Chain Lightning (Evocation)
Level: Mage 6
Reflex partial. Mana: 18. Base Success: 90%.
  Casting this spell causes a stroke of lightning to arc from the caster's hand to an enemy of her choice, inflicting 1d6 points of damage per caster level with no scaling. After striking the first foe, the lightning arcs to the next creature hostile to the caster nearest to the original target, and from there to the next, and so forth. The lightning can arc up to one time for every four caster levels, so at 12th level it hits a minimum of four targets -- the original and three arcs. Every arc decreases the damage by 2d6.
   Note that the lightning can concievably hit a creature more than once in the process of arcing from creature to creature (but it only *arcs to* any given creature once); furthermore, it can strike creatures the player does not perceive, for example turning 90 degrees to strike a hiding creature further down an unexplored hallway.