Stasis Field
9-level Psychoportive
PSP Cost
13
Time to Invoke:
1 action
Range:
self
duration:
Concentration, up to 1 minute
A stasis field is a region in which time slows to a
crawl and energy is reduced to a meaningless
fizzle. When created, the stasis field surrounds the
psionicist like a bubble.
It can have any radius he desires, up to a
maximum of 3 feet per each level of his
experience.
For example, a 10th level psionicist can create a
field with up to a 30-foot radius.
From the outside, the stasis field looks like a
slightly shimmering, completely smooth silver
globe. When something presses against the edge,
it gives slight resistance, but the object passes
through. Inside the field, all is murky and dim.
Light filters through from the outside, but it turns
gray. A light source inside is only about one-fourth
as bright as usual. Time is 60 times slower in a
stasis field. That is, for every round (or minute)
that passes inside, an hour elapses outside. (This
dilation is not apparent to those inside the field,
however. )
Energy and motion also change inside a stasis
field. Energy magicks-e.g., fireball, magic missile,
cone of cold, and flamestrike-have no effect; the
spells appear and then fizzle in midair.
Movement is slowed down visibly, and swift
objects are affected more than slow objects.
Character and creature movement rates are
halved. A dagger can easily be pushed through
someone, but a lightning-like slash with a sword is
slowed to a graceful arc, almost like slow motion.
A missile weapon is useless; the missile drifts lazily
through the air, only to bounce off an unwary
target or be dodged by a target who's looking. If
the psionicist keeps the stasis field centered on
himself, it moves with him.
He can transfer the focal point of the field to
anything he touches, however. Then he can move
freely within the field, or even leave it. While
outside the field, the psionicist can roam up to 300
feet from it and still maintain the field. However,
he cannot move the field from the outside. To
move it again, he must re-enter it.
