Grease

Area
Makes a surface extremely slippery. Anyone stepping onto the surface must roll against DX-2 for every yard he moves within the affected area. If he fails the roll, he falls down. Another DX-2 roll is necessary to stand up (but not to sit or kneel). All close combat, melee attacks, and active defenses are at -3; other physical skills, including missile and thrown weapon attacks, are at -2 for bad footing. This spell can also be cast on vertical surfaces to make climbing impossible. The GM will have to use his judgment with surfaces of intermediate tilt.
Unlike Ice Slick, whose effects are nearly identical, Grease cannot be seen by normal means. Also, crampon boots are ineffectual against a Greased surface. Grease and Glue resist each other.

Duration: 10 minutes.
Base cost: 3 to cast. Same cost to maintain.
Prerequisite: Haste.

Item

• (a) Wand, staff, or jewelry.
  Energy cost to create: 700.
• (b) An area may be made permanently slippery for 100 times the normal casting cost.