Price (Item Level): 800 gp (3rd)
Body Slot: — (held)
Caster Level: 5th
Aura: Faint; (DC 17) transmutation
Activation: Swift (command)
Weight: 5 lb.
This 50-foot coil of silk rope has a silvery sheen.
This silk rope becomes as hard as stone (hardness 8, 15 hp) when you speak the command word (but remains just as climbable as normal). A second command word returns the rope to its normal composition. The rope retains its exact shape when hardened (which adds 5 to the DC of Escape Artist checks made to slip free of it). If the rope is ever broken in either form, it is destroyed.
Prerequisites: Craft Wondrous Item, stone shape.
Cost to Create: 400 gp, 32 XP, 1 day.
Source: Magic Item Compendium, page 176. Originally published in Complete Adventurer, page 135, as a more expensive item.