Voss’s Efficiency Dividend

5th-level Finance & Cost-Cutting

Casting Time: 1 action, cast within two fiscal quarters of a Reorg or Voss’s Flattened Hierarchy
Range/Area: Self (organization-wide)
Components: V, S, M (a slide citing “run-rate savings,” consumed)
Duration: Instantaneous (booked); indefinite (claimed)
Classes: CFO, VP of Finance, COO

You declare a cost-savings figure attributable to a prior Reorg or Voss’s Flattened Hierarchy and add it directly to your organization’s reported Solvency ahead of its next earnings call, in an amount equal to 4d10 percent of the affected division’s prior budget. This spell does not require the underlying spend to have actually decreased — only that a figure be stated with the same confidence either way — and the reported increase has no effect on the organization’s actual Runway at all.

Any creature attempting a Discovery saving throw against this claim — an auditor, a line manager reconciling their own budget — succeeds only if they can produce the actual spend figures, which are frequently still being finalized at the time this spell is cast, and are made with disadvantage if the affected division has undergone more than one Reorg or Voss spell in the preceding year.

At Higher Levels. When cast using a spell slot of 6th level or higher, the claimed figure is instead attributed to the organization as a whole rather than a single division, and a failed Discovery saving throw against it additionally grants the organization a one-time Windfall equal to the resulting move in stock price.

Flavor: “Our recent organizational changes are expected to deliver $40M in annualized run-rate savings.” — investor call, Q3, savings not mentioned again by Q4