In no particular order....
Somewhere, Shil, the spirit of Beautiful Beard is looking upon Captain Artichoke's ambitions and laughing a very bitter, bitter laugh.
The Illusion spells are fine. If we introduce the new stuff a little bit at a time, we should be good. If things turn out to be problematic, we'll deal with them.
If, however, everyone could repost their characters in the "Characters" board under The Game Itself heading, I would appreciate. Create a thread, name if after your character, and Bob's yer uncle. This should make life easier for me.
And I shall create another thread to address the next issue at hand....