Hmm... I'd originally jumped to ReIg as one of the sample magi I build uses is, so I knew it was low. Looking back over instant transport, I don't see any ReAu guideline. Likewise with Imaginem, Mentem, and Vim, though those are generally harder to manage. The control guidelines for Auram can be as low as for Ignem, so it is possible ReAu could be used similarly.
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The basic idea of this approach is that the cook doesnât have to go anywhere. Instead you create a proxy under the cookâs control to cook for you.
Step 1: Create a L25 Diameter Sense the Intangible Tunnel to the cook using your AC.
Step 2: Use the level 10 InCo guideline âSense all useful information about a bodyâ at range Touch on the cook, through the Tunnel, with duration Diameter. InCo 20.
Step 3: Using this insight into her body, use the CrCo L5 guideline âCreate an entire human corpseâ to make a duplicate body, range Touch, duration Sun. CrCo 20.
This probably needs a Perception + Finesse roll to work well, but youâre an arch-mage, so this should be easy. Why not use CrMe to raise your Perception to +3 for a little while?
Step 4: Animate the corpse. A Touch, Sun version of Awaken the Slumbering Corpse is only level 25. But we may need a variant of that â see below.
We now need some way of making the proxy follow the actions of the cook, and a way to make the cook aware of the environment of the proxy.
My original thought was to use MuVi to give control of Awaken the Slumbering Corpse to the cook but (a) as Ezzelino pointed out, you canât MuVi a spontaneous spell and (b) itâs not enough for her to be able to give simple commands to the corpse, it has to follow her actions exactly.
I can believe a version of Awaken the Slumbering Corpse with an Intellego requisite so âthe corpse will follow exactly the actions of another specified personâ, but that would have to target the cook as well, through the AC or an Intangible Tunnel, and I canât see how to do that with a low enough level spell to avoid warping her.
A version of Strings of the Unwilling Marionette can do this as a followup casting. Base 10, range Touch (with a Tunnel), duration Sun, +1 Intellego requisite⌠still comes to a level 30 spell, by my reckoning. Duration Concentration seems unreliable for an entire eveningâs cooking.
Instead, we can use ReIm to make the image of the cook appear in your kitchen.
Step 5: Use Summoning the Distant Image (InIm 25) on the room the cook is in. (Iâm not sure if this is necessary, but it will help.) The room needs to be empty, and bigger than your kitchen.
Step 6: Through the Tunnel, cast a version of Wizardâs Sidestep on the cook, at range Touch, with an Intellego requisite so she can see through the image (this is an effect used in Image From the Wizard Torn). Instead of a random location 1 pace away, specify âexactly one pace to the northâ. (I donât believe thatâs any harder.) Re(In)Im 20. Not warping!
Steps 7-10: Repeat that spell for sound, touch, taste and smell. Most of these are important for a cook, and sound is useful for conversations. (This is why you specify âone pace to the northâ, so all the senses are coordinated.)
Step 11: On the displaced image, cast a version of Image from the Wizard Torn, vision only, range Touch, duration Sun, and including the Intellego effect. The base effect of 15 is to somewhere the caster has an AC to. In this case, itâs your kitchen, close at hand. Given the range is AC, I think pulling a remote image close is no harder than sending your own image somewhere remote (but I appreciate thereâs room for discussion on that). This is a ReIm 35 effect. This is strong enough to cause warping, but that doesnât matter, as itâs cast on an image of the cook, not the cook herself. (This is why the intermediate image is needed.)
Step 12-15: Again, repeat this for the other senses.
(If you think casting on an image of the cook is the same as casting on the cook, put a Creo requisite on the earlier Re(In)Im spells, so itâs a spare image.)
You now have an image of the cook in your kitchen, and the cook is aware of everything around the image.
Step 16: You only need to command the proxy cook to follow exactly the actions of the image. This is a Re(In)Co(Im) effect: base effect 10, range Touch, duration Sun, +2 Requisites, and I think +1 complexity to make the proxy motions exact is appropriate. Thatâs a level 40 effect. The proxy gains a warping point, but that doesnât matter, because the cook isnât a target of the spell. Possibly make sure that the version of Awaken the Slumbering Corpse that you use prepares the proxy for this effect.
Itâs probably appropriate to make the proxy invisible, so the cook doesnât have a double vision effect.
The cook sees your kitchen, and if she picks up a pan that she can see, the proxy does exactly the same thing. I think thatâs enough for her to whip up your favourite oeufs a la hollandaise.
Step 17: eat the eggs. Enjoy them: youâve worked quite hard for them.
(I further claim that while necromancy may be unpleasant, animating a corpse that you created yourself is on much safer ethical grounds.)
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That is such an over complex ridiculous solution, I love it.
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I promise there's nothing there that's gratuitously complicated, it all has a purpose. And it got a lot simpler when I realised that Image from the Wizard Torn gave a precedent for "feedback from image" done in a single spell.
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