Custom Planar Shift

Custom Planar Shift is a type of advanced spell customization that changes the messaging and rift appearance associated with the Planar Shift (740) spell. Pre-written custom Planar Shift messaging is available at various festivals, pay events, and at Bayview Villa on Mist Harbor. Fully custom Planar Shift messaging is a delayed service when the player is writing their own. Custom Planar Shift part of the Player Customization System and is managed via the CUSTOM verb.

Custom Planar Shift messaging is more complex than some other advanced spell customizations. It consists of first and third person messaging for when the spell is cast, messaging for the creation of the rift, messaging for arrival and departure via the rift created, and a custom appearance for the rift itself, which can support both a long and show description.

Examples of custom Planar Shift messaging include the following associated from Rumor Woods:

Cast: Whispering the last of her spell to her index finger, {Character} stretches her arm out and draws a single line in the air, crouching to ensure it touches the ground. Following the lines of her finger, the fabric of space and time above a summoning circle rips,
Cross-Realm Departure: [...] and {Character} slips her fingers into its shimmering depths, pulling it open just enough that she can step through. As she does so, she vanishes, descending into a spiderweb-like matrix. A moment later, the rip implodes in a sparkling of (color) lights. When they fade, {Character}, the circle, and the rip are gone.
Cross-Realm Arrival: Unraveling from a single pinpoint of (color) energy, a ripple appears, stretching skyward and descending to the ground. It flares once, and {Character} steps through. Momentarily, you glimpse a spiderweb-like matrix inside the rip, but in a flash of (color) light, it all disappears.
Rift Creation: [...] creating a fluctuating helical ribbon comprised of shimmering light stretching from the ground skyward. It flares with (color) energy.
Rift Appearance - Long: a fluctuating helical ribbon comprised of shimmering light
Rift Appearance - Show: Expanding and contracting at random intervals, the helical pattern fluctuates in size and shape rapidly and creates a ribbon of (color) light. Motes of light slip through the opening, dissipating like tiny embers from an enormous astral bonfire. Peering through the ribbon, you see a web-like world of bright lights against a landless sanguine expanse. Thin lights dance to and from smaller connection points within the web, while larger spaces seem to get the most traffic.

Cast: A summoning circle is overshadowed by (color) energy, a matching symbol twisting above. The light shimmers,
Cross-Realm Departure: [...] and a crescentic crimson-black slash opens up, sucking {Character} into it. A writhing tentacle of ebon energy slaps the circle, and just like that, it all disappears.
Cross-Realm Arrival: A crescentic crimson-black slash briefly opens up, and a writhing tentacle of ebon energy thrusts {Character} into the area.
Rift Creation: [...] and with a vicious slashing sound, a summoning circle appears.
Rift Appearance - Long: a crescentic crimson-black slash writhing with ebon tendrils
Rift Appearance - Show: A crimson-black slash of ethereal energy curves into a crescent, dangling just above a summoning circle. Ebon tendrils writhe about it, and deep within the slash's center float bone white figures.

Additional examples of pre-written Planar Shift messaging can be viewed in the character customizations category, such as with the Rumor Woods 2024 advanced spell customizations.

See Also

• Advanced spell customization
• Player Customization System
• Character customizations