Death Inversion Loop

Cost: 18m
Target: One ghost

A ghost's death was usually horrible.otherwise, the ghost would not have passions left unfulfilled or Fetters binding her to her unlife. Catching the gaze of a ghost, the caster can force her to experience that moment of death once more. The necromancer's player rolls (Willpower + Essence) against the ghost's Willpower. If the caster wins the contest, the ghost relives her death over and over again. Targets of this spell become Inactive immediately, but they may act normally on the next action. Each net success reduces the ghost's permanent Willpower by one. Lost Willpower returns at the rate of one dot per week. Ghosts reduced to 0 Willpower by this spell dissolve into permanent haunts of the site of their deaths.

If the ghost's player wins the resisted roll, the ghost forces the effect back on the caster. The necromancer suffers a -2 internal penalty on his next action as vague and disturbing visions of his own death beset him. Whether these visions are truly prophetic is subject to some debate.