Magic Missile

Biodata

Abilities & Skills

Arcane projectiles

• Magic Missile launches pale-blue projectiles that track a target at near-instantaneous speed and deal force-field damage. Du Pont produces three in one casting 3 26.
• A hit can seriously injure a low-level adventurer or a beast such as a Gray Wolf 3 26.
• Du Pont discovers he can redirect the projectiles in flight: he steers them away from a tree, and they dissipate when their arcane energy runs out 26.

Limits and counters

• Shield Spell can block Magic Missile. Taking cover that prevents the caster from seeing the target can also avoid a hit 26 140.
• Du Pont questions whether the spell’s apparent guaranteed hit comes from the projectiles’ speed rather than an absolute rule, but reaches no conclusion 26.

Story Role / Major Arcs

• Du Pont obtains Magic Missile scrolls while preparing for adventure, since his learned spells lack a direct attack 4 8.
• After a fight with a Gray Wolf, he studies a Magic Missile scroll. He copies only half before it burns away, but his System records the complete spell models for further practice 26.
• Magic Missile later appears on Du Pont’s list of learned first-circle spells. At a cemetery, his missiles strike skeletons and reduce their necromantic aura, destroying some of them 49 55.