Pilpin's Enhanced Alarm
(Abjuration, Evocation)

Range:  0
Components:  V, S, M
Duration:  2 hours + 1 hour per level
Casting Time:  1 round
Area of Effect:  Special
Saving Throw:  None

This spell is a more powerful version of the alarm spell. The wizard causes a one-story building, with a base dimension of 400 feet by 400 feet, to react to the presence of any creature larger than one-half cubic foot in volume or about three pounds in weight. The wizard can Alarm a multi-story building by reducing the base area proportionally. As soon as any creature enters the warded area, touches it, or otherwise contacts it, without speaking a password established by the wizard, the enhanced alarm lets out a loud ringing that can be clearly heard throughout the area of effect and 100 yards beyond. The sound lasts for one round then ceases. Furthermore, if the wizard is within the area of effect he will automatically know where the alarm was triggered. Ethereal or astrally projected creatures do not trigger the alarm, but flying, levitating, invisible, incorporeal or gaseous creatures do.
The material components are a tiny silver bell, a very fine silver wire, a piece of the building to be warded, and a pinch of powdered pineal gland.

