A Spell: Lonzo's Many Hands

 

Hercules assisting Atlas by providing oversight.

Which Is a Difficult Spell or Method to Convert Potential To Kinetic Energy

The caster must gather a number of living creatures and inscribe a personal sigil upon their bodies with a paste of sugary fruits, ground quartz, and a small amount of the caster's blood, a few drops per creature. These creatures are each provided an object to move. The creatures and objects must each be of the same general kind: peasants and rocks, bowmen and bows. The caster must have one of that type of object as well.

The caster commands the creatures to perform an action upon the objects that imbues each of them with potential energy. (This may be resisted.) These actions are arrested and the energy is delivered to the caster, who is performing a similar action. 

In the case of bowmen and bows, the caster may use the strength of a hundred men to draw a god's adamantine bowstring. The many other bows go immediately from drawn to slack in the hands of the bowmen.

In the case of peasants and rocks, the caster may use the strength of men throwing rocks or the power of gravity (having the peasants either lift the rocks or drop them off of a height) in order to throw boulders like giants. The many other rocks go immediately from the point at which they leave the control of the peasants to the ground.

To estimate the force applied to the caster's object when derived from dropped or lifted objects, use the cumulative damage for each object would do had it fallen from the vertical distance moved. For thrown items, use the cumulative damage they would do, including strength bonuses, and divide by half.

Maximum range is the number of damage dice * 5'. Damage is reduced by 50% at medium range and 80% at long range.  The spell does not better caster aim; use the caster's range categories for "usual" use of the object and extrapolate penalties for extreme ranges.

100 humans lifting 30 lb. stones over their heads might equal 100d6 damage at point blank range, but 50d6 at 250' and 20d6 at 500'. The caster would have a very small chance of actually hitting anything with a stone at those distances and the stone thrown would likely disintegrate under the stress.


The Example of Lonzo's Estate's Defense Against The Mayoral Army of Bolchec

Cump became Mayor of Bolchec primarily due to his possession of an array of cannon, ships full of gunpowder, and his proposed policy of dealing with the hated Lonzo by utilizing the former against the latter. Lonzo was a known wizard, alleged thief, confirmed asshole, suspected vampire, and convenient scapegoat dwelling in a large private walled estate an hour's walk outside of Bolchec for hundreds of years.

The Wizard Lonzo, suspicious of technology, was offended when confronted with the reality of Cump's cannons. Before his walls could fall to them, he constructed a spell that produced similar effects requiring only a number of feeble serfs and stones, and summoned his personal staff and personal staff to cast what would become Lonzo's Many Hands. Quickly, he drew the ‘L’ that he was known and feared by on the right hand of each valet, butler, chambermaid or child and told them to carry large stones to the top of his tallest tower. Lonzo himself donned protective gloves and began slathering a heap of bricks with offensive potions as a preface to hurling them at fantastic speeds at those peeping through any breaches in the walls.

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