Store Passwall
(Alteration)

Range:  0
Components:  V, S, M
Duration:  Special
Casting Time:  1 hour
Area of Effect:  One opal
Saving Throw:  None

This spell is similar to enchant an item or contingency, in that it prepares a black opal of no less value than 2000 gp for the storage of a passwall. This spell will stay on the opal until the passwall is cast on it. Then, it will store the passwall for 1 day per level of caster. This spell must first be cast on the opal and then the passwall can be cast on it. The clock then starts clicking on how long the spell lasts. This is because the passwall starts eating the opal. After the elapsed time, the opal is totally consumed by the passwall, and both are wasted. If, before the time of expiration, the opal is touched to a surface and a command word is spoken (determined at time of casting store passwall), it activates the passwall in the direction that the opal is touching the surface. A caster may only have one store passwall for every six levels of the caster (a 12th-level caster can have two such stones prepared at one time). Also, since the time activation is not started until the Passwall is actuall cast on the opal, a wizard could have two stones prepared with him and only when he thinks he might need one in the near future cast passwall on it. Then, within the duration, the caster can use it. He can also give it to another person, but must tell them the command word.

