Rats, well then I'll break out the neato gun...
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We'll use Control Water to raise the water level of the little river by 2ft per caster level (I don't know what my caster level is, sorry to make you look it up). That should make it spill over into the arena and spread out on the land. but since there is 6 times as much land area and water surface area, that should result in only 2ft of actual rise per 6 caster levels... at least for my first usage of the power... So if I have CL18, that should be 6ft of water for our friendly man-sized opponent to deal with.
then one MEA 5ft north
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