Effect: Reduces Target: Caster’s life force by 3 points. In exchange, the target gains a +4 bonus to resistance checks against poison-attribute effects and can eat animals, plants, and earth that would be otherwise inedible. While the target maintains a crude diet, they gain a +2 bonus on all damage they deal (including spell damage). The target also gains a +12 bonus to strength resistance checks to withstand suffocation-based fatigue (p. 198) when underwater.

These effects persist for as long as the target is on a crude diet.

This spell is cast by swallowing several small stones, then performing a one-hour-long ritual. Once the caster has declared that they will use this spell, they must make 4 spell maintenance checks per 10 minutes and a spell use check after each 10 minutes.

When this spell is used, for as long as the effects last, the swallowed stones remain inside the target’s body, making them suffer pain. If the target ends their crude diet, the stones vanish.