Glorytongue
(alteration)
Level:1
Range:30 yards
Components: V
Duration: 1 rd/lvl
Casting Time: 1
Area of Effect: casters tongue
Saving Throw: none

This spell transforms the caster's tongue into a long, thin, flattened cylinder of flesh that retains all its normal functions but also gains the ability to "float" in air and respond with deaft precision to the caster's existing tongue muscles. It can thus be used to cast touch related spells or to perform such activities as turning keys, toppling small objects, or moving items about from a distance.

Possessor of the Glorytongue can retract it completely into his or her mouth in a coil or stretch it out to the limits of the spell range. The tip of the tongue can even "see" in a hazy manner; that is, it can sense the presence, outlines, and distance of all solid objects or bodies within a radius of 3ft. It can clinge to surfaces, allowing it to climb along a rope for example or become very slippery, as desired by the caster. Such slipperiness can't win free of magical effects such as a web spell or specialized entrapments, such as rope strands or cave fisher filaments, but it can allow the tongue to escape natural effects, such as clinging spider webs and sap or gum.

A Glorytongue can wrap around objects to move them, but it can pull something forcifully away from the grasp of a creature or hang on to carry the weight of its possessor. It can't carry objects more than one pound.

Glorytongues are AC 6, MV fly 9(A) and can suffer only 12 HP of dmg before collapsing into dust. If such a failure occur due to wounding, the possessor of the Glorytongue suffers 1d4 Hp dmg and suffers bleeding from his or her own tongue. A Glorytongue has surprisingly little taste sensations, but it can distinguish bitter, salty, spicey, and the like, and can recognize specific tastes the possessor has sampled before.

The caster of Glorytongue can make it vanish before spell experation. This is the typical response if a foe grabs the elongated tongue or if the Glorytongue gets trapped. Dispite is length, its caster can still speak clearly and can choose to have such speech be emitted from the distant tip of the tongue, if desired.