This spell is a part of the Psy Dagger spell chain and is found in the Psy Dagger rune stone.
A common nightmare is one where you lose the ability to walk, falling helplessly to the ground as some imagined terror gets closer or as others stare and laugh. Psy Swipe is the nightmare becoming reality. The legs know how to work. They have always known. The coordination between mind and muscle so thoroughly practiced that a person never has to think about walking. It simply happens. Nightmare finds this automatic trust and briefly, precisely, interrupts it.
Psy Swipe reaches outward from the mentimancer in a ring of mental influence, touching every mind in the surrounding area with a single, simple suggestion delivered faster than conscious thought can process it, that the floor is not where it should be, that the legs have gone wrong, that the step being taken right now is not going to land correctly. The body believes it before the mind can question it. The nightmare takes shape as the legs buckle. Balance fails. Every target in range must make a Normal Brace check at -1 or find themselves suddenly on the ground, having fallen for a reason they cannot immediately explain, taking 2d12 fall damage and needing a full move action to recover themselves, shaking free the nightmare that has haunted them now in their waking hours. Nothing swept their legs. No wave of force knocked them down. Their own mind simply told them, for one convincing instant, that standing was no longer something that was happening.
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