John Biles Grimoire

Spell Name	Requires	Components	Complexity	Casting Time	Description
Chef Bork's Spectral Assistants	Basic Sorcery	Shadow Maniulation Shadow Opening	Difficult	1 hour [12 sec]	This spell calls up dozens of spectral assistant cooks who can help you prepare a feast suitable for dozens to hundreds of people. This does not supply the raw materials for said feast.
Borrowing	Basic Sorcery	Mind Touch	Average	15 minutes [9 sec]	This spell lets the caster ride along inside the mind of an animal, subtly guiding it and seeing what it sees. This requires beating the animal's psyche, but unless you're a pretty pathetic sorceror or you're trying to borrow the Great Cow of the Atlan Tepes, this probably isn't going to be a problem. The spell lasts as long as you like, although if you spend too much time (hours to days, depending on psyche) riding along, you may have trouble keeping your own sense of identity (unless you're a shapechanger, in which case you can borrow for about as long as you like, since you're more used to shapeshifting).
Business Card	Basic Sorcery	Shadow Manipulation	Petty	2 seconds	This lets you print whatever you like on a blank business card in a second (often the second while you're pulling it out of your pocket, hat, or whatever). It can be combined with Conjuration to create the card itself from nothing. Another variant is used in Tech shadows to instantly create fake IDs of various kinds.
Keitaro's Snapshot	Basic Sorcery	Detect Substance Shadow Manipulation	Minor	30 seconds [6 sec]	This prints a visualized, remembered, or currently seen image onto a surface, up to the size of a t-shirt. Useful for making 'photos' in low tech shadows.
Mitsune's Skeleton Keys	Basic Sorcery	Detect Substance Shadow Manipulation Shadow Opening	Average	10 minutes [9 sec]	This spell quickly conjures up a ring of keys to open all locks within sight. These keys will bypass any mundane traps, but do nothing to prevent magical traps going off or to bypass magical locks.
Nanami's Quick Freshening Up	Basic Sorcery	Detect Substance Shadow Manipulation	Average	6 minutes [9 sec]	This spell quickly cleans off any blood, neatly starches and presses your clothing as appropriate, and in general, makes you look like you just spent hours cleaning up, even if you just survived the Second Day of Darkness. It won't, unfortunately, stanch wounds and the like, but it will mend clothing torn by a sword.
Plant Growth	Basic Sorcery	Magical Energy Shadow Manipulation	Difficult	1 hour [12 sec]	This spell causes hyper-accelerated (20x) plant growth over the area of effect (a few hundred of square feet to a few square miles). The caster must spend an hour or so concentrating to get the full effect. There 2 other versions which don't require concentration. The first is Challenging and gives the same accelerted growth. The second is Average, but only provides 5x growth acceleration.
Spectral Servant	Advanced Sorcery	Intelligent Spells Magical Energy Shadow Manipulation Shadow Manipulation	Average	15 minutes [9 sec]	The Spectral Servant spell calls forth a glowing, ghostly field of force which will fetch and carry for the caster for minutes to hours, depending on Psyche. It can't fight, but it's smart enough to follow complex orders, and it moves at the same speed as a human.
Telekinesis	Basic Sorcery	Magical Manipulation Shadow Manipulation	Variable by weight and speed	Variable	This spell lets you move an object or objects around. The higher your Psyche, the more weight you can life. The speed at which you move the objects is set by the spell difficulty. At Human Psyche, you can move small objects. At Chaos Psyche, you could move a child's worth of weight. At Amber Psyche, you could move a human. At higher ranks, you can move more. Petty: Float a few feet a second. Minor: Walking speed Average: Running speed Difficult: Horse speeds Challenging: Car speeds Hard: Plane speeds Incredibly Hard: Supersonic speeds God-Like: Spacecraft speeds
Travis' Optical Stenographer	Basic Sorcery	Mind Touch Shadow Manipulation	Average	15 minutes [9 sec]	This spell transcribes images from your mind or things you are reading onto paper as you concentrate. You must be able to see what you're copying. You can, in general, read about one page per minute. The spell can be cast on someone else; the target must be willing.t
Touga's Intimate Meal/Touga's Private Party	Basic Sorcery	Shadow Manipulation Shadow Opening	Difficult Challenging	1 Hour [12 sec] 3 Hours [15 sec]	This spell produces all the things necessary to have an intimate meal with someone, including exquisitely cooked food and beverages to order, a table, silverware, and something nice to wear. The Challenging version provides food and facilities for up to a dozen people.
Touga's Vintage Improvement	Basic Sorcery	Shadow Maniulation	Average	15 minutes [9 sec]	Touga's Vintage Improvement raises the quality of wine or other alcoholic beverages. The quality of the resulting improvement depends on the Caster's psyche. This level of difficulty affects enough wine for an intimate meal for two; higher levels transmute proportionately more wine.
Unlock	Basic Sorcery	Measure Substance, Shadow Manipulation	Minor	45 seconds [6 sec]	This spell will unlock any lock, disarming any traps on it, so long as the caster's Psy:Wil beats the maker's (Psy:Log+War:Str)/2.
Wakaba's Instant Tailor	Basic Sorcery	Detect Substance Shadow Manipulation	Average	15 minutes [9 sec]	This simple spell lets you visualize a piece of clothing and then magically transform the appropriate materials to make it into that clothing. Higher complexity versions allow you to make more outfits at once.
Wakaba's Instant Genius	Basic Sorcery	Mind Touch Shadow Manipulation	Difficult	1 hour [12 sec]	This spell raises the intelligence level of the target for some period of time, enabling faster thought and better analytical skills. It will give animals the intelligence of a young human child, young children the thinking powers of an average adult, an average adult the capacities of a fairly intelligent adult, and turn those already fairly intelligent into geniuses. The spell lasts only a matter of hours, and does not actually convey new knowledge. It's especially useful for puzzle solving.
Wakaba's Magical Microwave	Basic Sorcery	Shadow Maniulation	Variable	Variable	This spell rapidly cooks food for you; Wakaba isn't a tech lover, but she does like the convenience of microwaves. The complexity detemines how much food can be cooked Minor: up to 5 people Average: up to 20 people Difficult: up to 50 people
Wakaba's Magical Porter	Advanced Sorcery	Detect Substance Intelligent Spells Magical Energy Shadow Manipulation	Average	15 minutes [9 sec]	This creates a floating disc about four feet in diameter which follows the caster wherever she goes at walking speeds for minutes to hours, depending on caster psyche. It has a strength equal to the caster's psyche.
Yumi's Bed and Breakfast	Advanced Sorcery	Detect Substance Intelligent Spells Magical Energy Shadow Manipulation Shadow Opening	Difficult	1 hour [12 sec]	This spell conjures up a four poster canopied bed with silk and satin sheets and lots of pillows. It is a king-sized bed, large enough for two easily, and probably three or four in a pinch. (up to eight people if they just want to get out of the sun and are sitting, not trying to sleep). After eight hours, a bell rings loud enough to wake anyone on the bed and a small table appears with enough breakfast (either cereal and fruit, toast and eggs, or sausage and pancakes) for two people. Once someone eats the breakfast, or thirty minutes after the breakfast appears, the bed and breakfast table both vanish. If the bed is destroyed before the eight hours are up, breakfast will not be served.