Drunkard's Balance

This spell is a part of the Time Ripple spell chain and is found in the Time Ripple rune stone.

There is a particular kind of confusion that comes from time not quite agreeing with itself around a specific part of the body. Misstep introduced this idea gently, a subtle temporal variance that made forward progress uncertain. Drunkard's Balance is less gentle. The posteramancer creates a distortion that wraps specifically around the target's feet and legs, a persistent wobble in the time that flows through that region, causing the ground beneath the target to perpetually arrive at slightly the wrong moment.

To anyone watching, the target looks exactly like someone who has had considerably too much to drink - the swaying, the over-correcting, the dignified person suddenly unable to walk in a straight line despite every intention of doing so. The target is not intoxicated. They are simply experiencing time very slightly differently from the knees down, which produces a remarkably similar result. Every time the target takes a step, turns, moves, or is moved they must make a Normal Brace check, their own body trying to reconcile the temporal variance between where their feet think the ground is and where it actually is in this moment. Should they fail the check their feet simply give way under them and they fall, dazed for 1 round as the floor and their legs have a brief disagreement about which direction down is. The posteramancer finds this quietly amusing. Time magic does not always need to be dramatic to be effective. Sometimes a slight wobble is quite enough.