Odd or useless Spells learned from Twilight

During today's game my character suffered a twilight episode and learned a spell that borders on the useless which I find fantastic.

Faerie Fire
CrIg 10
Voice, Moon, Ind
Makes the target glow with the strength of moonlight.
(Base 1, Voice +2, Moon +3)

Have your characters learned any odd spells from Twilight episodes? If so, please share them here.

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At some point, I had a player learn Wizard's Eclipse. He was like - so apparently, I now know how to blot out the sun :smiley:

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Duration: Moon?!?! That seems like it might be overkill -- but you did say it bordered on useless. I would have expected D: Sun and T: Group for the same level.

Not to be a spoilsport, but Twilight is a sufficiently "costly" experience that in our troupe we always make sure positive effects coming out of it are adequately rewarding. Our players would feel cheated otherwise.

That said, Twilight-learned spells can be rewarding even if "useless" as long as they bend even slightly the rules of magic, and serve as the basis for future research.

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That's useless?

Seems very useful as a lamp, if you shutter it when not wanted.

Except the intended target is a person.

OK, that's not clear from the description. Is the spell restricted to bodies?

It's a Creo Ignem spell. Usually, the target is whatever the caster designates.

However, then it's still useful as a curse. Who do you really want to annoy?

Alternately, who do you want to assign a halo/nimbus to?

It should affect any Individual, but that makes it more hilarious, and not likely to be a spell most Magi would ever develop.

The Taste of One's Own Tongue
InIm 1
R: Per, D: Mom, T: Taste

For a moment, you taste the taste of your own tongue.

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Doesn't this need target Part? Having this available as a level 1 spell seems overpowered, I think 2 is much better balanced.

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It would if it were InCo, but it's InIm - Dolabella is detecting an abstract idea "The taste of Dolabella's tongue" as opposed to tasting all of Dolabella (base 1) and then filtering for only the tongue taste (+1 part). The platonic idea of "The thing my tongue tastes like" as it were.

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If it's cheaper to taste one's entire body, sure, let's go with that.

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A spell that determines if the target has the Gift, by way of licking, from a snake-themed Twilight episode.

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