Skip Self
(Alteration)

Range:  0
Components:  V, S
Duration:  Special
Casting Time:  3
Area of Effect:  The caster
Saving Throw:  None

This is a variation on the 1st-level skip object, only this spell affects the caster, including any non-living object he is wearing or holding at the time of casting (except for artifacts and relics, which may not be skipped with this spell). The caster can skip himself forward in time a number of rounds equal to the factorial of his level plus three (a 5th-level wizard, for example, can skip himself forward 5+4+3+2+1+3=18 rounds). He can decide to skip a lesser amount of time, but this must be stated when the spell is cast, for while he is "skipping", for all intents and purposes, he does not exist. When the duration has expired, if something or someone occupies the space previously occupied by the spell caster, he will reappear instead in the nearest open space.

