Conveyance (Hedge Magic)
Introduction: Seven league boots, flying carpets, witches brooms, demonic chariots pulled by skeletal fire-breathing steeds, teleportation gateways; myth and legend are full of stories of those who could bypass the hazards and annoyances of long journeys, spanning the lengths of countries in hours or seconds. At least some of these stories can be laid at the feet of sorcerers practicing the Path of Conveyance, avoiding the hassles of the road by flying over it, riding at speeds no other could manage or bypassing it altogether.
“Conventional” Conveyance requires some sort of steed; this may be a broom, four-poster bed, bicycle, Oriental rug, giant cauldron or a fiery coach-and-four. More technologically oriented sorcerers use jet packs or impossibly fast Lamborghini's and Prowlers (the deluxe version has stealth capabilities, to avoid police radar, but this is superfluous in general; few troopers will believe that they saw a Ferrari doing over 500 kph down a busy thruway... especially when it looks like the car isn’t actually touching the ground).
With enough understanding of this Path, the sorcerer need not bother with a vehicle at all, merely willing himself to be where he wants to be without actually crossing the intervening distance. Techno-sorcerers may refer to this as teleportation, using some kind of booth, apparatus or even phone lines, while a more classical sorcerer may summon up a friendly spirit to do the work for him.
Conveyance can be used on other people, although only teleportation effects can be used offensively and only with very great difficulty.
- 10 feet or less (across a room) or about three times what you could manage on foot.
- 100 feet (across a warehouse) or about the same speed as a car.
- About a mile or about the same speed as a sports car covering a mile every 45 seconds.
- Up to five miles or at the speed of being able to cover miles in seconds
- Approximately 10 miles (across a city) or virtually instantaneously
