Necromancy [Evil]
Level: Cleric 5, Sorcerer 5, Wizard 5
Components: V, S, F
Casting Time: 1 standard action
Range: Medium (100 ft. + 10 ft./level)
Target: Living creature with necrotic cyst
Duration: Instantaneous
Saving Throw: Fortitude partial
Spell Resistance: No
You cause the cyst of a subject already harboring a necrotic cyst to explosively enlarge itself at the expense of the subject’s body tissue. If the subject succeeds on her saving throw, she takes 1d6 points of damage per level (maximum 15d6), and half the damage is considered vile damage. The subject’s cyst-derived saving throw penalty against effects from the school of necromancy applies.
If the subject fails her saving throw, the cyst expands beyond control, killing the subject. On the round following the subject’s death, the cyst exits the flesh of the slain subject as a free-willed undead called a skulking cyst. The skulking cyst is formed from the naked organs of the subject (usually the intestines, but also including a mass of blood vessels, the odd bone or two, and sometimes even half the lolling head).
Focus: Caster must possess a mother cyst.
Source: Libris Mortis, page .