you or your allies while you perform The effect ends immediately upon any further hostile action against (dance or string) 17 ranks any of the targets This is a mind-affecting compulsion Cost: Feat or 6th-level bard spell known effect This performance has audible and visual Effect: You open a gate as the spell, except it can components Use: bardic performance round per round of fascination Action: standard action Portrait of Perfect Likeness (Craft [painting], Dance, Wind) You imitate an unearthly creature with uncanny clarity through your art Prerequisites: Craft (painting) ranks or Perform (dance or wind) ranks Cost: Feat or 3rd-level bard spell known Effect: You assume the form of an aberration You must have seen that creature up close (a minimum of 30 feet) You are effectively disguised as that specific aberration This performance otherwise functions as beast shape I except that you can still access your gear If your alignment differs from that of the aberration, you become shaken for as long as the performance lasts This cannot make you frightened, but if your game uses the dread rules, it increases your dread by stage, and your stage of dread can't decrease while you perform If you have at least 10 ranks in a prerequisite skill, the spell improves to beast shape II At 12 ranks, the spell improves to beast shape III At 14 ranks, the spell improves to beast shape IV This performance has audible and visual components Use: bardic performance round per minute Action: minute Semblance of the Key and the Gate (Craft [sculpture], Dance, String) You evoke the unfathomable omnipresence of YogSothoth through your art 58 Prerequisites: Craft (sculpture) 17 ranks or Perform reach alien planets on your plane of existence as well as other planes You must provide an offering as normal for any creature called through it This performance has visual or audible components, as appropriate for the skill Use: bardic performance round per round Action: 24 hours Third Eye Masterpiece (Act, Craft [painting], Dance) This performance is a bafflingly complex meditation on the infinite interconnections within and beyond the known universe, evoking images of horrific entities hidden in plain sight Prerequisites: Craft (sculpture) ranks or Perform (dance or string) ranks Cost: Feat or 3rd-level bard spell known Effect: You can see invisible creatures, including ethereal creatures (as see invisibility) In addition, if a creature is scrying upon or otherwise remotely viewing any location within 60 feet of you, you can also perceive a fleeting glimpse of that creature This might incite dread, if the creature is a Great Old One or other apropriate entity, even if you can’t clearly identify it You can clearly glimpse these viewers (although not their surroundings) with a successful Perception check against DC + viewer's caster level You can identify a glimpsed viewer's plane of existence with a successful Knowledge (planes) check against DC 20 This performance has audible and visual components Use: bardic performance round per minute Action: standard action