Fairy Dust

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Fairy Dust (minor) by AJ Pickett (ad4emperor@hotmail.com)-

"Yes I can leap tall buildings.. I think I can even lift a small one.."

The character is able to produce a fine, metallic powder that sparkles with energy when released from the hands. Targets that make contact with the dust are temporarily resistant to the force of gravity, and tend to suffer from a mild sneezing fit if caught unprepared by the sudden cloud of powder. Fairy dust produces a static effect, so it clings extremely well but can be repelled by magnetic or electrical fields, plus it tickles when it first makes contact with a person's skin, and when a surprised target inhales some of it (causing the sneezing fit).
Fairy Dust is a non-magical substance which generates anti-gravitons, which are only activated when it makes contact with other solid matter, living or dead, organic or artificial. When applied to a target, the dust causes a lifting, buoyant effect which bestows the target with the ability to hover as if caught in zero gravity. The effect lasts for 4 minutes, plus 1 minute per level of the character and there is no saving throw to resist the effect. There is a limit on the amount of dust that can be used at any one time, and this is represented by a maximum weight allowance for single or multiple targets. The dust can levitate up to a ton per level of experience of the character (per application, up to one application per hour); this total weight limit can be applied to one or multiple targets; so up to a ton of people, or one car that weighs a ton, etc.
When the duration ends, the targets gradually return to normal effective weight. Victims of Fairy Dust who are not aware of what it does will be effectively stunned for the first melee round of weightlessness.