You attempt to disarm the trap on the oaken case...

You hear a snap as a bronze seal on the case breaks in half. A glass sphere on the seal begins to glow with an eerie black light, which grows and spreads until it covers your entire body like a shimmering cloak of darkness.

You feel as if your soul was being ripped apart, as the black radiance sucks the magic from your bones.

The Energy Manacles spell fades from your memory.

It was a kobold box, so I'm sure Archrost is involved. He was jealous someone else in Shard knew special magics <nods>



Ah well, as a side note:

Did that scroll have to be so high when it came to holding mana? I got some thoughts on how sorcery reacts that I want to get into in my next post.. which might even give me my own answer, who knows :P

heh... that trap has been around for a long time and is a favorite of the non-magic guilds to learn disarm....

It drains your harness completely so it wouldn't have mattered if even that memorized spell had a reserve of only 1 mana...