Unique Helms: Cloud Helm

Cloud Helm

The cloud helm was the brain child of the famous
weather mage Professor Dingleberry of the Asakari Sky
University. The helm was created to help him study the
various weathers and clouds found in gas planets. As a
sky denizen, he only visited solid ground a few times
in his life. He lived and breathed the open sky.

The cloud helm is a major helm with the ability to
levitate in the atmosphere. When it was first
activated it created a cloud ship, a clipper sailing
ship, made of hardened solid cloud and with sheer
cloud sails. The ship is able to support the weight of
the crew, materials and cargoes normally carried by a
regular spelljamming clipper ship. The ship is able to
travel at MC B and 480 miles in a 24 hour period in
the atmosphere. The ship can levitate even if the helm
is left unattended and will rise and fall to match the
prevailing cloud zone of a planet.

The ship's defensive weapons are a lightning bolt and
cloud bank. The lightning bolt fires 360° around the
ship originating from cloud hull of the ship. The
lightning bolt has a 480 yards range, when in
wildspace, the lightning bolt can only activate if the
two ship's air envelope touches together. The white
cloud hull of the ship darkens when the lightning bolt
is employed. The lightning bolt can be used 100 times
before being depleted and replenish itself at the rate
of 1 charge a day. The charging can be speed up by
casting a lightning bolt directly at the helm with one
charge per lightning bolt. The cloud bank acts as a
cloaking element covering the whole ship, since it
simulate a  cloud floating around. It could be
activated three times a day with an unlimited duration
time until canceled, dispelled or the lightning bolt
is activated by the helmsman. The cloud bank can
replenish the air in the ship's envelope when in
wildspace. The cloud bank does not work in the flow.



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