Darklight's Future Self
(Conjuration)

Range:  Special
Components:  V, S
Duration:  Special
Casting Time:  1 round
Area of Effect:  Special
Saving Throw:  None

This spell is a very strange temporal conjuration. It causes a quasi-real double of the caster to appear at a place to which the caster is travelling and make arrangements for his arrival. The time of his arrival cannot be more than two weeks away, and the place cannot be more than 300 miles away or on another plane. The destination should be a city, village, town, or trading post, not simply an isolated person's house. Even if the caster has no idea what exact business he has to do or at what inn he will stay, the double will "know" and will have spoken to the right people and made the right arrangements. Therefore, when the caster arrives and enters an inn, the caster's preferred overnight arrangements will have been worked out; people with whom the caster wishes to speak with or trade with will meet him at the time the caster realizes he needs to speak or deal with them (if this seems a bit mind-boggling, realize that it is simply the temporal, quantum nature of the spell which causes it to be so). The arrangements cannot be spread over a time period of more than three days, and the future self cannot be cast when the caster is not going to travel within the spell's time limit. So, if a caster, planning a trip, casts future self and is then detained for more than 2 weeks, the spell will be cancelled. The caster must "set aside" an amount of money in a sealed pouch or box upon the spell's casting, and it is in a state of flux until the events play themselves out, at which point the proper change will be left in the container at the end of the spell's duration. Purchases or accommodations costing more than the reserved funds will simply be reserved by the double, unless the caster isn't able to afford them. The double will only be truly seen or noticed by the people with which transactions or business arrangements are made, and will not "exist" in any other localities in the city. The double will not seem strange or unreal to those contacted, and these persons will realize that it is simply making "arrangements" for the caster's arrival, however odd that this may seem to the ordinary person, it will not disturb these contacted people. The double will not be seen moving through the city streets, as it does not exist apart from its mission. When adjudicating this spell, do not worry yourself about paradoxes, because it is magic.

