Overload

Ability Type: Spell, Difficulty 16+
Provided By: Basic Metamagic

Spell Type: Astral, Metamagic
Form: Beam
Function: Utility, Offensive
Power Cost: 1 to 10, Variable
Duration: Maintainable

Useful either for enhancing friendly spells or for disabling enemy magic, Overload forms a conduit between its caster and the targeted spell, allowing him to pour additional Power into it – possibly enhancing its effect, but potentially exceeding the spell's Maximum Power Cost - thus destroying it and inflicting damage on its caster. In order to successfully link to its target spell Overload must equal or exceed it's Casting Total.

The amount of Power fed into a spell with Overload can be varied, even if the target spell does not have the Variable attribute. If the target spell's Maximum Power Cost is exceeded then it is destroyed and its caster receives Psychic Damage proportional to the excess of Power.

Max Range to Target Spell: 2m x Power (requires line of sight)
Overload Damage to Target Spell's Caster: Excess Power x 6 Internal Psychic