Bushwack
(Alteration, Evocation)

Range:  120 yards
Components:  V, S, M
Duration:  2 rounds per level
Casting Time:  3
Area of Effect:  One to 4 creatures in a 20-foot cube
Saving Throw:  Negates

This spell holds up to four humanoid creatures completely immobile for five or more rounds. Bushwack affects any humanoid of man-sized or smaller including; brownies, dryads, dwarves, elves, gnolls, hobgoblins, nixies, troglodytes and others.
The spell is centred on a point selected by the caster and brings into existence sturdy vines which spring from the floor (or mid-air if no surface is within the area of effect) and attempt to wrap the target creature in a cocoon-like entrapment. If the spell is cast at three or four creatures, each gets an unmodified saving throw. If only two creatures are targeted, each makes its saving throw with a -1 penalty. If the spell is cast at only one creature, the saving throw suffers a -3 penalty. Those creatures failing their saving throws are unaffected by the spell.
Creatures failing their saving throws are fully enwrapped in the vines, whisked off their feet and held upside down approximately one foot off the ground. Held beings may not move nor speak, nor may they see or hear what is happening around them. The held creatures may be freed if the vines sustain damage equal to one half the caster's total hit points but any damage applied to the vines is equally applied to creatures held within them.
The caster may end the spell with a single utterance at any time. The material component for this spell is a piece of creeping ivy.

