of Constitution drain otherwise The cursed creature a sphere reaches maturity, it dissolves and the colour can only suffer this effect once in any single 24 hour spreads, tainting nearby life-forms with its shade period As with the colour-curse, this effect cannot drain a creature to less than Constitution underground, affecting plants first Small plants like A colour out of space cannot be directly harmed flowers or grass take on the Color’s tint, while trees or attacked itself Within an area of natural sunlight and larger plants manifest the hue in their blossoms or or each round the colour within sunbeam or sunburst fruit The colour’s effects may cause plants of all sorts effects, the save DC to resist the colour’s curse is to writhe unnaturally at times reduced by Wish and miracle can destroy a colour The colour also spreads unnatural fecundity in the out of space, and any effect that removes curse effects, area: plants and animals become immensely productive if cast directly on the colour itself, has a 1% chance per Domestic animals all become pregnant with twins or caster level (maximum of 20%) of destroying the colour more offspring, fruit trees bear vast quantities of huge (if the attempt fails, the caster is automatically colour- fruit (always somewhat malformed) Crops subject to cursed) At the GM’s discretion, rare rituals to banish this growth have a foul, bitter flavor, as does the meat the color may exist, but these rituals should require of tainted animals Only those people who live in the unusual and dangerous ingredients and reagents affected area (and thus are also tainted) can eat them In most cases, the safest way to “stop” a colour out of space is to retreat and wait it out, hoping for its departure Life Cycle Often misunderstood, the colour is not a gas, nor a plasma organism, nor a spirit It is in reality a hue, a tint, though one that does not appear on the normal spectrum, and as such is almost unimaginable As a result, size and mass have no meaning for a colour The only way it can interact with creatures of terrestrial matter is to feed on them The colour Out of Space has a complex life-cycle, only part of which takes place on a planet surface The rest is unknown to earthly life and inexplicably alien in nature The colour arrives at its destination in the form of glass-like spheres buried inside odd plastic-like meteors These meteors may be created by the colour itself, or perhaps the colour simply buries these spores inside a convenient substance If a sphere is shattered prematurely, this destroys the colour inside, which is one of the few ways it can be defeated However, if 308 The main mass of the colour typically spreads without noticing the taste After a few months, when the native life has reached a sort of peak, the colour begins to feed actively Typically it does this at night, perhaps because the rays of the sun harm it It primarily feeds on animal life, causing livestock and wild beasts to collapse or deflate Enough feeding transforms even the most vigorous animal into a gray decay Plants are less-affected, but they too succumb to rot and ruin The higher the mental and spiritual status of a being, the more slowly they are affected, but also the more sustenance the colour takes from them Intelligent life, particularly humanoids, are the perfect food for its development When the colour has had enough sustenance, it gathers its strength and beams itself back into space, like a sort of searchlight Even this retreat may not be the end of its predations in the area, however: sometimes weaker strains of the colour take longer to develop, and may not be able to leave with the bulk of the color They may remain for more seasons—even years—slowly accruing their strength and plaguing the countryside