文系統：　防御・警戒系呪文、壁・天蓋系呪文
  • 呪文の小分類：致死系呪文
• 持続時間：一瞬 (そして不可逆！)。
• エネルギー消費：15。
• 準備時間：1秒
• 前提条件：「魔法の素質/3L」 および《物質防壁》。
• 前提条件数：15

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Force Guillotine (VH)
Regular; Resisted by HT

Conjures a Force Wall precisely angled to bisect a single, material subject. Resistance means the force blade fails to materialize. Otherwise, the victim is cut in half along any simple plane the caster specifies.

Bisection is immediately lethal to most physical beings (even Diffuse ones!). Entities that can survive being chopped in half suffer whatever effects that would normally have on them. The only targets truly immune to this spell are those that could pass through a Force Dome ―― that is, magical creatures and items.

Resurrection of a formerly living subject requires a Surgery roll to sew together the halves. Complex machines need Rebuild if either part goes missing. As for the target’s gear, magical equipment is unaffected, but mundane items worn across the specified plane are also bisected.

Duration: Instantaneous (and irreversible!).
Cost: 15.
Prerequisites: Magery 3 and Force Wall.

[[L-音声系呪文の致死系呪文>GURPS Magic: Death Spells#SOUND_SPELLS]]

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SOUND SPELLS
This college’s death spells tend to exploit either accursed sounds deadly to mortals or shockwaves harmful to all targets. Here’s an example of each.

《[[破壊振動]]》
《[[破壊振動>GURPS Magic: Death Spells#Fatal_Frequency]]》

• 呪文クラス：通常呪文、抵抗呪文_生命力
• 呪文系統：　音声系呪文
  • 呪文の小分類：致死系呪文
• 持続時間：一瞬（そして不可逆！）。
• エネルギー消費： 6、仮威力1dにつき1点加算、最大仮威力8d。
• 準備時間：3秒。
• 前提条件：「魔法の素質/3L」、《爆裂衝球》、《音噴射》。
• 前提条件数：12

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Fatal Frequency (VH)
Regular; Resisted by HT

Attempts to shake apart the target ―― which can be anything material ―― from within. If the subject fails to resist, the spell sets up internal vibrations in the structures that would ordinarily resist damage. To determine the outcome, roll the spell’s dice of effect (from 1d to 8d) and compare the total to twice the victim’s HP.

If the roll equals or exceeds 2\HP, the subject is destroyed: crystalline targets shatter, fleshy ones liquefy, liquid ones atomize, and so on. Resurrection or repair is impossible!
Equipment is unaffected, though it might be covered in goo or particulate.

On any lesser roll, the victim is stunned but uninjured. Roll vs. HT every second to recover, at a penalty equal to the number of effect dice (-1 to -8).

Duration: Instantaneous (and irreversible!).
Cost: 6, plus 1 per die of effect, to a maximum of eight dice.
Time to cast: 3 seconds.
Prerequisites: Magery 3, Concussion, and Sound Jet.

《[[死の声がけ]]》
《[[死の声がけ>GURPS Magic: Death Spells#Wail_of_the_Banshee]]》

• 呪文クラス：通常呪文、抵抗呪文_生命力
• 呪文系統：　音声系呪文
  • 呪文の小分類：致死系呪文
• 持続時間：一瞬。対象者は通常どおりに復活できます。
• エネルギー消費：11。
• 準備時間：1秒
• 前提条件：「魔法の素質/3L」および《伝言》を含む任意の音声系呪文を10種。
• 前提条件数：19

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Wail of the Banshee (VH)
Regular; Resisted by HT

The caster emits a deadly howl audible to everyone but intended for a specific victim. He must either know the subject’s name (a common name will do) or be able to both see and point to the target.

For this spell to work, there must be a path from caster to subject through a fluid medium (e.g., air or water) ―― that is, if the wizard were shouting, it should be audible at the target’s location. However, the victim doesn’t have to hear the wail; considerations such as deafness or earplugs afford no protection.
What is important is that the subject be alive, have IQ 6+, and possess none of Supernatural Durability, Unaging, or Unkillable. Thaumatologists claim the sound opens a spiritual portal to the realm of Death.

If the subject fails to resist, he dies on the spot. Apparent cause of death is whatever “natural causes” seem likely to end that person’s life ―― generalized organ failure from great age, unless the GM wants to get specific. Successful resistance means the subject survives unharmed.

Critical failure with this spell afflicts the caster with Cannot Speak (p. B125). Until this is bought off ―― which requires 15 character points ―― the wizard can only make horrid wailing noises and cannot cast spells known below skill 15 (see Magic Rituals, p. B237).

Duration: Instantaneous. Subject can be resurrected normally.
Cost: 11.
Prerequisites: Magery 3 and any 10 Sound spells, including Message.

[[L-技術系呪文の致死系呪文>GURPS Magic: Death Spells#TECHNOLOGICAL_SPELLS]]

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TECHNOLOGICAL SPELLS
The Radiation sub-college is obviously baneful to the living, while Metal and Plastic magic might allow lethal perversions of Body of Metal and Body of Plastic. It’s harder to justify Machine spells and Energy spells that slay the living . . . so here’s some help.

