Got a player who wants the spell "Color Water" but only if it works like he hopes.
This spell, "Color Water" is a Water Warlock spell and is found in Rifts Book of Magic page 82
I already told them that it can't be used to attack or defend but I am open to ideas about camouflage and deception.
So the questions:
1. Can the water be made to appear / look like BEER or Whisky?
The player is thinking that they can win drinking contests by use of this spell.
2. Can the spell be used to make water look like blood?
Ideas for use:
Fool a vampire into drinking it or throw it at them.
Look like a vampire yourself or an evil guy how drinks blood.
Transform you p!ss or spit into blood to look like you have an injury or medical problem.
Transform your bath water into the look of a blood-bath. Or freak someone out by doing it to their bath.
Transform rain water into BLOOD RAIN like the plague of Egypt.
3. Can the spell be used to color dye eggs (like for Easter) or stain things like a marking?
Like if you want to tag someone's shirt and clothes to identify them, at least before their clothes dry.
After the water evaporates there is no color. The color stays where the water is absorbed but regardless does not damage.
4. Can you use it to dye your hair (until your hair dries)?
When you are a spy and trying to go undercover or being pursued by someone and want to blend into a crowd or at least not look like yourself.
5. Can it make water look like gasoline?
Uses:
Before water is pour into a vehicle's gas tank to sabotage it by putting water in the gas tank?
To threaten to pour gasoline (really Colored Water) onto a fire as a BLUFF.
6. Can rain falling down be made BLACK to blind visors and wind-shields (at least until the water is wiped off but you'd have to spend an action doing just that)?
7. Can the spell be used to make a sort of underwater smoke screen cloud of black or brown color?
One of the players ideas was to use it to infilitrate. Transform ordinary water in a truck disguised as a septic tank truck. Hide under the Human Waste Colored Water with Breathe Underwater into they get into "The Place" then sneak out of the truck.
Check uses of Water Warlock spell Color Water
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Check uses of Water Warlock spell Color Water
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Re: Check uses of Water Warlock spell Color Water
1. Yes and No. I think there are going to be a variety of factors to consider here that can make it swing either way. For example, altering the color of water in a glass might work depending on distance, is it an open container (open bottle, not to mention the color), and there might be a lack of other characteristics (like foam for poured beer) that could also apply in a given scenario. Smell/aroma of the water won't change either, so depending on the situation could be a red flag.
2. Yes, you can make it look like blood but it won't smell like blood (a vampire ability) and likely would not have the same "texture" even if you could get them to drink it thinking its blood (now how it might work if you could trick them into drinking holy water that was enchanted to look like blood...).
I don't think you'll be able to imitate a "rain of blood", see Point 6.
3. Sure why not, though I do think it's outside of the intended scope of the power (and as long as one doesn't get to "abusive" with it go for it). The only issue might be how long the "color" remains transferred. Is it permanent (real physical change) to the item or is it temporary (due to the magic)? That's up to the GM.
4. See point 3.
5. See point 1.
6. I'm going to say no, you can only do 50gallons per level per casting. That might sound like a lot, but it really isn't when it comes to rain storms (https://water.usgs.gov/edu/activity-howmuchrain.html). A 60ft x 60ft area (range you can cast), receiving 1inch per time frame receives ~2,500gallons (see link, you can play with the numbers there) meaning you would have to be Level 45 to handle that much rain. At 1/4inch you'd be looking at ~550gallons (Level 11). To get into 50gallon territory you'd likely be looking at more of a "sprinkle" than actual rain IMHO and it would take high level to get into actual rain territory (like Level 10, but even then not talking a lot of rain)
7. Yes you can use it like an Octopus inkjet. Each casting would create a "small" cloud at level 1, equal approximately to a regular human's volume (a standard 5 gallon bucket is ~12" x ~15" meaning you'd be looking at something about the height of a regular person in terms of volume in terms of 5 gallon buckets: 2 per leg so 4, torso = both legs, head = 1 legs for a total of 10x 5gallon buckets) and it would likely diffuse into the non-enchanted water.
2. Yes, you can make it look like blood but it won't smell like blood (a vampire ability) and likely would not have the same "texture" even if you could get them to drink it thinking its blood (now how it might work if you could trick them into drinking holy water that was enchanted to look like blood...).
I don't think you'll be able to imitate a "rain of blood", see Point 6.
3. Sure why not, though I do think it's outside of the intended scope of the power (and as long as one doesn't get to "abusive" with it go for it). The only issue might be how long the "color" remains transferred. Is it permanent (real physical change) to the item or is it temporary (due to the magic)? That's up to the GM.
4. See point 3.
5. See point 1.
6. I'm going to say no, you can only do 50gallons per level per casting. That might sound like a lot, but it really isn't when it comes to rain storms (https://water.usgs.gov/edu/activity-howmuchrain.html). A 60ft x 60ft area (range you can cast), receiving 1inch per time frame receives ~2,500gallons (see link, you can play with the numbers there) meaning you would have to be Level 45 to handle that much rain. At 1/4inch you'd be looking at ~550gallons (Level 11). To get into 50gallon territory you'd likely be looking at more of a "sprinkle" than actual rain IMHO and it would take high level to get into actual rain territory (like Level 10, but even then not talking a lot of rain)
7. Yes you can use it like an Octopus inkjet. Each casting would create a "small" cloud at level 1, equal approximately to a regular human's volume (a standard 5 gallon bucket is ~12" x ~15" meaning you'd be looking at something about the height of a regular person in terms of volume in terms of 5 gallon buckets: 2 per leg so 4, torso = both legs, head = 1 legs for a total of 10x 5gallon buckets) and it would likely diffuse into the non-enchanted water.