Improved Sense Shifting II
(Alteration, Illusion/Phantasm, Metamagic)

Range:  0
Components:  V, S, M
Duration:  1 day per level
Casting Time:  1 hour
Area of Effect:  Creature touched
Saving Throw:  None

This spell is similar to the other two sense shifting spells, but this spell has a much greater power: it can be given to another creature by touch and the creature may give it back or to another by touch (only if desired, but only one creature can have the spell effects active at one time); the spell affects 1st- to 3rd-level spells in all senses, including completely quieting sound, or providing understandable speech (or even song), changing the quality of sense to another (a fireball might be changed to an iceball) to the senses only - note that their effect stays the same (and a fireball still cannot affect a fire elemental even if its sense is shifted into an iceball); 4th- to 6th-level spells can be changed in 3 senses (to be completely silent in their effect - not their verbal casting), and 7th- to 9th-level spells can be changed similar to the original 3rd-level spell.
The material component is a freshly picked lotus blossom which is immersed in a mithril bowl of no less than 3 feet diameter which contains 5 gallons of aqua regia which has to have a thick (approximately 1/2 inch) layer of concentrated non-magical rose oil on top of it. As the aqua regia quickly dissolves the rose oil this has to be continuously reapplied during the whole casting time. The whole arrangement is destroyed during the casting. The bowl costs no less than 15,000 gp. Where you get a freshly picked lotus blossom from is your problem. The worst problems you will get from those gardeners which won't give up their roses (a 1/2 inch layer of concentrated rose oil which is 3 feet in diameter is approximately a whole years worth of rose oil from a whole planet (of normal planet that is). This does not include the cost for the laboratory equipment to produce 5 gallons of aqua regia (and it also does not contain the cost for the new lungs you will have to buy after standing in a room which contains 5 gallons of opened, highly concentrated, smoking aqua regia with no good ventilation in the room for a casting time of one hour).

