Shifting Spelltats

Shifting Spelltats

It started in Los Angeles. Young coeds caught on the idea of tattooing cheap spell formulae as a way of attracting students from the department of thaumaturgy. Any spell, any tradition. The girls and boys both loved the trace of mystic runes, arcane formulae, archaic diagrams and tribal markings.

Before long, the local gangs had picked up on the practice, and began covering themselves with more deadly, complex (and expensive) tattoos. The trend was carried on by the Triads, who added flashes of heat-sensitive pigments, glow-in-the-dark ink and wire-thin brandings. Incense masters rewarded their soldiers with tattoo-magic quickened spells whose very form proclaimed how dangerous they were on the streets.

Spelltats went international with the release of Aliza Averra spectacular simporn, Read My Lips. Encoded with ancient magical secrets by a secretive bequest from Dunkelzahn's Will, Sophia (Averra) must wend her way through the wiles of competing magicians, each of which wants to chase the shifting green glyphs as they wind their way around her supple form. A multi-racial, multi-ethnic, multi-fetish masterpiece, Read My lips catapulted spelltats to international fame.

Example: Aliza Averra was a young graduate student trying to make ends meet, doing the occaisional Matrixmag shoot or CalHot softcore to pay for school and the rent. Then she fell in with Gnostic Films. Gnostic paid for Aliza's nanotatto and nanite hive so that they could produce Read My Lips...but they also paid for the etcher nanites that copied the spell formula onto her pelvic bones. Gnostic is a front for an Ale'i Menatis group that believes they can subjugate the free spirit Xaltotun...and use Aliza for it to manifest in our world.

Doom of Xaltotun
Combat
Type: M
Target: F
Duration: I
Drain: -1(Damage level -1) 

The Doom of Xaltotun is the spell encoded in Aliza's shifting nanotattoo, and is a specialized Spirit Bolt that incorporates Xaltotun's true name. This spell does not effect any spirit other than Xaltotun, a unique free spirit that cannot manifest itself unaided in the physical plane.