Personnel Matter

4th-level Compliance & Risk

Casting Time: 1 action, cast the moment a complaint is received rather than at the moment of the underlying conduct
Range/Area: Touch; one creature whose continued proximity to the complainant would otherwise be unavoidable
Components: V, S, M (a signed separation or transfer agreement, consumed; a severance or continued-compensation payment scaled to seniority rather than to the underlying conduct)
Duration: Permanent, so long as the resulting Nondisclosure holds
Classes: General Counsel, Chief HR Officer, Board

Touch the higher-seniority creature involved in a workplace complaint, typically following an inconclusive result from Summon Human Resources. That creature must succeed on a Tenure saving throw. On a success, they are laterally reassigned to a different team, office, or reporting line with no material loss of title or compensation, and you simultaneously cast Nondisclosure on the complainant. On a failure — ordinarily only when the creature’s Tenure is unusually low for their conduct’s severity — they are separated from the organization instead, still by mutual agreement, still with severance, and still under an identical Nondisclosure.

Either outcome is recorded internally as resolved. For the duration, any Discovery saving throw attempted against the underlying complaint — by a journalist, a subsequent complainant establishing a pattern, a plaintiff’s attorney — automatically fails unless the Nondisclosure component is independently broken.

At Higher Levels. When cast using a spell slot of 5th level or higher, you may apply this spell to more than one prior complaint concerning the same creature, consolidating them into a single Nondisclosure and a single payment.

Flavor: “They’ve decided to pursue other opportunities. We’re grateful for their many contributions and wish them well.” — internal announcement, sent the same day as a separation agreement neither party is permitted to discuss