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Name
Dumbleweed's Astral Projection
Description
The state-of-the-art techniques that led to the development of Dumbleweed's Astral Projection have been kept a closely guarded secret. The UU committee for 'Research into Experiment Designing Techniques to Advance Thaumatology And Peripherial Endevours' (RED TAPE) assure us that discovery of this spell was made by careful, precise and meticulous experimentation.
Rumours from students however, say that this amounts to 12 kegs of Ankh-Morpork's finest being delievered to the trademan's entrance every week. And that a team of university porters is requierd to dutifully tiptoe around very groggy wizards each morning, clearing empty bottles after particularly heavy 'research' sessions.
The breakthrough that led to Dumbleweed's insight came on one such extended research session.
Carls Sretsof Burg, midway through chasing his assisstant around the lab with a pink feathery duster, took a moment to ponder on the many swirling images infront of him.
He postulated that the blurry illusionary images he saw and the uncharacteristicly debase behaviour he was currently engaged in, were caused by actual mischivous entities trapped within the alcohol itself.
With a few scratches of a quill, Burg soon found he could tame the entities, and take advantage of their double-vision inducing properties.
It seems the ancients Klatchians got it right when they named strong alcohols 'spirits'.
Demanding a new distillery be setup in the UU basement, Burg set about honing the spell into what has become, the most widely acclaimed piece of Thaumology this side of the Century of the Fruitbat.
The reason for the discovery being named after Dumbleweed has been lost in the mists of time. Burg was so engaged with his research in his basement lab that he rarely emerged to notice or complain.
Never before or since, has a man shown such devotion to the pursuit of his research, than Burg did in his distillary.
Example
> cast Dumbleweed's Astral Projection
