@windstruck, you can find a spell like gentle repose but for plants without too much difficulty, finding both details for the spell as well as ways to enchant objects to apply the effect (such as a vase that casts it on its contents). However, all applications you can find are for relatively small bundles of plants, such as bouquets of flowers. Applying it to something as big as a tree is probably not impossible, but will require significantly more power, which means you'll likely have to design an enchantment to handle it, as casting it yourself will be beyond your ability.

The gem was for holding power to expand the field right? Let's say it's 500 gp int otal to cut and enchant it for holding and releasing te energy.

Also, yes, when you check in at the end of day 3 your application ahs been processed and you can read the book at the archives.

Spoiler: Adaptations of psychic abilities using Arcane principles
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The book starts by giving an overview of what the author refers to as 'psychic abilities', which appears to be a range of abilities to read impressions and imprints left by emotions and events on people and the environment, but which seems to extend also to the ability to read minds and even get glimpses of possible future. The author explains that it is possible for most people to train themselves to obtain one of these abilities, but that doing so is a harsh and difficult process, and that acquiring such abilities can be very dangerous, as you can't get rid of the ability again once you have gained it this way, which will result in significant mental strain with a risk of insanity.

The author then refers back to past research that determined the exact ways the brains and essences of people having acquired these abilities have altered, and proposes that it would be safer to use spells to temporarily and reversibly mimic these alterations. The work than focusses on working out this idea, describing several spells to temporarily gain one of these psychic abilities, including the ability to read the past of objects, or see the aura's of people to determine their emotions or capabilities. The book also describes ways to use this method for limited insights in the future or reading the thoughts of someone else, but notes that both spells are roughly equal to 'traditional' methods of getting similar effects using arcane magic.


@mrabdiel, let's set the base DC at 25, as working with the tundra oak is still trickier than with normal wood, though you do have better grasp of its properties now.