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blai in book 11 of asftv
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Assuming that is translated: The small ones can be caught and used again:

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Oh! Karis had no idea!

 

She’ll try a small one, then. It takes a few tries to relax into it without automatically falling into “getting herself out of the way and waiting for Sarenrae to possess her for it”, but - there! Karis thinks she did it! Did it do anything??

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:That's Resistance, it's good for helping people throw off spells or poisons or dodge things, that kind of thing. I don't know if it will apply to the present medical condition but it won't do any harm:

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Karis will happily cast it on everyone right away then! 

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Huh, that shows up a bit to Healing-Sight. …Not in a way where it’s as obviously helpful as Virtue, but that’s still interesting. 

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Is she going to try her others? As long as she didn't get Bleed or Spark all orisons are safe to try. They look like this and this gesturewise.

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...No, Karis doesn't think any of hers are those. And it does feel like hers should be - safe to try here. She'll do that. 

 

(It appears that she also has Virtue and Stabilize, though Karis will need it pointed out because she's never done any kind of magic before and, while she thinks there is some kind of feedback when she uses a spell, she's still struggling to interpret it.) 

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He can identify those for her.

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Oh that's good. Is Shavri allowed to order the Queen of Karse not to leave this room for the next twelve candlemarks. She might just do that. 

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Karis feels like she's getting a slightly better sense of this! She has two spells that feel...maybe the most like Resistance, they feel healing-y and - specific? And then one that for some reason her intuition thinks would be pointless to cast indoors, whatever that means. 

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:Does it look like -: Endure Elements gesture.

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Yes that one! What does it do? 

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Shavri is counting up Remove Sicknesses in her head. If Joshel has two and Karis' goddess was equally proactive but less informative about it and she also has two, then that's about forty minutes, which is not nearly as long as she wants, honestly an hour isn't nearly long enough and she's going to grit her teeth and subject Blai to the Healing-trick that everyone hates that blocks actually throwing up no matter how nauseous you are. It's okay, he can hate her, she's been hated by plenty of patients before, he will DIGEST HIS GODDAMNED FOOD, which is probably all he's getting before tomorrow morning, they aren't going to have any spare Remove Sicknesses after hitting everyone here exactly once. Seldan can get the short one. Since horses can't actually throw up. 

 They don't know what Vanyel has but he might be better able to answer Blai's questions about 'does it use this gesture' once he's, uh, had a Remove Sickness cast on him...

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:That's Endure Elements. Essential in extreme weather. Lasts twenty-four hours and makes both heat and cold ignorable:

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That's going to be spectacularly useful in Iftel, if she ends up going there. Seldan picked up some gossip yesterday about scrying and they're having serious weather issues, on top of the fact that they're very far north and the barrier must have been providing some sort of...climate effect...because Iftel is known for its vineyards and those are not generally a kind of agriculture that does well in the far north. 

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...as far as he knows Endure Elements does not work on plants. But it'll at least let Karis operate there, and channels work on frostbite if everything's still attached.

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Yeah, Seldan wasn't expecting it to solve their food problems - which hopefully won't be a real emergency until the next harvest would have been due, unless they had a lot of their stores on the border itself - but he's expecting that, like, Ifteli buildings aren't designed for adequate heating in those circumstances, even in the places that still have any buildings standing. A substantial chunk of Iftel is just as far north as Leareth's region was and Seldan got a lot of gossip from various people he Mindspoke there while he was under-occupied about their heating-related engineering challenges. 

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They were underground, did that not help - he's getting distracted, he's supposed to be answering questions from new clerics. Porridge is all eaten now though.

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That was indeed one of the engineering solutions, conveniently since it was also desirable for security, but Seldan has never heard of Iftel building underground– oh yes indeed they're supposed to be concentrating on a thing. It turns out Seldan is way more distractable when he's less able to quarantine the distraction to one thread of his attention and have plenty left over. 

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Karis was on a somewhat related mental tangent - on whether this is informative for what Sarenrae is expecting of her, that's a lot more helpful in Iftel than in Karse - and failed to notice any delay in Seldan relaying for her. 

 

:Can you show me gestures for healing spells that the other ones might be?: she asks. :I am not sure I can figure out the gesture to show you without actually just casting it, but I think I would recognize it like I did for Endure Elements.: 

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He can go through gestures for orisons. And for Remove Sickness since it looks like all the gods who picked people this morning were maybe on the same page about that.

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Yes it's that one! Is that good?

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That's very good! 

...It's probably getting nearish the end of Blai's current one. They should probably try to wrap up soon. 

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:It will buy someone about ten minutes without nausea:

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:It doesn't sound like much but you've got two and Joshel has two and that's forty minutes if we time it perfectly. It's important.: Thank you, Sarenrae. And Abadar. Shelyn yet to be determined, but Shavri did manage to memorize the approximate gesture, so once Vanyel is feeling (temporarily) better she can quiz him without needing to call on Blai. She doesn't want to overlap them because they're at this point really limited on painblocking and she'll want to do everyone sequentially to keep Gemma on it. 

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