Darklight's Staff of Pain
(Enchantment)
Reversible

Range:  0
Components:  V, S
Duration:  2 rounds per level
Casting Time:  4
Area of Effect:  The caster's staff
Saving Throw:  None

This spell causes the caster's staff to be surrounded at both striking ends with a crackling, dark aura. The colour varies, but is generally dark and ominous. The aura enhances the staff's value as a weapon in several ways. It gives a +1 to-hit (this does not affect what creatures may be hit by it). Also, it induces extreme, mind-numbing pain in any target it hits. This pain forces the creature to make a system shock roll at -30% or fall unconscious for 2d6 rounds. Even if they succeed, they can take no action for the rest of the round, and are at -3 (or -15%) on all rolls for the next two rounds. The aura is not dispelled by a single attack, it lasts for the entire duration and can be used for as many attacks as the caster is able to make.
The reverse of the spell, staff of pleasure, causes the ends of the staff to be surrounded at both ends with a bright, metallic glow. The colour varies, but is generally positive and cheery. The staff can still be used as a weapon, but has a chance of inducing sadomasochistic tendencies in the creatures hit (5% chance for any single being hit). The aura induces extreme pleasure in a being hit by the spell, effectively disrupting all concentration and making them unable to do anything else in the round. If they fail a system shock roll (no modifier), they pass out from the pleasure. The aura lasts for the entire duration, and people might just line up to be tapped by it.
There is a third application of the spell, which must be memorised separately, as if it were a reversed version, and which is called staff of pleasure and pain. It combines the spells, making one end of the staff glow with the pain aura and the other end with the pleasure aura. Both ends function as above, and a creative wizard can find hundreds of uses for this version.

