Level: 5
Range: 1"/level
Components: V,S,M
Casting Time: 5 segments
Duration: Special
Saving Throw: Special
Area of Effect: 2" radius globe +1" radius/level

This spell
allows a magic-user to halt or prevent
the movement of any visible cloud(s) or
vapor in a given area distinct from the
air around, such as a breath weapon,
pyrotechnics, fog cloud, cloudkill, or
incendiary cloud.

Such enforced immobility
may be continued for as long as
the caster continues to chant and concentrate
on holding the vapor. If such a
hold is ever lost (through the caster
being silenced for an entire round—the
chant can be interrupted for short
periods—or rendered unconscious, or
ceasing concentration to cast another
spell) it can never be regained except by
use of another spell: the hold is broken
and the magic expires. The hold prevents
the gas cloud(s) from altering
shape, breaking up, or moving about in
any way. Oxygen (i.e. the “air”) may
pass freely through and about such
vapor, dissipating it if its formative magic
expires, and allowing, for example, a
flammable vapor to burn or explode if it
is held by a hold vapor and attacked
with fire.

The hold is absolute, even in the face
of natural gales or magical gusts of
wind (unless these affect the chanting
magic-user, not the vapor, enough to
break the hold, as described above). If
the gaseous form is that of an intelligent
creature who is normally in control of
personal movement, such as a wind
walking cleric or a vampire in gaseous
form, the affected creature receives
saving throws as follows: the hold is
absolute in the first round of its existence,
a saving throw versus spell at -6
is allowed on the second round, at -5
on the third, at -4 on the fourth, and
so on, up to a maximum of +6 on the
14th round and any rounds thereafter.
If such a saving throw is successful, the
spell ends instantly, and the creature is
free to move. Until the spell is so broken,
a gaseous-form creature cannot
move, nor can it change to a nongaseous
form even if it normally has the
ability to do so. Note that spectral, ethereal,
and insubstantial forms (such as
those of many undead) that are not gaseous
cannot be affected by this spell.

This spell cannot be used to push or
direct a vapor, or control it in any way,
but only to halt and hold it.

MC: A balloon or bladder into which the
caster blows.

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