Carpet of Maggots

Level: 7th

Range: Line of sight; covers a 15x15x1/4 foot (180x180x3 inches) area per level. In other words, a level 15 Necromancer will cover 225x225x3.75 foot area (about waist high in maggots for two hundred feet!).

Duration: 5 minutes per level of the spell caster.

Saving Throw: None.

P.P.E.: 40.

This spell creates a carpet of squirming maggots and other carrion-eating insects. The carpet has a H.F. of 8 + 2 per every 5 levels (so a level 15 would have a H.F. of 14), smells horrible (uses the Stench of the Dead rules), and will utterly rip apart any corpses within it's range. It will halve character's speed attributes when walking or running on it. If they choose to run at full speed, they have a 40% chance per melee to slip on blood of mashed maggots. The carpet has 2 S.D.C. per square foot, but takes half damage from blunt attacks (particle beams will work fully). Fire will do double damage, and wind, water and poison will be extremely deadly. Being pushed into the maggots or slipping is a painful experience, as maggots will swarm into the mouth, completely blind and suffocate the person, and has a H.F. of 16 with a chance of making someone go insane if exposed for a long period of time!