Chapter 17: The Hidden Sea
| Criminal Winds The winds themselves assist with your chicanery. By expending your magic power, you can cajole your ship’s sailing speed faster in short bursts. Whether you are breaking blockades, outrunning the guards, or spiriting away a beautiful young lady, you will find yourself with an unpredictable increase in speed that will leave your pursuers scratching their heads. Each activation of the skill comes with a short delay during which your magical power builds. You will be greatly weakened after each activation, forced to pause any further uses of magic for several minutes until your stores have recharged. Take caution! You have forced this skill to develop before it was otherwise truly ready. As such, it is currently fragile and should be used sparingly. Any uses of the skill beyond a certain very conservative level will result in negative alterations to the skill, damaging penalties to your physical body, or both. As a forced skill, you have a leveling penalty to Criminal Winds until you reach the point at which you would have otherwise received it under normal circumstances. Each level you gain in the skill from negative five back to level one will only serve to return it to its baseline.
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