Mind Spike

This spell is a part of the Psy Dagger spell chain and is found in the Psy Dagger rune stone.

The mind processes an extraordinary amount of information every moment - sensory input, movement, intention, memory, all of it running simultaneously beneath conscious thought without effort or interruption. Nightmare knows exactly what happens when that processing is suddenly, violently overwhelmed.

Mind Spike is precisely what its name describes - a sharp, concentrated spike of mental energy driven directly into the target's consciousness through Nightmare, arriving all at once with no warning and no gradual escalation. The target's brain receives more than it can handle in a single instant. Everything slows. Movement drops to half as the body waits for a mind that is suddenly struggling to keep up, overwhelmed processing cascading through every system that depends on it. If you roll a natural 20 when casting the spell the spike is severe enough to stun entirely - the mind shutting down non-essential functions for 1d6 rounds as it attempts to recover from something it was never designed to withstand. The spike does not linger. It arrives, it overwhelms, and it passes. What it leaves behind is a target whose mind is running behind where it needs to be - and in a fight, that gap is everything.