Alarm

[Boe]

So, I was thinking about various spells that would be kind of neat to see added and this one seemed to stick in my mind.

It would be an alarm spell, that when casted it would target a room. It would take some time to cast and it would cost a fair amount of mana to do such. Once cast I envision this spell acting similar to a latent magic mirror.

How it would work is, once cast that room is then "trapped" so to say with this spell. It would be detectable, but not removable seeing as it is magical. Then the first person/group to walk though said room the caster would then get a vision of that room that would basically be an automatic magic mirror.

I see this useful in a few ways, first off, when working on something, be it brewing potions, scribing scrolls, or just plain wanting some privacy it would give the caster the heads up on who else is in the area (Be it a thief, or a close friend). Also, and this is the big one, for thieves it could be scribable, this way, if a thief wants to pull off a job they can know who else is going to hear "So and so is a bloody thief!"

Granted that this won't help if someone is already in the area, but for all classes there is some sort of way this spell could be useful, in one way or another.

I'm always open to ideas and suggestions..

-Kyle

[Gratey]

I like the idea, Though I think it should be able to be removed, Through a spell someone might have, Like Dispel Magic, but being able to cast it on a room

[Boe]

That was an option that went through my mind of, well, how can it be dispelled. The problem I see with dispel magic is, it cannot be targeted on items or in a particular direction of a room, it seems like a little more coding that what is really needed. Perhaps there could be a way for another thief to disarm it by throwing in a "rock" and then when the alarm went off it wouldn't show who was there; all it'd let the caster know is that there is someone there. Other than that, I am not sure how it would be something that would be dispel-able.

Perhaps it can be snuck past with a small chance of success, higher if invisible and even higher if nondetection was affecting?

Again, I'm open to suggestions or ideas.

-Kyle

[Isolrem]

sounds like it should be coded as a trap... which leads back to it being able to be disarmed and become the thief's version of the spell