Tongues
(Alteration)
Reversible: Zone of Speech Confusion
DLA: Confuse Tongues
[default: cleric, mu: magic-user]
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Effect: This spell
enables the cleric to speak the
language of any creature
inside the spell area, whether itis a racial tongue or an alignment
language.
Zone of Speech Confusion: The reverse of the spell cancels the effect of the tongues spell or confuses verbal communication of any sort within the area of effect.
MC.magic-user: Also,
the material component is a small clay model of a ziggurat,
which shatters when the
spell is pronounced.
Shukenja: This spell enables the shukenja to speak the language of any creature inside the spell area, including racial tongues and alignment languages.
Shukenja.Zone of Speech
Confusion: The reverse of the spell cancels the effect of tongues or
confuses verbal communications.
Wu Jen: Except as otherwise noted, this spell is similar to the 4th-level shukenja spell of the same name.
Wu Jen.MC: A small slab of clay carved with outlander runes.
<check DLA for reverse
name>
Q: Does a tongues
spell work like a
universal translator, automatically
translating a specified
language into
a second language when the
specified
language is spoken within
the
area of effect? Can the
direction of
the translation be reversed?
Who
hears the translation?
A: The spell acts
like a selective translator.
The caster picks one creature
within the
area of effect. Then he
speaks to that
creature in any language
that he knows;
the target creature magically
understands
what is said. Any creature
who understands
the language that the caster
is using
can understand what the
caster says if it
can hear him. No creature
who does not
understand the language
that the caster is
using can understand what
the caster says
?except the target creature.
The reverse holds true when
the creature
replies. It uses a language
that it
knows. The caster, and any
other creature
within earshot who speaks
the language
that the creature is using,
can understand
what the creature says.
The caster can freely shift
the spell?s
target from one creature
to another for as
long as the spell lasts.
(145.10)