Song spell #10, RATATAT - Nostrand

 Nostrand

Level: Advanced

Appearance: Clouds of white spheres begin to accumulate like dust around the area it is cast, and the spheres when looked at closely reveal numbers and symbols flitting through number and letter variations rapidly, projected from the white spheres. The spheres move around creating geometric shapes and sometimes objects that the caster can barely recognize. Nostrand emits a frequency that sounds like powerful energy that can barely be heard. When Nostrand has determined a solution, the spheres enter the object or writing and reveal the secret or solution of the object or writing and manipulates the shape or orientation to accentuate the solution. The spheres come out of where they went and one by one, they dissipate.  

Effect: Nostrand creates a series of magical sequences of numbers and matrices within the aforementioned white spheres that examine writings and physical objects. Nostrand looks for patterns, cyphers, codes, and any other solutions, and it is able to figure most things out given necessary time. It cannot crack advanced or higher-level magical encryptions or barriers, but anything below that is cracked relatively quickly. The caster may also cast Nostrand with no target in order to study previous puzzles that Nostrand has cracked before but only the ones the caster has used Nostrand on. This may only be done outside of combat and is utilized by many obsessive practitioners of magic searching for the means that Nostrand utilized to solve the complex problems it is tasked with. 

Duration: Caster must roll as GM suggests. This can either be in turns or increments of time. Nostrand must reach the point of completion that the roll result gives. 

Range: Caster range (nearby but no particular distance)

Type: Meta

This song is mesmerizing, which I feel is the most applicable term to RATATAT. I especially love the video for the song it basically is a perfect vision of what the music video for this song should be. 





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