Strike [Magic]
| Level: | Twisted Vellum 1 |
| Action: | 1 standard action |
| Range: | Touch |
| Target: | Creature touched |
| Duration: | 3 rounds |
Magical script leaps from the page, wrapping your target in bonds of verbose legalese from which there is no escape.
As part of this maneuver, you must succeed on a melee touch attack against your foe while holding a spell scroll. The summoned script immediately makes a grapple check against that foe but does not need to make a touch attack of its own. It counts as a Medium creature with a base attack bonus equal to your initiator level and a Strength modifier equal to the level of the spell stored on the scroll. The summoned script may grapple opponents of any size.
The summoned script is not a creature and cannot be attacked directly, nor can other creatures aid the grappled creature in escaping the grapple.
Each round after the first, the summoned script makes a grapple check against the grappled foe. If it wins the check, it deals 1d6+ its Str mod damage.
This technique ends immediately if the target escapes the grapple.
The spell scroll used to initiate this maneuver becomes inert until this maneuver is recovered.