A Clairvoyant is able to use Astral Projection by sinking into a trance and separating his spiritual self from his physical body. While in this trance, he is dead to the world; his pulse and respiration are almost nil, and his senses are turned off. In magical terms, the Clairvoyant "leaves his body" to travel in Astral Space. Until he returns, the physical body is in a near comatose state.
While in astral space, the Clairvoyant may form any garments or ornaments he wants simply by willing it, but such things have no magical or armour value. The Clairvoyant may not take physical objects into astral space with him.
The longer the Clairvoyant remains in astral space, the weaker his physical body becomes. The physical body loses 1 point of constitution every 10 (+2/rank) minutes the Clairvoyant is astrally gallivanting. If constitution is reduced below 0, the Clairvoyant dies. Once the Clairvoyant returns to his physical body, the constitution returns at a rate of 1 point per hour, up to the original rating.
While in astral space, the Clairvoyant is unaware of the environment of his physical body unless he can still see it. If someone, or something, moves his body while he is in astral space, he will not know until he returns. A Clairvoyant in astral space knows at once if his body dies. His astral form survives until he would normally have used up his constitution at which point it evaporates.
NOTE: See the section on the Umbra for more information about astral space. |