《[[殺人的再構築]]》
《[[殺人的再構築>GURPS Magic: Death Spells#Reckless_Reconstitution]]》

意訳強め。原書名「Reckless Reconstitution」は「無謀な再構成」の意。マンチテクニックとして悪用されうる価値ある物質は、GMが認めない限り永続残留せずすぐに崩壊するか、無価値化した方が良いでしょう。

• 呪文クラス：通常呪文、抵抗呪文_生命力
• 呪文系統：　技術系呪文（機械系呪文）
  • 呪文の小分類：致死系呪文
• 持続時間：呪文は一瞬続きますが、作成された物質は永続します。
• エネルギー消費：12。
• 準備時間：12秒。
• 前提条件：《再構築》。
• 前提条件数：29

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Reckless Reconstitution (VH)
Regular; Resisted by HT

Causes minuscule bits of inorganic matter in or on a living, organic body to grow into whatever they chipped off of.
Accidentally ingested grains of sand, specks of grit in the eye, and inhaled dust particles become boulders; arrow or bullet fragments in forgotten wounds turn into intact projectiles; and so on.

If the subject fails to resist, such growth occurs instantly, resulting in some 200 lbs. of inclusions. This isn’t the lingering, preventable death of Create Foreign Body (p. 14) ―― the body is riddled with macroscopic hunks of junk! Even a Homogenous target ruptures catastrophically. Only victims who are somehow Diffuse despite being living and organic are immune.
Clothing and armor are ruined by this bursting effect, and the corpse is left with chunks of garbage wedged in it.

Assume that every living being carries around enough stray dirt to be affected, with the exception of those subjected to a full-body Cleansing spell in the past hour. This offers a loophole: Cleansing is the faster spell, and can be cast before a wizard finishes Reckless Reconstitution! Only someone who knows about this death spell and makes a Thaumatology roll is likely to recognize it being cast, however.

Duration: The spell lasts an instant, but the created matter is permanent.
Cost: 12.
Time to cast: 12 seconds.
Prerequisite: Rebuild.

《[[脳神経遮断]]》
《[[脳神経遮断>GURPS Magic: Death Spells#Stop_Impulse]]》

• 呪文クラス：通常呪文、抵抗呪文_生命力
• 呪文系統：　技術系呪文（動力系呪文）
  • 呪文の小分類：致死系呪文
• 持続時間： 1分ですが、呪文終了後も心臓発作または死は続きます。
• エネルギー消費：詠唱13。維持7。
• 準備時間：3秒。
• 前提条件：「魔法の素質/3L」、《動力停止》、《全身麻痺》。
• 前提条件数：12

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Stop Impulse (VH)
Regular; Resisted by HT

Works like Stop Power on impulses traveling from the brain to the rest of the body. Thus, it can affect only a living subject who has a brain. Varieties of Injury Tolerance that encompass No Brain grant total immunity.

The effects of failed resistance depend on whether the victim has a heart as well as a brain. If he does, he suffers a heart attack exactly as described on p. B429, and can be resuscitated normally if he gets suitable help in time. On a subject without a heart, the only effect is paralysis (also on p. B429).

Unlike most death spells, this one can be maintained. For as long as it is, attempts to resuscitate a heart-attack victim don’t merely have to succeed, but must beat the spell in a Quick Contest. A subject without a heart simply remains paralyzed.

Duration: 1 minute, but heart attack or death endures after the spell ends.
Cost: 13 to cast. 7 to maintain.
Time to cast: 3 seconds.
Prerequisites: Magery 3, Stop Power, and Total Paralysis.

[[L-水霊系呪文の致死系呪文>GURPS Magic: Death Spells#WATER_SPELLS]]

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WATER SPELLS
This is an excellent college for death spells, as it can manipulate the life-giving water that makes up the majority of any natural living creature. Such magic usually depends on this mode of action, and is ineffective on beings that contain no water.

《[[肉体溶失]]》
《[[肉体溶失>GURPS Magic: Death Spells#Dissipate]]》

『GURPS Magical Styles: Dungeon Magic』の「Dissipate」呪文よりも性能が劣化している（ガスや空気でできてる存在には効かなくなってる）点に注意。

• 呪文クラス：通常呪文、抵抗呪文_生命力
• 呪文系統：　水霊系呪文
  • 呪文の小分類：致死系呪文、肉体変質系呪文、特定呪詛系呪文
• 持続時間： 呪文は一瞬続きます。しかし、《呪い除去》によって逆転されない限り、効果は永続です。
• エネルギー消費： 12。対象の一部だけでなく、対象全体に影響を与える必要があります。
• 準備時間： 2秒。
• 前提条件： 「魔法の素質/3L」、さらに《肉体液化》と《土を水》、または《肉を氷》と《雪解け》のいずれか。
• 前提条件数：11

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Dissipate (VH)
Regular; Resisted by HT

This spell (adapted from GURPS Magical Styles: Dungeon Magic) causes a subject made mostly of water to lose structural integrity, melting to thick fluid. Living beings that require water ―― humans, elves, tigers, trees, fungi, etc. ―― are definitely affected, as are flesh golems, water elementals, and rotting undead. Creatures of air, earth, fire, or metal definitely aren’t; neither are immaterial spirits. The GM settles corner cases; e.g., he might rule that robots made of “wet nanotech” or “liquid metal” are affected, while classic metal men aren’t.

Dissipate amounts to a death spell on anyone it affects.
However, Remove Curse can reverse it if the victim’s residue is collected within a minute. As the residual matter is a liquid, Shape Water is useful here.

Unlike most death spells that transform the victim, Dissipate doesn’t affect even a small amount of clothing ―― only the subject.

Duration: The spell lasts an instant, but the effects are permanent unless reversed via Remove Curse.
Cost: 12. Must affect the entire subject, not just part of it!
Time to cast: 2 seconds.
Prerequisites:Magery 3, plus either Body of Water and Earth to Water, or Flesh to Ice and Melt Ice.

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