Babble (Tongue Tie)

This spell confuses and confounds all types of verbal communication.

Liber Mysterium  
The Netbook of Witches and Warlocks  
By Timothy S. Brannan and The Netbook of Witches and Warlocks Team

Transmutation

Level: Witch 3, Bard 3, Sorcerer/Wizard 3
Components: V S M
Casting Time: 1 Action
Range: Close (25 ft + 5 ft/ 2 levels)
Target, Effect, Area: 20′ + 5′ per level cone
Duration: 1 round per level
Saving Throw: Will Negates
Spell Resistance: Yes

All victims within the effected 20′ +5′ per level cone shaped area starting at your hand must make a will save or be effected. The speech becomes babbled and confused. Any spell with a verbal component is stopped or otherwise disrupted. People affected will also believe that their own speech is normal, but all other effected people’s speech is babbled. Those not affected can still speak normally, but can not understand those effected at all.

• This spell cannot effect undead or any other creature immune to mind effecting spells.
• This spell can be countered with a proper remove curse or tongues spell.

The material component for this spell is a snake’s tongue that has been tied in a knot.