{"name":"Contact Illithid","level":"4-level","school":"Evocation","classes":"[b]Formula[\/b], Wizard (Formula, Ritual)","castingtime":"10 hours (5 phases of 2 hours when cast as a formula)","range":"100 miles","duration":"Instantaneous","components":"V, S","materials":"","ritual":"1","description":"[b]Formula Ability Checks: [\/b]Intelligence (History) DC 17, Intelligence (Arcana) DC 17, Intelligence (Religion) DC 17\r\n[br]\r\n[b]Formula Backlash: [\/b]4d4 psychic damage\r\n[br]\r\n[b]Formula Failure: [\/b]Magically frightened for 5 days and one level of exhaustion\r\n\r\nYou alert the nearest twenty Illithid to your location and interest in communicating. You can't convey any more specific message than this. The Illithid get a brief glimpse of your appearance and enough familiarity with you to contact you with [i]sending[\/i] or target you with [i]scrying[\/i]. They also gain a clear enough sense of your location to teleport there with [i]teleport[\/i] as if they had viewed it once. The illithid gain no further special ability to travel to you or communicate with you, however. The illithid might choose to approach and interact with you if such interaction seems safe, productive, and interesting. They will terminate persistent and irritating casters they do not trust by whatever means at their disposal. From negative experience, illithid are wary of being interrogated and tortured for their vast knowledge, and their knowledge of all time makes them adept at judging whether any particular caller with prove such an interrogator. ","higherlevels":"","source":"The Kolad Shards","tabledata":"","tags":"formula","templateId":"19","blockId":"307487","isShared":"on"}