Level: 2
Range: 6"
Components: V,S,M
Casting Time: 2 segments
Duration: 3 turns + 1 turn/level
Saving Throw: None
Area of Effect: Special

With this
spell, the magic-user creates a solid
hook of force, invisible to all but the
caster, at a desired location.

The hook
need not be attached to anything, and
indeed is usually created in midair over
a pit or chasm, but remains absolutely
immobile. Creatures can hang onto it,
ropes be tied to or hooked over it, and
so on. It supports up to 666,666 gold
pieces weight.

If the weight limit is exceeded, the
skyhook instantly vanishes. Otherwise,
it lasts until the spell expires, fading out
of the caster’s view as a warning in the
final two rounds of its existence. It is
too small to be stood upon (e.g. to climb
further, or cast spells or fire missile
weapons from), but its hook is large
enough to permit thick cables and
many grasping hands to find purchase.
A skyhook, once created, can never
move. Ropes, etc., secured to it appear
to creatures other than the caster to be
tied to nothing. The skyhook is solid
enough to harm creatures flying into it
or striking it, cannot itself be physically
harmed, and, aside from limited wish
and more powerful magics of the same
sort, can only be affected by a disintegrate
spell which usually destroys a
skyhook instantly (the skyhook saves as
if it were its own caster). A dispel magic
can only so affect it if the skyhook fails a
saving throw equal to its caster’s save
vs. spell plus 4.

The caster of a skyhook can will it out
of existence in 1 segment, but need not
concentrate upon it to maintain its
existence.

MC: A miniature metal fishhook.
 
 

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