Ding Shu's Marvellous Chopsticks
(Conjuration/Summoning)

Range:  120 yards
Components:  V, S, M
Duration:  2 rounds per level
Casting Time:  6
Area of Effect:  120-yard radius sphere
Saving Throw:  None

This spell brings into existence a pair of huge chopsticks, 30 feet long, which attacks all creatures as if they were AC 10 (modified by Dexterity). These giant chopsticks attack with the wizard's THAC0.
Victims weighing more than 5 tons are immobilised by the chopsticks, while those of lesser weight will be picked up, and may be deposited, within the same round, at any point in the spell's range. Those who successfully roll to bend bars manage to free themselves, but they may suffer falling damage as a result.
The wizard may choose to deposit the victims into a gargantuan mouth which appears above his head. This mouth can hold 2 size L, 4 size M, or 8 size S creatures at one time. Each round, the mouth "chews" its contents for 10d10 damage each. When a creature trapped inside the mouth is reduced to below 0 HP, the creature is "swallowed" into the astral plane, and more room becomes available for creatures to be dropped into the mouth. Normally, persons reduced to such a hit point score would die in a matter of minutes, but in the timelessness of the astral plane, they may remain unconscious but barely alive for thousands of years, provided they had more than -10 HP when they entered the plane. This, of course, is only valid in campaigns which use the optional rule concerning hovering at death's door. If the creature caught by the chopsticks weighs more than 5 tons, then the mouth will move toward the trapped creature and start biting it into little pieces until it is all gone.
The spell requires minimal concentration and direction once it has been cast. This allows the wizard to cast other spells, and maintain concentration on them instead. If the wizard is killed before the end of the spell's duration, the mouth and chopsticks will remain, with the chopsticks capturing creatures that were enemies of the wizard and depositing them in the mouth when space allows. Naturally, the material component of this spell is a pair of chopsticks.

