Hasten {X}

You feel your pulse quicken, your adrenaline rise, your hairs standing on end. Everything around you feels a bit slower, but you know that no, your just moving faster.

Causes

There are many causes of this condition upon Valerick, magick and mundane, though none are easy to learn nor easy or cheap to acquire, and none come without a cost. Whether magick that exhausts and burns out the individual after it fades, or a narcotic and addictive substance that can eventually cause cardiac arrest, or any other multitude of methods, speed in fact can kill. This is a temporary condition, a heightening of the mind and body that is generally beyond natural.

Symptoms

Adventures in Valerick: Within the rules of Adventures in Valerick this condition can also is a variable condition capable of being up to {3}. This represents the number of extra actions in a round of combat you will receive. Hasten as a condition will have a set period of time it will last from any given source. Multiple sources of the Hasten condition can increase the numeric value, but not the duration. Instead what happens, after the initial duration ends, you remove the instances of Hasten granted by that initial source, and any others fade at a rate of {1} per round until you no longer have the Hasten condition. When a creature comes down from this condition, they immediately are afflicted by the Exhaustion {X} condition equal to the number of Hasten they had previously. These will fade only with a Regroup or Rest, no magickal healing can remove them. Should that creature become afflicted by the Hasten condition again, these Exhaustions are temporarily surpressed, but when this new instance of Hasten ends, they add those Exhaustion to the previous total (hence how someone can die from using to much hastening magick in too short a time). Furthermore the Hasten and Slow conditions counteract each other, nullifying each other completely of equal values. So if a creature is afflicted by Slow {1} and is then given Hasten {2} they are considered Hasten {1}, with both the second instance of Hasten and the Slow condition totally neutralized, gone.